Sponsored Creative Residency Projects for CLP 2024
Apollo Bay P12 College, Apollo Bay. Barracouta and The Sea. Creative partner Peter Day will work with students on a project to explore the threats to marine life in local waters, using spoken word, sculpture making, visual documentation and land art.
Armadale Primary School, Armadale. The Sound Factory. Working with composer Ciaran Frame, students will co-design and build an interactive musical installation for all ages and abilities. Using cutting-edge technologies, students will be challenged to imagine what future music-making might look like and to explore innovative ways of creating sound.
Braybrook College, Braybrook. At the Intersection. Through a mix of storytelling and different kinds of theatre, students will be guided by theatre-makers and performers Myfanwy Hocking and Rod Lara to devise a performance exploring themes of adolescence, identity, real and online worlds.
Clunes Primary School, Clunes. Uncharted. Students will embark on a circus adventure into the unknown in this collaboration with circus and physical theatre performers Asking for Trouble. Students will devise a live performance inspired by personal stories of young adventurers who overcame challenges and explored new horizons, empowering them to share personal tales of adventure, discovery, and bravery.
Dandenong South Primary School, Dandenong South. The Soul of DSPS. A collaboration with music producer Jason Holmes will see students exploring digital technology, linguistics, mathematics, and music to write, compose and record original hip hop songs for each of the school's four sports houses.
Doncaster Secondary College, Doncaster. Self-discovery Through Culture. Creative partner Vivian Qui aims to challenge students’ ways of seeing and working throughout this collaboration exploring culture as a means of self-discovery. Returning to her former school, Vivian will encourage students to challenge their perceptions of everyday objects as they create multi-media sculpture and installations to express their personal stories.
Fawkner Primary School, Fawkner. Colours of Our Community. Students will collaborate with local artists Ruth Hitchens and Hira Salman to celebrate their diverse local community. Using mixed media such as ceramics and collage, the group will design and create an artwork, culminating in a presentation of the installation at school and for the community event ‘Fawkner Festa’.
Fish Creek & District Primary School, Fish Creek. A Village Of Converging Paths - UV Detective Hunt. Creative partner Lucy Parkinson will lead students on a playful adventure, creating a detective hunt for visitors to the local ‘Fishy Stories’ Children’s Literature Festival. Students will explore semiotic systems and multilingual literacy through creative art and play, to create an alphabet of symbols that will form the clues to be decoded on the hunt.
Jeparit Primary School, Jeparit. Augmenting Jeparit. Students will join forces with Pink Lake Creative to augment the reality of life in their small rural community of Jeparit in new, exciting ways as they explore the concept of belonging. Students will use augmented reality, screen and print media to engage with and showcase intangible values and dimensions of place.
Keilor Downs Secondary College, Keilor Downs. Our Voices. Published author Dee White will guide students through the creative process of a professional writer to create an anthology of works that reflect their unique voices and situations. Students will tell their stories in their own way utilising historical fiction, memoir, prose, poetry, narrative, or visual/graphic storytelling.
Keysborough Primary School, Keysborough. Immersive Cultural Stories. Using virtual reality (VR) and multi-media, students will work with creative partner Jeremy Kalbstein to design three dimensional worlds to tell traditional Vietnamese and Cambodian stories. Students will trial different ways of storytelling in VR to design their own works that will be shared with the wider school community.
Narrawong District Primary School, Narrawong. Exploration of Ecology in Clay. With clay and 3D printing students will explore local ecology and biodiversity within the Narrawong and Glenelg Shire areas, particularly endangered habitats of local species, Red and Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoos and the Southern Bent Wing Bat. This project with creative partners from The Clay Collective will empower students to use creative processes whilst exploring biodiversity issues.
Numurkah Secondary College, Numurkah. Dunguludja-Dana Partnership with NSC. This partnership with Dunguludja-Dana Aboriginal Youth Group aims to guide First Nations students in cultural explorations that will forge deeper connections to place, Country and community. Exploring culturally significant Indigenous art-making practices and the role they continue to play in their culture, the project culminates with students sharing their works with the whole school community.
Pakenham Secondary College, Pakenham. Collaborative Critters. Creative partner Tara Kingston will mentor students through a studio-based process of exploration, development and design of Claymation ‘critters’ in the creation of stop motion film. The project aims to ignite discussion between year 7 and year 9/10 students as they collaborate to create characters, storyboards, set designs, animations and then promote a community film screening.
Portland Primary School, Portland. Creating an Upwelling. Francis van der Mark will guide students to create artworks inspired by the Bonney Upwelling, a natural phenomenon occurring in the Southern Ocean and local marine park. Exploring design and construction practices, students will create three-dimensional works depicting ocean movement and creatures, culminating in a community presentation and installation at ‘The Upwelling Festival’.
Port Phillip Specialist School, Port Melbourne. The Expedition. An inclusive art project that uses sound, visuals and storytelling to map the lives of young people at Port Phillip Specialist School. Working with professional theatre makers from Rawcus Theatre Company, students will capture and create real and imagined journeys, paying close attention to their senses and the world around them, culminating in a mixed-media live performance.
Preston Northeast Primary School, Preston. My Journey. Published author Nova Wheatman will work with students on a creative writing project to craft and publish a personal narrative about a significant journey to explore personal growth and identity. A community book launch will celebrate the writing process, student voice and creativity.
Templestowe College, Templestowe Lower. Self and Symbols. Working with painter and mixed media artist Nusra Qureshi students will examine representations of self through personal stories of place and belonging, celebrations of neurodiversity, and pro-active mental health. Through creative practices of South Asian miniature painting and collage, students will create personal works expressing their sense of self.
Thomastown Meadows Primary School, Thomastown. Celebrating Our Place. Creative partner Hayden Dewar will work with students to create a large-scale street art mural highlighting flora and fauna of the local area, creating a sense of pride and community. Students will consider professional practices in research and design, aesthetic choices, manipulating materials and techniques and expressing of ideas through this collaborative project.
Winters Flat Primary School, Castlemaine. Creature Ways. Creative partner Lz Dunn will collaborate with students on a dance and experimental performance project around ‘movement ecology’, the study of how organisms move within ecosystems. Students will explore why movement matters by activating their senses, bodies and imaginations and traversing their school habitat with creaturely perspectives.