education Screen News

LUCY GUERIN INC.: Far more than a stage version of a ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ audition, what emerges in award-winning choreographer Lucy Guerin’s 'Untrained' is a highly entertaining collaborative work that reveals something of the nature of artistic movement and how we express and expose ourselves through our bodies.

The Australian Film Television and Radio School has announced that Neil Peplow will be the new Director of Screen Content.

A limited number of places in Tim Ferguson’s ‘Narrative Comedy Masterclass’ and Molly Reynolds’ ‘Storytelling In The Digital Age’ Australian Film Television and Radio School short courses running in April in Hobart will receive a fifty percent subsidy.

The world-renowned New York Film Academy is opening a new campus at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in June.

A new independent and non-commercial online portal dedicated to the career development of artists and arts educators across Australia has been launched by the National Association for the Visual Arts.

THE PUSH: An impressive line up of FReeZACentral mentors for 2011 have been announced including Angie Hart returning for the third year and first-timer Quan Yeomans (Regurgitator).

Born and raised in Switzerland, Shannon trained and toured with the Schauspiel Schule Zurich before moving overseas. She recently appeared in Time for the Sydney Fringe and will be making her TV debut on Packed to the Rafters this year. Catch Shannon in the current production of The Mousetrap.

MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL: Moshe Kasher is an internationally touring stand up comic who began his career in San Francisco in 2001. One of the standouts from the SF comedy stars of the early two thousands.

AUSTRALIAN FILM TELEVISION AND RADIO SCHOOL: Alex Daw is leaving AFTRS after working with the school for seventeen years and making a significant contribution to both AFTRS and the industry.

BRUNSWICK MUSIC FESTIVAL: Kavisha Mazzella is one of our most loved singers and artists in Australian folk, community and world music. Her career stretches from early days with Perth acoustic folk band Rich and Famous, through to her most recent work with Italian folk band I Viaggiatori.

NATIONAL PRESS CLUB: Elizabeth Finkel of Cosmos Magazine has won the Universities Australia Higher Education Journalist of the Year Award for 2011.

SCULPTURE BY THE SEA, COTTESLOE: The NAB WA Sculptor Scholarship of $15,000, is the most generous sculptor scholarship or prize in Western Australia and is designed to provide an artist with the funds to help them transition to the next stage of their career.

CULTURAL INFUSION: Opportunity for aspiring Indigenous musicians to take part in a series of workshops with acclaimed Australian musician Joe Geia

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CIRCUS ARTS (NICA): This year, the National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA) in Melbourne celebrates ten successful years as Australia’s premier centre of excellence in contemporary circus arts training.

The current and future television industry training needs will be revealed in a new research project announced by AFTRS (Australian Film, Television and Radio School) CEO Sandra Levy today.

DANCE: After four and a half years leading Australia’s premier centre for independent contemporary dance, Dancehouse, David Tyndall has announced that he will step down as Artistic Director/CEO in early June 2011 to pursue a new career path.

The team at ArtsHub have just been notified that we have won Best Job Board (Niche - Profession) in the Job Board Awards which recognises excellence in online recruitment run by Destination Talent.

DOING THE FRINGES: Are you trying to break into the arts? Chances are no matter what you do – you’ve got to do a fringe. They’re essential training grounds for a whole range of people involved in creative practice from lighting to marketing, performance to stage design.

FRINGE WORLD: A comedic thesis in pop dialectics covering the great pairings from Brandy and Monica to Freddie Mercury and What’s-her-face Operabitch.

DANCE: Ever thought you could dance? Ever wanted to strut your stuff on stage to a cheering audience?