19 Mar 2025
The Powerhouse Autumn School Holidays program
The Powerhouse Autumn School Holidays program runs from 12 April – 27 April 2025. It provides a range of in-depth workshops including popular engineering, product design, sustainable fashion, documentary making and drop in creative sessions.
Families are invited to adventure through exhibitions at Powerhouse Castle Hill to discover the stories and histories of objects on display. Powerhouse Castle Hill is open every Saturday and Sunday from 10am–4pm.
Creative Studio: Engineering (15-17 April and 22-24 April)
Engineer your own electronic device from real electrical components in this three-day workshop. Using soldering irons and appropriate safety equipment, students will learn to construct electrical circuits that spin motors, build LED traffic light systems, detect model cars with a phototransistor, construct an accessible pedestrian light with a buzzer and much more.
Creative Studio: Sustainable Fashion (22-24 April)
Explore storytelling through sustainable fashion and pattern design with internationally acclaimed fashion designer Hupfeld Hoerder in this 3-day workshop. Inspired by patterns featured in the Powerhouse Collection, Hupfeld will take students through the ideation, design and production processes. Students will have the opportunity to digitally conceptualise patterns and design garments that speak to their interests and identities.
Creative Studio: Capsule Documentary Parramatta (14-16 April)
Explore the art of collaging — cutting, pasting, and crafting images together to tell a visual story — while creating your own capsule documentary with Bungendore-based multimedia artist Miah-Tya Nungheena Gowland.
In this three-day workshop, students will take inspiration from objects in the Powerhouse Collection and collaborate with their peers to curate a short video collage to preserve a special moment in time.
Students will be guided by the artists’s creative process, which often showcases themes that highlight her experience of growing up in small, rural Australian towns. Nungheena’s work exhibits the importance of preserving the lands we live on, and how it can shape us as creatives and human beings.
Creative Studio: Capsule Documentary Queanbeyan (22-24 April)
Explore the art of collaging — cutting, pasting, and crafting images together to tell a visual story — while creating your own capsule documentary with Bungendore-based multimedia artist Miah-Tya Nungheena Gowland.
In this three-day workshop, students will take inspiration from objects in the Powerhouse Collection and collaborate with their peers to curate a short video collage to preserve a special moment in time.
Students will be guided by the artists’s creative process, which often showcases themes that highlight her experience of growing up in small, rural Australian towns. Nungheena’s work exhibits the importance of preserving the lands we live on, and how it can shape us as creatives and human beings.
Family Collage with Eddie Abd (12-27 April)
Transform your family portrait in this free drop-in workshop for families, designed by award-winning Western Sydney artist Eddie Abd and facilitated by Powerhouse staff. Participants will be invited to be photographed and to take inspiration from Abd’s work and portraits from the Powerhouse Collection, before having fun with digital tools and paper collage to tell their family story through art making.
More information can be found here: Powerhouse Museum - Autumn School Holiday Program