What’s on for Schools

A message from QPAC’s Scholar in Residence

Recently I received a rebound gift...my library of drama books from earlier teaching days. I’d given them to a friend who no-longer needed them. It was a welcome re-gift and I felt great pleasure thumbing through yellowing pages of wisdom – play scripts, drama and arts education theory, costume and scenery books, poetry anthologies and voice training manuals. I realised I was holding in my hands actual treasures which had shaped my life as an arts teacher and mother and friend &&&...

I recalled with excitement encountering for the first time insights of some of the greats – Sophocles, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Strindberg, Brecht, Beckett, Dario Fo, and the more contemporary voices of Carol Churchill, Ray Lawler, and David Williamson. Their ideas, their views on how to live an ‘examined life’ are filtered into my life’s purpose, values and principles.

Sitting unpacking the weathered and well read books, I marvelled at how fortunate those of us are who are arts literate. As teachers of the arts we've learnt in and through arts education how to read for more than narrative. Nowhere is this more evident than when we bring students to live performance and witness the unfolding sense of something greater than they’ve encountered so far in their own lives. Whether it’s a piece of music, an image, a characterisation, a dance sequence, if it resonates with the student it is experienced through the senses (aesthetic) and lays down a memory that is never lost. We look forward to welcoming you when you’re next at QPAC.

Professor Judith McLean
QPAC Scholar in Residence
Chair in Arts Education (QUT/QPAC)

Musical

Muriel’s Wedding the Musical

Recommended for grades 10 to 12

Now playing

Classical Music

Queensland Symphony Orchestra – Ray Chen Returns

Advanced level students

11 Oct 2019, 11am

Classical Music

Queensland Symphony Orchestra – Ray Chen Returns

Advanced level students

12 Oct 2019, 7:30pm

Theatre

Jane Eyre

Recommended for grades 9 to 12

From 18 Oct to 9 Nov 2019

Classical Music

Music On Sunday 5: Toys And Puppets

Advanced level students

27 Oct 2019, 11:30am

Classical Music

Queensland Symphony Orchestra – Tchaikovsky and Beethoven

Advanced level students

1 Nov 2019, 7:30pm

Musical

CHICAGO

Recommended for grades 9 to 12

From 2 Nov 2019

Dance

Matrix

Age recommendation TBC

From 13 to 16 Nov 2019

Classical Music

Queensland Symphony Orchestra – Timeless

Advanced level students

15 Nov 2019, 11am

Theatre

A Christmas Carol

Recommended for ages 8+

From 29 Nov 2019

Classical Music

Queensland Symphony Orchestra – Messiah

Advanced level students

7 Dec 2019, 7:30pm

Ballet

Queensland Ballet’s The Nutcracker

Recommended for grades 5 to 12

From 13 to 21 Dec 2019

Ballet

The Australian Ballet – The Happy Prince

Age recommendation TBC

From 25 to 29 Feb 2020

Musical

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Recommended for grades 1+

From 18 March 2020

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