Drama Tuesday - Perth Festival
/Connecting our students with the Arts in their society
The Perth Festival which runs in late Summer in Perth, has announced the program for teachers and students ahead of a Festival launch in November.
It’s always exciting to have an insight into the Festival delights.
Also wonderful is the commitment to engaging young people and their teachers. The arts in schools are not separate from the wider reach of the arts in society. It is important that young people see from an earlier age the opportunities for connection.
As the Australian Curriculum The Arts (ACARA, 2014) reminds us:
In making and responding to artworks, students consider a range of viewpoints or perspectives through which artworks can be explored and interpreted. Responding in each arts subject involves students, as artists and audiences, exploring, responding to, analysing, interpreting and critically evaluating artworks they experience. Students learn to understand, appreciate and critique the arts through the critical and contextual study of artworks and by making their own artworks.
A vibrant arts culture in the wider society is essential for effective arts education in schools. There needs to be a symbiotic relationship between arts learning and arts making and enjoyment in our community.
