Media Announcements 2007
December 2007
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What’s on this summer? VCA Short Courses 2008
Explore / Discover / Create!
November 2007
- 2007 KPMG Tutorship Award winner announced: awarded to Victorian College of the Arts PhD student Chantal Faust for her pieces titled City of Lost Children 2 and Nebula.
- VCA Film & TV Grad Show 2007
Graduating filmmakers burst onto the big screen!
Dates: Thu 6 – Sat 8 & Thu 13 – Sat 15 December
Venue: Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI)
October 2007
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VCA Symphony Orchestra at The Melbourne Town Hall
Wednesday 21 November at 7.30pm
Gustav Mahler - Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Bela Bartok - Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta
Maurice Ravel - La Valse
Conductors: Marco van Pagee and Aura Go -
Melbourne’s most eagerly anticipated annual art show:
The VCA Art Graduate Exhibition 2007
Friday 23 November to Saturday 1 December -
VCA Music (Music Theatre) in association with VCA Production present:
‘JUST TAKE YOUR SKIN OFF AND DANCE’…
GRADUATING SHOWCASE 2007
Thursday 29 November to Sunday 2 December
Devised by Margot Fenley, Martin Croft, Luke Hunter and Tanya Mitford. Musical Supervisor: Luke Hunter / Musical Director: Richard Montgomery. Featuring second year Music Theatre students. -
VCA Music (Music Theatre) in association with VCA Production present:
STEPHEN SONDHEIM AND HUGH WHEELER’S A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
Friday 16 to Sunday 25 November
Directed by Martin Croft ~ Musical Direction by Vicky Jacobs
Featuring first year Music Theatre students ~ Special guest artist: Robyn Arthur -
VCA PRODUCTION presents: LIVING THINGS - a murder mystery.
Class of 2007 postgraduate puppetry students: Thursday 8 to Saturday 17 November.
September 2007
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VCA Drama – final performances Company 2007: Th’ World Turned Upside Down: Three Dramas of Revolt.
Saturday 27 October - Sunday 4 November -
VCA Drama - ID: POSTGRADUATE SEASON.
Tuesday 16 to Saturday 20 October 2007 -
The $ 10,000 Wallara Travelling Scholarship 2007 Winner: Belle Bassin
August 2007
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VCA PRODUCTION presents:
Master of Puppetry Performance Season:
Dispatch by Penelope Bartlau & Idja by Jacob
Tuesday 25 - Saturday 29 September -
Head of VCA Music to take up new post of Principal at the Royal Northern College of Music, UK. In July 2008 the VCA will farewell Professor Jonty Stockdale, Head VCA Music and Associate
Dean for Learning and Teaching. -
The ANZ Visual Arts Award 2007 and The ANZ Visual Arts Award (People’s Choice) 2007: Artists Statements: Penelope Davis & Christina Markin
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VCA Drama Scholarship Award Winners 2007: Winners of The Yvonne Taylor Award 2007; The Barbara Manning Scholarship for Postgraduate Study 2007; The Orloff Family Charitable Trust Scholarship; and The Irene Mitchell Award 2007
July 2007
- VCA Music Presents: Sound Out: Friday 17th August 7:30pm
- The ANZ Annual Visual Art Awards 2007 - ANZ staff Australia-wide cast their vote!
- Give ‘Em Enough Rope: Two Classic Comedies - Goldoni / Molière, Acting Company 2007.
The Venetian Twins by Carlo Goldoni - Friday 24 August to Monday 3 September
The Imaginary Invalid by Molière - Saturday 25 August to Tuesday 4 SeptemberVCA launches Graduate School of the Arts - VCA Open Day: Sunday 19 August 2007 10am – 4pm. Discover the VCA!
- VCA launches Graduate School
- VCA Music Concert Calendar – Semester 2, 2007
- Cryin’ Out Loud - Directors’ Season 2007: Two seasons of short, sharp yet moving plays that grab you, seduce you, entertain and enthral you ... and don’t outstay their welcome ... the chance to see top quality work rarely seen elsewhere.
Season One: Saturday 18 – Thursday 23 August
Season Two: Wednesday 5 – Saturday 8 September - Renowned Italian set designer Edoardo Sanchi in residence at the VCA from Monday 23 July until late October as part of the Simplot
International Masterclass Series 2007. - Song of Ourselves: A Meditation on Reconciliation: Thursday 19 to Sunday 22 July, designed & directed by Margie Mackay, musical design and collaboration by Tania Bosak and Gus Macmillan
June 2007
- Renowned artistic director, choreographer and dancer Stephen Petronio is to be a guest artist and teacher at the VCA.
- Leading Hollywood artists to share their talents with VCA animation students: Paul Topolos (Pixar Studios) and storyboard artist Ian McCaig.
May 2007
- Announcing the 2006 and 2007 Richard Pratt Bursary Fund Winners for outstanding Acting students in their Second Year of Training (VCA DRAMA).
- Honorary Degree awarded to Shirley McKechnie, renowned
dance scholar and educator.
April 2007
- VCA Drama & Production Performance: The Perjured City or the Awakening of the Furies: A story of poisonous blood.
- The Gathering: Hear the hottest new sounds in jazz – VCA Music Improvisation!
- Keep the Fire Burning: Wilin Week 2007: Monday 23rd - Friday 27th April.
March 2007
- VCA Symphony Orchestra: soloist Zoë Black, conductor Mark van Pagee. Roger Smalley - Konzertstück for Violin and Orchestra; Ravel - Rapsodie espanole; Sibleius - Symphony No. 1 in E Minor.
- The $20,000 Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship 2007 Winner: Annika Koops
- Internationally acclaimed Canadian theatre artist Ronnie Burkett to share his talents with the VCA - 19-30 March, 2007
- Lynne Landy to Chair the new VCA Advisory Board
- VCA Music Concert Calendar - Semester 1, 2007 (click here to download the Concert Calendar)