THE ARTS
It’s an exciting time of the year in The Arts. Our senior students have just completed their midyear final artworks and they look fantastic! Our senior Art, Media, Studio Arts and VCD students have really excelled. They have completed some amazing works of art including photography pieces, sculptures, short films, film posters, advertising campaigns, designs, paintings, and some very cool mixed media artworks. We can’t wait for ‘Rise’: the VCE Arts showcase coming up in Term 4 to show-off this amazing work.
Arts Week
The Arts faculty recently held its highly successful Arts Week in the first week of Term 3. The week is a celebration of all things visual and performing arts. Events included chalk art in the Southern Quad, Media Film Screenings, Art Club and Music Jam. All of the events were highly attended and the students all had such a fantastic time.
The Arts Instagram Work
This month’s Instagram Collage showcases the amazing work produced by the Year 11 Media class during Unit 1. Students were tasked with creating representations of superheroes in the form of a series of film posters. They all did such a fantastic job. Well done, everyone. You can check out more of our students amazing work at https://www.instagram.com/mooroolbarkcollegeofficial/.
Media Film Festival – Entries Are Now Open!
Entries for Mooroolbark College’s 10th Annual Film Festival are now open and close on 1st September. Entries must tell a narrative, be appropriate for all audiences and contain no copyrighted material (including visuals or music/sounds). They can be completed by an individual or a team/group. Entries are open to Media and non-Media students.
The film festival will be held on 6th October.
For more details, please see Mr Neil-Holland.
Our Performing Arts students are also making the most of the colder weather in that it provides the perfect opportunity to perfect and hone their performances. Our VCE Music students are busy practicing for their final performances. It was fantastic having the College’s Big Band perform at the College production this year. What an amazing way to showcase our talented instrumental music students.
College Production
This year’s College production of ‘We Will Rock You’ was a huge success! The performances were amazing. All of the students and staff involved should be very proud of their work. A special thanks goes out to Peter Marz (director/producer), Jordan van Keulen (music director) and Sarah Rosendale (choreographer) for all of the tireless hours they put in to make the show a success.
Wakakirri
Our Wakakirri Dance Squad students were also a wonderful addition to the College production program. It was so great seeing them give a sneak peek of their upcoming performance piece. The team will be competition in this year’s Wakakirri Festival to be held at the Frankston Arts Centre on 25th August. We wish them all the best and can’t wait to attend!
Performing Arts Camp
Congratulations to our performers, our Performing Arts teaching team, and our very supportive parents who gave our students time to develop their production routines, Wakakirri theme and performance, and for our instrumental music students to practise and learn new instruments. It was fun filled few days full of music, singing and performing and the feedback from students has been very positive.
Matthew Neil-Holland
The Arts KLA Leader