Performing Arts

Production – Performing Arts Update

If Things Feel A Little Dark…

For many of us, 2020 has been the year of postponing, cancelling or missing out on things. We the ever-resilient humans that we are, must get creative and fight on in the best ways possible.

Sometimes those results don’t always go our way. Our amazing cast and crew of School of Rock have expressed their sadness in missing their show in the current 2020 climate. 

I couldn’t quite find the words to express how much the theatre means to us. The time in the VPAC, creating, bonding, producing, rehearsing and laughing about the smallest thing to the outside world, but the biggest break through in our performance. 

The time we spend building to a production are the  busiest and most stressful periods for the actors, crew and teachers. However, it is also the most rewarding.

Right now, it feels like we did all the training for a massive running race and just as we tied our shoes and settled into the starting line, someone lost the starting gun and we are just waiting for them to come back. (in our socially distanced way of course). 

The Sydney Opera house shared the following work from the Artist Jess Harwood which wraps up how we feel right now about this darkness in producing Theatre whilst we focus on the world’s health.

We will leave a light on in our theatre for our performers as we miss them tremendously and look forward to the day we can return to the stage…we will be ok and so will you. Keep that light on for yourself too!

Reach out, connect and we will see you on the stage soon.

Rachel Urquhart

Performing Arts Domain Leader

Song Writing Competition

Do you love writing music? 

Do you love playing an instrument? 

Or perhaps do you love singing in the shower? St James College is hosting a song writing competition, and we would love to hear your music.

What do you need to do? Simple. 

Write any type of song on what ever instrument you want. You can even sing solo. You can have as many instruments you want and it can go for as long as you want – just no less than a minute. You can even include music software. All you have to do is send a video recording of you playing a song that you wrote to Miss Urquhart and Mr Romeo. 

Joshua Romeo

Teacher