Performance and achievements

​​​Queensland Academies Creative Industries Campus (QACI) enables learners to work toward achievements based on merit in a non-competitive environment. Students are engaged in a broad range of opportunities and we congratulate students on their dedication and commitment to their personal and academic endeavours.

2022 Highlights

Community engagement

• QACI Student representative Youth Champion for Queensland’s Youth Advisory Council.

• QACI Student representative for the annual Lord Mayor Youth Advisory Council.

• 4 Students participated in the Multicultural Australian School Program to reduce discrimination with multicultural Australia.

• 171 students attend the three-day Year 10 Induction Camp at the Maroochy Waterfront Camp and Conference Centre.

• Aquafest school swimming carnival (celebrated internally due Brisbane floods)
  

• Runfest / Funfest cross country community event.

• Talentfest school community talent carnival.

• Flockfest whole school community end of year celebrations.

• Student Community participation in Harmony Week.

• Student Community participation in the National Day of Action Against Bullying and Violence.

• Student Community participation in International Women’s Day.

• Student Community participation in Pride Month Campus Celebrations.

• Student Community participation in Book Week and International Literacy Day.

• Student Community participation and recognition of NAIDOC Week.

• Student Community participation in Queensland Mental Health Week.

• Student Community participation in Fun with Friends International Student Connectivity Events

• Student-led QACI Drag Race Initiative in support of LGBTI Legal Services.

• 40+ Year 11 students attend Year 11 Leadership Camp at Stradbroke Island.

• Year 11 Positive Education Program Unleashing Personal Potential – City Scavenger Hunt.

• Aspire Awards Community Celebrations.

• Student Investiture Assembly.

• Year 12 Graduation Community Celebration.

• Year 12 Formal.

• Year 11 Semi-Formal.

• ANZAC Day Commemorative Assembly and Student Representation at the ANZAC Commemorative School Service.

• QACI Community Vegetable Garden in partnership with Kelvin Grove Urban Village and Community Queensland.

• Year 10, 11 and 12 Debating Teams competed in the Queensland Debating Union school-level debating.

• 3 students participated in the World’s Greatest Shave raising over $1000 for Cancer Council.

• 5 students participated in Cancer Council’s Ponytail Project to create wigs with real hair for cancer patients.

• QACI Student participation in the Brisbane Primary School’s City Cluster Leadership and Legacy Project.

• Successful student entry into the Start QUT Program introducing and allowing students to commence early university studies.

Music

• All music students participated in the 2-day Music Composition Camp.

• Music students and student-led ensembles perform – Under the Stars Music Night.

• Year 11 Music Students compose original score for the Year 11 Theatre ensemble production of Mother Courage and her Children.

• Student-led ensembles and Music students performed in the Creative Ensembles Music Showcase
  

• Student-led ensembles and Music students performed in the Celebration Music Night.

• Year 12 students performed in the Year 12 IB Music Solo Recitals.

• Year 10 and 11 music students performed in Music Solo Recitals.

• 20+ students participated in CGEN Department of Education’s Creative Generation State Schools Onstage.

• 3 QACI Students awarded leadership positions with the Australian Girls Choir for 2022.

Film

• Year 12 Experimental Film Screening

• Year 11 iHuman (Year 10 2022 Films) and Micro Documentary Film Screening.

• Year 12 students showcased their final Year 12 Individual Project, Cinematica.

• Year 10 (2022) iHuman Film Screening.

• Year 11 and 12 Film Students attended 3-day Film Camp at Natural Bridge.

• Year 10 students participated in specialised editing workshops with film and moving-image artists.

• Student received full scholarship to Bachelor of Screen Production with Excelsia College & Sydney Film School

Theatre

• Year 11 Theatre Students perform Epic Theatre – Laramie in collaboration with QACI Music Students.

• Year 12 Theatre Students perform A Midsummer Night's Dream
  

• Year 11 Theatre students perform in the Absurd Theatre Showcase - Curiouser and Curiouser
  

• Year 10 Theatre Students perform Australian Gothic Theatre – Separate Dying Embers

• Engaged Thomas Larkin (actor/director) to work with year 11 students on verbatim acting and American accents for Laramie.

• Brisbane-based designers Sarah Winter (stage design), Jason Glenwright (lighting) and Josh McIntosh (stage design) worked with the year 12s to support the design aspect of their Directors notebook task.

• Mark Hill (international Butoh artist) spent a week with the Year 11s guiding them through an Eastern Theatre intensive in preparation for their first summative assessment exploring Suzuki, Butoh, Noh and Kecak theatre traditions.

• Marcus Oborn (voice specialist with USQ) lead vocal workshops with the Year 10 Theatre cohort in preparation for their first public performance in Separate Dying Embers.

• Attended 2 productions – The Almighty Sometimes with QT and Holding Achilies with Brisbane Festival, Mary Poppins.
  

Dance

• Two students successfully performed as Part of the Australasian Dance Collective Youth company in Echo and Succession

• Three students successfully auditioned for the 2023 Australasian Dance Collective Youth company

• One student successfully auditioned for the Sydney Dance Company Pre Professional year 2023 & Victorian College of the Arts (Dance) for 2023

• Three students accepted into indepenDANCE 2022 (Phluxus Dance Collective) where they performed in a series of works developed by independent contemporary artists

• Year 10,11 & 12 Dance students attended Dance Lab and engaged with workshops ran by local dance artists (Nerida Matthaei, Bruna Ribero, Yasim Coronado Veranes & Rachel Dowse)

• Year 12 Students worked with QUT Dance intern Adrian Malbasias to develop a choreographic work for Propel

• Year 10 students worked with Brisbane based choreographer Louise to develop explore Brazilian Samba  

• Year 11 students worked with Brisbane based choreographer Jayden Grogan to develop a Postmodern choreographic work for Momentum

• Year 12 students worked with Brisbane based choreographer Jade Brider to develop a contemporary choreographic work for Propel

• Year 10  students engaged with a contact improvisation workshop led by Brisbane based independent artist Jacob Watton

• Year 11  students engaged with a Contemporary floor work workshop led by Brisbane based independent artist Hsin Ju Ely

• Year 10,11 & 12 Dance students performed in LAUNCH

• Year 12 students performed in Propel

• Year 10 & 11 students performed in Momentum

• Year 10 & 11 students invited to perform as part of the QUT Dance end of year performance.

• Attended Manifesto by Stephanie Lake at QPAC

• Students visited QUT to engage with a compositional skills workshop using virtual reality headsets

Visual Arts

• Year 11 and Year 12 Visual Arts students exhibited in the Visual Art Big Day In Exhibition, Gallery 61.
  

• Year 11 and Year 12 Visual Arts students participated in the Visual Arts Big Day in with 5 practising Visual Artists.
  

• Year 10 and 43 Year 11 Visual Arts Students attend excursion to GOMA for the Chiharu Shiota art exhibition.

• Staff Visual Art Exhibition of Creative Endeavour, Gallery 61 – Avocation.

• Year 12 students exhibited in the Final Year 12 Art Exhibition, exIBit.

• Year 10 students exhibited in the Year 10 Visual Arts Mark Making exhibition, Gallery 61.

• Year 11 students exhibited in the Year 11 Abstract Art exhibition, Gallery 61.

• Year 10 students exhibited in the Year 10 Printmaking our Identity exhibition, Gallery 61.

• Year 11 students exhibited in the Year 11 Ritual exhibition, Gallery 61.

• 2022 Department of Education CGen Excellence in Visual Arts winner Arlo Tarry for their artwork ‘Dysphoric Perceptions.

Design Technology 

• All Design Technology students participated in the QACI Design Day workshops with 9 industry experienced experts in their chosen field of Design.

• Year 12 Design Students obtained a certificate from the Products Innovation Institute in 'Designing cradle to cradle certified products for the circular economy'.
• 3 Students attended and online conference 'We can access" a UK based charity focused on 'learning how to create accessible learning spaces'

Science

• QACI QUT STEM Enrichment Program with Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation

• Year 10 Science Excursion to Movieworld

• Student Community participation in Scinema as part of National Science Week at QACI.

• 8 students selected to work with QUT Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation (IHBI QUT) Research Program as part of QACI’s education out of the classroom (EOTC) program.

• 1 Student completed the 3-day Health Program with Mater Education.
  

Languages

• 1 Student participated in the James Cook University Academy of Modern Languages.
• 4 Students participated in the University of Queensland Institute of Modern Languages.
• 1 Student awarded Silver in the MLTAQ Speech Competition
• 1 Student participated in the AML Course

Alumni

University Destinations for 2023