About Wakakirri Primary
Wakakirri – Australia’s Ultimate Performing and Creative Arts Challenge for Schools
Wakakirri encourages students to learn through the creation and sharing of stories. Students can tell stories through a range of arts mediums, sharing them both live and online. Established in 1992, Wakakirri is Australia’s largest arts challenge for schools involving over 20,000 students in every state and territory.
Wakakirri has live events in 16 locations, a live audience of 30,000 and online events involving 64,000. Wakakirri stories reach over 1 million people each year. Wakakirri is free to enter and accessible to every school in Australia.
How can schools be involved?
There are six Wakakirri story categories for primary schools to choose from
Schools can tell any story they wish and are limited only by imagination. Stories can be about people, culture, environment, relationships or history. Stories can have humour, adventure, love and/or drama. Sustainable approaches must be employed to all stages of creation, including the creation of any props, sets and costumes.
Schools can enter as many Wakakirri categories as they wish.
