Arts Centre Melbourne Announces September School Holiday Program Lineup

From a free large-scale hip-hop concert on Arts Centre Melbourne's forecourt to secret recitals in hidden spaces around the buildings, Arts Centre Melbourne's September School Holiday Program will have entertainment for everybody. From Friday 20 - Sunday 29 September, Arts Centre Melbourne will host a variety of music concerts, puppetry performances and workshops for the whole family, including a hip-hop concert and album launch by Dig Deep, Scarlet Street Theatre puppet show and Hidden Music workshops and performances.

Arts Centre Melbourne's hip-hop music collective Dig Deep launch their debut full-length concept album Relationship Material live on a massive pop-up stage on Arts Centre Melbourne's Forecourt from 6pm Friday 20 September. Displaying lyrical dexterity and head-nodding beat production, the album Relationship Material tells personal stories of the artists, many of whom are of refugee backgrounds, and explores the connections between people, music and the world around them.

Housed inside a Punch and Judy-style puppet theatre, The Scarlet Street Theatre reveals a miniature world of puppets who play out a curious tale of unrequited love, ambition, revenge and redemption. Featuring a cast of quirky characters including theatre owner Barry von Peabody, resident poet Humple and Bozo the Famous Dancing Bear, The Scarlet Street Theatre is the latest incarnation by Melbourne-based puppet theatre company Lemony S Puppet Theatre. Created and performed by Jacob Williams, who is currently one of the puppeteers (or "King's Men") in King Kong the Musical, Scarlet Street Theatre plays Hamer Hall's Melbourne Room from Thursday 26 - Sunday 29 September.

Budding musicians and their families can take part in the Hidden Music workshops and performances in and around Hamer Hall on Thursday 26 and Friday 27 September. In specially curated workshops on both Thursday and Friday, kids will work with renowned musician Gillian Howell to create new musical compositions to be performed in seldom-used parts of Hamer Hall. On Friday at 12:30pm and 1:30pm, families and passersby can search for the 'hidden music' with the aid of a map and navigate their way around Hamer Hall to the unique performances spaces.

In Bellisimo, young people can compose music for the amazing Federation Bells in Birrarung Marr. In this new workshop in Arts Centre Melbourne's Digital Learning Hub at 2pm Wednesday 2 and Friday 4 October, kids first create their masterpiece on the computer before visiting Birrarun Marr and hear their composition played live on the Federation Bells.

With an international selection of the world's leading innovators in children's entertainment and home-grown creations by Australia's favourite family-friendly theatre companies, Arts Centre Melbourne's year-round Families and Youth program is designed to offer enriching performing arts experiences for audiences of all ages.

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