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| Sculpture & Festival Performance |
code YP1 |
Merryn Spencer
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This workshop will introduce participants to creating sculpture from the human form using woven natural materials or wire plus casting in plaster, to drawing from a (clothed) model. The week will also introduce participants to specific street-theatre skills useful for community festivals: facepainting or bodypainting, live statue performance and firetwirling. We also touch on an introduction to professional practice such as media release writing, interview technique and preparing an artist statement. $30 material cost payable to the tutor at the commencement of the camp.
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Merryn is a visual artist specialising in sculpture, street theatre and painting. She operates from her studio in Gilgandra, NSW and trained at the ANU School of Art. Her work has been represented through commercial, regional galleries and exhibitions in Broken Hill, Canowindra, Canberra, Coonabarabran, Dubbo, Gilgandra, Melbourne, Mudgee, Newtown, Orange, Paddington and Wellington (NSW). Merryn has a strong interest in developing regional communities through arts activity. She believes the key to vibrant and sustainable arts development is investing in young people with resulting positive effects from this.
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| Art & Craft for Young People |
code YP2 |
Rowena Parkes/Sandra Finn
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This course will be for all those who realise what joy there is in creating. It is not only for young artists who wish to gain more skills but also for those who feel the urge to draw and paint and who have not yet discovered their creative potential. Both Sandra and Rowena share a joyous approach to their work and believe that this mix of classical and creative training instruction will develop young artists’ love for art, and their creative skills and abilities. This will be a full day course and will be divided into drawing and painting in the morning and craft in the afternoon.
DRAWING AND PAINTING
There will be demonstrations with detailed step by step instructions. Learn how to mix and apply water colours and explore the creative elements of mixed media and learn helpful drawing skills and forms of expression e.g. tone, line shape space etc. Finally, learn the principles that give unity to the whole. Each student will practise these techniques on cards to give away to family and friends. Once you learn some drawing and painting skills, the excitement of the course will be in expressing your ideas and completing at least one art work to enjoy, exhibit, and take home.
CRAFT
Both teachers share a delight in the flexibility and simplicity of paper. Students will experiment with techniques to achieve the results they want, by choosing and completing the projects on offer such as building masks, making papier mache forms and gift boxes. Creative decorative techniques using paint, collage, beads and feathers will be demonstrated. $30 material cost payable to the tutor at the commencement of the camp.
Age 8-13 years
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Rowena has a Bachelor of Education degree. For 25 years she has taught children of all ages. She is currently teaching at Casuarina Steiner School and has held exhibitions of her works. She believes that everybody is able to create and her passion is nurturing each young person’s faith in his or her own abilities, and motivating discovery and inventiveness. She enjoys aiding young people to find their own inspiring relationship to tools and materials. Rowena uses many techniques from her teaching background to provide exploration of diverse sources of inspiration, a love of colour, and the alchemy of transforming ordinary materials into beautiful objects and works of art.
Sandra is a fellow Bellingen artist who has studied at Meadowbank Technical College, Julian Ashton Art School and the Royal Art Society in Sydney. Sandra has taught locally for 15 years to all ages and enjoys to impart the technical skills required to draw and paint.
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| Junior Vocal Hijinks |
code YP3 |
Elizabeth Scott & Kathy Derrin
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The “Sister Act” of Elizabeth and Kathy invites young people to join them for five colourful and fun-filled days of singing, games, movement, drama and integrated visual arts activities. Vocal repertoire is varied and exciting, providing opportunities for solo, unison and part singing. Participants will be encouraged to share creative talents and new skills in both in-class and Camp Creative performances, and will be guided towards achieving new heights in musical understanding. Sessions are presented with mirth and musical mayhem!
Ages 7-16 years
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Elizabeth and Kathy are grateful to have grown up in a musical family. They are both passionate about their work as music educators and believe music to be essential to the intellectual, social, physical and emotional development of all learners.
Elizabeth has a Bachelor of Education and is an accredited Suzuki violin teacher. Much of her working life has been spent as a primary music specialist. At present she trains and conducts local school choirs, and has an impressive and thriving violin studio. Each year she prepares the Bellingen PS Choir for performance in the Primary Schools Choral Concert Series at the Sydney Opera House.
Kathy (BA Dip Ed) has extensive choral training experience and is an accredited Orff Schulwerk teacher. She is currently teaching classroom music and choirs in seven primary schools in the Coffs Harbour district. In addition, Kathy conducts the Coffs Harbour District Sing NSW Choir and is choral director for the North Coast Performing Arts Association Choir.
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| Circusworks |
code YP4 |
Sid Sidlow & Zoe Ellis
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Be your own circus star. Learn the tricks of the trade such as juggling, hula-hoop twirling, clowning, balloon art, balances, basic stilts and unicycle and for the more daring – aerial disciplines! Every morning you will start with a stretch, warm-up and focus games and then the day will be divided up between classes, circus videos and free practice time. Students should bring comfortable clothes to train in (tracksuit pants or leggings a must for the aerial).
Ages 7-16
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Richard (Sid) Sidlow is a lead performer and producer with Circusworks and a co-founder of The Aerial Lab. His performance skills and experience range from physical theatre and circus performer/director, professional musician, pyro-technician, costume/equipment designer, even management and circus rigger. He has performed with several circus performance groups in Australia and internationally (Europe, SE Asia and the Middle East) including Captain Bob’s Circus (UK), The Zanni Bros., Minds Eye Theatre, Circus Monoxide, Icarus performance troupe and Entroupe and has trained with the Flying Fruit Fly Circus. Sid runs the Circusworks Circus Playground and travels all over Australia collaborating with councils and festivals running circus workshops.
Zoë Ellis – performer, aerialist – trained and performed with Captain Bobs Circus (UK), Zanni Bros, Flying Fruit Fly Circus, Circus Monoxide, Skin the Cat Aerial Theatre (UK), Jean Paliase Aerial School (Fr), Icarus Performance Troupe and Swawp Circus (UK) – has just finished studying dance at the conservatorium in Lismore – currently works with Stalker Stilt Theatre Company and also runs her own Aerial Theatre company ‘Electric Dollhouse’.
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| Jam Theatre |
code YP5 |
Alice Moseby & Graham Weekes
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With many years’ experience directing and writing plays with both professional adult actors and children, Alice and Graham take an innovative approach to drama. This course for young people will include physical and vocal warm-ups, theatre sports, activities and games to build up improvisation skills and stagecraft, character work using masks and costumes, play-building and sketches in small groups to perform in front of each other. Rehearsal of a scripted work for finale performance. Character and voice work and stage craft develops self confidence, social skills, a belief in yourself and a better ability to express your thoughts and feelings – just to name a few – and it's a lot of fun!
Age 7-13
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Alice and Graham from JAM Theatre have been creating and producing plays for children since 1989, with sell-out seasons at the Adelaide Fringe Festival, Canberra and Sydney Festivals. Alice is a trained teacher and she and Graham regularly run their extremely popular drama camps for children during the school holidays.
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| Krafty Kids |
code YP6 |
Pierina Barbaresco
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This will be a fun course for the younger ones and will introduce a range of crafts for 6-8 year olds over the 5 days. Some of the crafts will include felting, wool crafts, weaving, paper crafts and toy making. Quality, natural materials will be used for most projects.
Material cost $30 (to be paid to the tutor)
Ages 6-8 years
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Pierina is a qualified teacher with a B Ed from the University of Sydney. She has had a life-long interest in arts and crafts and enjoys paper crafts, wool crafts, doll making, felting, painting, to name a few. During her teaching she has included craft as an extension to many subjects and enjoyed sharing her passion with children. She believes that an education in crafts – traditional and non-traditional is important for the sense of satisfaction when making something from its beginnings. Craft work is a fulfilling hobby and expression of our artistic capability.
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