Education
Amin Palangi, writer, producer, director and mentor
Writer, producer, director and mentor Amin Palangi concludes a stellar year of achievements with the Screen Transfusions program at the…
Arts training should be vocational training
Snobbery and short-sightedness are preventing artists being trained as craftspeople in TAFEs or individualised vocationally-focused university courses.
Art that changes lives for disadvantaged youth
How do we best utilise the capacity of the arts to engage young people and ensure they become decent and…
Student theatre isn’t all about NIDA
Theatre education doesn’t just happen in drama courses. Beyond NIDA, VCA and WAAPA, there is plenty of on-campus opportunity.
Two-way theatre connects city and regional schools
They call it theatre pen-palling. Four high schools in Griffith and Western Sydney collaborated on simultaneous productions 500kms apart that…
The School of Life: Volume 1
Edited by writer/philosopher Alain de Botton, this simply written but profoundly conceptual volume is a set of self-help books written…
The dismal future of creative arts education
Australia's best-known playwright attacks the squeeze on creative arts education.
Sweethearts: From student jammers to professional musicians
The all-girl high school soul band gets seriously successful with the highest industry-based qualification offered at any Australian school.
Teaching scientists to respect the arts
The myth that science is superior to arts would end if all higher education courses included a creative component.
How to choose the right drama school
So you’ve decided that you want to move out of amateur theatre and into the professional scene. But before you…