Term 1 JSK Piccolo Canto Concert found texts, The Laramie Project was born. Hailed as one of the Middle School Play Friday 7 June 10.00am most captivating and encompassing pieces of contemporary In 2019 we are delighted to present 3 performances of the Commencement Service theatre, the play shocks, challenges and moves all who watch it Middle School Play at Carey, followed by a 4 day tour of METCALFE HALL as it reveals the lowest depths of hatred and greatest heights Thursday 14 February 7.30pm Beechworth and the surrounding area featuring performances of compassion that lies within all human beings in any seemingly at the Beechworth Town Hall, The Old Priory, the delightful ST PAUL’S CATHEDRAL JSD Fiddlesticks Concert average community. Chiltern Theatre and the Bright Spring Festival. Tuesday 11 June 3.45pm Term 1 Recital Night Please note that this performance is not suitable for young Friday 25 October 7.00pm DONVALE HALL children. Thursday 7 March 5.00pm & 7.00pm Saturday 26 October 7.00pm Thursday 22 August 7.00pm DYPAC Year 8 Production Monday 28 October 7.00pm Friday 23 August 7.00pm IWA Middle School Musical Information Night Babes in the Wood Saturday 24 August 7.00pm 1–4 November Wednesday 13 March 7.00pm by Geoff Bamber Tuesday 27 August 7.00pm BEECHWORTH IWA After their parents mysteriously disappear, Lizzy, Tizzy and Wednesday 28 August 7.00pm Wind Symphony/Symphonic Band Clementine Merryweather are left in the care of the villainous IWA Symphonic Band/Ellington Jazz Band Lemuel Viper. Viper has his sights set on the family fortune but Concert Twilight Concert he cannot get his hands on that while the children are alive. He Carey Variety Concert Tuesday 29 October 4.00pm Tuesday 19 March 5.00pm hatches a plot to have the girls done to death in Spooky Wood A note from our Performing Arts Captain, Hamish Payne: but the ineptitude of the hired killers, the interference of a posse IWA IWA There exists an old adage that goes; ‘Variety is the spice of life’. of belligerent elves and the appearance a rather sinister old lady As I’ve learnt from several hours of Jamie Oliver’s five minute ensure that his plans do not run smoothly. Babes in the Wood is Whole School Guitar Concert Symphony Orchestra Twilight Concert meals played on repeat in my mother’s kitchen, spices aren’t a rollicking and very silly melodrama. Wednesday 6 November 7.00pm Friday 22 March 5.00pm just coloured powders but different by which we can make IWA IWA Wednesday 12 June 6.30pm our somewhat dull pallet of everyday boiled potatoes more IWA scintillating; more liveable. Spice may arrive in our life in many Middle School String Concert different guises; as getting blonde highlights and a fringe; as Year 11 IB/VCE Recitals Tuesday 26 March 5.15pm JSK Winter Concert unexplained PTV maintenance works; as the neighbours dog Thursday 7 November 5.00pm and a stray possum having a street fight outside your window. DYPAC IWA Thursday 13 June 7.00pm My experience tells me, however, that these may be a little too IWA Year 7 Wind Band/Intermediate Band hot - a little too heavy on the Sichuan pepper. So how could MS Presentation Night one experience variety in a less stressful manner than the way Monday 11 November 7.00pm Concert JSD Sforzando Concert in which life chooses to nefariously surprise us? Carey’s variety MELBOURNE TOWN HALL Monday 1 April 4.00pm Tuesday 18 June 7.50am IWA DONVALE HALL Senior School Musical JSD Prep-2 Concert Wednesday 19 June 2.30pm DONVALE HALL Carey Middle School Musical Baptist Grammar School Performing Arts Calendar 2019 Monty Python’s Inspired by the twisted genius of , Matilda The Musical Based on the quintessential British comedy Monty Python and is the captivating masterpiece from the Royal Shakespeare the Holy Grail, Spamalot will have you not only crying with that revels in the anarchy of childhood, the power of laughter, but wishing you could see it again and again. Whether imagination and the inspiring story of a girl who dreams of a you’re the number one Monty Python fan in your family and better life. It is the story of an extraordinary girl who, armed with know every line of the film or this is your first dive into the quirky a vivid imagination and a sharp mind, dares to take a stand and and over-the-top humour of Python, the show’s wit, tenacity, change her own destiny. and outstanding musical numbers leave something for everyone Friday 21 June 7.00pm to enjoy. Saturday 22 June 7.00pm Friday 29 March 7.00pm Monday 24 June 7.00pm Saturday 30 March 2.00pm Wednesday 26 June 6.30pm Saturday 30 March 2.00pm Thursday 27 June 7.00pm Monday 1 April 7.00pm MGH Wednesday 3 April 7.00pm Thursday 4 April 7.00pm JSD 3-4 Concert Friday 5 April 7.00pm Tuesday 25 June 8.00am MGH DONVALE HALL JSD 5-6 Concert night will offer a refreshing medium of variety which can be Term 2 Thursday 27 June 8.00am JSK Piano Concert equated to the ‘medium’ level of Eldo Pasa salsa. Extraordinary Thursday 14 November 7.00pm GiJ Farewell Performance DONVALE HALL acts will appear in an evening of talent and charity, ranging from Tuesday 30 April 5.45pm stand up to soulful ballads. What’s more, this charitable event IWA IWA will give us the opportunity to lend a little variety to those who Term 3 deserve it as the event will be hosted in association with the JSD Year 3 Strings Concert Generations in Jazz Senior Ensembles Camp Make a Wish and Carasa Foundations. I can personally assure Tuesday 19 November 8.00am 3–5 May 20–21 July you, this event will be a night well spent, especially in lieu another DONVALE HALL one of Jamie’s inquests to Italy on ABC. MT GAMBIER LOWER PLENTY Friday 30 August 7.00pm JSK Summer Concert Wednesday 20 November 7.00pm Term 2 Recital Night Year 7 Music Concert IWA Thursday 9 May 5.00pm & 7.00pm Tuesday 22 July 7.00pm IWA DYPAC DYPAC IB/VCE Unit 4 Recitals Wednesday 4 September 5.00pm JSK Piccolo Canto Concert Thursday 21 November 10.00am VCE Play Year 7 Music Information Session (2020) DYPAC Wednesday 24 July 7.00pm METCALFE HALL JSD Production Soliloquy IWA Middle School Summer Concert by Chris Dickins Whole School Choral Concert Monday 25 November 7.00pm As part of the VCE Theatre Studies coursework, the Year 12 DYPAC students are required to engage with, and undertake work in two production roles to plan, develop and present a production JSD Orchestral Concert for an audience. Tuesday 26 November 7.50am This year, the class of 2019 is proud to present Soliloquy - a one- DONVALE HALL act play by Australian playwright, Chris Dickins. The play is a collection of eight monologues and final scene JSD Fiddlesticks Concert where the characters finally meet. The play explores themes of Tuesday 26 November 3.45pm loneliness, isolation, and ultimately, belonging. It is a moving, Beauty and the Beast JR. DONVALE HALL confronting and enlightening piece of theatre which, through the Based on the original Broadway production that ran for over journeys of the characters, allows the audience to reflect upon thirteen years and was nominated for , and JSD Prep-2 Concert their relationships, lived experiences and sense of connectedness. the Academy Award-winning motion picture, Disney’s Beauty Wednesday 27 November 2.30pm Monday 13 May 7.00pm and the Beast JR. is a fantastic adaptation of the story of transformation and tolerance. Disney’s Beauty and the Beast JR. DONVALE HALL Tuesday 14 May 7.00pm features some of the most popular songs ever written by Alan JSK Year 5 Production IWA Menken and the late Howard Ashman, along with new songs by 2019 sees another iteration of the Year 5 production at Junior Each year we come together to celebrate Carey’s outstanding Mr. Menken and . School Kew, with this years’ cohort exploring themes related Autumn Music Camp choral program, and 2019 is no different. This year we feature The classic story tells of Belle, a young woman in a provincial to Australia’s extraordinary history in a wonderful theatrical 18–20 May choirs from each school section and are delighted to welcome town, and the Beast, who is really a young prince trapped under context. BLAMPIED old grammarian Kathryn Radcliffe as our special guest soloist. the spell of an enchantress. If the Beast can learn to love and be 26–28 November Tuesday 30 July 7.00pm loved, the curse will end and he will be transformed to his former IB/VCE Recitals self. But time is running out. If the Beast does not learn his IWA THE BESEN CENTRE Tuesday 21 May 5.00pm lesson soon, he and his household will be doomed for all eternity. JSD Bandit and Mini Bandit Concert DYPAC Vocal Night Thursday 5 September 12.00pm Thursday 28 November 7.50am Tuesday 6 August 7.00pm Thursday 5 September 7.00pm IB Play DONVALE HALL TBC Friday 6 September 7.00pm Love, Loss and What I Strings Concert IWA Senior School Christmas Service Thursday 5 December 11.45am Tuesday 13 August 7.00pm Wore Senior Ensembles Concert QUAD by Nora and Delia Ephron based on the book IWA Tuesday 10 September 7.00pm by Ilene Beckerman Senior School Play IWA JSK Year 2 String Presentation Thursday 5 December 2.30pm A play about women, clothes and memory covering all the IWA important subjects—mothers, prom dresses, mothers, buying The Laramie Project Term 4 bras, mothers, hating purses and why we only wear black. by Moisés Kaufman Year 12 VCE Recitals JSD Christmas Carol Service Thursday 23 May 7.00pm In October 1998 in the middle of the prairie outside Laramie, Tuesday 8 October 5.00pm Friday 6 December 6.30pm Wyoming, Matthew Shepard, a 21 year old student at the Friday 24 May 7.00pm DYPAC AMPHITHEATRE University of Wyoming, was brutally murdered for being gay. IWA The hate crime attracted vast attention worldwide, bringing Jazz at the Copa JSK Christmas Service Autumn Bands Concert sexual discrimination and violence to the forefront of public Tuesday 15 October 7.00pm Monday 9 December 1.30pm discourse. The Tectonic Theatre Project, led by their founder Thursday 30 May 7.00pm COPACABANA INTERNATIONAL METCALFE HALL Moisés Kaufman, traveled to Laramie in the aftermath of the MGH murder with the intent of creating a theatrical portrait of a Senior School Speech Night Middle School Christmas Service town coming to grips with horrible, hate-fueled violence. Over JSK Piano Concert Monday 21 October 7.00pm Tuesday 10 December 11.15am the course of a year and a half, the group interviewed over 200 Monday 3 June 7.00pm subjects, some directly related to the case and some regular MELBOURNE TOWN HALL IWA, CHAPEL IWA citizens of Laramie. Out of these interviews, journal entries and