Albert Park College Title
TES Australian School of the Year
Education Perfect Secondary School of the Year (Government)
Student Voice School
of the Year 2021

Student Showcase

We celebrate our students' amazing creativity by giving them opportunities to exhibit their work to the school and wider community.

This includes school productions, art exhibitions, public speaking and musical performances which are a regular feature of school life. Our Vaudeville evening, Dance Performance, School Production, and Winter Music Concert put the wonderful creative talents of our students on display.

Vaudeville

Each year our performing artists come together for Vaudeville, a night where our young musicians, script writers, comic performers, singers, dancers and dramatic artists all support one another as they blend amazing talent with unpredictable content.

This multi-disciplinary performance piece contains original works, fantastic renditions of classic scenes and songs, and brilliant costumes – drawing on the many creative skills and experience of our teaching staff as working artists themselves.

Vaudeville is not to be missed.

Dance Show

Dance is a subject available for students from Year 7 through to VCE.

Each year, the college's dance students create an original full-length contemporary piece, performed in the Lawler Theatre at the Melbourne Theatre Company. This takes place early in Term 2.

Specialist sprung floors at the Danks St campus allow for regular rehearsals, with the resulting performance each year leaving audiences moved, intrigued and impressed by the athleticism, grace and craft of the students involved.

Guest choreographers and working performers from Chunky Move, Bangarra and the Australian Ballet have all recently provided masterclasses and training in support of this annual event.

Keep an eye on the school newsletters for details of this year's performance.

School Drama Production

Albert Park College's annual drama production is written and co-produced by Year-10 Drama and Dance students, a perfect entrée to their senior years focusing on the performing arts.

In recent years students have tackled themes ranging from grief, inheritance, ideologies, consent, contested memory, ecology and family. Their work belies their youth, with multiple performances leaving audiences thinking long after the lights have dimmed.

The process of script writing has involved bringing in experts from a range of fields to engage with the students' chosen themes – be they working police officers, historians, photographers or film directors. Each year the results are unexpected and profound.

Winter Concert

The Winter Concert allows the college's music students to demonstrate their skills in the styles and genres most relevant to their tastes.

Unlike Vaudeville, where musicians support other massed performers, the Winter Concert has space for solo classical work, jazz ensembles, group and solo singing, punk, rock, folk and hip hop artists.

Led by our team of instrumental music tutors, the Winter Concert allows the college community to appreciate the hours of extra work put in by our young musicians. Before school begins, during lunch break and after classes have ended for the day, our music students practise and refine their crafts.

The Winter Concert has been performed in recent years at Melbourne's beautiful Malthouse Theatre, a fitting location to celebrate our students' skills.