community engagement: a school perspective. school of arts and sciences brisbane
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Community engagement: a School perspective.School of Arts and Sciences Brisbane
ACU Strategic Plan
Student Experience
Research and Knowledge Transfer
Catholic Identity and Mission
Service Delivery and Enablers
School Strategic PlanOur school will focus on teaching, learning,
research and service in arts, humanities and social sciences.
We focus on these as they contribute to the common good and give the Australian Catholic University a distinctive place in Australian higher education.
We are committed to finding ways to express our Catholic mission and identity through our creative arts teaching, research and community engagement.
Alasdair Macintosh
Develop “Community Arts partnerships” and engagement through our distinctive Catholic identity in teaching, research and community engagement: Our school’s teaching, research and community partnerships have a distinctive focus. Our focus contrasts with Griffith University(arts practice), University of Queensland (fine arts/theory), Queensland University of Technology (creative industries) approaches.
Our “Community Arts partnerships approach” seeks to allow specialisation as well as integration in the disciplines of Music, Drama and Visual Arts as they intersect with human services.
Our focus of life long learning in Arts works within partnerships with churches, hospitals, choirs and theatre in social contexts developed with Catholic Hospitals, Catalyst, Conservatorium of Music, Queensland Art Gallery, schools and various community arts collaborators.
Visual arts
Exhibitions (10 per year)Art partnerships (Qld Art Gallery, Prison Fellowship,
refugee arts, art and theology…)Research (Art in community contexts) Honours,
MPhil and PhD.Art in education (schools and community arts)
7500 children participated in the project with 5000 tiles throughout the hospital.
Gallery in the Hospital
Wesley Hospital project
Music
• “Let all the brothers, however, preach by their deeds”
• St Francis of Assisi
Music
• Creator
• Re-creator
• Consumer
Links to the University Community
Links to the local community
Links to the wider community
Contributions
• A Variety of Voices Concert Series • An Evening with the Arts • The Cathedral of St Stephen Concert Series • The Young Voices Festival • Ceremony of Readings and Carols • St Stephen’s Christmas Choir • Youth4Unity Peace Congress (Kidz2Kidz Choir)• Catholic Education Week • ACU Graduation Ceremony
Research
• Project: Music as a focus for community engagement. 2006/2007
• Conference presentation 2006 • Refereed paper 2007
Drama
Applied theatre enhancing community relationship
• The McAuley Medieval Fayre (Annually)• ‘Queenslander’ Fair Q150 celebration (2009)• Children’s Theatre (Bi-annual)• ‘The Golden Year’s Project’ (2009)• ‘Kin’ Catalyst Clemente Program (2008)• ‘Cold Comfort’ Homeless Project (2004)• ‘Scattered People’ Refugee Arts Enrichment Program (2007)• ‘The Big Issue’ Homeless Arts Enrichment Program (2006)• Public performances (3 per semester)
“The arts” and the possible…
Catholic Identity and Mission
We are going upwards, we’ve got a goal and learning is such a positive…it takes your focus off your own problems…
(Catalyst student)
SKATING ON SANDGATE ROAD 2009
An ACU and Golden YearsQ150 Collaboration
Art work by BA studentCarol Chay 2009
Community Relationships
RespectAcceptance
Tradition
Understanding
Addressing Graduate Attributes
commitment to values consistent with the University’s Mission a spirit of service to the communitycommitment to good citizenship, including respect for individuals, empathy with persons of differing cultural and religious backgrounds, community responsibility and concern for the environment
COMMUNITY LINKSShared WisdomShared Learning
Celebration
Catholic Education Week 2008
Children’s Theatre2008
Service Delivery and Enablers
The McAuley MedievalFayre
The Importance of Being Earnest
Romeo and JulietCC Cosi