SUN 21 SEP | SWELL WORKSHOP | Making Beetles with Chainsaw Newton
Saturday, 20 September 2025
Making Beetles with Chainsaw Newton Join SWELL artist Chainsaw Newton for a fun hands-on workshop to create your very own beetle! With all materials provided, come and craft a little critter to take home. When | Sunday 21st September Time | 10.00am – 10.45am | 11.00am – 11.45am | 12.00pm – 12.45pmWhere | Sculpture Studio, Len
DAILY | SWELL KIDS | Seedling Planter Workshop | Free
Thursday, 26 June 2025
Seedling Planter Workshop Join us for a free hands-on workshop where you’ll decorate recycled flower pots and plant seedlings to take home! Get creative with materials like buttons, fabric scraps, and bottle caps to personalize your pot. Learn planting basics and choose from a variety of seedlings. Brought to you by Southern Beaches Community Garden.
FRI 12 & SAT 13 SEP | SWELL WORKSHOP | Form & Feather with Jamal Galanopoulos
Thursday, 26 June 2025
Form & Feather with Jamal Galanopoulos Join SWELL artist Jamal Galanopoulos for a hands-on workshop where you’ll craft your small cane and twine animal sculpture—perfectly sized to take home. Whether it’s a playful bird, a curious fox, or a graceful fish, you’ll learn to shape a cane and twine wire into a charming creature of
WEEKENDS | SWELL KIDS | Play With Clay with Monte Lupo
Thursday, 26 June 2025
Play With Clay with Monte Lupo Unleash your creativity with Monte Lupo! Have a play on the pottery wheel and experience the joy of working with clay. This hands-on workshop is perfect for all skill levels and provides a fun, relaxed environment to explore your artistic side. Whether you’re shaping your first pot or refining
WEEKENDS | SWELL KIDS | Floral Dreams with Monte Lupo
Thursday, 26 June 2025
Floral Dreams with Monte Lupo Unlock your creativity in our Floral Dreams Workshop! Kids will paint beautiful watercolour masterpieces, then make them extra special by adding dazzling mosaic tiles to their frames. It’s a magical blend of painting and crafting, perfect for little artists who love colours, textures, and fun! Let imaginations bloom—book your spot
SAT 13 SEP | SWELL KIDS | Create Birds with Al Phemister
Thursday, 26 June 2025
Create Birds with Al Phemister Did you know that our native birds are disappearing and need our help? But what can one person do? Can we be part of the solution? Let’s start a conversation and learn about endangered birds. Come and join Al and make a bird using materials that you can find around your home. Learn
TUE 16 SEP | WELLNESS | The Dreamtime Artistry | Free
Thursday, 26 June 2025
The Dreamtime Artistry For SWELL 2025, headspace Southport will be on site, at SWELL Kids Elements, weaving art, indigenous programming and design, and wellbeing education into a calm, crafty, chill out zone. Come hang out and make your own indigenous-inspired art piece to take home, with art activities lead by Auntie Erica Eurell. When |
SUN 14 SEP | SWELL WORKSHOP | Cat Bust Workshop with Monte Lupo
Thursday, 26 June 2025
Cat Bust Workshop with Monte Lupo Join us at Monte Lupo Studio for a fun and creative 6-hour hands-on workshop where you’ll design and craft your own unique cat sculpture. Learn essential sculptural techniques, explore creative embellishments to bring your cat’s character to life, and experiment with underglaze decoration. By the end of the session,
SUN 14 SEP | SWELL WORKSHOP | Ecoprinting with Julie Milton
Thursday, 26 June 2025
Ecoprinting with Julie Milton Discover the magic of eco printing—a sustainable dyeing technique that harnesses the natural pigments in leaves and flowers to create breathtaking, one-of-a-kind prints on paper. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll explore the beauty of nature as you thoughtfully arrange plant materials on rag paper, bundle them, and gently boil them, unveiling organic
SUN 14 SEP | SWELL WORKSHOP | Pimp Your Pockets
Thursday, 26 June 2025
Pimp Your Pockets Join the sewing circle and hand stitch your very own fashion statement. Artist Lacey Pockets, aka Sue Loveday, will get you sewing and your ideas flowing. Lacey fills up the Seamstresses Menagerie with treasures and trims, ideal for pimping your regular clothes so that they become your favourites. Bring along a piece of clothing