Melbourne International Arts Festival

EDUCATION RESOURCE PACKS

The Melbourne Festival Schools Program is enhanced by its highly commended series of comprehensive and free Education Resource Packs. Developed by teachers in cooperation with the Artists, the Packs include background information, teaching notes, classroom activities and relevant assessment suggestions, along with in-depth curriculum descriptions, links and other unique insights and specialised tools for a selection of Festival events.

The Festival's 2010 Education Resource Packs will be available for download here from Wednesday 4 August for the following productions:

The Beckett Trilogy - Gare St Lazare Players Ireland

The Blue Dragon - Robert Lepage

Opening Night - Toneelgroep Amsterdam/NTGent

Tomorrow, In A Year - Hotel Pro Forma

Also available will be Education Resource Packs from other organisations to support their Festival productions.  Links to this information will be available here from early September for the following events:

An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar - Taryn Simon (Centre for Contemporary Photography)

Life Without Me - By Daniel Keene (Melbourne Theatre Company)

Mortality - Curated by Juliana Engberg (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art)

PREVIOUS YEARS' EDUCATION RESOURCE PACKS

2009

The Black Arm Band - dirtsong (pdf file, 1M)
Study Areas: Indigenous studies, music, languages and linguistics, Australian history, politics. Read more about dirtsong

Sasha Waltz & Guests - Medea (pdf file, 474kb)
Study Areas: Opera, music, dance, literature, theatre, classics, German language.
Read more about Medea

VISUAL ARTS (pdf file, 689kb)
Study Areas: Painting, sculpture, photography, multimedia, civics and citizenship, social studies. Read more about the Visual Arts program

Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg - Pornography (pdf file, 345kb)
Study Areas: Drama, performing arts, politics, globalisation, social studies, terrorism.
Read more about Pornography

Ray Lee - Siren (pdf file, 264kb)
Study Areas: Sound production and design, performance art, multimedia.
Read more about Siren

2008

OKT/Vilnius City Theatre - Romeo & Juliet (pdf file, 339kb)
Study Areas: Drama, English, Stagecraft, Set Design, Luthuanian

The Black Arm Band - Hidden Republic (pdf file, 259kb)
Study Areas: Indigenous Studies, Music, Australian History, Politic 

Tim Etchells & Victoria - That Night Follows Day (pdf file, 267kb)
Study Areas: Drama, Performing Arts, Flemish, Social Studies, Childhood Development

Batsheva Dance Company - Three & Max by Ohad Naharin (pdf file, 241kb)
Study Areas: Dance, Performing Arts, Music, Gender Studies (Three), Social Studies (Max), Physical Education

Goran Bregovic - Tales & Songs for Weddings & Funerals (pdf file, 520kb)
Study Areas: Music, Composition, Balkan Studies, Language

Teatro de Ciertos Habitantes - El Automovil Gris (The Grey Automobile) (pdf file, 183kb)
Study Areas: Film Studies, Drama, Music, Spanish, Japanese, Literature, Linguistics, Globalisation

2007

Dood Paard - medEia (pdf file, 155kb)

Dood Paard - Titus (pdf file, 318kb) 

Merce Cunningham - Program A & Program B (pdf file, 347kb)

Sizwe Banzi Is Dead (pdf file, 170kb)

Robert Wilson / Bernice Johnson Reagon - The Temptation of Saint Anthony (pdf file, 249kb)

Barrie Kosky - The Tell-Tale Heart (pdf file, 348kb)