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2013 Murdoch Travelling Fellowships
Five VCA graduates were awarded The Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowships for theatre, music and visual art worth $70,000 at an award ceremony held on 3 October. The 2013 recipients are: Aviva Endean (Music), Shelly Lauman and Glyn Roberts (theatre), and Matthew Greaves and Hamish Macdonald (art). Awarded biennially, the fellowships are designed to allow young artists to travel and study overseas at this particularly important period in their career.
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Contemporary Plays Season
25 October - 1 November
Presented by Acting Company 2013 and production students, the Contemporary Plays Season features the Australian premiere of two strange, surprising and witty plays from the internationally renowned experimental theatre companies: Goat Island and the Ontological-Hysteric Theatre. It's An Earthquake In My Heart by Goat Island, directed by Robert Walton; and Eddie Goes To Poetry City by Richard Foreman and directed by Richard Murphet.
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Non-Western Music Gala Ensemble Concert
Friday 25 October, 5.00pm
Students from across the University will perform an uplifting concert of music featuring the Non-Western Music ensembles at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. Involving a cast of hundreds and spanning traditions thousands of years old, this concert will feature performances from the Chinese Ensemble, Shakuhachi Ensemble, World Music Choir and the African Drum & Dance Ensemble.
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Graduation Dance Season
14 - 21 November
Graduating dance students and production students have been studying under three guest choreographers this semester including Frances Rings and VCA alumni Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal (Master Choreography, 2009) and Feng Feng Wang (Master of Choreography, 2005). The program celebrates the virtuosity, artistry and energy of graduating dance students, marking the culmination of three years intensive training and their transition into the dance profession.
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Maestro Mehta receives Honorary Doctorate
Globally renowned musical conductor Maestro Zubin Mehta received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Melbourne in a ceremony at Government House on 30 September. Maestro Mehta was in Melbourne to conduct the Australian World Orchestra (AWO), which comprises Australia’s finest musicians drawn from orchestras across the world. 25 former students playing with the AWO were also offered an Honorary Fellowship by the VCA & MCM (pictured).
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Rosemary & John Hopkins Award
Professor John Hopkins OBE AM DMus (Hon) died on Tuesday 1 October 2013 in Melbourne aged 86. He will be remembered, both nationally and internationally, for the profound impact he made on Australian orchestral music. In addition to his many achievements as a conductor, he also managed to make an equally rich and full contribution as a great leader, teacher and educator. Donations can be made to the Rosemary & John Hopkins Award for a Conductor of any age, to assist with a youth or community music project.
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New music theatre work
Music theatre work A Little Touch of Chaos by award-winning team of writer, actor and singer James Millar and composer Peter Rutherford has won the Victorian College of the Arts’ New Work Music Theatre Project to develop the musical further. The winning team will receive $38 000 and a two week workshop in February 2014. The show will be performed at the newly refurbished Grant Street Theatre in Southbank by third year Music Theatre students in July 2014.
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Graduate study at the VCA and MCM
Graduate study offers artists and musicians professional training programs tailored for industry needs and creative arts research.
Applications for 2014 entry to graduate study close soon for some programs.
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Super Discount
From the internationally acclaimed Back to Back Theatre ensemble comes Super Discount, a provocative new work which tells the story of a champion cunningly disguised as a young man, humorously defying the insidious undercurrents of daily life. This courageous and hilarious new show will dare you to think about what it means to be different, question the idea of heroism and, of course, help you unearth your own superpowers.
Malthouse Theatre is pleased to offer VCA & MCM e-news readers 3 double passes to the show on Thursday 14 November at 7:30pm. To go in the draw to win, send your name and contact details, with SUPERVCA in the subject line, to news@malthousetheatre.com.au. Winners only will be notified.
Malthouse Theatre
13 November – 1 December
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Patrick
A modern re-working of the 1978 classic cult film of the same name, Mark Hartley's Patrick is released in selected theatres across Australia on October 17, and thanks to Umbrella Entertainment we're giving away 10 double passes to see the film.
Just email admin@nixco.com.au with your name, address, and favourite Australian film to be in the draw.
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Graduate Tracking Survey
If you graduated from a creative degree in the last 5 years, tell us about your career and sign up for your chance to win one of four iPad 2s or one of ten $50 prepaid Visa gift cards!
To participate in the survey, please click on http://tinyurl.com/nationalcreativegrads, it takes about 25 minutes to complete.
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Image credits: Highlight 1: From left to right: Aviva Endean, Hamish Macdonald, Julie Kantor, Glyn Roberts, Matthew Greaves and Su Baker. Photo: Sav Schulman.Highlight 2: African Drum & Dance class, 2011, photo: Drew Echberg. Highlight 3: Cassie Woodward, Impermanence (2013). Choreography by Frances Rings. Photo by Jeff Busby. News 1: Honourary Fellows with Prof Barry Conyngham at Government House; News 2: John Hopkins, photo: Ponch Hawkes; News 3: Music Theatre rehearsal on Open Day 2013, photo: Peter Casamento; Focus: Artist: Jemila MacEwan, Postgraduate Diploma Visual Art 2011 Artwork: “Totem”, discarded clothing. Photography by Drew Echberg.
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