Play

About this event

Play has 4 dates listed at Wyndham Cultural Centre (177 Watton Street, Werribee, Victoria, 3030), starting Sun 8 Nov 2026 and running to Wed 11 Nov 2026.

Tickets and details are on the organiser’s website, linked on this page. Prices listed by the organiser: Price Free. They’re indicative, so check the final price when you book.

The organiser lists these accessibility features for the event: companion card accepted, employs people with disability, disability awareness training for staff, accessibility information published, asks visitors about specific access needs, tour guides trained in accessibility, step-free pathways, step-free main entrance, accessible restaurant, accessible theatre seating, lift access, easy-grip door handles, accessible toilet, accessible parking, accessible transport nearby, staff trained in accessibility, plain english information, large-print information, easy read signage and staff trained to assist people with vision loss.

From the organiser

Play explores how contemporary artists use playfulness, humour, and the language of games to approach subjects that are often difficult, divisive, or emotionally charged. The exhibition proposes that play is not a retreat from seriousness, but a strategy for engaging with it; a way to disarm, reimagine, and reconnect.

Through irony, satire, absurdity, and acts of joyful rebellion, the artists in this exhibition blur the boundaries between fun and critique. They draw on the visual languages of pop culture, cartoons, and childlike imagination; deploying familiar, accessible forms to speak to issues of identity, power, colonial histories, diaspora, and human vulnerability. Play here is never innocent. It is a knowing strategy, one that lowers defences precisely in order to ask harder questions.

The exhibition unfolds through overlapping thematic threads, tracing play as a form of resistance, a vessel for cultural continuity, and an open invitation for participation. Works range from parody and political satire to the playful storytelling embedded in living cultural traditions; from anthropomorphic sculptures that use tenderness to unsettle, to interactive and gamified works that position the audience as co-creator. In each case, play operates as both form and function, shaping not only what is communicated, but how it is felt and received.

The venue’s recorded access

Inclusable’s venue database has an entry for Wyndham Library Service - Werribee Branch at this location. It records wheelchair access, step-free entry and accessible parking. The venue hasn’t confirmed these details. They describe the venue in general, not this particular event.

Not yet recorded for the venue: accessible toilet and communication and sensory features such as a hearing loop or quiet hours. We don’t know either way, so it’s worth checking before you go.