Arts
The Performing Arts Department offers courses in drama, dance and music with links to QUT’s "Creative Industries" program. Students can also expand their performing arts studies with the following specialised programs:
- Music "School of Excellence" program, with students able to study through the Conservatorium of Music during Year 12.
- Queensland Dance "School of Excellence" in partnership with Queensland Ballet with the possibility of receiving a "Diploma in Dance"
Kelvin Grove also has the largest Visual Art department in Queensland, with a dedicated art faculty and computer design laboratories.
Kelvin Grove music student Sarah Bakker has performed in numerous roles including the understudy in Phantom Of The Opera, the cast toured around Australia in 2008 and 2009.
Many QDSE dancers, vocalists, choir members and a select group of musicians have taken part in celebrations and concerts such as the Q150 Creative Generations concert at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre.
Kelvin Grove has an excellent Instrumental Music Program. In 2009, the Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Percussion Ensemble and Corelli Strings toured to Sydney. The head of Instrumental Music is Alisa Jones, who is a highly accomplished musician and has played an instrumental role in making the music program what it is today. The Percussion Ensemble perform regularly at school events and competitions throughout Brisbane.
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Famous quotes containing the word arts:
“Self-expression is not enough; experiment is not enough; the recording of special moments or cases is not enough. All of the arts have broken faith or lost connection with their origin and function. They have ceased to be concerned with the legitimate and permanent material of art.”
—Jane Heap (c. 1880–1964)
“The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and dote on past achievement.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)
“If we will admit time into our thoughts at all, the mythologies, those vestiges of ancient poems, wrecks of poems, so to speak, the world’s inheritance,... these are the materials and hints for a history of the rise and progress of the race; how, from the condition of ants, it arrived at the condition of men, and arts were gradually invented. Let a thousand surmises shed some light on this story.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)