The Creative Learning Brochure
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PERTH FESTIVAL 7 February - 1 March perthfestival.com.au CREATIVE LEARNING 1 Perth Festival acknowledges the Noongar people who continue to practise their values, language, beliefs and knowledge on their Kwobidak Boodjar. They remain the spiritual and cultural Birdiyangara of this place – our offices are in Goodamboorup – and we honour and respect their caretakers and custodians and the vital role Noongar people play for our community and our Festival to flourish. WELCOME The Perth Festival 2020 theme is Karla – a Noongar term meaning fire and country, and by extension home; a camp fire for sharing stories and inviting belonging. Karla is reflected Perth Festival believes all Western SCHOOL WORKSHOPS throughout our Creative Learning program, as we create opportunities for young people to Australian young people should have Students attending a Festival performance can participate in the Festival and ignite their imaginations and champion their stories. access to remarkable arts experiences. participate in free workshops linked to its themes, Our Creative Learning program is for techniques or content. Workshops will deepen Our program aims to create deep and ongoing relationships with the Festival, while also young people and the organisations and learning and facilitate collaboration with encouraging participants to feel empowered, challenged and proud, with a sense of belonging. individuals that support them. professional artists. See p10 for more details. We never stop learning and as a Festival we are keen to celebrate inquisitive hearts and artistic minds of all ages. We are committed to creating opportunities for young people to connect with CREATIVE PROJECTS OPPORTUNITIES FOR TEACHERS the Festival and our activities, and to celebrating them as artists in their own right. Our Creative Projects engage young people as Secondary teachers of English and The Arts can active participants in the arts, showcasing the apply for a Perth Festival Industry Pass to access I encourage you to join us in sharing stories and celebrating this place and its people. talent of young voices and celebrating them as discounts on tickets and other benefits. Festival creators and artists. Visit perthfestival.com.au for details. IAIN GRANDAGE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR COMMUNITY DISCOUNT TICKETS EXCURSION PLANNING & RESOURCES If cost is a barrier to attending Perth Festival Visit Connect: For Schools at perthfestival.com.au for The Fogarty Foundation is proud to support Perth Festival’s Creative Learning program, which events, your community group, club or organisation information that may be helpful when planning your gives young people an opportunity to experience the Festival – whether that’s by seeing world may be eligible for discount tickets. Visit Connect: school’s excursion. Event-specific education resources class performances, taking part in workshops, going behind the scenes to meet with artists or For Community Groups on perthfestival.com.au will be available online from mid-January 2020. being artists themselves. for further information. ACCESS FOR EVERYONE Perth Festival offers a chance to open up the world to West Australian students and young SCHOOLS TICKETING We want as many young people as possible to people and we are pleased to assist in making sure this chance can be taken up by as many Discounted tickets are available to School Groups experience the Festival. Access symbols on individual students across the community as possible. for many Perth Festival shows. School Tickets have pages act as a guide for services available. limited capacity and are subject to availability, so For more information see p37 or contact ANNIE FOGARTY be sure to get in quickly. [email protected] FOGARTY FOUNDATION, PATRON CREATIVE LEARNING CURRICULUM LINKS Principal Partner A The Arts CC Cross-Curriculum E English H+SS Humanities & Social Sciences MCCLEMENTS L Languages CCP Cross-Curriculum Priority FOUNDATION Other supporters: Wind Over Water Foundation 2 1 TEXT VISUAL ARTS Image: Cam Campbell AGES 15 – 18 PLAY BOOKS MAKING SPACE Perth Festival Play Books are a wonderful way to continue to connect with the arts Ever wondered how exhibitions are developed, designed and presented? Curators play long after your Perth Festival arts experience. a vital role within art galleries, working with artists to realise their vision and guiding the experience of visitors. Inspired by the Festival theme of Karla, Play Books encourage you to record, draw, create, plan, experiment and reflect on your individual Perth Festival experiences. Join Perth Festival Visual Arts Program Associate Gemma Weston, in partnership with Exploring concepts of identity, home, Country and cross-cultural understanding Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, and learn all about curating. Over the summer create through the arts, Play Books can be used to stimulate discussion, reflection and your own artwork using collage or assemblage. Bring your artwork to this workshop interrogation of work seen in the Festival and beyond. focussed on exhibition design and curation and, together with the group, you’ll use your artworks to present an exhibition. All participants in our Creative Learning program will receive a 2020 Play Book. The resulting exhibition will be on display from 18 – 22 February at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery’s Dr Harold Schenberg Study Centre as part of Perth Festival 2020. FREE Venue Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery Date Sat 15 Feb FREE Participation is free, but you need to cover your own materials cost for the work created 2 3 MUSIC TEXT Image: Cam Campbell Image: Cam Campbell AGES 15 – 20 AGES 10 – 12 WHO RUN THE WORLD CURATED BY KIDS REMIXED A favourite with young book lovers, Curated by Kids is back for our Literature & Ideas Family Day. Ten young curators get to create a program of literary sessions featuring their Who Run The World is back in 2020 and again we’re partnering with West Australian Music favourite authors and illustrators. to address gender inequality in music – but this time with a twist. Curators work alongside mentor Libby Klysz to discover what goes into producing a Young female and non-binary identifying musicians, producers and DJs are invited to join successful writers festival event. They then put together the program – from deciding who local musicians, performers and producers in a series of masterclasses and discussions will appear, researching questions and actually hosting the sessions. Previous curators across music, management, performance, technology and production. From creativity have interviewed acclaimed authors including Maggie Beer, James Foley, Josie Boyle and with loop pedals to preparing a studio for production, releasing your music to personal Andrew Hansen. stories from musicians, this is an opportunity to get the low down from those who have paved the way. Applications for Curated by Kids are open from 1 November 2019. For more information and to submit an application visit perthfestival.com.au Full program details announced and applications open on Monday 2 December 2019. For more information visit perthfestival.com.au Dates Meet & Greet Sat 14 Dec FREE Workshops Sat 1 & Sat 15 Feb Literature & Ideas Family Day Sun 23 Feb 4 5 CROSS CURRICULUM MUSIC Image: Cam Campbell AGES 15 – 18 AGES 15 – 25 YOUNG CREATIVES FIRE FANFARE We are looking for passionate young people interested in any art form – from Imagine hearing a fanfare you wrote being broadcast at venues around Perth film to music, photography to drama and visual arts to literature – who are during the 2020 Festival! Instead of the traditional bells that let the audience keen to contribute to culture and the arts in Western Australia. know it’s time to take their seats, your Fire Fanfare will ring out to start Festival performances. Young Creatives dive into the heart of Perth Festival, attending performances, connecting with artists and Festival staff and peeking behind We are looking for compositions inspired by ‘fire’ to play at select venues the curtains to see what makes a festival tick. A program is especially tailored during Perth Festival. These fanfares will be recorded by professional to each Young Creative, with a mixture of individual and group activities musicians from the West Australian Symphony Orchestra alongside music engaging them across the Festival. students from UWA Conservatorium of Music and West Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Applications for Young Creatives are open from 1 November 2019. For more information and to submit an application visit perthfestival.com.au Find out more at perthfestival.com.au FREE FREE 6 7 TEXT Image: Jess Wyld Image: Rachel Audino Image: Claire Alexander AGES 16 – 26 GOOD FILM CLUB GET LIT DRAG QUEEN Good Film Club invites young film lovers to be ambassadors of the BOOK CLUB STORY HOUR Lotterywest Films 2020 program. Join the club and see all 18 films on their opening night as a group – for Perth Festival is inviting booklovers to join the Drag Queen Story Hour is a fun, inclusive story free! The Good Film Club will then meet casually over four sessions Get Lit Book Club. Members are asked to read time for everyone. Join Drag Queen with our Program Associate: Film Tom Vincent to discuss programming, one of three books from the Literature & Ideas Veronica Jean Jones for an hour of children’s marketing and the film experience. Weekend program – including books and delight. Everyone is welcome, from Tara June Winch’s The Yield, Tony Birch’s The the very old to the very young! You don’t need to be a film student or a filmmaker to join, you just need White Girl and Chessie Henry’s We Can Make a to have the desire to meet new people, discover our 2020 films and share Life. Participants will be given access to blogs, your opinions. questions and virtual meet ups to discuss the Venue Rabble Books ideas raised in each book. Join us as we deep 46 Eighth Ave Maylands Visit perthfestival.com.au for information on how to get involved.