A fantasy workshop festival encouraging the Riverland to embrace a little weirdness and magical wonder since 2022.
Here’s what we’ve got going on from September 25 – 27:
🌀 Open Night
🌀 Creating Colossal Creatures with Bianka Kennedy
🌀 Writing Fantasy (Some Assembly Required) with Jason Fischer
🌀 Live Script Read – They Sing to the Waters of Now with Anneli Ingle and crew
🌀 Fantastical Cardboard Creatures with Mitch Hearn
🌀 Round Table – Bring Your Own Project with Kirste Vandergiessen
2024 RECAP
Portal is an event that I produced to bring all the little pockets of fantasy lovers, readers, gamers, and writers in the community together under one roof. And it worked! Portal 2024 consisted of four workshops, all facilitated by local fantasy lovers and creators. The workshops covered world-building, clay sculpting, writing, and mapmaking, so by the end of the weekend our participants were able to take their own semi-developed worlds home with them.
People travelled from Port Lincoln, Mount Gambier, Adelaide and Broken Hill – as well as all throughout the Riverland – for approximately 30 people at each workshop. So warming to see my tiny hometown full of fantasy friends this past weekend! Not only did Portal build our crafting, creating and writing skills, but also brought together a few different pockets of fantasy lovers into the same room together and connected community.
Pulling together a weekend-long event is a hell of a thing, but wow, what a pay off.
Thank you to everyone who travelled to Barmera, to my behind-the-scenes supporters, to everyone who left feedback, and those who offered a kind word to me and the Part of Things team.
Huge thanks and congrats to our fantastic facilitators, Stuart, Sam, Alysha and Riverland Tabletop Guild. Each of you have brought such a life to this festival.
See you in 2026!
Be Part of Things: we are the project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body and the Regional Arts Fund, which supports the arts in regional and remote Australia.
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