The Arts at Mulgrave

THE ARTS AT

MULGRAVE

Through the performing and creative arts, we can help every student find their voice and express themselves.

In 2021-22, our world-class arts facilities were further enhanced with the completion of our Athletics and Performing Arts Centre (see page 30) which brought the addition of a dedicated choral room, individual music practice rooms, and a dance studio. Renovations also enlarged our black box theatre and improved our green room. Under the guidance of specialist faculty, Mulgrave students learn to take risks, experiment, collaborate, and think in embodied, tactile ways across the full range of artistic forms. They can pursue specialisation in a range of fields (creative and academic), or they may choose to celebrate their creativity beyond the classroom in a more free-form way.

To the delight of performers and audiences alike, live stage productions returned in the spring of 2022. The following is a snapshot of just a sample of the activities that took place in the 2021-22 school year.

PERFORMING ARTS Multi-Disciplinary Events:

• Workshops on filmmaking, animation, art, music, dance, and theatre by a variety of guest instructors, both virtual and in-person

• Middle School students learned about a variety of art forms from cultures around the world through Artsapalooza

Music:

• From PK to G12, all classroom music, performing arts classes, and co-curricular choirs, bands, and ensembles took the stage for a variety of concerts

• Launch of the Middle School

Rock Band programme with students performing at various events

Theatre:

• Senior School grades performed three versions of Will by Jack

Pannell, each set in a different part of the world

• Middle School students explored a punk rock expression of A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Dance:

• The programme completed its first year with students throughout the grades participating in classes via in-class instruction, electives, and clubs

• Performances at special events such as December Homecoming and the Grand Opening of APAC

CREATIVE ARTS Design:

• In Middle School, a wide variety of units were offered, making space for more exploration of diversity, inclusion and equity. Project topics included Hostile Architecture (3D

Printing), Every Child Matters (textile items), and Pop-Up Shop (paper-engineering through modernising classic fairy tales).

• In Grades 9 and 10, students developed self-directed, ambitious ideas and created working models and prototypes using 3D printers, a 3D clay printer, the laser cutter and other tools/equipment, including robotics, woodworking and community-focused ideology.

• In Senior School, students successfully used the blended learning model to develop their own time-management and self-organisation skills within a project-based learning system.

Visual Arts:

• A Diploma Arts Exhibition showcasing the two-year culmination of creative work by our senior Visual Art students

• Students across divisions, advisory groups and in collaboration with various clubs, worked on a variety of in-school displays including a clothing sustainability installation, Día de los Muertos display, Zoom

Festival décor, Festival of

Light ornaments, and Advisory vexillography.

• Early Years and Junior School students created collaborative artwork for our gala in a wide range of exciting media.

Pieces were auctioned to the community in support of the

Momentum Annual Fund.

Film:

• Hosted an in-person Zoom Film

Festival where Mulgrave students won Best Overall and Best Art

Direction in the Senior category

• Senior School students participated in workshops with a guest screenwriter focusing on story and plot development

Multi-Disciplinary Events:

• Social media series, Artists of

Mulgrave, featuring the Class of 2022

• Group 6 in-person exhibition