2024 Arts Education Brochure

ARTS EDUCATION FOR PRESCHOOL – TERTIARY STUDENTS, TEACHERS AND EMERGING ARTISTS

2024

CONTENTS ACCESS AND EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

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The Joan SCHOOL TERM EVENTS

SCHOOL HOLIDAY EVENTS

Term 1

Winter School Holidays A Midsummer Night’s Dream 4 & 5 April

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The Peasant Prince 11 & 13 May

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Emily Who: A Day for Adventure 21 & 22 June

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The Riff: Youth Theatre Festival 28 June

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Originate 2024 26 & 27 July

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ARC 16 & 17 September

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Term 2

Term 3

Carnival of the Animals 16 July

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CAREER PATHWAYS AND DEVELOPMENT Penrith Conservatorium Schools Music Programs

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ArtsLab Western and North West Sydney

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Work Experience and Placement 18

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PRIMARY EDUCATION

SECONDARY EDUCATION

TERTIARY EDUCATION

Penrith Regional Gallery SCHOOL VISITS

HOW TO BOOK

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EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS Term 1 Codes of Her Known Life 31 January – 24 March

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Blak Douglas Survey Exhibition 11 May – 21 July

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Youth Art Prize 11 May – 21 July

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Diana Baker Smith: This Place Where They Dwell 11 May – 21 July

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Natalya Hughes: The Interior 3 August – 26 October

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Term 2

Terms 3 – 4

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF TRADITIONAL OWNERS Penrith Performing & Visual Arts acknowledges the unique status of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the original owners and custodians of lands and waters, including the lands and waters of Western Sydney.

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Access and Educational Resources At Penrith Performing & Visual Arts (PP&VA), we are committed to providing inclusive, quality, arts education experiences for all audience members.

Specific access and educational resources available for our offerings are indicated in the coloured tab at the top of each event page throughout this brochure, using the key outlined below.

ACCESS Upon request we may be able to provide accessible services other than those listed to help make your school group’s visit more comfortable. Please let us know of any request you have, and we will do our best to arrange it.

Relaxed Performance

Visual Story

EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

Curriculum Links

Online Media Resources

Q&A Sessions

For Events at The Joan E boxoffice@penrith.city (Please copy in creativelearning@penrith.city) P 02 4723 7600

Teachers Resource Kits or Study Guides

Workshops

For Events at Penrith Regional Gallery E gallery@penrith.city P 02 4735 1100

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THE JOAN

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Suitable for Years 7 – 12 and Tertiary Students

Bell Shakespeare’s

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

By William Shakespeare Directed by Peter Evans

Shakespeare’s classic comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, is reawakened in this breathless production brimming with magic, mirth and mayhem.

Love is in the air in Athens – and it’s contagious. Besides the royal wedding, which is just days away, there are young lovers dreaming of enchanted futures together. Hermia and Lysander are besotted with one another, while Helena adores Demetrius. The only snag is that Demetrius loves Hermia – and he’s got Hermia’s father on his side.

Determined to be together, Hermia and Lysander meet in a moonlit forest with plans to elope. Following hot on their heels is Demetrius, who in turn is pursued by a lovelorn Helena. But the young lovers are not alone in the forest. Nick Bottom and his hapless bunch of tradies have gathered to rehearse a play to be performed at the royal wedding. And, hidden from human eyes, a mischievous sprinkling of faeries are also in the forest that night. The three worlds collide in an explosion of comic confusion that throws the future of all the lovers into jeopardy.

Bell Shakespeare is assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body, and by the NSW Government through Create NSW. Bell Shakespeare’s education program is supported by the Australian Government through the Office of the Arts.

Term 1 DATES & TIMES Thursday 4 April at 7:30pm Friday 5 April at 10:30am & 7:30pm DURATION 2 hours (Including 20-minute interval plus 20-minute Q&A following the matinee performance) PRICE School Groups: Student and Additional Teachers $20 (1 free teacher per 10 students) General Public: Standard $50, Concession $45, 35 & Under $30 Please see our website for additional prices and more information.

CURRICULUM LINKS English, Creative Arts – Drama.

Visit thejoan.com.au/education to download the full curriculum links.

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BONUS OPPORTUNITIES AND RESOURCES Bell Shakespeare’s REGIONAL ACCESS WORKSHOPS provide invaluable opportunities for students in regional areas to learn more about Shakespeare, live performance, and the production they are about to see, at no cost to your school.

Before students see A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a teaching artist will guide students through a 75-minute workshop that includes an interactive synopsis of the play and specific directional and design concepts that are unique to this production.

The JOHN BELL SCHOLARSHIP is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for students living in regional or remote areas who are interested in a career as a performer.

Interested students may book a workshop audition. Students will spend 15 minutes where they will audition and work with a professional Bell Shakespeare artist, receiving feedback and direction. Each year, up to four students are selected from across Australia to come to Bell Shakespeare HQ in Sydney and spend a week training with the Company.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream ONLINE RESOURCES can be found on Bell Shakespeare’s website, on the Shakespeare Hub. Production resources will be added throughout the year including set and costume designs, photo galleries and interviews.

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FREE WORKSHOPS

Free In-School Workshops run by Monkey Baa are available for the first two schools who book tickets to The Peasant Prince.

THE PEASANT PRINCE

Based on the book by Li Cunxin, Illustrated by Anne Spudvilas.

Adapted for the stage by Eva Di Cesare, Sandie Eldridge and Tim McGarry Prepare to be mesmerised as Monkey Baa’s multi award-winning production The Peasant Prince returns to the stage for a limited time.

In a poor village in northern China, Li, a 10-year-old boy is taken away from everything he knows and sent to a ballet academy in the big city.

He is afraid, but his mother urges him to follow his dreams.

Based on the children’s version of Li Cunxin’s internationally best-selling memoir, Mao’s Last Dancer, this remarkable story of courage, resilience, and unwavering hope, will ignite your students’ dreams and inspire them to be the best people they can be.

Term 2 DATES & TIMES Saturday 11 May at 10am (Relaxed Performance) Monday 13 May at 10am (Relaxed Performance) & 12:30pm DURATION 60 minutes (No interval plus a 10-minute Q&A following the weekday performance)

Photo by Heidrun Löhr. Photos from 2016 national tour feature performers Jenevieve Chang, Jonathan Chan, John Goodway and Edric Hong

A Monkey Baa Theatre Company Production

PRICE Student and Additional Teachers $20 (1 free teacher per 10 students) General Public tickets are also available.

Please see our website for more information.

AUDIENCE INFORMATION This production contains themes of racism and simulated violence.

CURRICULUM LINKS English, Creative Arts – Drama, HSIE – History.

Visit thejoan.com.au/education to download the full curriculum links.

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EMILY WHO: A DAY FOR ADVENTURE Come on an adventure and see what you can find with Australian children’s singer, Emily Who, in this interactive show jam-packed full of songs and fun.

From an imaginary journey under the sea, to a farm, the jungle, and even back in time to dance with the dinosaurs, this engaging concert will have the young and the young at heart moving and grooving!

Term 2 DATES & TIMES Friday 21 June at 10am & 12.30pm (Relaxed Performances) Saturday 22 June at 10am (Relaxed Performance) DURATION 45 minutes (No interval) PRICE Student and Additional Teachers $15 (1 free teacher per 10 students) General Public tickets are also available.

Please see our website for more information.

Photo by Juliette Scott Photography

CURRICULUM LINKS Creative Arts – Drama, Music and Dance.

Visit thejoan.com.au/education to download the full curriculum links.

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Q Theatre presents

THE RIFF: YOUTH THEATRE FESTIVAL First came Flannofest, then Q Theatre’s Annual Youth Theatre Festival…

After over 30 years of providing local young people with a platform to express their ideas and experience working in a professional theatre setting, Q Theatre’s key youth event, The Riff: Youth Theatre Festival, returns for another year!

This initiative continues to support teachers in providing one-of-akind experiences for their students to exercise their creative voices in exploring local identity and global issues, whilst developing the next generation of Western Sydney performing artists and creatives.

Q Theatre is proud to give young and emerging artists the chance to gain performing arts production experience in a professional theatre environment, whilst gaining invaluable industry expertise from arts professionals through this unique program.

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Term 2 CREATORS AND PERFORMERS

DATES & TIMES Applications Open: Tuesday 30 January at 9am Applications Close: Friday 16 February at 5pm In-Theatre Stagecraft Workshops: Monday 8, Tuesday 9, Thursday 11 and Friday 12 April Technical Rehearsals: Monday 24 – Thursday 27 June Final Performances: Friday 28 June at 12pm & 7pm

AUDIENCE MEMBERS

The Riff: Youth Theatre Festival 2023. Photo by Christopher Hayles

DATES & TIMES Performances: Friday 28 June at 12pm & 7pm We invite young people from local secondary schools to participate in the festival as: CREATORS AND PERFORMERS Participating school groups will have a professional theatre artist work with them through an in-theatre and in-school residency program, to guide the performance development process and direct rehearsals of the final piece. This work will be showcased as part of The Riff on Q Theatre’s professional stage at The Joan.

AUDIENCE MEMBERS Non-participating school groups’ attendance at The Riff will support fellow young artists in the region whilst enhancing their understanding and appreciation of theatrical performance making, production and design. The Riff sparks inspiring discussions in the classroom on themes and ideas, performance styles, theatrical conventions and design, devised and collaborative performance making.

DURATION 2 hours (Including 20-minute interval) PRICE Student and Additional Teachers $20 (1 free teacher per 10 students) General Public tickets are available for parents, family and friends of students performing. Please see our website for more information.

CURRICULUM LINKS English, Creative Arts – Drama.

Visit thejoan.com.au/education to download the full curriculum links.

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Suitable for Years 10 – 12, VET – Entertainment Industry and Tertiary Students

ORIGINATE 2024 Celebrate the 10th anniversary of our annual hallmark project and inspire your students to take the next step in pursuing a career in the performing arts.

Led and supported by the Q Theatre team and leading industry professionals, Originate is a six-month theatre training program for preprofessional and emerging artists (18+) within the first five years of their practice. It enables participants to build their collaborative performance skills through training, experimentation and creative problem-solving.

The program culminates in the presentation of a new work, devised by the ensemble that will open your students’ eyes to a world of creative pathways and opportunities.

Secondary Schools Don’t miss this chance for your students to see an original devised performance featuring the next generation of Western Sydney theatre makers! Can’t attend this event as a school group? Please pass on this information to your students and encourage them to book.

Tertiary Students Apply to be part of Originate in 2024. Applications will open on our website on Friday 17 November at 9am and close Friday 15 December 2023 at 5pm. Group auditions will take place in the first weeks of January 2024.

Term 3 DATES & TIMES Friday 26 July at 7:30pm Saturday 27 July at 2pm & 7:30pm DURATION 75 minutes (No interval plus 15-minute Q&A following the matinee performance) PRICE Performances School Groups: $20 per student and additional teachers (1 free teacher per 10 students) General Public: Standard Ticket $35, 35 & Under $25 Post-Show Q&A Free, bookings essential CURRICULUM LINKS Creative Arts – Drama, VET – Entertainment Industry.

Visit thejoan.com.au/education to download the full curriculum links.

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Originate 2023: In Living Memory. Photo by Christopher Hayles

Q Theatre presents

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An Erth Visual & Physical Inc Production

ARC

Term 3

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to experience intimate, magical encounters with rare and vulnerable species.

DATES & TIMES Monday 16 September at 6pm Tuesday 17 September at 10am & 12:30pm

Showcasing exquisite puppetry, an enigmatic host and audience interaction, ARC embraces the natural world and the creatures that cohabit Earth, whilst raising questions about our collective and individual relationships with nature and loss.

DURATION 55 minutes (No interval plus a 15-minute Q&A following each performance)

Renowned as innovators of physical and visual theatre, for the past three decades Erth’s body of work has explored the depths of the past. Join Erth for this look into the future, as a menagerie of animals transforms on the stage before your eyes!

PRICE Student and Additional Teachers $20 (1 free teacher per 10 students) General Public tickets are also available.

Please see our website for more information AUDIENCE INFORMATION This production contains fog, smoke effects and loud noises.

CURRICULUM LINKS Creative Arts – Drama, HSIE – Geography, Science and Technology.

Visit thejoan.com.au/education to download the full curriculum links.

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Penrith Conservatorium presents

CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS Richard Bonynge Ensemble with guest performer John Martin Narrated by Drew Forsythe

The animals are having a carnival, and everyone is invited! Among the attractions are majestic lions, braying mules, a dancing elephant, bouncing kangaroos, stately birds and colourful schools of fish.

Join the Richard Bonynge Ensemble, together with guest performer John Martin and narrator Drew Forsythe, as they bring Camille SaintSaëns spell-binding work, The Carnival of the Animals and Johann Sebastian Bach’s mesmerising Concerto for four pianos in A minor to life on stage.

Audience members will be invited onto the stage by Australian children’s performer, Emily Who at the end of the concert to get up close and learn about the instruments and how they made the sounds of each animal.

Winter School Holidays DATES & TIMES Tuesday 16 July at 11am (Relaxed Performance) DURATION 45 minutes (No interval. Includes a 10-minute ‘Meet the Instruments’ opportunity run by Emily Who) PRICE Childcare, Preschool and Vacation Care Groups Special Offer: Children and Additional Supervisor $20 (1 free supervisor per 10 children) General Public tickets are also available.

Please see our website for more information.

A wonderful introduction to music for young listeners. Get into the carnival spirit and come dressed up as your favourite animal!

© Claire Bernoth

PROGRAM Bach – Concerto in A minor, BWV 1065 Camille Saint-Saëns – The Carnival of the Animals

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SCHOOLS MUSIC PROGRAMS Early Childhood Music Classes at your Centre Are you an Early Childhood Centre in the Penrith area looking to increase your music programs?

Discover the wonderful world of music with our range of special one-hour workshops or weekly classes led by our dedicated early learning music teacher at your centre.

Through instrument play, singing, dancing, imaginative play and more, your group will discover the basic concepts of music and develop their vocabulary, social, problem-solving, fine and gross motor skills.

A fantastic precursor to Kindergarten.

Band Network Whether you are looking to expand your music program, or you do not have one, we can help! Outsource your instrumental music program to Penrith Conservatorium.

We offer private and small group instrumental tuition, as well as a band or orchestra program. Let us know if you would like the lessons to take place onsite at your school, or at our studios at The Joan, before, during or after school hours and we will take care of the rest.

Scan the QR code for more information

All resources and instruments provided.

For more information and to request a quote please email at us at conservatorium@penrith.city Tuesday 21 May

MUSIC COMPOSITION WORKSHOP

Scan the QR code for more information and to SIGN UP NOW

Join us for an exclusive composition workshop with acclaimed Western Sydney composer Holly Harrison and Omega Ensemble. In this workshop, you will get to explore motivic development, rhythmic and textural devices, idiomatic writing for instruments, and the general usage of notation software.

This free workshop is designed for Years 10 – 12 including HSC Music 1 and 2.

Enquiries E conservatorium@penrith.city P 02 4723 7611

Photo by Eddy Summers

with Holly Harrison and Omega Ensemble

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Q Theatre and Shopfront Arts Co-op present

ARTSLAB WESTERN AND NORTH WEST SYDNEY Don’t miss your opportunity to be part of one of Australia’s premier artist residency programs!

Photo by Joshua Morris

Run in partnership with Q Theatre and Shopfront Arts Co-Op, ArtsLab is a six-month program which offers emerging artists from Western and North West Sydney free space, masterclasses, networking opportunities and professional mentorship to develop their work and learn what it takes to have a sustainable career in the arts. The program culminates in the artists presenting their works in a festival-style season in front of a live audience at 107 Projects, Redfern in October and The Joan, Penrith in November 2024.

Who Can Apply We are committed to creating inclusive and accessible opportunities for all artists to create new work in any form: dance, visual art, theatre, film, music, performance, digital art and more. ArtsLab is for earlycareer artists aged 18 – 26. We welcome diversity and encourage artist submissions from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, and people with disability.

How to Apply Applications will open in April 2024. Stay tuned – Visit Q Theatre’s or Shopfront’s websites and follow our social media channels for updates and further information.

Q Theatre | qtheatre.com.au qtheatre @qtheatre_ Shopfront | shopfront.org.au ShopfrontArts @shopfront_arts

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Suitable for Year 10, Year 12, VET – Entertainment Industry and Tertiary Students

WORK EXPERIENCE AND PLACEMENT Are you young and passionate about pursuing a career in the performing arts? Get a taste for the arts industry and gain key practical experience with The Joan’s Work Experience and Work Placement programs.

Both initiatives provide students behind-the-scenes insights into the workings of an arts organisation. During their placement, students will have the opportunity to work alongside our team of experienced arts professionals from a range of different areas including creative, production, marketing and technical.

WORK EXPERIENCE is available for Year 10 students. Successful applicants complete a standard work week onsite during school term times. This program gives students an introduction into the nature of a professional arts environment, allowing them to link and implement classroom learning to real-life situations in the arts industry. Many students find Work Experience assists them in choosing their elective subjects for their Senior School years.

WORK PLACEMENT is available for Year 12, Vocational Educational Training (VET) and Tertiary students. Hours are flexible and tailored to the individual student’s workplace suitability. This block placement enables the student to gain a more thorough understanding of The Joan’s inner workings and further extend their skills through exclusive opportunities. For instance, helping the team backstage prepare for a show.

These programs are a fantastic way to discover the practicalities of the workplace, attain valuable life skills, develop arts skills and deepen your love of the arts.

Experiences will vary for students depending on which team they are working with and what is happening at The Joan during their placement.

INTERESTED IN APPLYING?

Applications will open on The Joan’s website from 1 February 2024. Students are encouraged to contact their School Careers Advisor.

Applications are assessed on a case-bycase basis. The Joan is committed to creating an inclusive workplace which reflects the community we serve. We welcome and encourage applications from young people regardless of gender, ethnicity, cultural background, disability or sexual orientation.

For all Work Experience enquiries please contact creativelearning@penrith.city

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PENRITH REGIONAL GALLERY

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School Visits

The Gallery offers a range of excursions and programs for early learning, primary, secondary, tertiary and home school groups.

SELF-GUIDED EXHIBITION VISIT

Suitable for Preschool – Year 12 and Tertiary Students Explore our current exhibitions at your own pace with a free 15-minute introduction provided by a Gallery staff member or volunteer.

Price Free, bookings essential

GUIDED EXHIBITION TOUR

Suitable for Preschool – Year 12 Enjoy a tour and discussion of our current exhibitions and activities tailored to your students, led by our Gallery educators.

Price $10 per student

GUIDED EXHIBITION TOUR AND ARTMAKING IN THE STUDIO

Suitable for Preschool – Year 12 Take your Guided Exhibition Tour to the next level by adding a 60-minute artmaking workshop in our creative art studio. The workshop will be aligned to the themes of the exhibition.

Price $15 per student

SCULPTURE IN THE GARDEN

Suitable for Kindergarten – Year 6 Discover the highlights of our heritage site from the home and garden of Margo and Gerald Lewers to our collection of outdoor sculptures. Students will also have the opportunity to create their own threedimensional artworks in the studio.

Price $15 per student

COLLECTION UP CLOSE

Suitable for Year 7 – 12 and Tertiary Students Experience the Gallery’s rich collection of artworks from Modernist paintings and sculptures to works by contemporary Indigenous artists in a behind-thescenes tour of our Collection store. This program can be tailored to showcase artworks relevant to a study area of your choice and is the perfect springboard for conversations about collection management and careers in museums and galleries.

Price $10 per student

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CODES OF HER KNOWN LIFE

HAROLD DAVID, DAVID PORTER, GREG SEMU, CRAIG WALSH AND MORE Digital photography has perhaps become the most ubiquitous form of artmaking, with the current estimate being that there are roughly 12 trillion images in circulation today. Photography shows us our present moment – the who, where, when and what – in painstaking detail.

That the analogue photograph can survive for as long as it has, grants it an aura that provokes curiosity and wonder.

Codes of Her Known Life presents key photographic works from the collection of Penrith Regional Gallery, each capturing important moments in the social history of Penrith. The artists turn their lens to the people around them to capture moments of community joy and familial pride.

Term 1 DATES 13 January – 24 March PRICE Free, bookings essential CURRICULUM LINKS Creative Arts – Visual Arts and Photographic and Digital Media.

TOP: Harold David, Elizabeth Boxwell and Amanda Cooksley, Nepean District Athletics, Blair Oval, St Marys (Tracksuits of St Marys series), 2005, matt c-type print, 59.4 x 84.1cm. Courtesy of the artist BOTTOM: Greg Semu, Congregation of the St Marys Assembly of God Church, Oxley Park, 2008, c-type handprint off large format 4/5 negative film, 76 x 100cm. Courtesy of the artist

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Blak Douglas, Endangered Species, 2005, acrylic on spotted gum with nails and pencils. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Robin Gurr, 2013. Penrith Regional Gallery, Home of The Lewers Bequest Collection

BLAK DOUGLAS SURVEY EXHIBITION Archibald Prize winning Indigenous artist, Blak Douglas, returns to his hometown for his first ever survey exhibition in Western Sydney.

Raised in South Penrith, Douglas studied Graphic Design at Nepean TAFE before turning his hand to visual art.

Term 2 DATES 11 May – 21 July PRICE Free, bookings essential CURRICULUM LINKS Creative Arts – Visual Arts, HSIE – History and Aboriginal Studies.

Douglas has developed an iconic style that utilises humour and social commentary to connect with audiences and raise questions about contemporary Indigenous culture and experiences.

This survey exhibition will feature key examples of his practice over the last 20 years, alongside specially commissioned works.

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YOUTH ART PRIZE The Penrith Regional Gallery Youth Art Prize aims to recognise, encourage and celebrate the creative talent of young artists in our community by providing an opportunity to showcase their work in a local regional gallery setting.

Photo by Maja Baska

The Prize consists of four categories including: • Ages 5 – 8 • Ages 13 – 17 • Ages 9 – 12 • Ages 18 – 25 Entrants are required to submit a two-dimensional artwork in any medium. Submissions are open to artists with a connection to Penrith and its surrounds.

Term 2 DATES Applications Open: Monday 5 February at 9am Applications Close: Thursday 2 May at 5pm Exhibition Dates: 11 May – 21 July PRICE Entry: Free Exhibition: Free, bookings essential CURRICULUM LINKS English, Creative Arts – Visual Arts.

We highly recommend that schools wishing to enter, run their own competition amongst students internally and submit the top works (up to ten) for the Penrith Regional Gallery Youth Art Prize.

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DIANA BAKER SMITH: THIS PLACE WHERE THEY DWELL This Place Where They Dwell is a four-channel video installation exploring the politics and poetics of space through the work of the Australian Modernist artist, Margo Lewers.

The work focuses on Lewers’ former home in Emu Plains, now the site of Penrith Regional Gallery. Lewers conceived the house as a threedimensional artwork, combining her sensibility as a painter, with her extensive knowledge of design and architecture.

Filmed inside the house, This Place Where They Dwell captures dancer Lizzie Thomson in motion. As she moves between the four rooms, she responds to the architecture, particularly the movement of light through windows and doorways.

Term 2 DATES 11 May – 21 July PRICE Free, bookings essential CURRICULUM LINKS Creative Arts – Visual Arts and Dance, HSIE – History.

The four interconnected videos examine the site of the home as a place that changed from a private, intimate space, into a public one; from a site where Lewers lived, made art, raised children, mourned her husband, and died, and into an art gallery containing a unique record of Australia’s post-war Modernist art scene.

Diana Baker Smith, This Place Where They Dwell, Four-Channel 4K Video, 2024.

Photo: Lucy Parakhina

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NATALYA HUGHES: THE INTERIOR Natalya Hughes’ The Interior invites audiences into an exaggerated consultation room playfully furnished for psychoanalysis.

Interested in the role of women and their historical absence from positions of power, the part-professional, part-domestic setting conjured

by The Interior plays with gendered power dynamics between public and private space. The couches that dot the gallery take their lush contours from the shapes of the female body, and their detailed upholstery sees motifs of eyes, rats, and snakes from Freud’s patient case studies ripple over the space in fleshy tones.

Audiences are invited to recline and be enveloped, soothed, and held by the furniture’s womanly forms while taking turns playing analyst and patient. Throughout this bodily encounter, The Interior hopes to create a space where the existence of women can be reimagined on different terms in the ‘post-Me Too’ world.

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Terms 3 – 4 DATES 3 August – 26 October PRICE Free, bookings essential CURRICULUM LINKS Creative Arts – Visual Arts, HSIE – Society and Culture.

More information and BOOK NOW Installation view, Natalya Hughes: The Interior, 2022, Institute of Modern Art. Photo: Charlie Hillhouse

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How to Book

BOOK EARLY We do our best to accommodate everyone, but tickets sell fast. Bookings are processed in the order in which they are received.

STEP 1

BOOK YOUR TICKETS ONLINE Visit the appropriate event page on The Joan or The Gallery’s website.

Risk assessments and education support materials are available to download from each individual event page.

Events at The Joan

Scan the QR Code or visit thejoan.com.au/education

The Joan’s Online Schools Booking Form

The Joan’s Online School Holidays Booking Form

Events at The Gallery

Scan the QR Code or visit penrithregionalgallery.com.au/learning

The Gallery’s Online Schools Booking Form

WE LOOK FORWARD TO WELCOMING YOU TO OUR VENUES!

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STEP 2

BOOKING CONFIRMATION, PAYMENT AND CHANGES TO NUMBERS

THE JOAN

PENRITH REGIONAL GALLERY

Teachers receive complimentary seating on a 10:1 ratio (unless otherwise stipulated). All bookings will incur a $5 booking fee.

After submitting your online booking, our Learning Coordinator will call or email you at their earliest convenience to discuss the details of your booking.

A confirmation of your booking will be emailed to you within seven working days of the Learning Coordinator initially contacting you.

We will confirm your booking by emailing your school an invoice for a non-refundable 50% deposit due within 30 days of the invoice date. In the event the booking is made within 30 days of the performance date, the deposit is due immediately.

Once you have paid your deposit, your booking is secure and numbers can be amended (dependent on availability) up until final payment is received.

Bookings made two weeks prior to the performance date must be paid in full upon booking.

There are no refunds or decreases in numbers once final payment has been made.

An increase in ticket numbers is possible after final payment (subject to availability). Requests for additional tickets must be submitted via email to Box Office at boxoffice@penrith.city and payment is due immediately.

If we do not receive payment two weeks prior to the performance, we have the right to cancel your booking and your deposit will be forfeited.

School bookings must be made a minimum of four weeks ahead of the exhibition.

Changes to numbers, dates and times can be made (subject to availability) up to seven working days prior to your booking and must be submitted in writing to gemma.mckenzie-booth@penrith.city.

If you have booked a paid program, an invoice will be emailed to your school the day prior to your excursion.

All paid events will incur a $5 booking fee as stipulated on the online booking form.

In the event you wish to cancel your booking, seven working days’ notice is required, otherwise the cost of your excursion will be charged in full.

Please contact the Gallery on 02 4735 1100 if you are having difficulty organising payment by the due date.

Please contact Box Office on 02 4723 7600 if you are having difficulty organising payment by the due date.

QUESTIONS

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact us:

STEP 3

FINAL INFORMATION SENT TO SCHOOLS Prior to your excursion, we will send you an email outlining important information about your visit.

Where possible, we will also include curriculum links, resources and study guides.

The Joan

E boxoffice@penrith.city (Ticketing Enquiries) or creativelearning@penrith.city (Program and Curriculum Enquiries) P 02 4723 7600

Penrith Regional Gallery E gallery@penrith.city P 02 4735 1100

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Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre 597 High Street, Penrith, NSW, 2750 PO Box 2, Penrith, NSW, 2751 Box Office 02 4723 7600

Scan the QR code or go to thejoan.com.au/education to visit The Joan’s website and sign up for the Education eNews JoanSutherlandPerformingArtsCentre @the_joan

Penrith Regional Gallery, Home Of The Lewers Bequest

86 River Road, Emu Plains, NSW, 2750 PO Box 2, Penrith, NSW, 2751 Administration 02 4735 1100

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