Tin Can Bay P10 State School and artist Jolian Solomon. This project will create a ceramic mural of plaster castings, an exhibition of photos and text of the students experiences and a flexible movement and mime component that allows for spontaneous and intuitive responses to the site, events, materials, movements and sounds. The project will allow students to participate and experience the environment, recognise and record ephemeral phenomena which can be developed into artworks allowing the audience to view nature in a new way.
Brisbane State High School and artists from Queensland Symphony Orchestra. This project will provide musical enrichment experiences for gifted and talented students as well as providing opportunities for greater participation in music education for the whole school community at Brisbane State High School. The residency will provide mentoring opportunities for students and the project will record the lessons and masterclass sessions for inclusion on Education Queensland's "The Learning Place", providing considerable professional development opportunities to music staff throughout Australia.
Lockyer District High School , playwright Claire Christian and artists from Empire Youth Arts. This project will develop a new, contemporary theatre work. A core ensemble of students will work with the playwright to create, devise, write, rehearse and perform a new work. The artists will also lead specialist workshops for all performing arts students which will support class content and develop students arts skills.
Serviceton South State School and artist Alison St Ledger. This project will engage students at Serviceton South State School in weekly workshops with the artist. The workshops will involve story telling, song writing, narrative through dialogue, simple staging concepts and multimedia, self-expression and language skills focused on English as a Second Language students.
Yarrabah High School with artists from Djumbunji Press. This project will share printmaking skills with the students, give them an understanding of the concepts of editioning and care for works on paper and allow them to engage with a number of successful Indigenous artists working in the printmaking medium. The students will develop a number of works for exhibition, learning the full printmaking process from concept, through production, to presentation.
Mayfield State School, artist Clinton J. Isle and Childfund Australia. This project provides an opportunity for children in four countries to use video cameras to document a day in their lives. The students will work with the artist to create a collection of videos about the student's daily lives. The students will then edit the videos from all four countries into one film which will be shown in all four countries on Universal Children's Day in November 2011.
Riverview State School and artist Narelle Oliver. This project will collect, create, express and record community stories in the form of individual and collectively created artist books, and oral story telling. The students of Riverview State School will create innovative artist books.
Milton State School, artist Jason Klarwein and Grin and Tonic Theatre Troupe. This project is a series of six Shakespeare and Performance Intensives with the students at Milton State School. The project will culminate in a professional production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (a truncated version) with students performing alongside six professional actors. Interwoven with the text will be a music composition by Tom Adeney and the Milton State School Strings Ensemble.
Albert Park Flexible Learning Centre and artists from KiLN Creative. This project is a multi-arts project that will enrich the arts practice of students at Albert Park Flexible Learning Centre. The students will create a three part documentary on the history of the Albert Park Flexible Learning Centre and a video with artists in production, writing, directing, cinematography, animation, editing, illustrating and motion graphics. These video presentations will form part of a performance event and include a work devised with Vulcana Women's Circus. The students will document the performance event and upload the video to the QUT Sustainable Selves website as part of an ARC Research Project.
Grovely State Primary School and artist Jennifer Seevinck. This project is an immersive experience for students of Govely State Primary School in the landscapes of the forest of the D'Aguilar Range and the local Kedron Brook with the artist. Students will visit, study and reflect upon their experiences to inform the visual form and aesthetic concepts behind their artworks. The students will create two interactive artworks, small forest creature sculptures or collages which will then be animated using stop-motion techniques, perspective maps, diaries as well as working materials like photos, rubbings, sculptures and artefacts from field trips.
Kelvin Grove State College and artists Svenja Kratz, Kyle Bickle, Jonathan Baxter and Kent Grantion. This project will encourage the students to think creatively and build a culture of open inquiry and innovative thinking through the residencies.