How to Plan Your Day

Plan your day

The Out of the Box weekday program has been designed to coincide with the school timetable, allowing you to travel to and from the festival in school hours. Here you'll find some things to help plan your day.

• The 2010 Out of the Box festival extends over the Cultural Centre site, including QPAC, Queensland Arts Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland Museum and State Library of Queensland. We encourage you to explore the Out of the Box website.
• Free events take place between 9.00am and 2.30pm. All ticketed performances and workshops commence from 9.00am and conclude by 2.00pm or shortly after.
• Once you have selected your ticketed events, and made a decision about the free activities you would like to see, carefully consider the time and routes required to move between venues across the festival site.
• Arrive at the festival with plenty of time to orient your group to the festival site, make a toilet stop and find your performance/workshop venue. We suggest you arrive 30 minutes before any ticketed event.
• Allow sufficient time between performances or workshops for breaks.
• Fill up the gaps in your schedule from the wide choice of free events around the site. Please be aware that these free events are very popular so you may not be able to participate in your preferred activity immediately. We suggest that when planning your day, you consider a couple of options for the free time you have allocated.
• There are a number of great places across the festival site for a group picnic lunch. Consider the South Bank parklands, the Cultural Forecourt, Melbourne Street Green, Queensland Art Gallery Plaza, Museum Plaza, the Maiwar Green or Kurilpa Park.
• Volunteers will be highly visible across the Cultural precinct to provide directions and up-to-date program information. Volunteers wearing the Out of the Box festival t-shirt will assist with directions to your performance or workshop venue. Front-of-house staff at each venue, identified by their uniforms, will also be available to assist groups
• We recommend that you identify requirements regarding mobility and other individual needs when booking.

Sample Itinerary

The festival runs from 8.30am to 4.00pm daily. The weekday program has been designed to enable you to travel to and from the festival during school hours.  

A sample itinerary:

9.30am    Arrive with plenty of time
10.00am See a performance
11.00am Take a break
11.15am View the exhibitions or participate in free events*
12.00pm Do a workshop
1.00pm    Take a lunch break
1.20pm    View the exhibitions or participate in free events
2.00pm    Return to school

Sufficient time has been allocated between performances or workshops for breaks.

*A number of free events enable you to maximise your excursion time. Most free events do not require a booking but please be aware that these events are very popular. We suggest that you consider a number of options for free time.