Cristin, Author at Artsplorers

October 20, 2020 No Responses

Own Voices Books: Wide Big World by Maxine Beneba Clarke and Isobel Knowles

This post contains affiliate links. This week, for Book Week, I am featuring posts on a few #OwnVoices books that we love. For more about Own Voices books and why I think they are important, see the intro to yesterday’s...

October 19, 2020 No Responses

Own Voices Books: El Deafo by Cece Bell

This post contains affiliate links. It is, at long last (2 months later than usual), CBCA Book Week again in Australia. I’m happy for any reason to celebrate books, and typically over here on the blog, I have asked fellow...

October 17, 2020 No Responses

RIBBIT RABBIT ROBOT Book Week Costumes by Victoria Mackinlay

Here are three quick and easy Book Week Costume ideas for Ribbit Rabbit Robot.

August 13, 2020 No Responses

Picture Book Gifts for Australian Father’s Day

Australian Father's Day falls in September. A picture book is the perfect gift.

July 29, 2020 No Responses

Book Review: Slow Down by Rachel Williams and Freya Hartas

Slow Down, a picture book by by Rachel Williams, illustrated by Freya Hartas, celebrates the beauty of stopping to take notice.

April 9, 2020 No Responses

Stay-at-Home Arts Activities & Classes for Kids by Australian Artists

*This article may contain affiliate links. As we continue to stay at home during the Covid-19 crisis, most of us with children are, to some extent, turning to the arts to keep busy and happy. At the same time, the...

March 25, 2020 No Responses

The Music of Nature – A Scavenger Hunt

The arts and nature: I always think of them as cousins in terms of how fundamental they are to our souls. And then, sometimes, they are one in the same. Like some nature painting. Or, how nature makes its own...

March 15, 2020 No Responses

How to Support the Arts When the Arts Are Going Dark

We are all trying to figure out how COVID-19 is going to change our lives: Will schools be cancelled (if yours hasn’t, already)? Is working from home an option? How much of a pantry stash do we need? By now,...

February 21, 2020 No Responses

Listening Ears On!: A Review of Regurgitator’s Pogogo Show’s The Really, Really, Really, Really Boring Album

If you were an Australian teenager in the 90’s, there’s a good chance that Regurgitator was the sound of your youth. Or, so I’m told. I was not an Australian teenager, and Regurgitator didn’t quite make it to my sphere;...

February 7, 2020 No Responses

The Children’s Arts Spaces of Brisbane’s Cultural Precinct

When we took our first trip to Brisbane last year, we did like any tourists and made a beeline for the South Bank district. South Bank is an expansive public space situated on Brisbane River. It is home to everything...

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Author: Cristin