YUARR By Jack Sheppard Teachers’ Notes 2016 Image from HA LF by Mariana Randall Image Credit: Jeevika The 2016 Education and Families Program is Proudly Supported by: TABLE OF CONTENTS ABOUT THIS RESOURCE .......................................................................................................................... 3 ABOUT REGIONAL ARTS VICTORIA .......................................................................................................... 4 EDUCATION & FAMILIES TEAM ............................................................................................................... 5 CURRICULUM LINKS – Victorian Curriculum ........................................................................................... 6 INTRODUCTION TO THE PROGRAM ...................................................................................................... 10 ABOUT THE ARTIST ............................................................................................................................... 10 FURTHER INVESTIGATION ..................................................................................................................... 12 FURTHER READING ............................................................................................................................... 17 ABOUT THIS RESOURCE These Teacher’s Notes have been created to provide teachers with ideas for extending their experience of Yuarr beyond the performance and workshop. The activities are designed to be open-ended and multi-ability. They may need differentiation for your specific cohort. The performances and workshops included in the Education & Families program are designed to offer students engaging performing arts experiences with strong links to Victorian Curriculum, and to VEYLDF, and VCE subjects where appropriate. Each Education & Families performance varies in its content and as a result the scope for integration across the curriculum varies. Please feel free to contact the Education and Families team on (03) 9644 1808 or at [email protected] if you have any questions about this resource, its content or its implementation within your classroom. ABOUT REGIONAL ARTS VICTORIA Regional Arts Victoria inspires art across the state. Through creative facilitation, touring, education, specialised resources, artistic projects and advocacy, we develop and sustain creative communities and artistic practice all over Victoria. Regional Arts Victoria is an independent, not-for-profit, membership-based organisation working in long-term partnerships with every level of government, fostering contemporary and innovative regional cultural practice across five decades. We advise and impact on decision-making across multiple portfolios and levels of government. Regional Arts Victoria is the peak body for regional artists and arts organisations, and the leading organisation for regional creative practice in Victoria. Our artistic program Regional Arts Victoria inspires creative communities, creative places and creative catalysts. CREATIVE CREATIVE CREATIVE COMMUNITIES PLACES CATALYSTS Regional Arts Victoria stimulates Regional Arts Victoria Regional Arts Victoria fosters and connects our state’s champions the places where current and next generation communities of practice. art is made, experienced and creative capacity and discussed. practice. Members and membership Performing Arts Touring: Advocacy and leadership: services: fostering active and opportunities, tools and leading state-wide arts engaged artists and arts support for regional and conversations; creating organisations across the state; remote touring across exposure for regional artists; supporting arts professionalism Victoria and Australia providing strategic advice through specialised resources Education & Families: Creative Leadership Program: and professional insurance performances, workshops annual program for emerging Resources, workshops and and projects in schools, arts and thought leaders events program of forums and accompanied by AusVELS Creative Arts Facilitators: our activities through our Regional aligned teacher resources regional staff team work Cultural Partnerships Program State-wide place-making directly with artists and Networks: hosting specialised projects including – communities, in close state-wide and national partnership with local and Home is where the hall is: networks (including Regional federal government November’s month-long Cultural Network, Festivals celebration of arts events in Access and diversity Network, Arts Teachers); regional community halls including Indigenous participating actively in regional engagement and cultural development networks; Eco-Cubby: promoting the exchange accessing and developing New principles of sustainable Networks at membership and design and architecture in Grants programs: facilitating organisational level schools, hands-on and supporting high quality applications to quick Strategic partnerships with Small Town Transformations: response, presentation and governments, universities, innovative projects of project grants, administered tourism, planning and significant local and regional on behalf of state and federal development bodies as well as impact, combined with state- government arts and cultural organisations wide thought leadership on “How can art transform your town?” EDUCATION & FAMILIES TEAM Regional Arts Victoria’s Education & Families team pride ourselves on providing relevant and exciting activities for children and young people that are complementary to both Victorian and Australian curriculums. All of our tours come with a free set of education resources to further enrich your arts experience. Our team is available to provide local contacts and links to research, and offer advice on how to make the most of the arts at your school or centre. Our office is a resource for Victorian teachers, so we encourage you to make use of us! We also provide significant subsidy assistance (up to 50% of program costs) to eligible remote and disadvantaged schools. Your school may be eligible so please contact us to find out more! Suzi Cordell Education & Families Manager Ph: (03) 9644 1805 Mob: 0402 460 080 Email:[email protected] Joanna Gould Education & Families Coordinator Ph: (03) 9644 1808 Mob: 0405 722 789 Email: [email protected] Jo Chapman Education & Families Administrator Ph: (03) 9644 1819 Email: [email protected] CURRICULUM LINKS – Victorian Curriculum Yuarr is suited to a range of year levels Foundation – Year 12. The Arts descriptors below are general and the material is readily adaptable to suit groups outside of this range. The excerpts provided will give a good indication of how the program relates to different learning areas in the new Victoria Curriculum. Aboriginal and Torres Straight Histories and Culture are embedded across all curriculum learning areas and all Capabilities - especially Ethics, Intercultural Capabilities, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social capabilities. Victorian Curriculum Scope & Sequence – The Arts Foundation to Level 2 Levels 3 & 4 Levels 5 & 6 Levels 7 & 8 Levels 9 & 10 Dance Respond & Interpret Respond & Interpret Respond & Interpret Respond & Interpret Respond & Interpret Respond to dance, expressing Identify how the elements of Explain how the elements of Analyse how choreographers Evaluate their own what they enjoy, and where dance and production dance and production use elements of dance and choreography and and why people dance elements express ideas in elements communicate ideas production elements to performance, and that of dance they make, perform in dances from different communicate intent others, to inform and refine and view contexts they make, perform future work and view Music Respond & Interpret Respond & Interpret Respond & Interpret Respond & Interpret Respond & Interpret Respond to music, Identify features of the music Explain how aspects of the Analyse composers’ use of Evaluate a range of communicating their they listen to, compose and elements of music are the elements of music and performances and preferences and discussing perform, and discuss the combined to communicate stylistic features when compositions to inform and where and why people make purposes it was created for ideas, concepts and feelings listening to and interpreting refine their own music and perform music using music terminology by comparing music from music making different cultures, times and Identify and connect Analyse a range of music locations specific features and from contemporary and purposes of music from past times, to explore contemporary and past differing viewpoints and times to explore viewpoints enrich their music making, and enrich their music and consider music in making international contexts Victorian Curriculum: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures Language See Aboriginal Languages, cultures and reclamation in Victorian schools History The significance of Country Identify and describe How physical or geographical Intended and unintended and Place to Aboriginal and patterns of continuity and features influenced the causes and effects of Torres Strait Islander change in daily life for development of Aboriginal contact peoples who belong to a Aboriginal and Torres Strait and Torres Strait Islander and extension of settlement local area Islander peoples, ‘native peoples’ communities, of European power(s), Significance of days and born’ and migrants in the foundational stories and land including Aboriginal and weeks