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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.

9 Jan 2024 18:00

Rochelle Siemienowicz

Young kids standing at colourful wall mural by Jean Jullien at NGV International summer festival for kids.

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Young visitors enjoying ‘RIFIFI: Jean Jullien for Kids’ as part of NGV Triennial until 7 April 2024 at NGV International. Photo: Kate Shanasy.

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.

Stephanie Pohlman, Youth and Families Coordinator at the NGV, says that for many young children and their families, this annual event will be the first time they get to engage with the gallery.

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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.