News & Highlights
Current News
Newcastle Music Industry Forum
On 15th August Newcastle Conservatorium is hosting a free special panel and networking event for anyone involved inthe Newcastle music industry to discuss Australia's touring and live music scene. Limited places so don't missout! Read More.
2014 Entry: Music Auditions & Fine Art Interviews
Looking to enrol in 2014? Note that the Portfolio interviews for entry into the BFA and auditions for entry into the BMUS are now being scheduled. Full information on the degrees is available from Our Degrees and application forms are available from our Students webpage.
10 Years of Jenny Thomas Scholarship Winners
Congratulations to Skye Jacobson on being named the 2013 winner of the Jenny Thomas Travelling Art Scholarship. Jennie Thomas AM has been helping to make dreams come true for students of the University of Newcastle since 2003 and to celebrate this milestone anniversary a website has been set up to acknowledge her work and fortunate recipients. The school would like to congratulate all of the high achieving students who were awarded these scholarships in the past 10 years from Fine Art and Music.
Student Successes
The School of Creative Arts is proud to offer our congratualtions to a number of our exemplary students for their recent successes. Read More.
Staff Successes & Innovations
The School is happy to acknowledge the achievements of a number of dedicated and high performing staff. Read More.
Music At The Con
Upcoming concerts at the Conservatorium include performances by some of the world's leading musicians presented by Musica Viva and the Song Company. This is of course in addition to our regular Lunch Time Concerts, Art Gallery Concerts, and performances by our own talented staff, students and ensembles. See Here.
Popular Entertainment Studies Now Available
The latest edition of the School of Creative Arts sponsored online journal Popular Entertainment Studies is now available. It is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed hournal dedicatd to the investigation of all aspects of popular culture . Read More.
Past News Items
June
Grotto Project Success
In June the school hosted The Grotto Project: Exhibition and Performance as an exciting extension to the CAPA discipline. The Grotto Project provdes a safe environment for students to collaborate with professional artists and trial specualtive and expirmental approaches to art making with a public audience. Read More.
Student Successes
The School of Creative Arts is proud to offer our congratualtions to a number of our exemplary students for their recent successes. Read More.
Staff Successes & Innovations
The School is happy to acknowledge the achievements of a number of dedicated and high performing staff. Read More.
Another World of Popular Entertainments International Conference
The School of Creative Arts recently hosted the AWOPE International Conference on 12-14 June 2013. A diverse array of submissions were received from academics across the world including Canada, New Zealand, Nigeria, South Africa, UK, USA and Australia. Read More.
Ian Munro on ABC Classic FM
To celebrate internationally renowned painist and teacher in the Music discipline, Ian Munro, ABC Classic FM devoted a special program to some of his compositions. Read More.
May
Student Successes
The School of Creative Arts is proud to offer our congratualtions to a number of our exemplary students for their recent successes. Read More.
National Student Art Prize Winner
Special congratualtions to BFA(Hons) student Shan Turner-Carroll who was recently announced as the winner of the Doctor Harold Schenberg Art Prize for winning Hatched, the Natioanl Tertiary Student Art Prize competition. You can Read More here or to see a gallery of Shan's work See Here.
Staff Successes & Innovations
The School is happy to acknowledge the achievements of a number of dedicated and high performing staff. Read More.
Compressed Delivery Courses
Missed out on a compressed delivery option in semester 1? Don't miss the mid-year Winter offerings. Ia compressed delivery format the entire course workload will be completed in a intensive week-long course, thus freeing up valuable time for students fro the remainder of the semester. Demand for places has been intense so don't miss out. Read More.
Conservatorium Expands into Opens in Maitland
Professor John Germov launched The Conservatorium’s Community Music Program in Maitland at its new campus at 301 High Street on May 19. Over 100 people attended and participated in various demonstration activities such as early childhood music, lessons and improvisations. The Maitland campus provides a venue and meeting place for the school and faculty and makes our community music programs far more accesible to the Hunter community. Also coming will be the launch of the Conservatorium's new website in July. See the story as covered by NBN news Click Here.
Echology UK Tour
Echology, (previously the University of Newcastle Chamber Choir) have recently returned from a successful tour of the UK. On this tour they performed in St Paul’s Cathedral in London during a recent tour of England. Choir Director, Dr Philip Matthias, said the Guild of Church Musicians had invited the choir to perform in Canterbury Cathedral to farewell the guild’s retiring general secretary. The choir also sang at a festival service in St Chad’s, Shrewsbury, at a concert at St Katharine Cree, London, in lunchtime concerts in Merton College, Oxford and St John’s College,
Cambridge as part of a concert series at St Paul’s Cathedral, London. The new website for Echology will also be launched in July in the meantime read a full account of the trip on their blog (Click Here).
April
Public Talks Series: Screen & its Role in University Education
The School of Creative Arts hosted a series of public talks on various aspects of the Creative Arts and their relationship to university research and education. The first talk was a collaboration between Prof Richard Vella and Dr Marguerite Johnson (from HASS) titled The Politics of Knowledge: Plato, Socrates & Research. This talk will examine Plato's dialogue Ion in the context of current HERDC metrics followed by a dicussion on the beauty of Plato's writing, it's poetic imagination and its role in arguing the case for reason The 2nd talk was presented by Professor Jeff Jones from QUT and will discuss the implications of The Cube installation which is the heart of QUT's new $230million Science & Engineering Centre. Part science lab, part engagement, The Cube is the hub of scientific exploration for QUT students and the wider public.
Staff Successes & Innovations
The School is happy to acknowledge the achievements of a number of dedicated and high performing staff. Read More.
Student Successes
The School of Creative Arts is proud to offer our congratualtions to a number of our exemplary students for their recent successes. Read More.
March 2013
Student Successes
The School of Creative Arts is proud to offer our congratualtions to a number of our exemplary students for their recent successes. Read More.
Staff Successes & Innovations
The School is happy to acknowledge the achievements of a number of dedicated and high performing staff. Read More.
"Going, Going, Gone" Fine Art Project
Students enrolled in the compressed delivery options for AART3462 (Photomedia) and AART3470 (Silver) undertook an external project in partnership with the Australian Wool Network. "Going, Going, Gone -- The Last Wool Sales in Newcastle" was conceived as a WiL project that offered students the opportunity to document all aspects of the last fine wool sale to be held in Newcastle after 70 years of tradition. Students photographed and intervied woolgrowers, buyers and officials including international guests from Italy. The outcome of this project will be an iBook and exhibition. Read More.
Compressed Delivery Courses
Missed out on a compressed delivery option in semester 1? Don't miss the mid-year Winter offerings. Ia compressed delivery format the entire course workload will be completed in a intensive week-long course, thus freeing up valuable time for students fro the remainder of the semester. Demand for places has been intense so don't miss out. Read More.
January - February 2013
Chamber Choir Name Change
The award winning Chamber Choir will soon be changing its name to Echology. Subsequently their website and marketing materials will soon follow suit. Read More.
Student Successes
The School of Creative Arts is proud to offer our congratualtions to a number of our exemplary students for their recent successes. Read More.
Staff Successes & Innovations
The School is happy to acknowledge the achievements of a number of dedicated and high performing staff. Read More.
Compressed Delivery Courses
In an innovative pilot program a number of courses are being offered in a compressed delivery format in which the entire course workload will be completed in a intensive week-long course, thus freeing up valuable time for students fro the remainder of the semester. Demand for places has been so intense that many of these courses have filled up within minutes of opening for enrolments. Read More.
School Name Change
From the start of 2013 the School of Drama, Fine Art and Music (incorporating the Conservatorium) will be changing it's name to the School of Creative Arts to better reflect the new directions of our programs and the increasingly collaboration between our disciplins. Read More.
2012 and before
Student Satisfication
Courses in DFAM have significantly improved student satisfaction results since 2009. The percentage of courses scoring above 4 in overall satisfaction has increased from 52% in semester 1 2009 to 63% in semester 1 2011has been recognised Read our top 5 highlights for February to mid-March . Read More.
Call for Papers
The DFAM sponsored online journal Popular Entertainment Studies is calling for papers for special focus issue on "Pantomime and the continuities of performance: a global perspective". Read More.
Notable Journal Publication
DFAM congratulates Dr Jocelyn McKinnon & Dr Sean Lowry on having their paper "Embracing Failure Through Performative Pedagogy" accepted into the journal Performance Research 17.1 'On Failure'. Read More.
DFAM Top5: Monthly Highlights
Read our top 5 highlights for February to mid-March . Read More.
CAPA Course Codes
Looking to enrol in Drama or Creative Arts? As part of the exciting changes being implemented to enhance our course delivery the Drama & Creative Arts courses have merged to share the new course code CAPA. Read More.
International Art Student Collaboration
Second and third year students in both Printmedia and Photomedia are at work on a collaborative project with Hong Kong Baptist University. Our students are responding to work from Hong Kong while working in collaboration with a Printmedia student, and vice versa. Read More.
Outstanding Contribution Staff Awards
Congratulations from the whole school to the two DFAM acadmics who were awarded the VC's Citations for Outstanding Contributions To Student Learning. Read More.Enrolment & Orientation Sessions
New Students, need help getting started? Come to the one of the enrolment & orientation sessions. Read More.
FEDUA Orientations
Come along to the Faculty Welcome session for a fun and informative day planned with lots of activities. Receive your UoN Orientation pack & get the chance to meet staff & students from your degree. We even supply morning tea and lunch & look forward to spending the afternoon having fun at Newie's Shout.
Orientation: Bachelor of Music
As well as the FEDUA Orientation the BMUS orientation will provide you with the opportunity to find out more about your degree, speak with staff & to register for your individual lessons & ensembles. Social lunch included. Thursday 23rd Feb 12-3pm at the Conservatorium (City Precinct). Read More.
Jennie Thomas Travelling Art Scholarship Winners 2011
The school is proud to congratulate the two winners of the Jennie Thomas Travelling Art Scholarship. The Fine Art students Abbey Cecil & Rachael Ireland will be given the opportunity to travel overseas to gain inspiration. Read More.
Philip Emlyn Thomas Scholarship Winners 2011
The school is proud to congratulate the three winners of the Philip Emlyn Thomas Keyboard Scholarship. Donna Carpenter, Daniel Murray & Emily Sargeant received the award intended to recognise and enhance outstanding keyboard performance ability in students from the region. Read More.
Vocal Choir Auditions
The Conservatorium runs a number of Choirs open to the public. For more information about auditioning for one of the vocal choirs for 2011 See Here
Chamber Choir's World Games Win
Congratulations to our award winning Chamber Choir who took out 3 first plave Gold Dilpomas in theSixth World Choir Games in Shaoxing, China. Read More.