REGIONAL & INTERNATIONAL TOURING
Regional and International Touring
Fiona Bazley Hodges and Grant Hodges have extensive experience touring Australia and internationally to deliver workshops for local councils, school, libraries, regional festivals and more. We focus on community capacity building to equip locals with the skills and knowledge to continue running their own creative arts experiences long after we leave.
Here’s some examples of our projects
Reconnect Normanton
Over 30 young people from Normanton in Queensland’s Gulf of Carpentaria took part in an innovative program that focused on creating a sense of place using filmmaking and animation. Delivered in conjunction with IsaSKILLS and supported by the Australian Government’s Regional Arts Fund, the program, titled Reconnect@Normanton, developed the participants’ connection to their community by immersion and expression in the arts. The week-long workshop culminated in an innovative film project creating a miniature model of the Normanton townscape that formed the backdrop for a series of short films. The films told the participants’ stories focusing on their current issues and aspirations.
Bedourie Arts Camp
Each year children from Bedourie State School, Birdsville State School, Windoura State School and Mount Isa School of the Air travel to Bedourie to participate in a week long series of workshops in swimming, life saving and the creative arts. Bazil Grumble has travelled to Bedourie on many occasions to facilitate workshops in Bedourie in areas such as drama, pottery, clay animation and more!
Gifted and Talented Camps Environmental Camps for Education Queensland
Bazil Grumble has conducted a range of activities in filmmaking, puppetry, animation, pottery, mosiacs and more for Education Queensland in locations such as Barambah, Warwick and Columboola.
Digital storytelling
Bazil Grumble has been commissioned by the State Library of Queensland to tour to Cape York to work with indigenous communities to document digital stories using film making and clay animation. We have worked with elders from the communities and the young people on projects that explored and documented language, song and traditional bush foods. These were presented in a digital story format to capture the vast knowledge of the elders in a format that would engage and educate the younger generations.
Hanoi International School Shakespeare workshops
Bazil Grumble travelled to Hanoi in Vietnam to facilitate a series of workshops for the Hanoi International School where the students were focussing on Shakespeare. The workshops involved a practical exploration of Shakespeare’s works through voice and movement exercises.