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2024 DramaWest State Conference

It’s Fusion time!
This year’s DramaWest State Conference is all about collaboration.

  • Saturday 7 December 2024
  • Bob Hawke College, Subiaco.

We would love to invite both Drama and Dance educators far and wide!

BOOKINGS HAVE NOW CLOSED


 
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CONFERENCE PROGRAM

2025 DramaWest + Perth Fest. Event

Saturday 8 February 2025

This afternoon and evening professional learning and networking event includes the option to attend:
  • SECTION ONE: Professional Learning Workshop
    • 1.00 to 4.00 pm
    • All Saints' College
      • From the makers of 12 Last Songs: Quarantine and making work with 'real people' 
      • Free for all current DramaWest members.

  • SECTION TWO: Pre-Show Networking Event 
    • Pre-show drinks package.
    • State Theatre Centre of WA
    • 6.30 to 7.15 pm.
      • Free for all current DramaWest members.

  • SECTION THREE: Perth Fest. Carcaca Performance
    • Heath Ledger Theatre
    • 7.30 to 8.45 pm
      • $55 for all current DramaWest Members (exclusive discount)
 
NOTE: you must be a current DramaWest member to access this event.


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Drama Australia Updates

What does Drama Australia do?
A video presentation has been prepared that summarises the role and activities of Drama Australia.
All DramaWest members are automatically a member of Drama Australia.

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Drama Australia Video
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Drama Advocacy
What is the point of Drama?
This  article from The Conversation with members is especially useful at subject selection time.

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 2024 Drama Australia Communiques 

We welcome our DramaWest community to explore the following PDF that features key updates, recent events and important publications from Drama Australia:
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NOVEMBER COMMUNIQUE
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2025 Drama Australia Conference - 'Invigorate'

Drama Australia and Drama South Australia, in association with DreamBIG Children’s Festival, are thrilled to officially launch the Drama Australia National Conference 2025.

Hosted in Tarndanya, Adelaide on Kaurna Yerta Country, South Australia across two days, Saturday 10 May and Sunday 11 May 2025, join us to be INVIGORATED!

With a program of engaging keynote addresses, performances, workshops and research papers, as well as offerings and event discounts from our partners at DreamBIG, this national gathering aims to invigorate our extraordinary community.

Taking place during the Big Family Weekend presented by DreamBIG Children’s Festival, it will unite us nationally, enabling us to discover innovations, practice and research. Empowering us to inspire, the experience will in turn fuel the creativity, artistry and wellbeing of Australia’s young people.


Opening Keynote Speaker Announcement:
Wesley Enoch is a writer and director for the stage and currently the Deputy Chair of Creative Australia. Wesley was previously the Artistic Director of Queensland Theatre Company from 2010 to 2015 and was the Artistic Director at the Sydney Festival from 2017-2020. Wesley is the QUT Indigenous Chair of Creative Industries. He hails from Stradbroke Island (Minjeribah) and is a proud Noonuccal Nuugi man.


Presenter submissions closing soon:

Our international call out for submissions from educators, researchers, artists and organisations is OPEN! We are inviting contributions under the theme of INVIGORATE! Unite | Discover | Inspire.

Head to Drama South Australia’s website and the INVIGORATE! page for information about the themes of the conference to complete your application.

Presenter submissions close on Monday 2 December 2024.


Early Bird Registration now open:
Early Bird ticket sales close on the 14 of March 2025 at 5.00 pm

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MORE INFORMATION

ADEM No 19 - 2023 NOW AVAILABLE!

 Drama Australia are delighted to share the latest Australian Drama Education Magazine  – ADEM No 19 – 2023: ANTiDOTE.

ADEM’s 2023 theme of ANTiDOTE echoes the 2023 Drama Australia National Conference. ANTiDOTE, as a conference and as a themed edition of ADEM, aims to open space for sharing innovative drama practice and research that acts as a creative remedy for contemporary challenges.

Follow this link for the latest edition: https://dramaaustralia.org.au/adem-2023/ 

  

NAAE Updates

An Update from John Saunders - Chair of NAAE

With several Australian tertiary arts, creative industries, and arts education courses being discontinued, reduced, or currently under review, the NAAE is conducting an anonymous survey to gauge the full impact of these changes.

If you know of a course or major at an Australian university that has been affected between 2018 and 2025, please consider submitting an anonymous response to the survey. The survey can be completed as many times as needed for individual courses.

Please feel free to share. This is also on their socials.

The NAAE are preparing to write to the Commonwealth Minister for Education and Minister for Arts regarding this.

An Update from Susan Davis (Drama Australia) – Summary of latest NAAE Meeting

 NAAE – Term 3 Summary

The National Advocates for Arts Education met in September 2024. We discussed the following key items:

  • Reflections were shared on the NSW Joint Select Committee’s Inquiry Into Arts and Music Education and Training. Several NAAE national and state affiliated associations gave testimony at the hearings. The inquiry’s submissions, transcripts and videos of the hearings are available here. NAAE’s submission can be accessed here.
  • NAAE’s chair worked with Professor Daniel Harris (RMIT) and Dr Rachael Jacobs (Arts Nexus/Western Sydney University) to provide a briefing to Commonwealth Education Minister’s Schools Advisor as a follow-up to the Arts Nexus Forum on PISA’s Creative Thinking assessment. We emphasized the interconnected nature of arts education and creative thinking. A brief summary can be found here
  • NAAE’s is hosting a Queensland Arts Education, Arts Training and Arts Industry Roundtable with our state affiliates and other key organizations and institutions to discuss the current state of the arts in the lead up to the Queensland state election in late October. 
  • NAAE members continue to map commonwealth policy initiatives against the National Cultural Policy: Revive. We are setting up meetings with The Office of the Arts, and Creative Australia to discuss the actions in Revive pertaining to arts education. 
  • Dr Jeff Meiners Dance, former NAAE member and outgoing Chair of Dance and the Child International(daCi) joined the meeting to provide a briefing about UNESCO’s work in developing the framework for culture and arts education.

  

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