The Connections Program
Applications and submission for the 2021 Connections Program Showcase have closed.
Thank you to everyone who has submitted student work for the 2021 ‘Found Objects’ Connections Program Digital Showcase.
The outstanding works for the 2021 Connections showcase are out now!
About The Connections Program
The Connections Program provides a range of inclusive teaching, learning and performance opportunities in dance, visual arts, music and drama.
Throughout the year we offer arts projects and programs that invite students and their teachers to create their own works based on a central theme. Schools and students will then be invited to showcase their work.
The 2021 theme was ‘Found Objects’.
This program is open to all students with disability and their teachers.
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Contacts
Program Coordinators
Catherine Gilholme
Arts Initiatives and Events Officer
Catherine.gilholme@det.nsw.edu.au
Sonja Sjolander
Arts Initiatives Advisor
Sonja.benson@det.nsw.edu.au
Connections Program Visual Arts Coordinator
Heidi Windeisen
Heidi.windeisen@det.nsw.edu.au
Shining Stars Organiser
Michelle Davies
Principal, Chalmers Road Public School
Michelle.m.davies@det.nsw.edu.au
Inclusive Creative Arts digital teaching resources
Are you looking for some fun and accessible creative arts lessons for students with a range of disability in your classroom? Well look no further, we have you covered. The following Art Bites and Creative Classes developed by The Arts Unit are perfect for teachers and carers to give wonderful creative learning opportunities for students from all age ranges and abilities. We are adding to these resources all the time so save this link and watch this space.
We would love to see any student work produced, filmed or photographed, and you can send it through to artsinitiatives@det.nsw.edu.au with your name, your student’s name and school.
If you have any suggestions for other classes or topics to be developed you can also drop us a line at artsinitiatives@det.nsw.edu.au.
Art Bites
Drama games K-2 – movement and mime
Drama games K-2 – movement and mime
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Drama games K-2 – movement and mime
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Drama games K-2 – movement and mime
Join Charlotte Connor to have fun with these drama games! The purpose of these games is to focus on mime and gestures, using both imagination and body language to create characters and action.
Making mini paper puppets
Making mini paper puppets
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Making mini paper puppets
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Making mini paper puppets
How to make a mini paper puppet and 'breathe' life into it by adding movement.
Operation Art – 1. Junkyard robots
Operation Art
Junkyard robots
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Junkyard robots
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Junkyard robots
Join Heidi Windeisen as she guides you through the process of making your very own junkyard robot!
Operation Art – 2. The King Sun
Operation Art
The King Sun
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The King Sun
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The King Sun
This is a mixed media artwork for lower primary based on John Olsen’s artwork titled The King Sun. Children will create their own King Sun using food colouring, acrylic paint and oil pastels or crayons.
Operation Art – 3. Rainbow leaves
Operation Art
Rainbow leaves
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Rainbow leaves
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Rainbow leaves
Students will learn about tint and shade scales, mixing paint to create an interesting artwork with leaves they have collected.
Operation Art – 4. From the inside out
Operation Art
From the inside out
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From the inside out
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From the inside out
Never before have we spent so much time inside our homes staring out! A great way to document all of your recent experiences and feelings is through painting! So grab your paintbrush, and let's take a look outside your window!
Portrait painting - 1. Start with a sketch
Portrait painting
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Start with a sketch
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Start with a sketch
Digby and Neil explore how they start their portrait paintings by sketching.
Portrait painting - 2. Making the painting
Portrait painting
Making the painting
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Making the painting
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Making the painting
Digby and Neil continue their portraits by turning their sketches into paintings.
Creative Classes
Going on an adventure
The Dot
Autumn leaves
Be a friend
Disco dancing
Dinosaur dig
The Wild West
Train adventures
When is a stick not a stick?
Firework
Let's sign – I See Stars
Metamorphosis
Spectacular choralography
Chicken challenge
Scarecrow dancing
Colourful melodies
Colour my world
Boy
Puppet masters
ME3PO – Creative arts with aliens
Make it and play it!
Shake the papaya tree
Striking a sound!
The abstract world of Kandinsky
Cat-toons!
Videos
1. Getting started
2. The howdy partner warm-up
3. Sequences and dance blocks – Disco dance
4. Sequences and dance blocks – Green fingernails
5. Creating a dance program – Who are we?
6. Creating a dance program – Mirror mirror
7. Creating a dance program – Props and stuff
8. Performance and outcomes – Dinosaur dig dance
9. Performance and outcomes –Two tribes dance
10. Performance opportunities and recap
Mark Morris Dance Group – Disability Dance Workshop
Approaches for dance students with intellectual disabilities
