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💕 Performance events
🌈 Transformative workshops
🍃Costume gatherings
🌷 Innovative team-building

Giddy Garden is run collaboratively by Erica McGinniskin (Costume Creator, Performer and Immersive experience and event developer) and Nathan Power (Lighting and Sound artist, DJ, event and festival extraordinaire and IT developer)

10/08/2025

“Play is not a break from learning. Play is the way we learn.”
— Fred Rogers

At Giddy Garden, we hold this truth close to our hearts.
Play isn’t something separate from growth, it’s how real growth happens.
When we play, we open up new pathways in our brains, in our bodies, and in our hearts.
We become more curious, more creative, more willing to take risks and step into the unknown because it feels joyful, not pressured.
That’s why we weave play into everything we do.
Workshops, performances, connection games are all designed through a playful lens, where learning happens naturally, through laughter, exploration, and shared experience.
When we are having fun and are fully engaged in the moment, learning doesn’t feel heavy or forced... it feels alive.

In her book Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity and Finding Your Life’s Purpose, Martha Beck explains that engaging with play, spontaneity, creative expression, and curiosity isn’t just restorative, it’s foundational to growth. Rather than logic, which keeps us stuck, it’s creativity and play that invite new neural pathways, foster innovative problem-solving, and open us to meaning, joy, and deeper connection with ourselves and others.

And that’s the kind of transformation we want to nurture at Giddy Garden. 🌱✨

17/07/2025

Giddy Garden is a space where play, creativity, and self-discovery come together. More than just a venue for
entertainment; it is a sanctuary for adults to rediscover joy, creativity, and authentic connection. Born from Eri
and Nathan’s background in providing events at festivals, performances, and running workshops, Giddy Garden
provides a permanent and dynamic hub for immersive events, adult play, and therapeutic experiences designed to
create community and nourish emotional, mental, and physical well-being, allowing for a more fulfilling life.

The name ‘Giddy Garden’ wonderfully encapsulates the brand’s spirit, with ‘Giddy’ evoking childlike wonder,
vibrancy, and curiosity, while ‘Garden’ symbolises growth, renewal, interconnectedness, and sanctuary, creating a
perfect blend of playfulness and transformation.

15/07/2025

I am on a solo road trip adventure with my new car “Zephyr” and my new roof top tent and I am so excited (with a sprinkle of nervousness)!

This year has taken me deep... into grief, into the underworld, into parts of myself I hadn’t yet met. But I’ve come back stronger, more rooted, more whole. I’ve learned more about myself than ever before. I’m standing taller now, more fully in my truth, my power, my softness.

I can feel my play, my cheekiness, my silliness and joy coming back.

An adventure up north feels like the perfect way to celebrate.
With connection to myself, friends along the way and to nature.

This new cycle is about slowing down.
Finding pleasure in the little things.
Honouring my needs, my desires, my body’s wisdom.
Pouring love into myself so I can be the Creative Rainbow Mother I’m here to be... for Giddy Garden, for community, and for this beautiful, wild life.

I feel deeply, wildly grateful. 🌈🌿
Feeling so much love.

Image from .hub in May with my wonderful passage to self sisters.

07/07/2025

Thank you to all the brave souls who got up on stage at OUTSPOKEN on Thursday. It was such a magical evening.

Follow these wonderful performers here:

🫦 Charlie Ahrens (storyteller)
🎵Connor Malanos (beatbox artist)
🎤Thabani Tshuma (Spoken word artist) .tshuma
🌈 Jaime-Lee Willoughby (Embodied dance storyteller)
🌹Sevgi Boga (spoken word artist)
🎷Milbags Magee (singer songwriter)
🌼 Nikki Veveca (spoken word artist)
🌱Richie Hallal (storyteller) .b.hallal
🎹 Will Tait (Songsmith/MC)

I’m blown away by the talent and rawness you all brought. I wonder whether those who got up on stage would relate to this story:

People often tell me I’m brave for getting up on stage and sharing my shame, grief, and anger. They see me vulnerable and open, and assume I must be fearless. But honestly? I mostly feel terrified.

Before I speak, my mind races:
Will I be judged?
Will people see me differently?
Am I being too much, too raw, too exposed?

But then I think:
Could this story help someone?
Could it remind someone that they’re not alone?
And that intention pulls me through.

Being vulnerable has never felt easy, but it’s changed me. I’ve moved from people-pleasing and perfectionism to living more openly, guided by my own wants and needs. I’m more at peace in my body, with less anxiety and more love, trust, and safety within myself.

The power of expressing myself freely has given me a life that feels real, not shaped by others, but by my own truth.

If sharing helps even one person feel braver, it’s worth it. 🌱✨

01/07/2025

Our next artist at OUTSPOKEN is Richie!

Richie Hallal is a whole thing.

Ceremony Designer, Master Theatre Maker, Coach, Uncle Marshall Rosenberg Enthusiast, Massage Therapist, Artist, Actor, Writer, an intersection in human form.

As an OUTSPOKEN audience member in April, Richie felt the pull to step onto the stage and we are glad they approached us.

Richie has graced stages for over 20 years including Fringe Festival, and major theatre companies weaving their signature mix of anarchic playfulness and heart chakra enlivening insight. At this OUTSPOKEN, they are conducting an open experiment on threads that weave a consensus reality with questions and possibilities therein as the entire world as we know it crumbles.

Follow Richie here:
b.hallal

See you in 2 days . Buy tickets in the link in bio!

Maybe you would like to be up on stage at our next OUTSPOKEN. Please reach out if this is you.

27/06/2025

Meet the less visible but absolutely essential part of Giddy Garden: our resident audio-visual wizard, Nathan.

If you’ve ever been to one of our events and enjoyed the smooth sound, beautiful lighting, or seamless vibe… that’s Nathan quietly working his magic behind the scenes. He’s the one setting up, tweaking, and making sure everything runs like a dream.

Nathan is not only a talented audio-lighting artist and DJ, he’s also spent decades contributing to performances, festivals, and creating art installations like the Kraken Submarine.

Affectionately known as the Swiss Army Knife (or Leatherman) by those who know him, Nathan wears many hats: builder, artist, tech whiz, problem solver, spreadsheet wrangler… the list goes on.

I’m so grateful for everything you pour into Giddy Garden, Nathan. Your skills, your creativity, and your steady presence are absolutely key to making this all happen.

24/06/2025

Connection is one of the things that makes me feel the most alive and I think we could all use a little more of it. In a world that is getting less face to face interaction, I certainly crave more spaces that create connection.

Eri love bringing people together. It’s honestly one of her favourite things... weaving interesting humans into the same space and watching the magic unfold. That’s what Giddy Garden is all about, creating events that centre around play, connection, creativity, and growth.

At OUTSPOKEN, Eri will be running a few short connection games to help us all meet at least one new soul in the room. As much as Eri loves connection, she know that it can be terrifying to approach people even in spaces like this.

That voice that creeps in… “What if I’m annoying? What if they don’t want to talk to me? What if I say something awkward?” She’s definitely been there.

Social anxiety is so real... even for the most social of us, but what Eri loves about this community is how beautifully we can hold each other in that… without judgement. We get it. We’ve all felt it. And we create spaces where it’s safe to be a little awkward, a little nervous, and still meet each other with warmth.

So let’s create that together, a cosy, playful, magical little bubble of connection, where being human in all its messy, vulnerable realness is completely welcome.

We know this may feel a little daunting for some people but why not feel scared, lean in and do it anyway.

Performer in photo:

20/06/2025

Wesley Anne is pure winter magic.

It’s like being in your lounge room... if your lounge room was filled with beautiful souls, heart-stirring performances, and the kind of warmth that only deep connection can bring.

At OUTSPOKEN, you can sit back, feel held in community, and be moved by incredibly talented artists... all from the cosy glow of one of Melbourne’s most intimate venues.

Honestly, we can’t think of a better way to spend a wintery night. ❄️🔥

Come join us. 💛 Buy tickets through the link in our bio.

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16/06/2025

Underneath the mask of perfection is the part of you we’re most longing to meet.
At Giddy Garden, we don’t do polished. We do real, messy, magical, and deeply human.

Our events aren’t designed to be flawless.
They’re designed to be real.
To close the gap between performer and audience, facilitator and participant.
To create spaces where you can exhale.
Where you don’t have to perform your best self but just bring your true self.

OUTSPOKEN brings the mess, the joy, the belly laughs, the brave reveals, the surprising connections,
the parts we’re told to hide but secretly long to share.
Not polished.
Not perfect.
Just real... and deeply alive and connected.

OUTSPOKEN is happening on July 3rd at 8pm. See tickets in link in bio.

16/06/2025

Our next wonderful performer for OUTSPOKEN is Charlie…

Charlie is a high functioning hed0nist. Her heightened sensate skills have been honed through years of making immersive sensory live art which, unbeknownst to her at the time, was an antidote to her history as a childhood s3xual abuse survivor. Her work of the last ten years has been to embody the permaculture principle, “the problem is the solution”; deep diving into s3x and s3xuality to empower herself and others. She does this through s3x-positive parenting, s3xological bodywork, embodied counselling and kooky k!nky play parties. She loves feet and dislikes small talk.

TRIGGER WARNING: Charlie’s story is a weaving together of some of the ways childhood s3xual abuse has impacted her life.

Follow Charlie’s work here:

OUTSPOKEN is on July 3rd at Wesley Anne. See tickets in the link in bio.

12/06/2025

We’re thrilled to announce our next artist… the brilliant spoken word artist Thabani Tshuma. We’re so excited to have him join us for OUTSPOKEN!

Thabani Tshuma is a multi-award-winning Zimbabwean writer and performance poet. His work can be found in publications such as Dichotomi magazine, Cordite Poetry Review, CUBBY, and ABC ArtWorks’ SLAMMED segment. Thabani is co-curator of Thin Red Lines and his debut collection, ‘The Gospel of Unmade Creation’, released in 2023 through Recent Work Press.

See more of what Thabani is up to here:
tshuma

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