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All bookings are subject to availability of university spaces and presenters.
In-school workshops
Workshops where we come to you.
Dance
Make your movements meaningful. Students learn the importance of characterisation for choreography and how to develop their own dance routines. Dance styles can include hip hop, jazz and/or contemporary choreography playing with the idea of character.
- Year level
- 5-11
- Class size
- Up to 30 students
- Duration
- 2-4 hours (flexible session delivery in consultation with teachers)
- Curriculum link
- Relevant to students taking performing arts. Can be adapted to fit current curriculum.
- Location
- In-school
Graphic novel writing
Using examples of visual and verbal communication, popular comics, and graphic interpretations of classics such as Romeo and Juliet, students develop their own graphic novel, blending visual art and story writing.
- Year level
- 6-11
- Class size
- Up to 25 students
- Duration
- 4 hours (flexible session delivery in consultation with teachers)
- Curriculum link
- Relevant to students taking English, film and TV, drama, social studies, history and visual art.
- Location
- In-school
Videomaking
Video is a powerful medium for storytelling. Using iMovie or photos, learn the art of factual storytelling using the moving image and sound. This workshop focuses on the documentary genre and might include stories about students or their communities.
- Year level
- 7-10
- Class size
- Up to 30 students
- Duration
- 2-4 hours (flexible session delivery in consultation with teachers)
- Curriculum link
- Relevant to students taking media and English.
- Location
- In-school
Off Road Drama Company
Off Road Drama Immersion programs engage students in rich and joyful learning and deliver assessable learning outcomes. Students actively participate in role and contribute to the dramatisation of a story. Teachers scaffold students’ preparation, participation and reflection using resource packages provided and collect hard evidence for assessment purposes.
For an example of the work visit the Off Road Drama Company Facebook page.
- Year level
- 5-8
- Class size
- Up to 25 students
- Duration
- 3.5-4 hours (flexible session delivery in consultation with teachers)
- Curriculum link
Relevant to students of drama, English, social studies and history.
All programs address the content descriptors and achievement standards of the Australian curriculum and C2C in relation to drama and the linked subject areas.
- Location
- In-school
On-campus workshops
Our on-campus workshops also offer a chance to experience campus life.
Career and guest lecture series
Our Career and Guest Lectures can help guide students in course and career decision-making in the Creative Industries.
Can be adapted to meet school needs.
- Year level
- 7-11
- Class size
- Small and large group audiences
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Curriculum link
- Relevant to students taking Drama, Dance, Music, Visual Art, English, Design, Home Economics, Film and TV.
- Location
- On-campus
Communication: speak up!
Great orators can turn a crowd of thousands into a silent field, not only speaking at their audience but speaking to their audience, reaching out with words as heavy as rain. Students learn how using the right words with a precise tone will communicate the exact point, and move the audience the right way.
- Year level
- 7-11
- Class size
- Up to 30 students
- Duration
- 45-60 minutes
- Curriculum link
- Relevant to students taking English, drama, film and TV, history and social studies.
- Location
- On-campus
On-campus or in-school workshops
Come to us or we can come to you.
Design - placemaking: postcards
Discover what makes a place special. Students create a postcard of a place of interest, and learn about the elements of design that help make a place/space unique: architecture, interiors, colour, texture etc.
- Year level
- 5-10
- Duration
- 1-2 hours
- Curriculum link
- Relevant to students taking design and technology and science.
- Location
- In-school or on-campus
Slam poetry
It's your world, your voice! Students learn how to voice the concerns of their generation through slam poetry. Drawing on their passions and concerns, students write and perform a poem that makes people think.
- Year level
- 5-11
- Class size
- Up to 30 students
- Duration
- 2-4 hours
- Curriculum link
- Relevant to students taking English, drama, social studies and history (can be adapted to fit current curriculum).
- Location
- In-school or on-campus
Design - plastics
What do designers do? Designers think creatively to help solve wicked problems. Our environment is awash with harmful plastics. Students find out how to contribute to solving the problem in a game related workshop.
- Year level
- 6-11
- Duration
- 1-2 hours
- Curriculum link
- Relevant to students taking design and technology and science.
- Location
- In-school or on-campus
Visual arts: digital portraits
Move beyond the traditional and embrace the digital. Students are introduced to the fundamentals of image-making as a creative art process using Adobe Photoshop and iMovie. They will discover what makes an image or video unique, and how to think like an artist or curator when making and displaying images. Students will produce an artwork based on digital manipulation.
- Year level
- 8-11
- Class size
- Up to 30 students
- Duration
- 2-4 hours
- Curriculum link
- Relevant to students taking film, television, new media and visual arts (can be adapted to fit current curriculum).
- Location
- In-school and on-campus