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Rainbow Portraits: School Holiday Program
Tue 11 April at 10:00 am - 11:30 am

About this event
Create your own colourful family portraits at the Museum this school holidays.
Inspired by the historic portraits on display in the Museum, we’ll be creating some wild and wonderful portraits on canvas with the help of the humble squeegee.
Bring along a family picture to trace, or use those in our exhibition to create your own crazy family album.
This activity is designed for children to be dropped off at the beginning and picked up at the end of the session. Suitable for kids aged 6+.
Booking Information
This is a FREE event, and bookings are essential.
If you have booked a ticket and can no longer attend, please cancel your ticket or contact us so we can make places available to people on the waitlist.
Orange City Council, including the Museum, is a Child Safe organisation. This booking form asks you to provide information about relevant medical conditions, authorisation of whether or not pictures can be taken of your child and instructions on who is authorised to pick up/drop off your child. For more information visit Orange City Council’s Child Safe Strategic Policy.
Related Events
The What’s On calendar covers arts and heritage events happening across the NSW Central West in the local government areas of Bathurst Region, Blayney, Cabonne, Cowra, Forbes, Lachlan, Lithgow, Mid-Western Region, Oberon, Orange, Parkes and Weddin.
Event listings are sourced or supplied from local venues and arts organisations. Many events listed here have been originally shared by the organisers on social media. Whilst all care is taken – and accuracy is our priority – we can take no responsibility for date changes or the content of contributed information. Contact the event organisers listed for more details or to book tickets.
The best way to include your event is to use our SUBMIT HERE form (under the What’s On menu at the top of each page). These listings will be manually approved by the Arts OutWest team before publication. Please allow a couple of days for listings to be published. If you have submitted an event and want to make changes just email us at artsoutwest@csu.edu.au
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