The Arts

POPARTS Trivia Night

The Gap State High School's Annual PoPArts Trivia Night is back for its 22nd year! Come and join quizmaster Andrew McMicking for a fantastic night of trivia and prizes.

Date:           Friday 8 March 2023

Time:          6:30 pm - 10:00 pm

Location:   The Gap State High School - J.A. Robertson Hall     

Cost:            $15 Adult, $10 Student 

RSVP:          1 March 2024

News from Visual Arts

Photos from our artist-in-residence Sophie Munns workshop with our Year 11 Visual Art and Visual Art in Practice students on 15 February. 

Students explored working with diverse media and techniques directed through Sophie’s seedartlab workshop. Sophie engaged our students in her way of working and the motivation behind her work, especially considering bio-cultural diversity. 

If you really look at seed…often appearing so small, so humble and easily often unnoticed. They are so profound as they help shape the natural world and history of human culture on the planet. Sophie Munns. (Creative Inquiry, Senior Visual Art textbook). 

Music Department News

Rare opportunity for beginners or returning students to join our incredible music program. 

Are you keen to learn an instrument and join one of our Music ensembles? Beginners and returning students are welcome to express their interest in starting lessons with one of our Instrumental Music teachers starting as soon as Term 2. We have several instruments in our storeroom looking for someone to make music on them again!

If you have ever considered learning a Band or Orchestral instrument, now is the time! Take a look at the instruments for hire below:

• Baritone/Euphonium
• Trombone
• French horn
• Tuba
• Flute
• Clarinet
• Bass Clarinet
• Tenor Saxophone 
• Oboe
• Bassoon
• Viola
• Double Bass
• Percussion

If you have your own instrument gathering dust at home, bring it in and join in the fun! 

Program costs:

• $175 levy for the year of instruction
• $150 hire charge for instruments

Students enrolled in IM are required to attend two lessons per week – one large group lesson (ensemble rehearsal) 60 minutes before school and one small group lesson 35 minutes during the school day on a rotating timetable.

Please reach out to Ms Monique McMullen mmcmu8@eq.edu.au to express your interest or ask further questions. 

TULA Concert 1

Our first Instrumental Music concert in on Friday 22 March in the JA Robertson Hall. Doors will open at 6:00 pm for a 6:30 pm start and the PoPArts Bar will be open before and during the performance selling light meals and beverages. We hope you can make it along to support the great work of our Instrumental and Choral students and their teachers.

PoPArts Committee

Are you an enthusiastic Arts Parent? We would love you to come and join our Arts parent support group – PoPArts. This wonderful sub-committee of the P&C are a lively and dynamic group who fundraise for all of our Arts curriculum programs. In the past they have dedicated funds to providing a range of equipment and experiences for our students including – Shake and Stir theatre residency for Year 10 Drama; Cameras, tripods, microphones and other equipment for Media Arts/Film and Television; iMacs and associated technology for our Music Lab; Gallery improvements for the Art Gallery; large instruments including double basses and marimbas for Instrumental Music. Please email our current secretary Steve Williams on secretary@poparts.tgshspandc.org.au if you are keen to get involved. Our next meeting is on Tuesday 12 March and then on the second Tuesday of each month after that. Hope to see you there.