2024 is the year to Shake Fest! For over a decade Shake Fest has provided a unique opportunity for students across Queensland to focus their artistic abilities in an all-inclusive creative celebration of the works of William Shakespeare. Shake Fest dynamically connects students, schools, and industry through Shakespeare.

Presented by Shake & Stir and Kingston Butter Factory.

HOW IT WORKS

STEP 1: Get inspired and enrol your school via

Logan Arts booking form

STEP 2: Get creating!

Once teachers have enrolled their school, students can select from the different categories to prepare their own take on Shakespeare’s work! A collection of online resources are available to help with the development process.

Categories include: Monologue, Duologues, Scenes, Dance, Music, Design, Photography, Film

STEP 3: Local Showcase

Participants are invited to an evening at the Kingston Butter Factory, showcasing performance work and exhibiting design, photography and film entries for friends and family. Entries will be filmed at showcase and submitted for feedback.

STEP 4: Industry Feedback

Once reviewed, your students will receive feedback on their submissions to help them on their creative journey. Selected students will be invited to the State Showcase in Brisbane at the beginning of Term 4, allowing them time to adapt their piece for final performance and display.

STEP 5: Show and celebrate!

The State Showcase is our two-day extravaganza to applaud Queensland student’s creative work. It begins with a full day of free workshops where students can hone their skills and forge friendships with like-minded students across the state. The following day, participants will showcase their work for a public audience.

Time  7pm showcase

Audience Grades 7 – 12

Venue Kingston Butter Factory – Butterbox Theatre

School ticket prices
Logan City Council will cover the cost for students to enter Shakefest. Tickets to the showcase will be on sale for the general public later in the year for family and friends to attend.

Links to the Australian Curriculum (ACiQ Ver 9):

• Drama
• English
• Literature
• Music
• Film and Media
• Visual Art
• Dance
• Shakespearean studies
• Conventions/Styles:
  • Storytelling
  • Elizabethan theatre
  • Contemporary performance

Enrolments open October 2023

Local Showcase/Entry Submissions Wednesday 22 August 2024

State Showcase October, Term 4

The Scene Project is Queensland Theatre’s largest Education offering, encouraging drama students throughout the state to engage in the creative process of performance, from rehearsal through to presentation.

Each year a playwright pens a new work and the participating drama groups are tasked with the challenge of creating their own unique 15 minute version of the play. During the rehearsal phase, Queensland Theatre artists visit the participating schools to facilitate workshops.

The Scene Project is about collaboration, acknowledging students and teachers as artists, building confidence and encouraging live performance in a professional space and manner. It is also an excellent way of participating in professional development and enhancing existing curriculum in schools.

The project concludes with local schools coming together at the Kingston Butter Factory to share their performance in the Butterbox Theatre. On this day, a cast of professional Queensland Theatre actors also present a full interpretation of the play under the same ‘minimalist’ parameters that schools have, providing

DRAMAyoung artists and their teachers with new ways of making and shaping texts that can be taken into their classrooms.

The final stage of the project is a learning forum that allows for students to acknowledge the skill and artistry of their peers as well as engage in robust discussions around process and performance building.

Presented by Queensland Theatre and Kingston Butter Factory.

Time 9am to 3pm each day

Venue Kingston Butter Factory, Butterbox Theatre

Audience Grades 9 to 12 (Secondary school groups)

Links to the Australian Curriculum
ACiQ Ver 9 – The Arts General Drama

Unit 1

Unit 2

Drama in Practice

Conventions/Styles:

Contemporary Political

Narration

Physical Theatre

Fragmentation

Historification

Complex seeing

Myths

Constructivist design

Minimalism

School ticket prices
$500, excluding GST. The Scene Project is supported by the Kingston Butter Factory.

This subsidised rate is offered to Logan schools only.

With a panel of judges from the music industry and great prizes up for grabs, school bands go head-to-head for their chance to be crowned Amplify’s ‘Band of the Year’. To enter, schools/bands are required to submit their expression of interest via the link below by Sunday 1 September 2024. Bands accepted into the finals will be notified on Thursday 12 September.

Students must be between the ages of 12 to 18 and be able to perform any 2 songs. Songs must not contain any inappropriate language or offensive content and must be suitable for a family audience.

The finals will be held at Logan Entertainment Centre on Saturday 12 October. Each band will be allocated a sound check on Saturday afternoon and will play live that evening to impress our judges and audiences. The winning bands will be announced at the end of the evening.

Tickets for the finals will be available via our Logan Arts website for the community, family and friends to come along and support their favourite bands!

Presented by Logan City Council.

Time 6:30 pm Showcase

Duration Approximately 2 hours

Venue Logan Entertainment Centre

Audience General public

School ticket prices

FREE entry into the competition

$10 per ticket for general admission (standing) or $15 per ticket for balcony seating to watch the finals (performers and one accompanying teacher will be provided with artist passes and do not need to purchase a ticket)

Links to the Australian Curriculum (ACiQ Ver 9)
› The Arts: Music
› Music Extension
› Music in Practice