2019 Program 9.30 Am - 2.00 Pm Tuesday 25 June Wimmera Events Centre 37 Field Days Road, Longerenong, Victoria
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WESTERN VICTORIAN 2019 2019 Program 9.30 am - 2.00 pm Tuesday 25 June Wimmera Events Centre 37 Field Days Road, Longerenong, Victoria L L E A R N C A I N O G WIMMERA L SOUTHERN A N D K MALLEE E R M O P W L O E T LLEN Y M E N T N www.wimmeracareerexpo.com1 About the Expo Contents About the Expo About the Expo 3 The Western Victorian Careers Expo is country Victoria’s largest careers expo. Since Connect ing What’s On at the Expo 4 its inception in 1986, this premier regional Expo Theme – The Arts 6 event has provided a one-stop-shop of our Community Finding your way around 6 vocational information to Western Victorian Special Guests 7 students, school leavers, job seekers, Over the years we’ve been telling Wimmera Events Centre Site Map 12 career changers, those returning to work the stories about the people of Arts Hub and Auditorium 13 and people considering further study or the Wimmera and the Grampians. Seminar Program 14 training. No other local media has the capacity to Exhibitors Site Map 16 The Expo offers a broad range of career and connect, engage, and ignite discussion like Exhibitor List 20 course information as well as interactive opportunities including our ‘Try A Trade’ The Wimmera Mail-Times, Ararat Advertiser Try A Trade 24 section. The Wimmera Events Centre (WEC) at and Stawell Times-News Emergency Services 25 Longerenong offers a high standard of facilities Our history is unrivalled, our future exciting. Exhibitor Listing by Industry 28 for presenters and participants, and allows We are more than a printed product. Making the Most of Your Visit 30 exhibitors sufficient space to present their We are digital, mobile, and social. My Expo Schedule 30 information in engaging and innovative ways. Our audience are your customers! Attendees have the opportunity to talk to Expo Sponsors 2019 a wide range of career, industry and course Federation University advisors on a one-to-one basis. Our exhibitors GWM Water and presenters consist of local, regional, Speak to us today about: Horsham Rural City Council metropolitan and interstate representatives, • Print Advertising solutions Wimmera Mail Times including more than 20 Victorian and South • Targeted Digital Advertising Skillinvest Australian universities. Wimmera Southern Mallee LLEN Over 2,000 students, parents, job-seekers and • Facebook Marketing Axis Employment careers changers from across the Wimmera • Website creation Expo supporters 2019 Mallee attend annually. • Rank your business higher in Google searches! William Adams Rural Workforce Agency Victoria Acknowledgements: Defence Force Recruiting Program Printing: Shelton and Lane Subscribe to the digital addition for only $3 a week O’Connors Program Design: Wimmera Southern Mallee LLEN MIX FM Australian Catholic University Venue: Wimmera Events Centre www.mailtimes.com.au www.stawelltimes.com.au www.araratadvertiser.com.au 37 Field Days Road Longerenong, Victoria Ph: 03 5362 0000 2 3 What’s On at the Expo Be Be New in Arts Pavilion WESTERN VICTORIAN Arts Hub Inspired! Informed! 2019 Auditorium 2019 (See map page 13) Hot food Seminar What’s on at Loose 10.30 am for sale Live Performance the Expo? (No cash machines Moose 1.15 pm or EFTPOS available) (Arts Hub Auditorium) Half-hour seminars Career and 12 pm Tertiary Tom See the program on pages Special Arts Hub Information 14-15 for the seminars of Ballard Auditorium your choice Sessions Guest Australian Information ABC JMC Collarts Guild Desk Outside Academy Australian College Broadcast of The Arts of Music Police Command Academy of Photography Centre Interactive Studies (outside the College Moore Exhinition Building) Entertainment Would you pass Horsham College AIT Federation Whitehouse the fitness test to Test your Compete for your Band and University Performances and enter the police school Performing Arts Institute fitness Karaoke Coder Academy force? Students 4 5 Expo Theme – The Arts Finding your way around Special Guests Expo Theme—The Arts Special Guests The focus of the 2019 Western Victorian Careers Expo is on ‘The Arts’. The field of the arts Tom Ballard is wide and varied, with many career opportunities being presented in performing arts, Tom Ballard is a stand-up comedian, writer, actor and music and creative design. broadcaster and one of the country’s most exciting and The keynote speaker, Tom Ballard, well known stand-up comedian, will talk about his journey into his insightful voices. career. There will be live music performances by up-and-coming band, Loose Moose and karaoke sessions He co-hosted the triple j breakfast show for four years provided by Horsham College band where you can display your talent. and won an ARIA for his trouble. Tom has appeared on Although this year’s focus is on the arts, there will also be the usual wide range of exhibitors from many everything from The Project to Spicks ’n’ Specks and has fields presenting information on study and career options. hosted his own panel show, Reality Check, as well as his own daily comedy program, Tonightly with Tom Ballard, for ABC TV. Tom has also fronted SBS’s coverage of the Finding your way around Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras three times, has guest Tertiary Information Sessions - TIS Pavilion hosted ABC TV’s Q&A and has appeared in SBS’s ground- breaking series First Contact. Tom also hosts a podcast Two separate tertiary information sessions will be held in the TIS Pavilion. (See the map on page 12 for the called Like I’m A Six-Year-Old, which continues to grow location). The morning session at 11.15 am will be for year 12 students and the afternoon session at 1.00 from strength to strength. pm will be for parents. These sessions provide a great opportunity to find out about tertiary studies and to ask questions. 2016 brought Tom Ballard nominations for Best Show at both the Melbourne Comedy Festival and the Careers Seminars - Alan Heard Building Edinburgh Fringe Festival, aka the two biggest live comedy awards in the world. There are eight seminar ‘rooms’ in the Alan Heard Pavilion which will host 45-minute seminars on a wide 12 pm He also won the inaugural Pinder Prize (a grant named in honour of comedy range of career and study options. See page 14 for the seminar timetable and the map on page 12 to find impresario John Pinder), made his American television debut on Comedy Central’s Arts Auditorium your way to the seminars. Roast Battle at Montreal’s Just for Laughs Festival and took out the Helpmann Award General Exhibits and Try-a-trade - Moore Exhibition Centre for Best Comedy Performer. Tom will present a seminar at this years expo, focussing on his career pathway, and how he got to where he is The Moore Exhibition Centre is home to over 80 exhibits including general exhibits and try-a-trade sites. A today. full list of exhibitors can be found on pages 20 - 23. Loose Moose Arts Hub and Auditorium High energy and good times—just a couple of inevitables that New to the Expo in 2019, is the Arts Hub. (See the maps on pages 12-13.) The Arts Pavilion will host all of you will be a part of when you come to check out the charismatic the exhibitors in the area of the arts. The auditorium adjacent to the Arts Pavilion is where you will be able Melbourne six-piece, Loose Moose. Drawing from a wide range of to hear the special guest speaker, Tom Ballad and attend live performances by Loose Moose, Horsham rock, funk, soul and dance influences, this rowdy sextet have been College Band and Federation University performing arts students. See page 15 for the timetable of honing in their live show over the past year to bring you a well performances. curated collection of grooves to make you move. After releasing their debut EP “Is the spaghetti confetti ready already” (available on Spotify), Loose Moose are delivering their Please note that there are no EFTPOS heavy funk rhythms and soothing melodies around the Melbourne pub scene, with an album set to be facilities or cash machines at the expo site. released later in 2019. Cash is required to purchase food at the various food stands. Loose Moose will present a seminar at 11.30 am and give a live performance at Seminar 1.15pm in the Arts Hub Auditorium. Entry to the Expo is free. 11.30 am Performance 1.15 pm 6 7 Expo Site Expo Site 17 Arts Hub Come to Open Day! Sunday 18 August 10am - 4pm Live at Ormond College Join a welcoming and dynamic community where curious and passionate people thrive. With over 500 students from across Australia and the world, Ormond is a place to find life-long friendships, develop your voice, and form your ideas. We also offer an extensive Financial Assistance Program for students from Wimmera and rural government schools. 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