What's on: opportunities for creative arts students and teachers

Competitions, events and performances listed on this part of our site provide opportunities for students and teachers beyond the classroom. Many of these activities are linked to syllabus outcomes and can be readily incorporated into classroom learning.

Workshops for teacher professional learning can be found in the section titled Professional learning: workshops.

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Theatre of Image
Pixel and Friends

Pixel & Friends is a playful and vivid journey through the colour spectrum - told in dance, live music and digital animation. Pixel is a coloured square - the smallest point of colour on a computer. Pixel has lost her colour. Sad and lost in space she meets LINE. Line can take us anywhere we want to go. He takes Pixel on an amazing global tour of the colour spectrum to find her colour. Travelling through different coloured worlds - from cool to warm - they meet new friends - Contrast, Shape, Form, Texture, Space and Rhythm. Pixel & Friends is a playful celebration of the joy and beauty of colour and the enormous emotional power it plays in our lives.

Curriculum resources
Creative arts activities have been developed to be used in combination with teaching and learning activities developed for the B string of Connected Outcomes Group (COG) units of work.

View the curriculum resources here

Kim Carpenter’s Theatre of image
Telephone: 02 9518 8458
Facsimile: 02 9518 8251
Email: neil@theatreofimage.com.au
Web: www.theatreofimage.com.au

Theatre of Image
The Happy Prince Tour 2008

Adapted from Oscar Wilde’s classic tale by renowned Australian children’s writer, Richard Tulloch, directed and designed by Kim Carpenter, music composed by Sarah de Jong and choreography by Julie-Anne Long.

A STORY OF LOVE, FRIENDSHIP AND GIVING

Oscar Wilde’s beautiful tale of The Prince and The Little Swallow is as fresh now as when it was written. A classic story about love and giving - it is filled with tenderness, compassion and gentle humour. This widely-acclaimed production by Theatre of Image is brought to life with inventive settings, an outstanding cast and extraordinary puppetry...

This production has been widely acclaimed nationally and internationally as the classic production of the classic tale.

JOURNEYS AND TRANSFORMATIONS

At the heart of the story is the transformation of both the Prince and his friend and servant, the Little Swallow. The Prince is transformed from a cold gold statue standing in the square to a kind and benevolent – but secret – benefactor of the poor and downtrodden. The Swallow travels the city delivering the Prince’s gold leaf to the poor and turns from a well-travelled cocky, street-wise youngster into a compassionate and wise volunteer.

Lessons in Life

Both the Prince and the Swallow see life at its worst and at its most uplifting. They help the struggling artist in his garret, the poor seamstress brow beaten by the rich, selfish and vain Dowager, the poor matchgirl exploited by her father. They both pay the ultimate price but are rewarded in the end for their love and sacrifice.

PUPPETRY AND VISUAL THEATRE

The story is brought vividly to life by a combination of outstanding professional actors and a myriad of styles of puppetry from rod to shadow to marionettes and striking visual illusions.

MUSIC AND SONG

A soundtrack of original music by Sarah de Jong, sound effects and songs accompanies the action.

QUOTES

“Children spellbound by a gentle prince” The West Australian

“Visually brilliant, a stunning production.” Winnipeg Free Press, Canada

“A solid gold winner” The Daily Telegraph

SYDNEYMETROPOLITAN AND NSW REGIONAL TOUR

Laycock St Theatre Gosford 15-16 May
Orange Civic Theatre 19-20 May
Wagga Wagga Civic Theatre 23 May
Q Theatre Penrith 27- 30 May
Riverside Theatres Parramatta 3-6 June
Civic Theatre Newcastle 12-14 June
Bathurst Entertainment Centre 16-17 June
Griffith Regional Theatre 22 June
Seymour Centre, Sydney CBD 23 June to 12 July
Lismore City Hall 24-25 July

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