VCE Season of Excellence
VCE Season of Excellence Overview
Dates have been confirmed for the 2010 VCE Season of Excellence with students displaying their work at exhibitions, concerts and film screenings across Melbourne.
The Season commences with Top Class Sound (the first of eleven concerts) at the Melbourne Recital Centre on Friday 26 February.
The official opening of the Season will take place on Tuesday 2 March with the launch of Top Screen at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image.
Meanwhile the Top Designs exhibition will mark its tenth year at the Melbourne Museum from Saturday 27 March. During the last ten years more than 1000 students, representing schools across the State, have displayed their work at the Museum during Top Designs exhibitions and Season staff have initiated a project to find past exhibitors who may be currently working successfully in the fields they presented at Top Designs. Plans are evolving to focus on a number of past exhibitors and their current work in some way.
Details are eagerly sought so that past exhibitors can be contacted. If teachers are aware of any past students who may be interested in being involved please ask them to contact the Season via the email: seasonofexcellence@edumail.vic.gov.au
The second of the Season annual exhibitions, Top Arts, opens at the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia on Thursday 1 April.
Booking for the Top Class concerts, Top Arts and Top Designs education programs will open on Tuesday 1 December and a full program of Season events will be on this website by that date and the full program will be sent to schools in the first week of Term 1.
The Season will also include Top Class Music Performance Solo and Group concerts on Saturday 13 March followed by a Top Class Dance performance on Friday 19 March at the Melbourne Recital Centre.
The Melbourne Recital Centre will also host Top Class Drama and Theatre Studies with a couple of changes next year; there will be an extra Theatre Studies concert held on Friday 16 April, followed by an evening Drama concert held at 6.30pm. Drama and Theatre Studies concerts will also be held on Saturday 17 April.
Top Acts selected from the Top Class performers will be presented at the Arts Centre, Hamer Hall on Friday 28 May.
Regular updates regarding the Season are available on this section.
For enquiries (excluding bookings) about the Season call (03) 9651 4582.
General information about Season of Excellence
Events, dates, booking forms. All you need to know.
Top Designs – Where are they now?
In 2010 Top Designs will celebrate 10 years at Melbourne Museum. Over 1000 exhibitors have shown work during that time, representing schools across the state. Season staff have initiated a project to find past exhibitors who may be currently working successfully in the fields they presented at Top Designs. Plans are evolving to focus on a number of past exhibitors and their current work in some way.
Details are eagerly sought so that past exhibitors can be contacted. If teachers are aware of any past students who may be interested in being involved please ask them to contact the Season via the email: seasonofexcellence@edumail.vic.gov.au.
Application for Top Designs 2010
- VCE VET Multimedia (PDF - 470KB)
Note: Applications for Top Designs, Top Arts, Top Screen, Top Class Sound and closed on the 15 October and short-listing will take place in October and November. Top Arts applicants who are short listed will be advised by mail by 1 December. Unsuccessful applicants are not contacted.
Catalogue and DVD Sale - VCE Season of Excellence form (PDF - 102KB)
Including Top Acts 2007 - 2009, Top Designs Catalogue 2007 and 2008, 2009, and Top Screen 2005-2006 and 2009.
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