4 – 25 January 2025
(Closed on Mondays)
10am – 2pm
Lavandería Magdalen
Entrance $5 per head.
Children aged 3 and under FREE!
Tickets available at the door.
4 – 25 January 2025
(Closed on Mondays)
10am – 2pm
Lavandería Magdalen
Entrance $5 per head.
Children aged 3 and under FREE!
Tickets available at the door.
Designed and delivered by Mischa Long y Ross Koger, giant heavy-duty cardboard machines, rollers, pipes, cogs and taps line the Lavandería Magdalen ready for children to connect and deconstruct like giant building blocks. In this way, redundant laundry and machines that haunt the remnants of the original space are re-endowed as giant playthings for children’s huge imaginary re-constructions.
Entrance $5 per head
Children aged 3 and under FREE
4 – 25 Jan 2025
(closed on Mondays)
10am – 2pm
Lavandería Magdalen
BOXY MUZAK! [Past Workshop]
This summer, the kids teamed up with MESS to create an amazing soundscape for the ¡MÁQUINA DE CAJAS! installation. They went all out with whooshing, gurgling, and grinding sounds that will be bringing the Magdalen Laundry space to life in the January installation.
For people aged 6-16 years.
16 November
10am – 2pm
La tienda
Create your own wacky costume with super cool, precision-cut pieces! Thanks to the amazing artist Ross Koger (Box Wars), mix and match all sorts of funky headpieces and silly outfit parts—like a costume building playground! Snap, lock, and create your own wearable masterpiece, and then take it home to show off your awesome, one-of-a-kind look!
For people aged 12 and under.
4 – 25 January 2025
(Closed on Mondays)
10am – 2pm
Lavandería Magdalen
Four workshops and four dances created and performed in the gigantic landscape of ¡MÁQUINA DE CAJAS!
Don’t wait—sign up now to create a dance performance! Make and wear the costume of your dreams, rehearse an awesome, short performance to some loud, boxy music with choreographer Sarah Aiken and bring the wild, wacky machine world to life alongside your family and friends! An unforgettable, super-fun family adventure!
For people aged 12 and under. Grown-ups allowed.
BOOK NOW! Pay what you like!
Wednesday 22 January, Magdalen Laundry
Session 1: 11am-12:30pm
Session 2: 1pm-2:30pm
Thursday 23 January, Magdalen Laundry
Session 1: 11am-12:30pm
Session 2: 1pm-2:30pm
Saturday 25 January, Magdalen Laundry
Session 3: 11am-12:30pm
Session 4: 1pm-2:30pm
All are welcome to a relaxed session where touch, sound and texture are just as important as the art-making process. This session limits sensory overload through reduced capacity, dim lights, and chilled-out ambient sound – a stress-free environment for everyone to enjoy.
Tuesday 14 January, 10am – 12pm
For group bookings please contact: programming@abbotsfordconvent.com.au
Mischa Long
A performer, designer and maker specialising in work for children for almost 30 years. As well as a long running involvement with Polyglot theatre, designing and helping to create iconic shows such as Paper Planet y We Built This City, he has also spent over ten years working as an Art educator in Special Development schools. This love of play-based learning and inventiveness leads to the creation of works that are inclusive, immersive and exciting for all ages. After a background using more traditional materials he has focussed on the use of cardboard for many years, its simplicity, adaptability, re-usability and sculptural properties making it perfect for children’s play spaces. This is his first project with Ross Koger and the possibilities are amazing.
Ross Koger
A cardboard artist renowned for pushing the boundaries of creativity using the medium of cardboard. One of the masterminds behind Boxwars, he transforms the humble cardboard box into spectacles of wonder—from large-scale, epic events of chaotic destruction to kids’ workshops offering endless opportunities to craft. Box Wars always aims to inspire young minds. In the latest endeavour, ¡MÁQUINA DE CAJAS!, in collaboration with experienced cardboard guru Mischa Long, is a natural fit. Kids are invited into a world of inventive play and exploration, through interactive set pieces and even creations they get to take home. Let’s explore the limitless potential of cardboard!
Byron J Scullin
An Australian composer and sound designer. His sound design work has appeared in performances and exhibitions at National Gallery of Victoria, Rising Festival, and Dark Mofo. In 2016 he co-founded the Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio (MESS) along with Robin Fox, which contains a collection of synthesisers and other electronic music instruments available to the public.
Sarah Aiken
Melbourne based teacher and choreographer from Bellingen NSW with an extensive body of award-winning work presented nationally and internationally. Solo and collaborative projects investigate assemblage, authorship, scale and the self, looking at the roles of audience, performer, subject and object and connecting tangibly with audiences, to consider performance as a site for empathy and exchange. Sarah is co-director of Deep Soulful Sweats working with Rebecca Jensen.
Lavandería Magdalen venue is wheelchair accessible.
