The ƵƬ Creative Arts Festival runs from 7-10 September, and is full of inspirational student art, music, drama, photography, media, dance and displays. Everything is free to enter and view, but the drama performances of our moving adaption of T. A.G. Hungerford's "Stories from Suburban Road" must be booked through the ticketing website
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During August and September, 45 students from the Don Bosco Technical Centre Samoa will embark on a three-week sponsored Australian tour and will visit ƵƬ 4-6 September. The Don Bosco Technical Centre is renowned for its traditional siva (dance), and the Centre’s students are often invited to perform at public celebrations, and important events. In Samoa, dance or siva as it is called locally, is an essential element of Samoan life and culture. In recent years the Don Bosco Technical Centre dance troupe has performed at the Opening Ceremony of the 2014 United Nations Small Island Developing Nations Conference and the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 2015 Commonwealth Youth Games.
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This week we have enjoyed the festivities of our Feast Day honouring our Dominican Patron Saints – St Dominic Guzman and St Catherine of Siena. It was a great day of prayer, fun and friendship for the whole community. We were grateful to warmly welcome back our former College Rector, Fr Frank Bertagnolli SDB to preside at our mass and to welcome our Dominican Sisters - Sr Pam Davis OP and Sr Mary Rickards OP to join us. The day opened with art activities in K-2 - we are in the lead up to our great Creative Arts festival in September, and students across the College are embracing their creative juices! The day closed with after-lunch buddy games for our K-6 students. In between we had it all! Volunteers making healthy salad rolls, academic races, theatresports, Mass and a talent show... here's a few snippets from the day:
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The Scriptless Cup for 2016 was held on the final day of Term 2. Over the four years we have been running this event, the traditions and rituals that form part of the fun have been evolving - the coveted plastic Chicken Trophy, the Magic Moment Award as well as the various bonus marks for tasks such as improvised interpretative dance, and the supreme prize, a bucket of minties.
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The Southern Tasmanian Dance Eisteddfod is over for another year. In the last newsletter of term 2, Jess Duggan, Year 10 Bosco House Creative Arts Captain, said students were excited to have the opportunity to perform and showcase their hard work at the Derwent Entertainment Centre before a public audience. “Our choreographer is the extremely talented Ms Jenina Evans, of Jenina’s Dance World, who teaches dance here at Dominic. She is the best teacher ever.” Competing against College level students, the ƵƬ Year 8 Dance Troupe we
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On Tuesday 28 June all Year 6 students performed their self-devised drama as part of Say It Loud 2016. During Term 2 Year 6 worked on two separate documentary dramas, based on the stimulatory ideas of the mountain and the river. Over 16 30-minute lessons students wrote and produced these works.
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Just doing it! Rather than winding down towards the end of a typically busy term, our Music and Drama students are proving the adage by using every available second to push themselves in an array of Creative Arts events happening over the final two weeks.
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Molly Woolley, actress and Siena Creative Arts Captain, said the 2016 senior drama performance ‘Aftershocks’ was a huge success for all involved. 'The students who took part in the performance have received some impressive feedback regarding the performance after each show,' Molly said.
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Both Year 6 classes have been working on their play project, SAY IT LOUD. In this Drama extension opportunity, students devise, script, refine and perform an original piece of process drama. Year 6 Moulton have created a play entitled The Mountain. Year 6 Cunningham’s piece is entitled, The River. Both plays have a central theme about growing up beside two iconic Tasmanian landmarks, Mount Wellington, and the Derwent River.
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Senior Drama students are working on a production of AFTERSHOCKS, a verbatim theatre piece about the Newcastle earthquake which occurred on 28 December, 1989. The play focuses upon the people who were at the Newcastle Workers Club when it was hit. It is a complex and demanding undertaking. Performances will be on Tuesday June 14 and Wednesday June 15 at 7pm in The Oratory Space. Tickets are free, but must be reserved online.
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