2024 School Magazine

Creative Arts Weather forecast: It’s looking bright! Call Sheet: Arts 2024 09:00 Year 9 Arts sets a foundation for

11:00 Year 11 Arts students uncover how to create works with a deeper meaning. In Music, they connect identities with broader narratives, exploring how music reflects self-discovery and future aspirations. In Drama, students lay the groundwork for dramatic theory in Year 12. Meanwhile, Art fosters the development of visual languages, allowing students to engage with coding concepts to perceive Art and the world in innovative ways. 12:00 Year 12 artists hone their skills by guiding their own projects. Visual Artists select their focus, maintaining independence and personal style throughout their internal assessment. Musicians explore Innovations and Narratives in music, creating self-guided compositions, performances, and musicology projects. Actors pitch and perform retellings of Medea, using styles from the classic Greek Chorus to a social media inspired monologue. The Year 12 units exemplify agency and creative control, empowering students to create incredible works with personality and meaning! Waye-Waye Sim (12G), Dorothy Rae (12G) and Sienna (Alec) Askew (12L)

students to guide their own creative works! In Music, the Musical Theatre unit lets students arrange, direct, and choreograph their own group performance, culminating in a showcase for parents and friends! Drama students take on the offstage aspects of theatre, writing their own scripts using news articles about the refugee experience. Visual Art students delve into the local environment, painting landscapes of the Spring Hill area, and responding in an exam to Brisbane artist, Glen Skien. 10:00 Year 10 Arts develops professional creation and performance skills. Music students compose original film scores, premiering them live on stage at the Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium in an audio-visual spectacular! Drama students embrace physical theatre, learning stage combat and choreographed fight sequences before delving into a directorial pitch. Visual Art students discuss a personal and experimental approach to art, creating folios of innovative self-portraits and wearable art!

07:00 Year 7 artists have the chance to explore each Art subject. In Music, students explore Remix performances, combining popular music and folk songs to create choreographed mashup performances! Drama classes deliver a crash course into theatre; students springboard from improvisation and movement games to develop foundational performance skills. In Visual Arts, students explore clay and collagraph printing to create new and unique artworks! 08:00 Year 8 artists brand out, embracing a sense of ‘guided independence’. Music students explore performance and composition tasks, with the opportunity to choose their own instruments, groups, and rehearsal strategies. Drama students delve into the Dramatic Elements, creating scripted group performances that explore the human context of Drama. Visual Art students explore a range of mediums, including lino printing, cardboard sculpture, and stop-motion animation!

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