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Cross-curriculum priority : Asia and Australia¹s engagement with Asia

February 22, 2012 By QATA EXECUTIVE Leave a Comment

The ‘organising ideas’ for the Asia priority provide enormous possibilities for embedding Studies of Asia across the curriculum. Your response to the latest version of the ‘organising ideas’ for the Asia priority in the Australian Curriculum are most welcome.

Asia and its diversity
OI.1     The peoples and countries of Asia are diverse in ethnic background, traditions, cultures, belief systems and religions.
OI.2     Interrelationships between humans and the diverse environments in Asia shape the region and have global implications.
Achievements and contributions of the peoples of Asia
OI.3   The peoples and countries of Asia have contributed and continue to contribute to world history and human endeavour.
OI.4   The arts and literature of Asia influence aesthetic and creative pursuits within Australia, the region and globally.
Asia-Australia engagement
OI.5   Collaboration and engagement with the peoples of Asia support effective regional and global citizenship.
OI.6   Australia is part of the Asia region and our histories from ancient times to the present are linked.
OI.7   Australians play a significant role in social, cultural, political and economic developments in the Asia region.
OI.8   Australians of Asian heritage have influenced Australia’s history and continue to influence its dynamic culture and society.

Sourced from the ACARA website.

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QATA Minutes || 15/02

February 16, 2012 By QATA EXECUTIVE Leave a Comment

The minutes from yesterday’s meeting and our notes from the National Curriculum Webinar yesterday are now available online for you to download and share with your colleagues. If you did miss yesterday’s Webinar, we’ve been in touch with Stephen Clark from Flying Arts who will let us know when the footage is available for download – stay tuned for more information soon!

QATA MINUTES Feb 15

Australian Curriculum Arts Webinar notes

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QATA Meeting || National Curriculum Update

February 15, 2012 By QATA EXECUTIVE 2 Comments

A quick reminder that QATA is holding our first meeting for 2012 Wednesday 15th Feb (today!) in the Hayward Building at Churchie, (Anglican Church Grammar School) Oaklands Parade, East Brisbane starting at 3:30pm this afternoon.

The meeting coincides with the National Curriculum – The Arts update webinar, so we will be tuning in to start off the meeting. The webinar will be presented by Flying Arts and feature John O’Toole, ACARA lead writer for the Arts Shape paper who will provide an overview of the final paper and answer your questions about the next stages of the process – writing the actual curriculum – and some of the ways in which the curriculum will be phased in and implemented.

You can view the Agenda and a Map here:

Please note – there is limited parking, so you may want to get arrive a little earlier, as there are parking inspectors often in the area.

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Grey Street EOI: QATA X South Bank Corporation

February 13, 2012 By QATA EXECUTIVE Leave a Comment

South Bank Corporation has developed and approved a Grey Street Place Management Strategy to realise its goal of creating one of Brisbane’s great streets. As Grey Street is not the sole domain of the Corporation, it requires a place making approach to developing a self organising community for the future that actively participates in co-creating the street.

South Bank wants to engage the many diverse communities who use the street to share in the shaping of an integrated design approach and participate in creating ideas for a shared future. To begin this process of change for the Grey Street, a shop front on Grey Street will operate for three months as a PLACE.Lab.

It will be a tool for engaging discussion about the type of street that the community desires, and how the many diverse, and at times conflicting communities, can be involved in creating a meaningful place. It will be venue for developing the cultural aspirations of the community offering design workshops, gathering data, and facilitating partnerships.

School Design workshops

South Bank Corporation is seeking Expressions of Interest from schools who are interested in participating in design by enquiry workshops as a participatory place making workshop to ‘design Grey Street’.

A venue will be available on Grey Street from May-July 2012 to be known as the PLACE.Lab;
The venue will house from 10-15 students at one time;
The venue is open both weekdays and weekends;
Delivery models for workshops are flexible; from half days to full days, ongoing over a period of time or within a defined timeframe;
Mentors in urban design, community engagement and cultural development are available;
Options for displaying outcomes include exhibition within PLACE.Lab and online;

Please contact Chetana Andary, Place Manager, for further information and email proposals to:

E: Chetana.andary@south-bank.net.au

P: (07) 3687 2009

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Artist In Residence Connect Arts With Education

February 9, 2012 By QATA EXECUTIVE Leave a Comment

Artists in Residence program

The Artist in Residence (AIR) program is a collaboration between the Australia Council for the Arts, Arts Queensland and Education Queensland to provide an Artist in Residence program that recognises good practice and encourages innovation in arts and education programs in Queensland.

The AIR program gives artists an opportunity to broaden their experience and share their skills, while providing school students, teachers and pre-service teachers with greater exposure to the benefits of creative practice. It creates opportunities for artists, teachers and pre-service teachers to work together on developing effective teaching methods and practices for the arts.

The priorities of the AIR Program are to:

develop collaborative practice between teachers, students and artists
encourage collaborative projects that consider how students learn best (differentiation) and support a variety of teaching strategies
build evidence for the value of the arts in supporting the development of literacy and numeracy skills and capabilities
support the cross curriculum priorities of the Australian Curriculum
explore student’s creative ideas, encourage risk taking and creative problem solving
provide students with social learning opportunities
offer personalised learning and authentic learning tasks.

View and download the 2012 Artist in Residence Guidelines (PDF, 175KB)

View and download the 2012 Artist in Residence Application Form (DOC, 341KB)

Portable presents Product Design 2012

February 8, 2012 By QATA EXECUTIVE Leave a Comment

There are a limited number of HALF PRICE TICKETS available fo the upcoming event ‘Product Design’ with Portable and The Edge, Queensland on 14 Feb. Use discount code BRISBANE. Get in quick! http://portablebrisbane.eventbrite.com/

About Product Design 2012.

Never has it been easier to come up with an innovative product idea and deliver it to the world. This February, Portable is proud to present Product Design 2012. In a two-hour salon style presentation we will be exploring the complexities of conceiving, designing, funding and launching online products to an international audience.

Joined by Leni Mayo, founding investor of 99designs, the world’s largest online marketplace for crowdsourced graphic design and Shainiel Deo, CEO of the game design company Halfbrick, who’s behind some of the world’s most popular mobile game apps. Both will draw upon their own success stories in designing products for international audiences, while also highlighting the most important global trends in product design.

This Portable Talks series has been especially curated for creative individuals and companies wanting to make the leap into designing online products for international audiences. Designed to be a conversation, the event will run through the main points of starting and scaling a product business, from conception, to investment and future planning. In doing so, Portable Talks will provide a comprehensive forum for networking with designers, product developers, technologists, entrepreneurs and investors.

Please note, previous Portable events have sold out so book early in your city to ensure your place.

Speakers
Leni Mayo, Founding Investor, 99designs
Shainiel Deo, CEO, Halfbrick
Simon Goodrich, Co-Founder Portable

VENUE

Brisbane
Tuesday 14th of February, 3pm
The Edge, State Library of Queensland

For more information please visit www.portable.tv

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Welcome Back to 2012!

February 6, 2012 By QATA EXECUTIVE Leave a Comment

Welcome back!

By now I’m sure you are all getting into the swing of the new term, so we will be holding our first meeting for 2012 next Wednesday 15th Feb at Churchie, (Anglican Church Grammar School) Oaklands Parade, East Brisbane. Our meeting coincides with the National Curriculum – The Arts update webinar next week, so we will be kicking off our meeting by tuning in. For that reason, we start at the special time of 3:30pm. Click here for details on the meeting, and a map for where we will be meeting at Churchie. Please note – there is limited parking, so you may want to get arrive a little earlier, as there are parking inspectors often in the area.

We have started making some changes to how we run QATA, to make it a more user friendly and easily accessible association. The first of these changes is that QATA is moving to a website-based email subscription service. Your email details will be automatically moved to this service – but no private details or information will be shared or uploaded to the QATA website. As you are added to the email subscription list, an email will be sent to confirm your subscription. You will need to click activate to start subscribing.

Future communication from the QATA executive will be sent through our website, which will automatically generate an email to be sent to you. You will also be able to manage the frequency that these emails are sent, and of course, opt out of the subscription at any time. We hope to have this completed in the coming week, so most members should expect to receive an email confirming their subscription by the end of the week. If you have not received this email by Monday next week, or know someone that should be subscribed and isn’t, please contact myself, or one of the Executive team and we will follow up for you. The idea is that you will all be better connected to QATA, and the various Arts opportunities that QATA promotes. Please stay tuned to our website for further QATA updates.

Due to the change of student free days this year, we will be holding the annual QATA PD day on a Saturday. More details to follow, however a date claimer for now: Saturday 4th August for our annual QATA PD day. Pop it in your diary!!!

Looking forward to seeing you all next Wednesday at 3:30pm, at Churchie.

Jessica Wall

QATA PRESIDENT

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Design Minds

January 13, 2012 By QATA EXECUTIVE Leave a Comment

The State Library of Queensland will benefit from $60,000 in State Government funding to create and make available high quality design education resources for Queensland teachers.

Funded through the State Government’s $3 million Designing Queensland program 2008–12, Design Minds will provide a central, online location for design education tools that all Queensland teachers can tap into.

Manager of State Library’s Asia Pacific Design Library Christian Duell said the resource, to be hosted on the APDL’s website, would be launched with content from the Queensland- Smithsonian (Cooper-Hewitt) Design Museum Fellowships.

“The aim of Design Minds is to increase the capacity of Queensland teachers to teach creativity in the context of the Australian Curriculum, as well as increase the opportunity for students to take part in world-class design education projects and activities,” he said.

“Design educators will be able to access material for lessons, share knowledge and ideas, interact with each other, and contribute and collaborate.

“Design Minds also aligns with the goals of QUEENSLANDERSIGNTM, the Queensland Design Council’s communication initiative dedicated to celebrating and championing world- class Queensland design.”

The Asia Pacific Design Library was launched in October 2010 to support and promote the best of design and offer the best publicly-accessible collection of design resources in the Asia Pacific. Its website will host the Design Minds resource.

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Queensland Festival of Photography Portrait Prize

January 12, 2012 By QATA EXECUTIVE Leave a Comment

CALL FOR ENTRIES

Photographers of all ages are invited to submit their photographic portraits for a chance to win the first Queensland Festival of Photography Portrait Prize.

The Queensland Festival of Photography Portrait Prize is a celebration of photographic portraiture in all it’s forms, whether it is constructed around an idea, positioned in a specific environment, a candid snap or experimental.

Portrait photography has been around since the invention and popularization of the camera, and with today’s digital and phone cameras and rise of social media sites, taking and sharing portraits is bigger than ever. This prize aims to encourage the production of the best and most innovative photographic portraits, and share them online and in the Queensland Centre for Photography gallery!

Fifty finalists will be presented in an online exhibition, out of which twenty finalists will be selected for exhibition in the QCP Window Gallery from 1 April to 29 April 2012. The winner of the Head 2 Head Prize will be announced at the opening of the exhibition at QCP on Sunday 1 April 2012.

The judges in 2012 are Dr Victoria Garnons-Williams, Senior lecturer, QUT, artist and QCP Board Member; Richard Muldoon, Photographer; and Maurice Ortega, Director, QCP.

IMPORTANT DATES
Entries Open Wednesday 4 January 2012
Entries Close Wednesday 29 February 2012
Exhibition Opening Sunday 1 April 2012, 4-7pm
Exhibition Dates 2 April to 29 April 2012

ENTRY FORMS
Download and print the Queensland Festival of Photography Portrait Prize entry form here in Word or PDF.

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Urban Smart Projects

December 16, 2011 By QATA EXECUTIVE Leave a Comment

Urban Smart Projects are responsible for the coordination of the painted traffic signal boxes that populate Brisbane. Expanding to Hobart and Melbourne, this creative initiative gives people the opportunity to design and paint their own original artwork on a chosen traffic signal box (TSB). The requirements are that:

You must live, work or study in the municipality of the chosen box
You must have your design approved by Urban Smart Projects
You must abide by the details outlined in the Participant Agreement (which you sign and return before painting your box)
You must use the paint and safety equipment that they provide you
Any artist under 18 is required to have an over 18 supervisor but other than that it is quite straight forward.

Urban Smart Projects have an online process where participants can reserve a TSB.

Please go to the Urban Smart Projects webpage and click on the PAINT A BOX page.

From that page you can search for a particular box or view available boxes in your area.

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