Spotlight On Success - September
Rising Stars Showcase and Young Originals Exhibition!
Congratulations to students from
Australind Senior High School
Mount Lawley Senior High School
Trinity College
Wesley College
on their selection in the inaugural Rising Stars Showcase – an exciting new partnership event presented by ArtsEdge, Perth Jazz Society and the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.
Rising Stars Showcase has developed in response to recommendations arising from the National Review of School Music Education, including ensuring that music in schools is supported and enhanced by partnerships with key music and arts funding organisations, education and arts/cultural departments and was designed to be a celebration of youth jazz performance in Western Australian schools, providing a unique opportunity for Year 11 and 12 students to branch out from their school jazz ensemble and showcase their skills in a student directed combo. ... and looks to become an ongoing feature on the musical calendar!
Schools were selected through an audition process adjudicated by jazz luminaries Graeme Lyall, Jeremy Greig and Mat Jodrell, and presented a sensational afternoon of jazz classics and new arrangements which brought down the house.
A very big thank you to the families, teachers, heads of department and school principals who supported their students in their participation.
The Young Originals Exhibition 2007 featured a selection of exciting art and design work produced by Western Australia’s secondary public school students, running from 17 September to 13 October at the Central TAFE Art Gallery in Northbridge.
Open to all DET secondary school students, the exhibition which has been running for 16 years was established in response to public schools requesting a statewide platform to reflect the outstanding quality of art works in our schools. Student exhibitors attend a formal opening of the exhibition, together with their families, contact teachers and principals, prominent members of the art community and TAFE lecturers. Young Originals is not a competition and no prizes are awarded, with the focus on the excitement and status of having works exhibited in a professional setting.
Congratulations to the selected students (and their teachers!) from:
Applecross Senior High School
Ballajura Community College
Carine Senior High School
Comet Bay College
Coodanup Community College
Cyril Jackson Senior High School
Eastern Goldfields Senior High School
Girrawheen Senior High School
Hampton Senior High School
John Curtin College of the Arts
Kalamunda Senior High School
Kelmscott Senior High School
Lockridge Senior High School
Mandurah Senior College
Melville Senior High School
Merredin Senior High School
Mindarie Secondary College
Mount Lawley Senior High School
Perth Modern School
School of Isolated and Distance Education
Shenton College
South Fremantle Senior High School
Warnbro Community High School
Warwick Senior High School
Willetton Senior High School
Woodvale Senior High School
