The Arts Update

Arts Week 

18–25 May (Weeks 5–6)

Art Competition

The Art Competition is open for submissions until Wednesday 20 May. Categories include Beaumaris community, Photography, and Portraits, with winners in each category receiving a canteen voucher. Students can finalise their artwork during the Tuesday 19 May lunchtime session in B10, alongside the house collaborative artwork sessions, or at home.  Winners will be announced on Monday 25 May during the GOAL session. 

Music

Friday Lunchtime Concert 

This Friday 15 May, the Year 9&10 Making the Musician class will be performing a lunchtime concert on the deck outside W4. Feel free to come along during lunch to listen to the hard work the students have been putting in throughout the last term. 

Bayside Youth Summit

Today, our Junior and Senior Rock Bands performed for students visiting BSC for the Bayside Youth Summit.

Battle of the Bands 

We also have the Battle of the Bands school competition fast approaching on Monday 25 May, Week 6. This is an annual school event where any student/students can enter to perform in front of the whole school! It is a great opportunity to have some fun with friends and showcase your skills. 

William B

Performing Arts Leader (Music)

Drama

Production Update

Our College Production of Rock of Ages is swiftly taking shape. At long last, the cast has been able to put some songs and scenes on their feet for the first time. Slowly, we are putting the different pieces of the show together; learning our lines and blocking, dancing and singing, creating our characters and getting a better view of the shape, pacing and idea of the show. With rehearsals on Monday and Thursday afterschool, and Tuesday and Thursday at lunch, we are speeding through the first act. It’s definitely a challenge, but one the cast and I are ready to face head-on.

Oliver P

Performing Arts Leader (Drama)

Visual Arts

Snapshot in the City

Our Year 9 & 10 Snapshot students explored the city today, capturing photos at key landmarks and tourist locations to use in their PBL. These images will form part of tourism campaign materials developed back in the classroom.

Mr Josh Slocum & Ms Zoe Irvine

Teachers

VCE Media Excursions

On Wednesday, The Unit 1& 2 and 3 & 4 Media classes met up at Flinders Street Station and headed to the NGV for a walkthrough and exhibit viewing. After the tour, we made our way to Melbourne Central to have a lunch break and look around before heading to the Melbourne Museum, where we attended a Top Designs forum and participated in a Q&A panel, learning many new things! We ended the excursion with a folio viewing, gaining insights from previous designers. From there, we were able to explore the rest of the museum before making our own way home, ending the exciting day.

Last Tuesday, our wonderful VCE Media students went into the city to view ACMI’s Top-Screen presentation, a screening of the top 15 Media Unit 4 short films in the state. Over the course of the day, the students also got to partake in a scavenger hunt-style activity, using clues to find their way through the CBD to different locations to take photos with different landmarks. When we arrived at ACMI, we got to view ACMI’s “The Story of the Motion Picture” exhibition, featuring some new pieces of modern Australian movie history, including costumes from Netflix’s ‘Heartbreak High’ and some extraordinary clay animation figures from Adam Elliot’s ‘Memoir of a Snail.” While watching the student films, we were encouraged to think of ideas for our own short films and consider what did and didn’t work in these films. Overall, it was a great day for everyone involved.

Kate O & Riley V

Visual Arts Leaders