Performing Ensembles:
There are many opportunities for the gifted and talented students to participate in diverse performing ensembles: Senior Concert Band, Senior Jazz Band, Marching Band, Junior Jazz Band and the Drum Ensemble. The students perform on a public stage through their participation in the ANZAC Day March, the Royal Easter Show Parade, Band Tour – where they perform at country schools and communities and the local Primary Schools Band Tour.
Tuition Program:
The Tuition Program at the College offers one on one mentoring by peripatetic teachers in a variety of instruments: Guitar, Percussion, Piano, Woodwind, Brass, Violin and Vocal. This provides opportunities for the gifted and talented students to accelerate their performance skills and participate in AMEB and Trinity Examinations. Students are encouraged to be involved in community eisteddfods.
Annual College Musical:
The highlight of the year in the arts is the annual musical – in 2010 we presented “Disco Inferno” to an enthusiastic audience of parents who reminisced their disco days. The students can participate in many facts of the musical production developing skills and highlighting the gifted and talented in the following areas: Performance - Singing, Dance, Acting, Playing an Instrument in the Band, Set Design and Construction, Props, Graphic Design – ticketing, logos and program design, Costuming, Lighting, Crew and Front of House logistics.
Cultural Week: Term 3 Week 7
This week highlights the many facets of both the Performing and Creative Arts with a special focus on the HSC Performances in Music and Drama coupled with the Visual Arts Body of Works in a Year 12 Soiree on the Wednesday evening in the La Valla Hall.
The Spring Music Festival occurs on the Wednesday evening coinciding with the Y12 Soiree. Gifted and talented musicians from the College Performance Ensembles and the Tuition Program perform to their family, friends and their peers in a celebration of their musical accomplishments.
The annual Marist Eisteddfod provides the students to perform to adjudicators to provide feedback with their musical ability and proficiency.
The Cultural Assembly acknowledges students with certificates those who have participated in the many Cultural events offered at the College throughout the year. Films are created by the students to highlight the events and there are performances by the talented musicians.
In 2010, we help our first “Draw Off” Competition where talented students from Years 8, 11 and 12 competed over the course of 4 hours to complete a large canvas. This project saw a collaborative workshop environment and considerable mentoring by the senior artists with the juniors.
Exhibitions are held in the College Library highlighting the gifted and talented students in Visual Arts and Photographic and Digital Media.
Workshops:
There will be opportunities in 2011 for the gifted and talented students in the Creative Arts to be involved in workshops in the following areas: Film/Video, Photography and Drawing.
Carolyn O’Brien, Creative Arts Coordinator.