Explore your creative future

QUT is offering students in Years 9 and 10 an opportunity to participate in hands-on experiences across the creative practice disciplines, giving students a taste of what a future career path in these areas could look like. 

Date: Tuesday 21 November 

Time: 9am to 12pm or 10.45am to 1.45pm

Location: QUT Kelvin Grove Campus, Creative Industries Precinct 

Program: Teachers are invited to bring students in Year 9 and/or 10 to a morning or afternoon session.

Session (9am to 12pm)

9am: Registration & Welcome

9.30am: Session 1 Activities - Creative Writing, Music or Film, Screen, Animation

10.30am: Session 2 Activities - Visual Arts, Dance or Acting & Drama

11.30am: Lunch & special performances

12pm: Session ends

Afternoon Session (10.45am to 1.45pm)

10.45am: Registration & Welcome

11.15am: Lunch & special performances

11.45am: Session 1 Activities - Creative Writing, Music or Film, Screen, Animation

12.45pm: Session 2 Activities - Visual Arts, Dance or Acting & Drama

1.45pm: Session ends

We will be taking bookings for: 

• 10 students + 1 teacher OR 
• 18 – 22 students + teacher  

QUT will provide lunch for students and teachers, and either pre-paid maxi taxi or pre-paid mini bus transport from your school to QUT and return. 

Register your interest here 

More about the sessions...

Creative Writing. How do authors make us fall in love with their characters? What techniques do they use to create an emotional connection with the audience? What are the necessary components of a great character? The process of creating empathy between readers and characters is a foundational skill for writers to master, yet many fail to recognise the basic elements needed for effective characterisation. In this seminar, we’ll introduce some of the tools that writers use to capture our emotions. 

Film, Screen, Animation. In this workshop students will have the opportunity to work in a television studio and record their own TV program or segment. They will gain insight into the different roles that are required to create a television program for live broadcast. At the end of the workshop, students will have a link to a live recording of their program.  

Visual Arts. Making collaborative contemporary art – In this workshop students will participate in a creative collaborative art-making activity that showcases the unique Open Studio model of Visual Art teaching and learning at QUT. The Open Studio foregrounds an exploratory and experimental multi-medium approach to contemporary art that allows students to develop personalised approaches to art practice as they discover new ways to visually communicate their ideas to audiences. 

Music. This workshop will introduce students to field and location audio recording equipment and techniques for listening to and recording environmental sound. Students will work in groups to record environmental sounds on the QUT Kelvin Grove campus. We will discuss on-location microphone techniques, challenges and affordances of environmental recording, and ethics of urban and wildlife recording. Students will then be introduced to software editing and processing techniques to craft recordings to create soundscapes, ambient textures, and samples for various creative applications. 

Dance. How might technology inspire your choreographic practice? Join us for a choreographic workshop where you will interact with technology to inspire your movement and apply an algorithmic approach to choreography. 

Acting & Drama. In this fun and dynamic session, participants will have the opportunity to learn how to make self-tapes from recent QUT Acting graduate – currently appearing in the second season of the ABC’s crime-drama Troppo, and in the new Channel Nine mini-series Human Error. Self-tapes are used to audition actors for professional film and television roles, and for auditioning prospective students for Acting courses. Participants will make a short self-tape, directed and assisted by current QUT acting students. This session will be of interest to anyone who wants to experience what it is like to do a screen test, make a self-tape or record a monologue for their application for entry into an acting degree.