Creative Arts

Senior Concert Band to Queensland

Our Dominic Senior Concert Band embarked on Thursday for their first interstate tour where they will perform in the Queensland Catholic Schools and Colleges Music Festival to be held at Villanova College. Dominic College will be the first school from Tasmania to perform at this festival.

Song writing and music making workshop

Do you like song writing? Is this something that you are interested in, but have never tried before? Come along to the Song Writing and Music Making Workshop for three days during the next school holidays.

Catholic Art Competition win

Congratulations to Year 9 Visual Arts student, Shakira Cate who was named as the winner of the Arch’s Archies, an Art competition initiated by Catholic Education Tasmania.

Welcome Mr Akihiro Shimomura

This week we welcomed back Mr Mike O’Brien, our Director of Creative Arts K-10 from his exchange time at Shizuoka Salesio School, Japan. At the same time, we have warmly welcomed Mr Akihiro Shimomura from Salesio onto our teaching staff for this term.

Festival of Voices

The Dominic College 5/6 Choir spent Monday and Tuesday preparing to sing as part of a massed combined choir at Tasmania Sings, in the City Hall on Tuesday evening.

Year 6 Say It Loud 25 June

On 25 June, parents and loved ones were treated to performances from our Year 6 classes. This was a celebration of the students’ hard work and creativity in the Drama unit – ‘Say it Loud’.

Sculpture workshop

During their specialist Art classes on Friday 14 June, Year 3 students were treated to a sculpture design workshop with Matt Calvert. Matt is a sculptor of considerable renown with major works in public spaces throughout the country and four pieces in situ at our own MONA.

Skateboard art

In Term 2, students in Year 8 have been working on their Design and Composition unit, which is more commonly known as the skateboard unit!

Concert for Cambodia at GYC

On Thursday 6 June, Dominic College old scholar, Benjamin Dowling, (Class of 2017) organised and ran a music concert to raise funds for students at Don Bosco Technical School in Cambodia.

Bell Shakespeare visit

On Wednesday 22 May, Year 9 students were treated to a lively exploration and celebration of William Shakespeare’s language and words through Bell Shakespeare’s presentation of “Words, Words, Words”.

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