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Imagine Live

HOTA, Home of the Arts Presents ‘IMAGINE LIVE’ by Jolyon James based on the book “Imagine” by Alison Lester, Produced by Jolyon James and NCM.

Thu 4 Sep 2025
Imagine Live

Imagine Live

Magical and meaningful, IMAGINE LIVE is a celebration of creativity, friendship and our precious natural world. With the help of the audience, performers play and sing their way through the pages of Alison Lester’s iconic best-selling book, and quickly discover there is WAY more to these pages than they first thought.

Spot a leopard, dive with a dolphin or dig up a dinosaur as this iconic book springs into life before your eyes.

IMAGINE LIVE combines live action and animation with digital puppetry in a large-scale, multi-screen performance. Underscored by original music, characters and objects travel between real and animated worlds, responding in real time to audience input. Beautiful and meaningful, IMAGINE LIVE is a celebration of the transformative power of creativity.

Created by the multi-award-winning team from Robot Song, IMAGINE LIVE is a 55 min interactive musical performance for families...Nana’s are especially welcome!

Dates
Thu 4 Sep 2025
Where
Theatre 1
Duration
55 mins, no interval
Tickets
All Tickets $27
Times
Thu 04 September - 10:00am & 12:00pm

#School Bookings

Please complete the below form to inquire about experiencing HOTA Education Programs.

  • Recommended school year levels: K - 2
  • Recommended audiences: 4-12 years old and their families
School Bookings

Links to curriculum

Education Pack:

Email education@hota.com.au with your booking confirmation to receive the preparation resources prior to your visit.

Queensland Kindergarten Learning Guideline

  • Identity
  • Connectedness
  • Wellbeing
  • Communicating

Years F - 2 ACARA 9.0 Descriptors and Elaborations:

Music, Dance and Drama

Exploring and Responding

Explore the significance of the arts for individuals and communities by examining how music, dance, and drama enrich lives across various cultures and contexts. Investigate why the arts are vital for personal expression and societal cohesion and understand the diverse ways people engage with these forms of artistic expression locally and worldwide.

Developing Skills and Practices

Use play, imagination, and arts knowledge to explore possibilities and develop ideas. Experiment with fundamental movement skills and the elements of dance to move safely and expressively. Apply the elements of drama and imagination in both dramatic play and process drama. Improve listening skills and develop abilities in singing and playing instruments.

Visual and Media Arts

Developing Practices and Skills

Use play, imagination, and arts knowledge to explore possibilities, develop ideas, and capture and organise images, sounds, text, and interactive elements with visual arts processes and media technologies.

Design and Digital Technologies

Knowledge and Understanding

Explore how products, services, and environments are designed and produced to meet personal and community needs, including the roles and factors influencing their design and technology. Recognise and examine digital systems and their components for specific purposes.

General Capabilities:

  • Literacy
  • Digital literacy
  • Ethical understanding
  • Personal and social capability
  • Critical and Creative thinking  
  • Sustainability

#Acknowledgements

Produced by Jolyon James and NCM

Co Producer / Co Produced by Geelong Arts Centre and Supported by Creative Australia

Associate Producer Riverside Theatres, Parramatta and Mornington Peninsula Shire

Receives funding from Creative Australia through the Australian Cultural Fund

Creative Team

Jolyon James - Writer / Director / Designer
Nate Gilkes - Composer
Ashlea Pyke - Assistant Director
Eliza Hull - Access Consultant
Alison Lester - Author of ‘Imagine’
Benjamin Van Dillen - Production Manager / Lighting Design
Justin Gardam - Sound Design
Amy Marks - Visual Supervisor
Producer / Agent - Nicholas Clark Management (NCM)
Allen & Unwin - Publisher of ‘Imagine’

Cast

Ashlea Pyke - Actor
Aubrey Flood - Actor
Phillip McInnes - Actor / Digital Puppeteer
Nate Gilkes - Musician
‘Nana & Soli’ - Susie Armstrong & Goldie Wood


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