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Messages of Aroha (M.O.A project)
Robin Hood & The Babes in the Wood Pantomime AUDITIONS
Dunedin's The Globe Theatre are holding auditions for their next production 'Robin Hood & the Babes in the Wood Pantomime'.
If you have an interesting in acting and/or singing/guitar, there are heaps of roles that need filling including title roles and the chorus, who'll make up Robin's gang of outlaws.
Auditions are being held on the 10/11th of September and the show is set to run December 1-10th.
Auditions sign ups with more details are below.
Students studying in Southland or Otago are eligible to win the Best Southland Film award sponsored by Film Otago Southland.
new Zealand Youth Film Festival
Kia ora aspiring film makers! An exciting, new film festival has been announced - New Zealand Youth Film Festival. This festival was created to facilitate the lack of festivals that support students and young people in Aotearoa. Whilst we have the 48-Hour Film Festival, participants are limited to only 48-hours to make a film. This festival allows participants to make and submit whatever kind of film they like (no constraints). With the NZ film industry's international acclaim, it seems only natural a next step be to provide a legitimate stepping stone into the industry for aspiring film makers. You have to be at least 15 to enter, but get a team together and start creating now! This festival is here to stay for the long run.
Link to official website/ submission: https://www.nzyff.com/
Check out this article for more info: shorturl.at/krEN0
Where: White Box Exhibition Space
19 George Street Dunedin, FRINGE HQ.
When: All of July 2022
AIM: Performing Arts ākonga, kaiako, and whānau sending aroha & support to our local community artists during this tough time for the arts. This is everyone from theatre electricians to wigmakers, actors and producers to folk musicians, front-of-house personnel to opera singers.
20220328 Young Artists in Ōtepoti.pdfArtist AdvICE Ōtepoti FEATURE
The DCC's new initiative Artist Advice Ōtepoti (AAŌ) is looking to feature 12 young and local artists work on their new online hub.
The feature will be a full-screen image of the work on the landing page set to change every month. The image could be anything from a digital illustration, a photograph of a painting or a sculpture, a photographic work... most ideas and concepts are welcome!
Successful applicants will received a payment of $300.
Submissions close on April 14.
If this sounds like a project you'd like to be involved with- read and fill out the pdf attached.
Artist spotlight on YR7 Ruan Hamman for his feature on the Good Sorts segment on One News last Sunday night (13/11/22).
Ruan is the youngest member of the Mosgiel Brass Band who have just celebrated their 150th Anniversary.
With the band, Ruan has had the opportunity to play at the Police Remembrance Service and recently won 2 individual trophies at a Brass Band competition. Congratulations Ruan!
We are excited to keep following your awesome achievements!
JMC's first End of Year Arts Celebration! We had a wonderful time celebrating our art students' successes with friends, family, and faculty. We were lucky enough to have Arts alumni Tama Anthony-Whigham join us and share some wisdom with the boys. We enjoyed performances from Finlay Tomkins, Mitchell Lobb, the boys from Sué Chef, and Harold Gao. We are so excited to see what our Yr13 leavers get up to next! It's been a hard couple of years for the arts, but these boys have achieved so many great things regardless. Go team!
UNITEC ACTING AUDITIONS 2022
Thinking of a career in acting for stage and screen? The Unitec Acting programme is holding auditions in Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington next month.
APPLY NOW to secure your audition
1. AUDITIONS - Round One: 1, 8 & 9 October 2022
AUCKLAND:
Unitec Sports Centre
Saturday 1 October: 9am to 4pm
CHRISTCHURCH:
Hagley Theatre Company
Saturday 8 October: 10am-1pm
WELLINGTON:
BATS Theatre
Sunday 9 October: 1-4pm
o Applicants will nominate one of the Round One Audition venues.
o We will email you information about what to prepare for the workshop after we have received your application.
o If you are unable to attend any of the Round One Auditions or if you have any other questions, please email our Acting team at pilgenfritz@unitec.ac.nz
2. AUDITIONS - Round Two: 29 October & 5 November 2022
Successful applicants will be invited back to Round Two of Auditions which is a 10-minute Individual Online Zoom Interview. We will inform successful applicants on the time slot, and provide guidance about what to prepare.
3. FINAL OFFER PROCESS: 14 November
Please note: If you're not sure that you're ready to apply for this highly competitive programme, please look at the New Zealand Certificate in Study and Career Preparation (Level 4) - Screen Arts, Acting and Technical Production as a way ready yourself for the Bachelor of Performing and Screen Arts.
Súechef Semi-Finals Performance
Make sure to check out Súechef's brilliant semi-finals recording/performance at Orange Studios in Christchurch here!
Many congrats to these boys again for making it to the top 20 out of approximately 800 applicants this year, this is a massive achievement!
Captivated
3rd at Bandquest 2022
Congratulations to Leo, Jamie, and Toby from Captivated for placing 3rd in this year's Bandquest competition.
Check out their full performance above!
Stage Restricted
Win Best Original Song
Congratulations to Artie, Ruan, Finlay from Stage Restricted for winning best original song at Bandquest this year.
Check out their full performance above!
Dunedin Youth Jazz Festival Success 2022
Congratulations to our John McGlashan Big Band for their wonderful performance at the Dunedin Youth Jazz Festival 2022.
Superbly led by David Song, make sure to check out their full performance!
Special congrats to Rylan Lockquhart who was awarded 'Best Guitarist' at the prize giving.
PLAYWRITING WORKSHOP with Prospect Park Production's Co-Founder EMILY DUNCAN
Yesterday Yr 11/12 Drama were lucky enough to have local playwright and Burns Fellow, Emily Duncan, come in today to run a playwriting workshop for their playwriting internal this term.
Emily is also a director, dramaturg and co-founder of Prospect Park Productions NZ, a local theatre production company we are very lucky to have here in Otēpoti.
JMC Drama have a longstanding history with Emily's work, having attended her Fringe show 'Le Sujet Parle' in 2019 at the Otago Museum and 'Eloise in the Middle' in 2018 at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery.
During the workshop today, Emily offered a series of prompt questions with 90 second time-frames to brainstorm, inviting students to become aware of their own innate creativity with no thoughts left uncovered or discouraged.
Local Artist bruno Willis's School Visit
Last week Yr 7 Finlay had the opportunity to interview local artist, set and costume designer/creator, Bruno Willis, for his HeadStart project on graffiti. Bruno has been commissioned by the DCC to do graffiti work around the city. He offered some interesting insight into graffiti's crossover into high art thanks to prolific artist Banksy, as well as the challenges and ironies faced as a commissioned artist, whose medium is often illegal. He also treated us to a quick show of an impromptu print which he did in less than 5 minutes, which was very exciting and inspiring for Finlay!
TheatreFest Success For JMC 2022
Congratulations to Finlay, Mitchell, Dana & Brie for their TheatreFest success over the weekend! Their Frankenstein scene won "Excellence in Design" & "Magic Moment" awards and they are off to Arrowtown in less than 2 weeks for Lower South Island Regionals!
ARTS BLUES FORMS
A reminder that the ARTS blues forms are up and available for student nomination under our "arts hub" heading at the top of this page. Make sure to check out the link and nominate yourself if you qualify!
Link: https://sites.google.com/mcglashan.school.nz/jmcarts/arts-hub/blues-reps
ROCKQUEST REGIONALS SUCCESS FOR JMC
UPDATE: Súechef have made it to the top 20 semi-finalists. Congratulations again!
Big congratulations to James Palmer, Theo Hannagan, Nicolas George and Angus McMillan of 'Súechef' for winning first place at the Otago Final of Rockquest. The top 30 bands will be announced on the 5th of August and from there, semi-finals will take place to determine the National finalist.
Congratulations to Rylan Urquhart also for getting second place in the solo category.
Messages of Aroha - Arts Exhibition
The M.O.A project is a community creatives outreach task we undertook this year. We here in school performing arts departments recognise just how hard it's been on our industry creatives during the pandemic, we've also been feeling it too. Many shows and events, we'd usually be viewing or involved with, have either been postponed or cancelled. The last few years have been hugely frustrating and disruptive for our students.
Messages of Aroha was born out of a feeling we had to share love and support to those in our creative community who are feeling the effects of cancellations, postponements, and challenging circumstances. We reached out to other schools around Otago and gathered these messages to create the M.O.A booklet, something which can be shared within the creative community in Otago. We are hoping that this booklet lets artists know they are important and needed so that they might bear through their losses, and be here for us and us for them at the end of this tunnel.
The Fringe HQ has kindly offered to host our M.O.A project publicly in their 'White Box' exhibition space.
Check out the STAR video and article here: Sending Support to Creatives
Fringe Festival website: https://www.dunedinfringe.nz/white-box/current
aRT SUCCESS FOR YR 10 eddie scott
Massive congratulations to Yr 10 Eddie Scott for being one of twelve artists (high school age - 24) selected for the DCC's new initiative Artist Advice Ōtepoti (AAŌ). His work will be displayed as a full-screen image on their new online hub's landing page for a whole month. He was paid $300 for his work - part of the initiative is providing paid opportunities for young artists. Artist labour (in all spheres of the arts) is often not recognised monetarily, we've seen this most recently for the arts community during covid with show cancellations and little to no compensation. So this is a great move on part of the DCC, and a wonderful, meaningful experience for Eddie!
jmc arts logo competition winner
Congratulations to Yr 9 Fynn Turner for being our JMC Arts logo competition winner! The competition was steep, with many awesome, artistic entries. However, Fynn's ended up being the right fit for what we need from a logo. His logo is now being further refined with Mr. McNulty, before making its debut here. Thank you to all participants for your entries! The artistic talent in this school is immense.
Term 1 2022
Fletcher's World Season 2
Season 2 of Fletcher's World is on Otago Access Radio, fortnightly on Wednesdays at 4 pm! Head to 105.4 FM or catch the podcast on https://oar.org.nz/
Link to show #1: bit.ly/Fletcher2022
You can catch his show every Wednesday fortnight.
Here is a sneak peak from show #2, with special guest, Year 12 student, Rylan Urquhart.
Rylan music.mp4
JMC Alumni, James Mustapic, has a new show on TVNZ
James Mustapic has made a TV show based on his stand-up show, Repressed Memories with the amazing team at @kevinandco_nz and it's premiered on TVNZ Official
( @tvnz.official ) on Friday 25th March. The show is called Abandonment Issues and it's directed by the wonderful team of Johnny Barker and Thomas Sainsbury, and written by James, as well as Melanie Bracewell, Ray O'Leary and Eli Matthewson. Make sure you check it out!
( @tvnz.official ) on Friday 25th March. The show is called Abandonment Issues and it's directed by the wonderful team of Johnny Barker and Thomas Sainsbury, and written by James, as well as Melanie Bracewell, Ray O'Leary and Eli Matthewson. Make sure you check it out!
Link to stuff article on James: Comedian James Mustapic indulges in things that are 'very boring'
Two-time Billy T Award-nominated comedian James Mustapic has deep Abandonment Issues - all stemming from the public disappearance of iconic 2000s Kiwi celebrities that captivated him as a young queer boy in Dunedin.
James is on a mission to find those celebrities who are no longer in the limelight, and to see if he can either bring himself closure, or concoct a new scheme to help them re-capture the love of a nation.
New episodes landing weekly and made with the support of NZ On Air.
Click here to stream the show: https://www.tvnz.co.nz/shows/abandonment-issues
Meet our New Arts Coordinator
John McGlashan is thrilled to introduce our new Arts Coordinator, Reva Grills! Reva has settled in well and is already working on several projects with our staff. She is looking forward to getting to know more of our students, through her mahi in the different arts departments.
JMC Alumni, Tama Anthony-Whigham in new Fringe comedy show
Tama Anthony-Whigham and Alex Muszynski bring you AGE GAP: INTERGENERATIONAL COMEDY.
Mild Orange interview
Mild Orange was formed in 2016 by four Dunedin mates - Josh Mehrtens, Josh Reid, Tom Kelk (JMC Alumni) and Jack Ferguson.
And they're developing quite the fan base - with millions of streams across Spotify and views on YouTube.
They've just released their third album - Looking for Space - and in these Covid times are currently on a sold-out world tour.
And they're currently in California - where lead singer and frontman Josh Mehrtens joined Mike Hosking.
Listen to the interview here.
