GalleryContent StudioEvent VenueSouth Yarra · Est. 2025
Created at La Vita Nova

Our programs.

Programs we built and run ourselves in South Yarra. Four classes run one after another every Sunday, and two of them also run as longer courses: twelve weeks of starting a real business, and six weeks of learning to argue well.

Cut-paper illustration of leaves, brush strokes, an arch, coins and a swing tag in the La Vita Nova palette

Art at 11am, chess at 12:40pm, debating at 1:50pm and young founders at 3pm. Ages 8 to 12, from $35 a class.

Sundays, at a glance

Each class is complete on its own and booked on its own. The ten minutes between them are supervised, so a child staying on is looked after continuously and you drop off and collect once.

11:00amArt, 90 min, $55
12:40pmChess, 60 min, $35
1:50pmDebating, 60 min, $35
3:00pmYoung founders, 60 min, $35

Masters in the Making

Cut-paper illustration of bold flowers and leaves in the La Vita Nova paletteA La Vita Nova program
Art workshops for ages 8 to 12

Meet the great artists of history. Make something of your own.

Every Sunday the children meet one artist, learn how that artist saw the world, then make a piece in the same spirit that is entirely their own. Ninety minutes, a small group, and our team on the floor the whole way through.

A different artist runs every Sunday, and the project changes with the artist: scissors and paper for Matisse, tape and three colours for Mondrian, dots for Kusama.

Sundays11:00am to 12:30pm
$55Per child, per session
Ages 8 to 12Small group
South Yarra51a Grosvenor St

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The artists

Twelve artists in the series, a new one almost every Sunday. Your child learns how that artist saw the world, then makes a piece of their own in the same spirit.

The Founder’s Studio

A 12-week entrepreneurship program for ages 8 to 13

Become the founder of your own business.

Over twelve weeks the children take one idea and build it properly. Who it is for, what it costs, what it looks like and how to talk about it, worked out week by week the way a founder actually works it out.

It ends on launch night, when each of them stands up in the gallery and shows a room of family and friends the thing they made.

Cut-paper illustration of a launch night market stall: bunting, a striped awning, a table of the things the children made and a hand written price tagA La Vita Nova program
Weeks 1 to 5
Find the idea

Start from something they already love and shape it into a business. Ends with the idea locked in and a clear customer.

Weeks 6 to 9
Make it real

Give it a look and a name it can carry. Ends with a logo, a brand kit and real printed cards.

Weeks 10 to 12
Take it live

Put it in front of people. Ends with a live website and launch night in the gallery.

See the week by week →

The Debate Makers

Cut-paper illustration of debating marks in the La Vita Nova palette: speech shapes, palm cards, bells and starsA La Vita Nova program
A six-week debating course for ages 9 to 13

Big opinions. Better arguments.

Six Sundays, six to eight children, and one new part of debating each week put straight into a real team debate that same afternoon. How to take a position, build an argument, listen to the other side and answer it.

Dates and price for the first cohort are being set. Registering puts you first in line.

The Sunday Kids Pass

Coming back for more Sundays?

Save with the Sunday Kids Pass. Give your child four or ten Masters in the Making workshops from $35 a workshop instead of $55, used across the Sundays that suit your family.

Choose whichever Sundays suit your family. Sessions are valid for 12 months, and if life gets in the way we will extend them.

See the Sunday Kids Pass →

Have a program of your own?

Artists, teachers and makers run their programs here too. Bring us the idea and we will help you work out the format, the numbers and the setup, then handle the ticketing and put it in front of our community.

Tell us your idea →