20th Birthday Celebration

Useful Information

Event dates

26 October - 27 October 2024
Price

Free

No bookings required
Location

The Ian Potter Foundation Children's Garden, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Session Times

10am - 4pm

Performances at 10:30am, 12:30pm and 2:30pm

Birthday Cake Celebration (Saturday only) at 11am
Visual Story

20th Birthday Celebration

Saturday 26th October - Sunday 27th October 2024

The Ian Potter Foundation Children's Garden

The Children’s Garden is turning 20! And you’re invited to help us celebrate at a jam-packed weekend of activities.

Follow human-sized Bees in an immersive and interactive performance by Polyglot Theatre, as they busy themselves creating a bee community amongst the spring blossoms.

You might also encounter the giant Praying Mantis of her friend the Ladybird, popping in to roam the garden, by ensemble Born in a Taxi.

Climb, jump, crouch, crawl and revel in a garden specifically designed for nature-based play. We’re also refreshing our storytelling – we’d love you to come and see! You’ll find beautiful plant labels with illustrations by young designers that reveal wonderful stories about our plants and the animals who visit them. You can also collect Seek and Find circles and head off in search of shapes and colours and hidden animals.

Afterwards, explore the rest of Melbourne Gardens with the brand-new episode of our audio series Sonica Botanica, created by kids in collaboration with artist Patrick Cronin. You'll experience the Gardens as kids do, and be reminded that every garden is a children’s garden.

So make a beeline for The Ian Potter Foundation Children’s Garden!

Proudly supported by The Ian Potter Foundation.