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Learn to think, feel and create in the way only you can

Pursue the mastery of your discipline at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music. As the proud home of the Victorian College of the Arts and the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, the Faculty is dedicated to composition, conducting, dance, design, production, ethnomusicology, film and television, interactive composition, jazz and improvisation, musicology, music performance, music psychology, music theatre, music therapy, theatre and visual arts.

Join us in Melbourne's Arts Precinct and find your artistic voice.

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From full-time degree study to breadth subjects to corporate workshops, we have flexible options on offer.

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Explore a passion or discover something new through breadth study. With our world-class training and facilities.

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Understand the full impact and importance of the arts, and how you can contribute.

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Have you studied at the Victorian College of the Arts or the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music? Make sure that your contact information is up-to-date to receive news, offers and opportunities.

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3,125

core degree students across the Faculty

1st

in Australia for performing arts

$200M

invested in world-class facilities since 2010

Upcoming Events

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  • Disclosure Graduate Dance Season 2019

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    An evening of contemporary dance showcasing graduating students from the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) in new works by Alisdair Macindoe, Larissa McGowan and James O’Har...
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  • Folio Live 2019

    at 8:30pm - 8:30pm
    Collaborative sound and media works by graduating students of the Interactive Composition program. Over five evenings Interactive Composition students brought Grant Street The...
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  • VCA Digital Archive

    The VCA Film and Television Digital Archive was launched on Tuesday 29 October at the Old Quad.As a learning and teaching resource, the VCA Film and Television Digital Archive...
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Latest News

Frisson, a new short film from Alex Wu, will give you goosebumps

20 October 2020
Does listening to your favourite song give you goosebumps? Musical chills, or "frisson", are explored by VCA Film and Television alum Alex Wu in a new film entitled Frisson. C...
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  • Film and Television
  • Melbourne Conservatorium of Music
  • Victorian College of the Arts
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Vale Dr Kim Dunphy OAM, a pioneer in dance movement therapy and much-loved friend and colleague

15 October 2020
It is with great sadness that we mourn the loss of our colleague and friend Dr Kim Dunphy OAM, Program Coordinator and Senior Lecturer in Dance Movement Therapy at the Faculty...
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Meet Raimondo Cortese, course coordinator of the Master of Theatre (Writing) at the University of Melbourne

13 October 2020
Writer and playwright Raimondo Cortese has written more than 30 plays which have been performed in more than a dozen countries, including Features of Blown Youth, Ro...
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  • Writing
  • Victorian College of the Arts
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