Creative Industries
Canterbury’s Creative Industries faculty is innovative and future-focused, with stimulating courses and ever-changing content, to keep up with advancements in artistry, creativity, technology, software packages and equipment upgrades.
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Digital Solutions | Dance | Dance | Construction | Building and Construction Skills Film, TV and New Media Furnishing Skills |
The subjects offered within our Creative Industries faculty all share a common approach to teaching and learning.
The subjects are highly practical and hands-on, fostering broad skills and character – especially a student’s capacity to think creatively, and their ability to pursue a broader understanding of the world we live in.
Creative Industries subjects develop the aesthetic awareness of students, without making the artistic and technical skills being taught, the primary focus of class time.
Students not only engage with community, civic and social issues, but are offered venues and opportunities to express themselves as individuals.
A combination of quality equipment, innovative projects, and university relevant courses prepare the students in the most effective ways possible for the modern world.
Our passionate staff deliver quality courses using the latest teaching methods.
Classrooms, rehearsal rooms, performances spaces and our recording studio feature ‘next level’ equipment and access to quality programs and software packages.
This allows students to plan, prototype and develop their designs and projects in a real-world context.
Creative Industries faculty equipment includes:
- CNC Routers
- Green Screen Filming Studio Space
- Portable Filming Kits – Gimbal Stabilizers, Shotgun Microphones, Gorilla Tripods etc.
- Performing Arts Recording Studio
- Portable Multi-Colour LED Staging Lights
- High Quality Furniture Making Machinery
- Laser Cutters
- High Quality 2D & 3D Art-Making Equipment & Resources
- Kiln & Pottery Wheels
- Drones
- Virtual & Augmented Reality Headsets
Industry partnerships and connections are an important part of a student’s journey through our Creative Industries subjects.
These afford students opportunities to develop their skills with experienced professionals, as well as have their work recognised in public forums like galleries and theatres.
Some of our students’ Creative Industries experiences include:
- Music: Students have year-long access to industry-focused workshops, public performances and judged competitions, plus campus access to a recording studio.
- Design: Students have access to industry-focused workshops, public exhibitions and external design competitions.
- Digital Solutions: Students are connected via the GISP: Gateway to Industry Schools Program – including involvement in industry experiences.
- Dance: Students collaborate with expert artists in their field – including contemporary, jazz, lyrical, hip hop and classical dancers, along with the Queensland Ballet, as well as observing multiple live dance performances.
- Drama: Students participate in workshops with external organisations, like the Queensland Theatre Company and Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre Company, as well as regularly attending live theatre productions.
- Design: Students have access to industry-focused workshops and design competitions.
- Film, Television and New Media: Students collaborate with external production agencies through the Queensland Government’s Film & Media Gateways to Industry Program partnership, which provides students with opportunities to work alongside industry experts. These include organisations such as the Griffith Film School, Bond University and Essential Screen Skills Queensland. Students also involve themselves in local film festivals and covering major college events.
- Furniture Making: Selected student projects are entered into the DATTA Student Subject Awards each year.
- Visual Art: Students have their pieces annually selected for the Logan Art Gallery’s Artwaves exhibition, which showcases some of the best student work across 30 schools in the Logan district.
As we move from a service economy to a knowledge and information-based economy, there are increasingly loud calls to develop students with the creative thinking skills that are fundamental to building healthier communities and better understandings and tolerances for a more complex global future.
Canterbury’s Creative Industries faculty prepares students for the 21st Century as strong but flexible creatives, well suited to thinking outside the box.
