So many Arts learning highlights to celebrate! 

Senior FTVNM students with a thirst for horror films participated in a special effects workshop with Kath and Peter from Laughing Goat.

Students worked together to apply special effects techniques used in the screen industries to create some truly gruesome – and very realistic –  wounds and bruises suitable for a zombie, apocalypse or action movie! Some were SO gruesome we can’t include those photos in this newsletter article in case our readers are squeamish! The FTVNM faculty looks forward to a spate of horror films next semester showcasing these new skills.  

 

 

 

‘Hamlet’, presented by Shakespeare Ensemble (a Drama enrichment activity involving Drama students across Years 7 to 12) opened on Thursday 12 June and closed on Wednesday 18 June.  

‘Hamlet’ is Shakespeare’s longest play at almost four hours, but Ms Quin condensed it into a 90 min edit for a public performance to friends, family, staff and students; and then condensed it even further into a 60 min performance for students and staff studying ‘Hamlet’ for English Literature class.  

 

Some feedback from the audience:  

“A modern day amalgam of Hamlet, unique, professional and engaging. Well done team!” 

• Mr Pierce, Executive Principal 

"The cast were phenomenal... It takes a lot of guts to stand up in front of your peers and perform. I especially loved the chorus, many of whom were very brave performing for an audience of much older students. It was also great to again see such a diverse cast - inclusivity is a standout feature of the Arts faculty and that should be celebrated more.     

When the lights went up, the girls sitting behind me starting chatting away filling little gaps for each other –  remember the king put a pearl in Hamlet’s cup but it was actually poison and that is why the queen died & yeah, but Hamlet killed her dad and that why she went mad, it was from grief – which was so lovely to hear.  

I hope that the cast (and you) felt that they had engaged audiences and that all the hard work was worth it. It was brilliant!” 

 - Ms Green, HOD Senior English  

 

 

 

 

 

As you head into holidays, take the time to visit QAGOMA’s exhibition ‘Wonderstruck’ where you’ll see the fruits of an experimental painting collaboration between three of our senior Visual Art students, Jamey Learmonth, Emily Parker and Sienna Moore and artist Gemma Smith.  

In April at artists’ studios The Paint Factory, the students participated in an experimental painting workshop with artist Gemma Smith. The large-scale, multi-panel experiments in colour and process can be seen at GOMA when ‘Wonderstruck’ opens on Saturday 28 June.

(Photos by C Callistemon / © QAGOMA)  

 

- Ms Aimee Gust | Head of Department - Arts