Art is an integral part in everybody’s day to day life, whether it’s in the clothes we wear, furniture we use or art we create, we can all agree that art is an incredibly important part of who we are and how we present ourselves to the world. As art is such a vital entity, it is fundamental that we have great art teachers. Luckily for us at AVѧԺ, we are blessed with on ...

By Maddie D

On Monday 29 November, the Year 8 cohort was very fortunate to attend a Shakespeare workshop. After reading...

On the evening of Thursday 11 November, members of the Carmel community attended VAPA Night and were treated to a smorgasbord of visual and performing art delights. The evening kicked off with an exhibition of artworks, expertly displayed by Morah Leanne in the downstairs Kadima area, before everyone migrated to the theatre upstairs to watch bands, short plays, performances and ...

Mazal Tov to ourYear 10 Drama students who competed strongly in YOHFest in Week 7. The students devised, wroteand designed a performance called The Outlier, based onthe theme of ‘Keeping Up With Appearances’. The Outlier is set in a dystopian future and takes an abstract look at a world that has forgotten what it is to be an individualand where wearing a “public mask” is th ...

On Wednesday 19 May some of our Year 5 and 6 studentsattended theIPSHA Performing Arts Festival held atPenrhosCollegeand presented a song and dancerepresenting our gratitude and thanks for all the good in our lives. Gratitude allows us to pause,notice and appreciate the things that we often take for granted. The students sang a song calledTodahand danced to a fantas ...

Year 12 students Jacob P, Stephanie K, Noa J, Gal T and Aimee O, performed an excerpt from Shakespeare's The Tempest in Week 2. The version of the text performed was a reinterpretation by Australian physical theatre company, ZenZenZo. Our students recontextualised it to be loosely set onWadjemup(Rottnest Island), with the characters based on animals and aspects of the islan ...

Inspired bythe work of Rosalind Monk, Year 5 visual arts students learnt about line, warm and cool colours and pattern whilst creating these beautiful and highly detailed insects! ...

The Year 8 Visual Arts students were fortunate to view the Sculpture by the Sea exhibition at Cottesloe Beach in Week 5. They meandered through all the wonderful sculptures learning about the considerations artistsneed to contemplate when creating outdoor sculptures, like materials that can withstand the outdoor elements. One of the most impressive sculptures was a giant wa ...