Staff

Don College Art teacher, Lisa Garland, has a joint exhibition with Micheila Petersfield at Despard Gallery in Hobart until June 18.

From the Despard website: Lisa Garland is an artist and educator based on the North West Coast of Tasmania, practicing in traditional silver-gelatin and large format photography. With a devoted focus on people and places, Garland has spent the last twenty years documenting local residents, including family, friends and strangers alike, presenting her sitters seemingly blending into their possessions.  Observational, intimate and compellingly candid, Garland’s black and white images draw out the authenticity of her subjects, the personal spaces they occupy becoming an extension of their personality.

You can check out details about the exhibition and a sneak-peak of Lisa's work here: https://www.despard-gallery.com.au/micheila-petersfield-lisa-garland/

Don College Dance and Drama teacher, Dayna Dennison, recently attended the Australian Musical Theatre Festival as the North West Ambassador to the event. 

Dayna worked alongside leading Australian choreographer, Cameron Mitchell, Musical Theatre Superstars, Paulini and Philip Quast (who has worked at the Royal Shakespeare Company and starred on many West End Theatre Shows in London). She was able to watch and learn from them as they tutored festival participants, demonstrating their favourite ‘go to’ direction techniques when teaching students how to act through song and dance.

The festival featured workshops focussing on progressive topics such as ‘Diversity in Theatre’ and ‘Intimacy Direction in Theatre’ and learned from one of the worlds first qualified experts in ‘Intimacy Coaching on Set’, Australian Musical Theatre Superstar, Chloe Dallimore. Practical outcomes from  the ‘Me Too’ movement have positively led to strategies and policies now in place to improve the safety of theatre practitioners all over the world.

Dayna looks forward to implementing many of these strategies and skills when she co-directs Don’s 21^st bi-annual College musical next year.

(Above: Dayna with Philip Quast, teacher and writer at NIDA and former member of The Royal Shakespeare Company) 

Students

A big congratulations to Don College students Kye Savage and Macey Crawford for their recent selections in basketball. Kye has been selected for the Australian Under 17s boys basketball team and Macey has been named an emergency reserve for the women's team for upcoming tournaments in Qatar and Spain over the coming months. Both students have travelled to the Australian Institute of Sport to participate in basketball camps and clinics to prepare them for the tournaments.