What the Ocean Said Immersive meditation

Term 4

  • Schools
  • Kids & Families
  • Workshops
  • Creative Arts
  • English
  • PDHPE
  • Centre for Creativity
  • Run time – 50 minutes, including a 10 minute Q&A

A sensory world of vivid storytelling

Join creativity and wellness for young students, with our specially commissioned storytelling and meditation experience with digital projections. This is a sensory world of vivid storytelling, dreamy electronic music, animation, and the wonder of our Sydney Harbour.

These performances are for Schools, there are also performances open to the public.

What the Ocean Said is a relaxing storytelling experience for both students and teachers.

Students are invited to relax amidst a magical space of calm in a sea of pillows. In this meditation and story, students imagine what it would be like to transform into a bird and fly above the harbour, morph into a humpback whale diving deep into the water, and expand into the reaches of the ocean itself. With mindfulness techniques wrapped up in a story time adventure, we’ll introduce younger students to meditation, and offer older students a whole new perspective on mindfulness.

What the Ocean Said is a Sydney Opera House New Work Now commission, enabled by Jane & Russell Kift and by the Turnbull Foundation.

What to expect

  • Sitting on soft pillows and carpets.
  • Taking off your shoes but keeping your socks on.
  • Low to dark lighting and calming music.
  • Large-scale projection with a live performer and meditation narrator.
  • Lying down, slow breathing, feeling relaxed.

General capabilities and cross-curriculum priorities: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability, Sustainability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures.

Key themes include: Connection to nature, empathy, environmental care, emotional exploration, imagination, resilience and the power of non-verbal communication.

Presented by Sydney Opera House

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Plan your visit

Address

Sydney Opera House
Bennelong Point
Sydney NSW 2000
Australia

Getting to the venue

The Opera House is a 7-10 minute walk from Circular Quay, and is easily accessible by car, train, ferry, lightrail, bus, bike and on foot.

Location and access

Centre for Creativity

The Centre for Creativity is located at the end of the Western Foyers, next to the Drama Theatre. Best accessed through the Western Foyers entry.

All Sydney Opera House foyers are accessible, with lifts to the main and western foyers. The public lift to all foyers is accessible from the corridor near the escalators on the Lower Concourse and also in the Western Foyer via the corridor on the Ground Level (at the top of the escalators).

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