Creative Arts News

Puppetry

This Term, Year 9 and 11 Drama students have studied puppetry. This ancient form of storytelling can be used to improve students’ communication skills, emotional intelligence and creativity. This term, students have learnt about marionettes, shadow puppetry, Japanese Bunraku, water puppetry and finger and hand puppets. Students explored puppetry performances from professional productions of Warhorse, The Lion King and Storm Boy. Both the Year 9 and 11 Drama classes were asked to create their own puppets and perform a famous children’s story for our BCC Beginners to Year 2 students.  Puppets are magical creatures for early childhood students. Using puppets to engage early learners offers multiple benefits across the curriculum and for social/emotional development. Puppets offer children an engaging way to interact and explore their knowledge and understanding of the world. For many children, it opens up a new world of communication that supports the acquisition of language skills. The students thoroughly enjoyed watching the puppet performances. Well done Year 9 and 11 Drama.

Art Express

Our BCC 2019 Alumni, Miss Hannah-Kate Procter, has been selected for this year’s ARTEXPRESS with her sculpture ‘Detachment from her origin’. ARTEXPRESS is an annual showcase of exemplary art works from the previous year’s Higher School Certificate that celebrates the remarkably high standards reached by NSW Visual Arts students.

COVID-19 has meant the annual ARTEXPRESS won’t feature at NSW galleries in it’s traditional format, organisers have launched a virtual exhibition showcasing the exhibits online.

The inaugural ARTEXPRESS Virtual exhibition includes 50 bodies of work across the 12 expressive forms within the NSW Visual Arts HSC syllabus. In 2020, there are seven ARTEXPRESS exhibitions showcasing 231 outstanding Bodies of Work from the 2019 Higher School Certificate Visual Arts practical examination. Each exhibited Body of Work was selected from 8,552 artworks submitted for the practical Visual Arts examination last year.

Congratulations Hannah-Kate!

Recently the Newcastle Weekly caught up with Hannah-Kate to find out more read the article here. You are also able the view the Virtual ARTEXPRESS here.