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What’s on for Schools
Enrich your teaching with the arts
In person or online, we look forward to welcoming you and your students to QPAC.
Schools receive assistance with best available seating allocation, information regarding the production, workshops and other learning resources. Explore events currently offering schools pricing below.
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Our Public Engagement & Learning team is available to talk with teachers about how our program meets your curriculum needs. You can contact them at any time via email.
Ready to make a booking? Contact our friendly school group sales team on (07) 3840 7466 or via email.
HELPFUL INFORMATION FOR YOUR VISIT
QPAC CHAIR IN ARTS EDUCATION
In May 2014 QPAC and Queensland University of Technology (QUT) announced a partnership to jointly establish the position of Chair in Arts Education. The inaugural Chair is Professor Judith McLean, currently QPAC’s Scholar in Residence. Read more from Professor Judith McLean below.
New in 2020, our digital experiences bring artists, performances and our spaces directly into your classroom.
Backstage Tour: The Technical Tour
Suitable for grades 10 to 12, available all year round.
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Virtual backstage tours
Take a tour of QPAC from your classroom! Grades 3+, approx 60 to 90 minutes.
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Here I Am self-portrait workshop
Grades: Prep – Year 3. Artform: Visual Art. Duration: 35-45 minutes.
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Move It dance workshop
Grades: Prep – Year 3. Artform: Dance. Duration: 35-45 minutes.
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Ishmael live stream
Livestream performance of this new production by Dead Puppet Society who lend their trademark magic to Melville’s classic tale Moby Dick.
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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)
Principal Partner
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