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Meeting Mozart Sydney Opera House 2019 Teacher Resources Welcome Sydney Opera House is one of the indisputable Did You Know…? masterpieces of human creativity and has long been a - The original cost estimate to build place for learning and sharing knowledge. The land on Sydney Opera House was $7 million. The final cost was $102 million and it was which Sydney Opera House stands was known to its largely paid for by a State Lottery. traditional custodians, the Gadigal people of the Eora - There are more than 1 million roof tiles Nation, as Tubowgule, meaning “where the knowledge covering approximately 1.62 hectares sitting over the structure. They were waters meet”. A stream carried fresh water down from made in Sweden. what is now Pitt Street to the cove near Tubowgule, a - The Sydney Opera House sails were rock promontory that at high tide became an island. built using three tower cranes made in The mixing of fresh and salt waters formed a perfect France for this job, costing $100,000 each. Sydney Opera House was one fishing ground. Middens of shells were a testament to of the first buildings constructed in Tubowgule’s long history as a place where the Gadigal Australia using tower cranes. gathered, feasted, sung, danced and told stories. - The Playhouse was originally used as a cinema and in the late 1970s was a popular venue for surfing movies. In this program 3 Introduction 11 Post-Performance Activities 4 Visiting the Sydney 13 At the Sydney Opera House Opera House 14 Classroom Context 5 The Creative Learning Journey and Curriculum Links 6 Sydney Opera House 15 Keep in touch Creativity Framework 7 Performance Description and Synopsis 8 Meet the Creatives 9 Pre-Performance Activities Introduction These Creative Learning Resources have been prepared to help you get the most out of Meeting Mozart. These resources have been collated to help prepare your students unpack the performance and gain the most from their attendance at the production. You should use and adapt these Resources to suit the student age and stage of your class and the curriculum foci and outcomes used in your school. These Resources are written as a creative document for you to bring to life. If you have questions about exercises or provocations please feel free to make contact to talk it through. We are always open to feedback, comments and working with you to assist and learn from you. Contact details are on the back page. Some websites are suggested throughout this resource. It is recommended that you first visit the sites and assess the suitability of the content for your particular school environment before setting the activities based on these. The Sydney Opera House has a bank of Creative Learning Resources for you to access and use. Please have a look around our website for other resources and activities that could support your classroom learning program. 3 Visiting the Sydney Opera House On the day At the theatre Arrive early We’d like to welcome you to the experience Please ensure that your group arrives of attending a live performance – while we at the venue 25 minutes prior to the know you get all the etiquette stuff, here’s performance start time. Latecomers may a reminder of some simple information you only be admitted to a performance during can pass on to your students. a suitable break, and in some cases, may be excluded. Please call Front of House - We ask you to get involved in the on 02 9250 7134 to notify us if you are performances by applauding and running late. laughing at appropriate moments. If you have a question – ask your School bags teacher at the interval/end of the Your safety and security is paramount show or one of the cast, if you to us during your visit to the Opera have a chance for a Question & House. Therefore, all items larger than Answer session. the dimensions of a standard A4 piece of paper must be checked in to the - Food and drink is not permitted cloakroom. As they have limited space, in the theatre we ask that teachers and students do not bring large bags/backpacks to - Live theatre is different to TV – the actors the performance. on stage can hear and see you and there are other members of the audience Food and beverage to think about. If you need to leave the You’ll find food and drinks outlets on the performance for any reason, please lower level of the concourse. Please note ensure this is done quickly and quietly food and drink are permitted inside the at an appropriate break in the action. foyers, but only bottled water in the venues. - Switching your phone to silent isn’t the only thing to do. Please ensure Getting here that you switch off your mobile phone We are a ten minute walk from Circular and leave it in your bag before the Quay, the closest station for public performance begins. The glow of an transport via train, bus and ferry. To view iPhone screen is obvious to others timetable information and ensure your and is very distracting! public transport needs can be met, please contact Transport NSW on 131500 or transportnsw.info. Coach parking Buses and coaches can’t park onsite at Sydney Opera House. Large buses must disembark passengers on Macquarie Street. Please contact City of Sydney to confirm bus and coach set down areas. We recommend allowing an additional 10 minutes for walking from Macquarie Street. 4 The Creative Learning Journey Before you arrive On the day Back in the classroom - Begin your Creative - Explore the Opera House - Continue the creative exploration Learning Journey Book a Guided Tour, for before or after Bring the creatives to you and Have your students think about the your performance, and explore the participate in one of our digital themes of the performance with venues and spaces of the iconic Sydney workshops or digital author talks information and activities in these Opera House with one of our expert to further extend the learning Creative Learning Teachers Resources. tour guides. journey of your students. Free for - Preparing for your visit - Question the creatives all Australian schools and offered Prepare students for your visit Enjoy the event and be ready to get throughout the year. with a Digital Tour of the Sydney involved in the Q&A sessions after - Listen and watch Opera House prior to your theatre the performances with our education Use the digital content pieces excursion. Introduce the story of specialists, performers, directors on our social media channels this place so that your students and producers. to gain more insight into the world begin engaging before they arrive. - Delve deeper of Sydney Opera House and the Free for all Australian Schools and For some events, students are exciting things that happen here. offered throughout the year. able to participate in workshops with the artists and creatives at the Opera House. Check out each performance to see what is available – but space is limited! - Make a day of it Don’t forget we are located close to a range of cultural institutions. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Sydney, State Library of NSW, Art Gallery of NSW and Australian Museum offer exhibitions, workshops and more for schools, all within walking distance of Sydney Opera House. 5 Sydney Opera House Creativity Framework These Creative Learning Resources have been written using the Sydney Opera House Creativity Framework as the pedagogy. The Framework aims to define the creative process in a way that educators can use to teach and be inspired by. At a glance this Creativity Framework is: Prepare Question Reflect Tools and pathways Analysis, investigation Remembering, Preparing mind, body, space, and revelation Processing, exiting materials and time. Creating new understanding Creating understanding by analyzing what just and healthy memories Buy in happened when honing from the creative process Presence and enthusiasm the imagination. and product. Convincing students that they want to be there. Make Forging from content Imagine Putting shape to content The fertile unknown and moving towards a Exploring a subject through project; scripts, composition, arts practice. Using form choreography, project design. to uncover content. Show Allowing uncensored Commit, frame, judgement expression to reveal Performing and presenting new ways of seeing the work. a subject. Whilst written as a sequence, the Sydney This Framework underpins the Sydney Opera House Creativity Framework is Opera House Creative Leadership in not a method or system but a way of Learning program that sees schools articulating the creative process. As partner with the House for three years the Framework is applied it becomes in a program of teacher professional apparent the sequence dissolves and learning, student projects and many of the specific sections live in one performances. For more information exercise. These resources have been please see the Sydney Opera House written with this in mind. website. 6 Performance Description and Synopsis In this presentation of Meeting Mozart students will Topics for exploration meet renowned pianist Simon Tedeschi who assumes - Classical music the persona of the musical wunderkind himself, Years Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, on this journey into - Wolfgang Amadeus the music behind the man. Mozart - Historical figures K–2 Joined by his wife and muse, Constanze, young music lovers will be introduced to a range of Central themes Mozart’s music, from variations on ‘Twinkle, Twinkle, - Relationships Tue 15 Oct Little Star’ to his major compositions. You’ll meet 10.30am & 12.15pm all the instruments in the ensemble along the way, - Making, understanding and discover some of our best-known and loved and enjoying music Wed 16 Oct classical music.
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