RIFIFI: Jean Jullien for Kids heads up NGV’s Kids Summer Festival

For many, the NGV's Kids Summer Festival is their first experience of the gallery. The philosophy is all about getting them in young, making it fun and tying it into the Triennial.
Young kids standing at colourful wall mural by Jean Jullien at NGV International summer festival for kids.

A week-long festival of free summer holiday activities for kids and families is underway at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) International until Sunday 14 January.

You can expect some noise and flurry as young kids engage with their own exhibition, commissioned as part of the NGV Triennial, along with art-making activities, dance workshops, yoga and free performances. If it all gets too much inside, there’s the NGV garden outside, where bubbles will float through the air and beach-themed music will accompany families relaxing in the sun with ice-creams.

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Rochelle Siemienowicz is a Melbourne writer and editor. Her first book Fallen, a memoir was published in 2014 and her second, Double Happiness, a novel, in 2024. She has a PhD in Australian cinema and was previously a journalist at ScreenHub and ArtsHub. ou can find her on Instagram: @Rochelle_Rochelle or at Substack where she writes a fortnightly newsletter, The Fool and the Queen.