As you may have heard, the Review into the Australian Curriculum made a number of recommendations about the developed Arts Learning Area and to the inclusion of Media Arts as an Arts subject. ATOM is working at a state and national level to respond to the review. Please find below the response that ATOM has […]

The National Advocates for Arts Education (NAAE) met recently in Brisbane (August 15), and welcomed the Federal Arts Minister’s adviser, Michael Napthali, to one of its sessions. NAAE was pleased to hear that there had been agreement between Ministerial offices (Arts Minister Brandis and Education Minister Pyne) about the importance of arts education, and the

Unfortunately there is no extra parking available at QCA for the conference so public transport is the best option. There is VERY limited parking at Kangaroo Point or otherwise it’s paid parking. These options include, among others, the South Bank Parklands parking (access off Little Stanley Street) or underneath QPAC in the Riverside car park

A reminder that registration for the State Conference this Friday and Saturday is from 8am at Griffith QCA in the Lecture Theatre Building S05 (see map below).

Please find below the final program, including a location map, for the state conference next week. Looking forward to seeing you all there! 2014 state conference ATOM QLD PD EVENT 18-07-14

Hi everyone, A couple of things to take note of in the lead up to next Friday and Saturday’s conference: Sandra Rout has kindly offered her expertise to run a three hour special effects makeup workshop on the Saturday, which is always very popular. Rowan Cassidy’s presentation is now known as “Interdisciplinary approaches to production

Spots are filling very fast, with a few workshops and sessions close to capacity! The conference is shaping up to be a very interesting, practical and enlightening professional experience. Remember when filling in preferences that you need to select preferences for both the morning and afternoon sessions, and number them accordingly. An example is below:

It is with great pleasure we announce the full program for the 2014 conference. If you’ve registered you can now select your preferences for the workshops and sessions! As you will see there is one 3 hour workshop on the Saturday to be confirmed and we are working hard to get a presenter to fill

Promising to be a significant event on the film and media educators’ PD calendar, the ATOM Qld State Conference is on again! Don’t miss the keynote presentation from Wayne Denning, owner and Executive Producer of Carbon Media, and workshops by educators and industry professionals like Jeff Tseng, co-founder and Producer at PixelFrame! Details and registration

Over on our Facebook page, an interesting comment thread has started regarding the merits and issues in Chris Lilley’s latest series, ‘Jonah from Tonga’, with further reference to previous series and characters (and the contest of ideas regarding his style of comedy). Check out the links below and share your thoughts on how we can