Overview
What are you hopeful for?
QPAC’s Out of the Box festival has invited more than a thousand children from across metropolitan, regional and remote Queensland to reflect upon hope and what it means to them. Manifesting as a large-scale installation across the cultural precinct, the Tree of Hope shares their ideas through artworks which hold their hopes and dreams for the future.
Schools and early childhood centres from almost every corner of Queensland have participated including:
- The Murri School, Acacia Ridge
- C&K Walker Street Community Childcare, Bundaberg
- Caboolture State School, Caboolture
- C&K Whiterock Community Kindergarten, Cairns
- Currumbin State School, Currumbin
- Bethany Lutheran School, Ipswich
- Woodridge State School, Logan
- Longreach State School, Longreach
- School of Distance Education, Longreach surrounds
- Tagai State School, Mabuiag Island
- C&K Sunset Community Kindergarten, Mount Isa
- St Paul's Primary School, Rockhampton
- C&K Maranoa Community Kindergarten, Roma
- Yarrabah State Primary, Yarrabah
The Tree of Hope is part of a long legacy of collaborative arts projects created with children, since the festival’s inception in 1992. Inspired by the work of Researcher, Teacher and Founder/Collector of the Children’s Art Archive, Dr Barbara Piscitelli AM, this year’s project has been designed by Brisbane artist Lucinda Shaw who has worked with local artists in each participating community to create artworks with children for the Tree of Hope installation developed by award-winning designer Josh McIntosh.
We invite you to venture through the halls, foyers and walkways in and around QPAC to witness the boundless imagination and aspirations of Queensland’s next generation.
FREE ACTIVITY
If you had a magical seed what would you hope would grow? Use your imagination to draw an artwork of something you are hopeful for, then add it to the branches of a growing tree at the State Library!
Dates: 26 April – 23 June 2025
Opening Hours: 10am – 5pm daily
Location: The Parlour, State Library of Queensland
Tree of Hope is part of QPAC’s Out of the Box.
