Arts
Kirwan has an active participation in the arts and music, and has competed consistently in the annual Rock Eisteddfod Challenge competition, winning 3rd placing in 2003. It is also known for holding musicals once a year at Townsville's premier cultural center, the 1000 seat Townsville Civic Theatre. The students from Kirwan have presented a wide range of musicals including: Grease, The Sound of Music, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, Disco Inferno, Oliver, Annie, Grease, Pirates of Penzance and, most recently, Back to the 80's.
Another unique offering by Kirwan is its Music Excellence program. Students apply to join the music excellence program in grade 8 and are offered extra music classes and play in specialised grade 8 music excellence ensembles.
Kirwan is also known for its vibrant instrumental and vocal music programs. Many talented young musicians learn and play instruments from all instrument groups, including brass, woodwind, percussion, strings, guitar and vocals. The school offers a vast range of music ensembles for these students to showcase these skills. These include: string ensembles, a percussion ensemble, multiple small woodwind groups, a brass ensemble, two concert bands (the Wind Symphony and the junior concert band), multiple choirs and two jazz bands (the junior stage band and the Kirwan State High School Big Band)
All of these ensembles are directed by Kirwan High music teachers and have shared considerable success in the Townsville region. The Kirwan State High School Band in particular is renowned in the region and is highly sought after to perform their diverse range of jazz at a variety of events.
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Famous quotes containing the word arts:
“The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modelled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who are also creating their own time refuse to accept.... For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the refused in the arts and literature the rapidity of the change is always startling.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay—in solid cash—the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)