School Residencies

Western Edge delivers at least three extended school residencies each year. Residencies run for around 20 weeks, have a high quality performance outcome and are built on a sophisticated pedagogic process and collaboration with teachers and young people.

For more about our unique education programs, please also see our In Schools page.

To talk to us about a residency in your school, please contact us. 

2017

North Geelong Secondary College - 3rd year of residency

Building on last year's Romeo and Juliet of Corio project, this twenty week residency engages twenty EAL VCAL students from many different cultural backgrounds in a radical re-working of Shakespeare’s Macbeth used as a vehicle for exploring contemporary Australian society. This project will culminate in a community performance at the school in September.

Whittington Primary School - 2nd year of residency

This is a residency for 150 primary school students from Prep to Year 6 at fabulous Whittington Primary School. The project will adapt stories from the Arabian Nights to teach oral language, literacy and humanities and to create a huge community performance event scheduled for August. See details of the 2016 student show, Adventures in Ancient Greece.

Victoria University Secondary College - 2nd year of residency

WEYA returns to VUSC to deliver a series of high class workshops on Shakespeare’s Othello that will engage every student in Year 10. We will also run a Shakespeare based after school performance project for students in year 8 to 12 that will culminate in a major community performance at the school in September. How will WEYA follow up our extraordinary 2016 Samoan language Hamlet? Watch this space.