This week has been a busy week for the arts. We have officially launched three arts related clubs which are open to all year levels; DramaLlamas, That Singing Thing, and Whimsical Wednesday’s!

‘That Singing Thing’ is our school choir and we meet in the music room every Tuesday lunch. We had our first rehearsal last week where we were joined by about ten students and we started learning the song “Zombies”.

We have also launched ‘DramaLlamas’, which was a huge success, we had a huge number of students throughout the junior school levels come along and participate in a range of fun ‘improv games’ and drama activities.

Our Art’s Club, ‘Whimsical Wednesday’s’ started this week by encouraging the Year 7s to come try some water colour painting. The students each did a painting, either inspired by the fruits and flowers on display, or from their own imagination. Each student’s art was very unique and all were very creative.

Additionally, our Unit 3 Theatre Studies class had an excursion to see the new Malthouse production ‘Black Light’, which is one of the plays on this year’s VCE Theatre Studies Playlist. In Unit 3 Theatre, students analyse two professional performances and evaluate the relationship between the written script and its interpretation on stage, including decisions that have been made about acting, direction and design. They also write about the play on the end of year exam.

‘Black Light’ follows four First Nations women who are stuck together during a time where the world is drastically changing. On the Malthouse website they say “Black Light is a play about finding our way back to ourselves, to Country and to the people we love, when everything else tries to tear us apart.” and the play explores intergenerational wisdom, trauma, and survival in a colonial world".

Everyone really enjoyed the play and we stayed back to ask the actors and assistant director some questions that can further help us in studying the play. Overall, it was a great day out and we look forward to working on it more.

We have lots more Arts Events happening between now and the end of term, so please check out the calendar and attached and to see what's coming up!

Arts Events Calendar