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5 June 2023

Devastated that it’s over, we can revel in its fading brilliance and remark on its barbs, twists and upsets. Here are ten reasons to watch this modern tv masterpiece again....

5 June 2023

Jacob Nash is representing Australia and leading VCA students at the world's largest festival of scenography, performance and theatre design....

5 June 2023

Insider knowledge gained as a musician served Trevor Green well in a variety of management roles, including his 11-year stint with the MSO and his time served on the VCA Counc...

2 June 2023

By Sarah HallRecent headlines have reflected the role comedy plays in speaking truth to power. Chinese social media platforms recently suspended accounts belonging to com...

30 May 2023

Moorina Bonini is a Yorta Yorta, Wurundjeri, and Wiradjuri artist whose practice is deeply informed by her Aboriginal and Italian ancestry....

29 May 2023

For the first time, an Indigenous-led group will represent Australia at the prestigious Prague Quadrennial, the world’s largest festival of scenography, performance and...

29 May 2023

The University of Melbourne’s Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development will host the first Indigenous Mapping Workshop Australia (IMW) to be held in the...

23 May 2023

Showcasing work by Meriam artist Gail Mabo and women artists from Peppinmenarti in the Northern Territory, two new exhibitions are opening at the University of Melbourne’s Fio...

23 May 2023

Dr Nicholas Enrico Williams’ three-year term as Music Director and Conductor of the Wind Symphony at the Conservatorium has drawn to a close, and he has taken up a posit...

11 May 2023

Get to know a student’s experience at The University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Fine Arts and Music. Ishan Vivekanantham is currently studying a Master of Production Design (St...

8 May 2023

This year’s Archibald and Wynne Prize winners show that a new generation of artists have now entered the mainstream....

4 May 2023

When Teya and Salena take to the Eurovision stage next week, their song may be new, but their story of ghostly authorship and spirit possession comes straight from Poe’s work....

4 May 2023

The Australian Ballet’s new double-bill Identity stages the work of Daniel Riley and Alice Topp in a reflection of the identity of Australian dance – and Australia....

1 May 2023

Ahead of its premiere with the Canberra Symphony Orchestra, the composer Miriama Young discusses her new work, Kinds of Blue, outlining the inspiration that helped shape it....

30 April 2023

Joanna Mendelssohn examines the evolution of the Archibald Prize, arguing that the new norm is the celebration of diversity and non-conformity among artists....

30 April 2023

In this article, Sarah Austin and Jonathan Graffam O'Meara from VCA Theatre challenge the moral panic surrounding Drag Storytime events and call for a more nuanced understandi...

24 April 2023

Lecturer in Producing at the VCA, Stephen Luby, met Father Bob Maguire as a young filmmaker in 1990. The words he spoke to him then still reverberate today....

24 April 2023

Visual artist Linda Studená wanted to 'break open' her practice with further study in the Master of Contemporary Art at the VCA....

20 April 2023

David Sequeira’s Indian heritage conjures a surprising celestial alignment in his installation for the TarraWarra Biennial....

20 April 2023

Abi Lee is currently in her second year of the Bachelor of Music, specialising in Jazz and Improvisation, at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music....

19 April 2023

In this article, Associate Professor in Music Therapy, Jeanette Tamplin, discusses the Australian Government's $4.2 million investment in art and music therapy research, exami...

13 April 2023

the hyperbole surrounding Olsen’s death seems to have crowded out any assessment of his real and lasting achievements as an artist writes Joanna Mendelssohn....

6 April 2023

In the picturesque setting of the Shepparton Art Museum's Amphitheatre, 21 dance students from VCA are rehearsing for their upcoming performance of 'HOME' at the Shepparton Fe...

5 April 2023

Staying true to its objectives of representing dance artists from across practices and lineages, the inaugural FRAME Dance Festival offered a diversity of performance styles a...

5 April 2023

Richard Roberts, Head of Design and Production at the VCA, spoke with ABC Radio about his work designing sets for The Australian Ballet's latest production of 'Don Quixote.'...

5 April 2023

By Sarah HallLove is the Message, The Message is Death (2016), Arthur Jafa’s video work was described in The New Yorker as “the most spellbinding artwork of t...

31 March 2023

By Sarah HallNext week, third year Music Theatre and Interactive Composition students will present Mongrel. ‘Mongrel’ — a series of mixed-breed, interdiscipl...

23 March 2023

Head of Design and Production at the Victorian College of the Arts, Associate Professor Richard Roberts, is known for his visionary work in production design. His latest endea...

23 March 2023

Dance students from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) at the University of Melbourne are set to captivate Shepparton Festival audiences with a new contemporary dance wor...

10 March 2023

Visual Art graduates Jinxuan Chen and Emily Norton are among 26 graduates from 21 art schools across the country to appear in the prestigious Hatched National Graduate Show at...

9 March 2023

This March, the Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery at the University of Melbourne presents 'It's not you, it's me,' a compelling exhibition of self-portraiture by staff of Vis...

8 March 2023

Third-year Dance student Jake Ware was interviewed by Southbank Local News about their study experience and plans for the year ahead....

8 March 2023

Discovering the extent of Louise Berta Mosson Hanson Dyer’s generosity is much like unearthing precious metals; the deeper you dig, the more you find....

8 March 2023

Revisiting ballets created by pioneering Australian women can inspire the next generation of female choreographers, writes dance historian and PhD candidate at the VCA, Yvette...

7 March 2023

Since graduating from Victorian College of the Arts in 2006, actor Ashley Zukerman has gone on to have an incredible career working on film and television projects here in Aus...

7 March 2023

Peter Cook is a graduate of Acting at the VCA whose first full-length play, Breaking the Castle, has been described as an extraordinary piece of theatre-writing....

7 March 2023

It's every theatre kid's dream to star in a big show in their hometown and for Bachelor of Music Theatre student, Yashith Fernando, that long held ambition is about to become...

21 February 2023

Caring for performers’ mental and physical well-being needs to be backed by evidence-based methods for maximum impact, said Professors Emma Redding and Margaret Osborne at the...

17 February 2023

From singing in her living room in Mildura to performing in Europe's leading opera houses, the story of Conservatorium graduate, Siobhan Stagg is far from conventional. Now sh...

16 February 2023

at the Aussie accent Amy Hume, Lecturer in Theatre (Voice) at the VCA spoke with The Age about the Australian pronunciation of the word 'no'....

16 February 2023

Arts and Health Lead at the World Health Organisation Christopher Bailey is the key note speaker at the Performing Creativity, Culture and Wellbeing Conference and told ABC Ne...

16 February 2023

Liv Satchell is a writer, theatre-maker, dramaturg and facilitator who graduated from the VCA in 2016. Building on the work she created for her Master of Directing for Perform...

15 February 2023

A new framework aims to celebrate and generate opportunities for cultural exchange and the expression of new cultural identities through shared music....

9 February 2023

Singing is a powerful way of achieving deep personal and social meaning, as well as supporting our mental and physical wellbeing....

8 February 2023

Wellbeing experts, practitioners, and policymakers from across the globe are coming together in Melbourne to advance the vital role of arts and culture in contributing to bett...

19 January 2023

Meta Cohen (they/them/she/her) is a composer, sound designer and dramaturg with work spanning music, theatre and interdisciplinary art. Meta’s music has been commissione...

10 January 2023

Supporting and celebrating today's women choreographers is vital to encouraging a new generation of women to follow, giving women in dance a voice into the future. So where ar...

20 December 2022

Students from the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) at the University of Melbourne will take over Fed Square on New Year's Eve with...

14 December 2022

Did you know that Australians perform linguistic magic while pronouncing the word 'no'? Amy Hume, Lecturer in Theatre (Voice) at the Victorian College of the Arts explains why...

6 December 2022

Dr Anthea Skinner spoke with ABC Classic Drive about her research on Adaptive Musical instruments ahead of International Day of People with Disability....

6 December 2022

Master of Music (Opera Performance) graduates, Syrah Torii and Alastair Cooper-Golec will receive full-time employment and mentorship at the Victorian Opera....

6 December 2022

Honorary at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, Alison Carrol reviewed the NGV's latest exhibition 'China - The Past is Present' for the Conversation....

29 November 2022

Hear from Yvette Grant, a researcher in dance history at the Victorian College of the Arts as she introduces us to the prolific choreographer Laurel Martyn (1916-2013) who cre...

29 November 2022

Head of VCA Art, Associate Professor Simone Slee was interviewed by ArtsHub about the 2022 VCA Art Grad Show....

29 November 2022

Professor Jane Davidson, Head of the Faculty Research Centre appeared on ABC News recently speaking to the psychological and social benefits of group singing....

24 November 2022

For the third time, films by graduating Film and Television students from the Victorian College of the Arts will feature on MIFF Play, the Australia-wide digital streaming pla...

18 November 2022

The 23 November marks the celebrated return of the VCA Art Grad Show, featuring new works by the graduating cohort of Art students....

8 November 2022

by Sarah HallWilin, which means ‘fire’ or ‘flame’ in the Boon Wurrung and Woi Wurrung languages, has been part of the land where the Wilin Centre now s...

8 November 2022

In this new Explainer for the University's Research website, Professor Marie Sierra writes on the noteworthy contributions and growing influence of NTROs. She argues that it i...

1 November 2022

Acclaimed pianist, Piers Lane (AO), has been awarded the Sir Bernard Heinze Memorial Award at a concert with Joseph Calleja and Amelia Farrugia....

11 October 2022

In her latest work with third year dance students at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), award-winning choreographer, Lucy Guerin, takes her inspiration from the students...

27 September 2022

In October this year, graduating Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting) students will take to the stage in two exhilarating and physically demanding plays: Sarah DeLappe’s The W...

27 September 2022

When you’re a screen producer, there’s always something to do – whether it’s honing scripts, keeping the budget on track or ensuring an on-set snack su...

27 September 2022

Impact Australia was launched this week at the University of Melbourne’s Victorian College of the Arts (VCA). The Faculty of Fine Arts and Music was delighted to learn t...

13 September 2022

The Victorian College of the Arts joins the Australian dance community in mourning the loss of the indelible, Shirley McKechnie AO, who throughout her life remained a seminal...

12 September 2022

Mario Biancacci’s path to being an international film producer wasn’t exactly pre-ordained. But he’s made his way from a Bachelor of Science to a Robbie Will...

5 September 2022

A new partnership with the Melbourne International Jazz Festival (MIJF) will enable University of Melbourne students from the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music to perform at A...

31 August 2022

The Victorian College of the Arts’ (VCA) 50th anniversary represents a chance to reflect on the last half-century of arts practice in Naarm/Melbourne and position itself...

30 August 2022

It might seem like a long road from your living room to the Sydney Opera House, but for Will Barker, the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Production) helped him make that leap. Will tal...

25 August 2022

Dr Anthea Skinner is a musicologist with a lived experience of disability. Inspired by her own experiences growing up, Dr Skinner has launched the Adaptive Music Bridging Prog...

25 August 2022

The University of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra will be returning soon to the Hamer Hall stage with Mahler’s mighty Second Symphony (The Resurrection), led by their Chief...

25 August 2022

Left Write Hook is a new documentary film focusing on a University of Melbourne-supported program helping adult survivors take back their power....

23 August 2022

A new app aims to train family carers of people with dementia to use music to support care and reduce symptoms at home...

17 August 2022

The Expert Hack Podcast sat down with Victorian College of the Arts alumna artist Professor Sally Smart to discuss how artists are influencing politics and social ch...

15 August 2022

Professor in Composition at the Conservatorium, Stuart Greenbaum, has released 'A Trillion Miles of Darkness', a new album of soulful, evocative music featuring the clarinet....

12 August 2022

Pianist Coady Green asked Linda Kouvaras to compose a work about a little-known location in Melbourne; he discusses the piece that eventuated....

11 August 2022

A new exclusive partnership with the Australian World Orchestra (AWO) will enable University of Melbourne Conservatorium of Music students to have unparalleled access to a net...

9 August 2022

Commuters travelling through Melbourne's new underground railway stations will see new commissions by Dr Raafat Ishak, Head of Painting at the VCA and Professor Patricia Picci...

2 August 2022

Across five episodes with artists, scholars and activists working in the fields of dance and related disciplines, these critical conversations explore possibilities for future...

2 August 2022

By Sarah HallThere are stories that can only be told in Auslan.Artists Chelle Destefano and Claire Bridge have created a home for some of them in What I Wish I’d Told Yo...

2 August 2022

Senior Lecturer in Music at the Conservatorium, Miriama Young, reviews My Self in That Moment, a new hybrid performance by Chamber Made for The Conversation....

1 August 2022

Listen to Associate Professor Chris Mead, Head of Theatre at the VCA as he discusses his new book 'Wondrous Strange: Seven Brief Thoughts on New Plays' on ABC Radio National....

27 July 2022

Soprano Stacey Alleaume is a superstar of Australian opera; a regular at the Sydney Opera House who has performed in some of the artform’s best-known roles. And she&rsqu...

27 July 2022

Animation students are creating a short film using cutting-edge 3D technology, as part of a competition from gaming company Epic Games....

27 July 2022

Diploma in Music student Thien Pham was announced the 33rd winner of the $10,000 James Morrison Jazz Scholarship for solo instrumentalists under 19 on 8 May. The announcement...

25 July 2022

Early career researchers Amaara Raheem and Yvette Grant from the University of Melbourne’s Victorian College of the Arts, have been awarded a 2022 ABC TOP 5 Arts Media R...

22 July 2022

American Vogue asked Director of the VCA, Professor Emma Redding her thoughts on the resurgence of Dance-Based fitness. Professor Redding wrote the world’s first masters degre...

22 July 2022

A new creative initiative between Australia and the UK will see First Nations students from the University of Melbourne showcase their culture on a global platform. Among them...

22 July 2022

Professor Brook Andrew has been announced as the inaugural Reimagining Museums and Collections Director at the University of Melbourne....

19 July 2022

by Sarah HallFor two decades, Professor Alyson Campbell has straddled the worlds of the academy and independent theatre, while recognising a tension between the two....

19 July 2022

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18 July 2022

The Faculty of Fine Arts and Music congratulates our outstanding alumni and staff who were recognised at the 39th Annual Green Room Awards....

12 July 2022

by Sarah HallAfter a decade working in relative obscurity, Australian-Macedonian writer-director and VCA grad Goran Stolevski has landed in the film industry in a big way. Wit...

11 July 2022

New digital technologies at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) are helping to preserve Lengger Lanang, a centuries old cross-gender dance from Central Java....

7 July 2022

Leah Columbine is a third year Bachelor of Music (Performance) student and the 2022 recipient of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) Snare Drum Award....

5 July 2022

by Sarah HallSince graduating last year from a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Production), Danni A. Esposito is already making waves in the sound design industry....

1 July 2022

Professor Katrina Skewes McFerran, Professor in Music Therapy and Head of the Creative Arts Therapies Research Unit in the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, has been appointed a...

28 June 2022

Impact Australia 3, the third iteration of the highly coveted screenwriter accelerator program, will be held in-person this year on the Victorian College of the Arts’ (V...

22 June 2022

Directed by VCA alum Ben Chessell, Sian Davies and Charlotte George, with cinematography by alum Katie Milwright, Surviving Summer has already been a Netflix hit since i...

17 June 2022

Recently returned from launching her second Venice Biennale exhibition, for Sāmoan-based artist Yuki Kihara who is representing Aotearoa New Zealand, curator Professor Natali...

14 June 2022

VCA graduate Scotty So is performing and exhibiting in this year’s RISING festival. Just don’t ask him to stick to one medium....

14 June 2022

Kate Daw, the much-loved artist and educator who led VCA Art from 2018 – 2020, saw art as a social force deeply interwoven with everyday life....

10 June 2022

by Sarah HallGregory Lorenzutti has united his life’s passions for dance and ecology in Theatrum Botanicum, which opens this week at the Victorian College of the Arts, w...

3 June 2022

When understudy Nick Sheppard was called to play the lead in a recent Victorian Opera production, the opera performance student stepped into his biggest role yet....

2 June 2022

“I’m inspired by the impossible and always looking for what sculpture can be, and what it can do,” says Melbourne based artist, and graduate of the VCA, Nabi...

31 May 2022

The Faculty of Fine Arts and Music was incredibly saddened to hear of the recent passing of Dr Bernhard Sachs, Lecturer in the School of Art at the Victorian College of the Ar...

31 May 2022

“There's a different feeling when Aboriginal people teach Aboriginal people and uphold Indigenous people, and make you feel safe, and listen to your fears.”So says...

31 May 2022

Nicola Ingram is a proud Palawa and Wiradjuri woman from nipaluna, lutruwita (Hobart, Tasmania) and a 2021 graduate of the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting). Though now a passion...

18 May 2022

Ngioka Bunda-Heath is a Wakka Wakka, Ngugi and Birrpai dancer and storyteller whose choreographic works are a deep excavation of her cultural and ancestral histories. She is a...

17 May 2022

The 2022 academic year has ushered in a new Director of the VCA and a new suite of Associate Deans for the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music. These executive-level positions...

30 April 2022

The New Zealand pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia recently opened with artist Yuki Kihara’s ensemble exhibition, Para...

12 April 2022

Music Theatre alum Stefanie Jones has been selected to play the role of Mary Poppins in Cameron Mackintosh and Disney’s critically acclaimed stage production, which will...

3 March 2022

Taungurung artist, Steven Rhall has been announced the prize winner of The Paul Selzer Exhibition for his work Recycled or Reclaimed (2022) at Domain House Gallery in the Roya...

1 March 2022

Melbourne Conservatorium of Music graduates, Hannah Shin (Bachelor of Music 2021) and Tian Tian Lan (Diploma of Music Studies 2020) were awarded first and second place at the...

27 February 2022

The Faculty of Fine Arts and Music at the University of Melbourne is delighted to announce the arrival of Professor Emma Redding as Director of the Victorian College of the Ar...

24 February 2022

Compose Queer is an initiative that empowers young queer composers and was conceived by vocal consort the Divisi Chamber Singers, a talented group of musicians who met and for...

23 February 2022

While 2020-21 posed huge challenges to many graduating students, two Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) graduates landed a surprising opportunity with CHUNKY MOVE via an online int...

18 February 2022

As Melbourne's arts and cultural sector remerges from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, four of the VCA's finest graduates are displaying newly commissioned works as part...

18 February 2022

Dr Danny Butt, Associate Director (Research) VCA and Creative Producer Claire Bredenoord raise the profile of graduate researchers at the Victorian College of the Arts through...

15 February 2022

VCA filmmaker Sarah Marcuson is about to see her documentary, The Time It Takes, featured on the Melbourne International Film Festival's digital platform MIFF Play. The d...

15 February 2022

Almost 30 short films by some of Australia’s most exciting emerging filmmakers – the 2021 graduating class of the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) Film and Tele...

14 February 2022

Leanne McGowan has been awarded the Dorcas McClean Travelling Scholarship, Australia’s richest prize for young violinists....

9 February 2022

VCA graduate, Ari Wegner (Bachelor of Film & TV 2004), made history as the second woman ever nominated for Best Cinematography at the Oscars....

8 February 2022

Regarded as Australia's most important prize for violinists aged 25 years and younger, the Dorcas McClean Travelling Scholarship competition is now underway for 2022....

19 January 2022

Dr Donna Lyon is a film producer and senior lecturer in producing at VCA Film and Television. She talks about how research, University partnerships and the Tran...

10 January 2022

We are currently experiencing a mass death event as a result of the COVID pandemic, with many friends and families mourning the end of life of their loved ones, and organising...

16 December 2021

The Australia Council has announced this year’s recipients of its prestigious Fellowships, valued at $80,000 over two years, including celebrated VCA Dance alum Prue Lan...

16 December 2021

Photo credit: Southbank NewsDr Kat Henry is a theatre director and the coordinator of the Master of Theatre (Directing) program at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA). Her...

14 December 2021

Dancer, choreographer and storyteller Ngioka Bunda-Heath has been awarded the Hutchinson Indigenous Fellowship and Residency at the Victorian College of the Arts....

14 December 2021

After graduating with a BA in Theatre Arts, Greek student Alkistis (Alkisti) Pitsaki wanted to find a graduate course that would help her develop as a director and support her...

13 December 2021

The incredible creativity of the graduating cohort of VCA Art students is once again on show....

8 December 2021

For almost a decade, the Dobell Award has celebrated emerging musical theatre artists from the Victorian College of the Arts....

29 November 2021

VCA Film and Television graduates, Sophie Somerville and Courtney Bombell have won the prestigious 2021 Dendy Live Action Short Award for their graduation film Peeps (2019) at...

22 November 2021

A recent Australia Council for the Arts workshop brought some of the country’s leading arts and mental health researchers together....

5 November 2021

As a practising psychologist with a passion for dance (Flamenco and African Rhythms), Zoyka Aguayo’s decision to study the Master of Creative Arts Therapy specialising i...

5 November 2021

Led by their Chief Conductor, Richard Davis, students from the University of Melbourne’s Symphony Orchestra have banded together to record and film the theme tune of Sky...

26 October 2021

Graduate of the Bachelor of Fine Art (Hons) Nina Sanadze has been announced 2021 winner of ‘the churchie’ emerging art prize for her work Apotheosis (2021) at the...

20 October 2021

The Faculty of Fine Arts and Music at the University of Melbourne is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Emma Redding as incoming Director of the Victorian Coll...

6 October 2021

Seven semi-finalists and four jurors have been announced for the prestigious triennial Dorcas McClean Travelling Scholarship for young violinists....

20 September 2021

Short film lovers will be treated to more than 40 films by the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) Film and Television graduating class of 2020 in a special free-to-view onlin...

17 September 2021

Impact 2 was launched this week in Melbourne by award-winning filmmaking company Imagine Entertainment. The Faculty of Fine Arts and Music was delighted to learn that scr...

16 September 2021

Kummarge, a new program directed by dance artist and visionary leader, Wiradjuri man Daniel Riley, is about ensuring that First Nations students and aspiring dance artists don...

6 September 2021

Associate Professor Chris Mead joins the Victorian College of the Arts as Head of Theatre following roles at the Melbourne Theatre Company, PlayWriting Australia and Sydney Th...

18 August 2021

Paper City follows the survivors of a US air attack on eastern Tokyo. Now in their twilight years, the survivors battle for recognition and reparations under a government relu...

18 August 2021

Leading specialist in somatic education, choreography and dance science Aotearoa-born Brenton Surgenor has lived and worked in the US, the UK, Hong Kong and Australia. His car...

13 August 2021

Professor Natalie King has been recognised for her 20-plus years spent mentoring other women, colleagues and First Nations peers working in the arts....

6 August 2021

Academic, advocate, singer and now filmmaker, Tiriki Onus discusses the film made by his grandfather William "Bill" Onus and the new documentary it inspired....

13 July 2021

The Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, home of the Victorian College of the Arts and the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, is pleased to launch a new Master of Dance for 2022.&n...

29 June 2021

Thinking about "doing" emotions, rather than just "feeling" them, offers a new perspective on the mechanisms of social change....

28 June 2021

Every year, the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music comes together to celebrate the beginning of National Reconciliation Week by lighting the Wilin as part of a formal s...

27 June 2021

Elliott Gyger is Associate Professor in Composition at the University of Melbourne, with a rich and varied career in music-making and education. Here, he discusses his work, t...

23 June 2021

Lucy Guerin, artistic director of Lucy Guerin Inc, and Matthias Schack-Arnott began conversations about PENDULUM, part of the inaugural RISING festival, as a small-scale work...

15 June 2021

Lockdown has accelerated the shift towards online music teaching, making Dr Carol Johnson’s expertise in the field, earned over nearly 20 years, more sought-after than e...

10 June 2021

Impact Australia 2, the follow-up to the highly coveted screenwriter accelerator program, will be held in-person this year on the Victorian College of the Arts’ (VCA) So...

8 June 2021

More than 40 graduating shorts films by Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) Film and Television students will be showcased on MIFFPlay, the digital platform of the Melbourne I...

31 May 2021

In April this year, 13 students and staff from the Jazz and Improvisation course at the University of Melbourne came together to perform a new version of a very special track....

26 May 2021

The Faculty of Fine Arts and Music is hosting The Image is not Nothing (Concrete Archives) following the exhibition's premiere at ACE Open as part of the 2021 Adelaide Fe...

26 May 2021

Four Victorian College of the Arts alumni will participate in an accelerator program as part of the University of Melbourne's partnership with Australians In Film (AiF)....

25 May 2021

Darcy Wischer is a Melbourne-based stage manager currently working on Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and J...

20 May 2021

Dr Nicholas Enrico Williams is an Associate Professor of Music, Music Director and Conductor of the Wind Symphony and Concert Band at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, Un...

18 May 2021

Rosalie Osman is a 2D animator with an impressive portfolio of web, film and television works, specialising in character animation. She creates short films based on early chil...

22 April 2021

Moonis Ahmad Shah tells Sharon Grace Flynn about using interdisciplinary methodologies to create "counter archives", completing his PhD at the Victorian College of the Arts an...

22 April 2021

Monica Lim’s practice investigates the composition of sound through movement. Her electromagnetic piano, created in collaboration with composer and lecturer David Shea f...

26 March 2021

Michael Bentham’s debut feature film Disclosure premiered at Palm Springs International Film Festival and Berlinale in early 2020. The film is screening at Cinema Nova...

10 March 2021

Dr Gillian Howell's research investigates the contributions of music and participatory arts to post-war peace, reconciliation, cultural development and community cohesion. Her...

8 March 2021

The forthcoming Art Forum series at the VCA features artists such as Grace Lillian Lee, Glenda Nicholls and Brenda L Croft – and the success of last year's online events...

8 March 2021

A century to the day since Spanish composer Manuel de Falla's iconic Homenaje a Debussy enjoyed its first major performance, Ken Murray performs a new companion piece com...

1 March 2021

Running interference? Going feral? Alyson Campbell discusses her research projects and strategies relating to her own queerness and the queerness of others....

16 February 2021

In her role as Dean's Research Fellow in the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, Dr Sarah Woodland leads a portfolio of research entitled 'Performing Justice: Arts-Led Approaches...

11 February 2021

Melbourne Conservatorium Bachelor of Music student Jessica Gillham has won the Margaret Sutherland Bursary competition 2020....

10 February 2021

The Faculty of Fine Arts and Music recently welcomed a new face on campus for Me and UooUoo: The RCH150 Anniversary Art Trail....

8 February 2021

The creator and driving force behind the Gondwana Voices, Sydney Children’s Choir and Gondwana Indigenous Choir has been recognised for transforming the country’s...

28 January 2021

COVID-19 and its attendant lockdown restrictions occurred while Professor Jane Davidson's team was already developing a range of face-to-face elements for its intercultural mu...

14 January 2021

Re-membrance, Re-volt, Re-emergence is a global lecture series convened by Tania Cañas for the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) Social Practice and Community Engagement program...

12 January 2021

The Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours in Social Practice and Community Engagement is a new one-year course for artists of all disciplines exploring community dynamics an...

8 January 2021

Determined to support equal access opportunities in the arts, The Portland House Foundation has awarded the inaugural Harry Hains Memorial Scholarship in Film & Television...

17 December 2020

When Barry Conyngham finishes up as Dean at the end of 2020, he will leave behind a faculty transformed in everything from its name to its trajectory. Here, in an edited inter...

17 December 2020

The VCA Art Graduate Catalogue was launched on Wednesday night at a digital awards event, Finissage. The Catalogue, featuring more than 1,000 artworks by graduating students f...

14 December 2020

Lecturer in Jazz & Improvisation at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music Sunny Kim was invited to deliver the prestigious Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address earlier this month...

24 November 2020

Last week, VCA Master of Theatre (Writing) Coordinator Raimondo Cortese spoke with Australian playwright, screenwriter and director Andrew Upton about his career, training, pe...

23 November 2020

The University of Melbourne last week decided the 2020 winner of the Albert H Maggs Composition Award as Nigel Westlake for his piece, Sacred Sky....

17 November 2020

Patrick Telfer, founder of the Isolation Improvisation Collective, and visual artist and lecturer at the University of Melbourne David Sequeira release a new collaborative wor...

12 November 2020

Three Victorian College of the Arts graduates were among the winners at the coveted Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture 2020 announced yesterday. Lecturer in Visual Art Dr Lau...

4 November 2020

"A creative career requires tenacity, ingenuity and strength, and the outcomes may not measure up to those that are socially sanctioned." – Caitlin Aloisio Shearer tells...

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...

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...

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...

13 October 2020

"I feel like I've woken up in another universe" – The Schenberg Art Fellowship 2020, a cash prize of $50,000, has been awarded to Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) graduat...

6 October 2020

The University of Melbourne has appointed Professor Marie Sierra as the new Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, home of the Victorian College of the Arts and Melb...

17 September 2020

Associate Professor in Theatre Alyson Campbell is a freelance director and dramaturg with an astounding 30-year career, and teaching credits that feature the School of Creativ...

16 September 2020

Kyneton based Ravi Avasti completed a Master of Contemporary Art at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne in 2018. He was awarded the Fiona Myer White Sto...

16 September 2020

The Guitar Perspectives Online Celebration 2020, held late last month, featured 42 videos showcasing the breadth and diversity of the Melbourne Conservatorium's renowned...

9 September 2020

Australian musician, author and advocate Dr Richard Letts AM has been awarded the 2020 Sir Bernard Heinze Memorial Award....

8 September 2020

Dr Kate Daw, Head of VCA Art and much-loved friend, colleague and artist, passed away in the early hours of Monday morning. Here, Jon Cattapan remembers her life and incredibl...

25 August 2020

The Maverick Brass Quintet is a group of musicians based all around the world that meets seasonally to take on creative projects such as summer festivals and international com...

24 August 2020

Yes, we would have preferred to be celebrating together in person but the Guitar Perspectives 2020 Online Celebration still provides as much excitement, passion and inspiratio...

21 August 2020

"Risk-takers are so much more interesting to watch," says Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre) student Jane Schon. With journalism and marketing skills, Jane is looking to create a...

18 August 2020

Future Forward is a week-long online symposium, designed to support graduating students with the skills they need to transition into creative industries, with a COVID-19...

17 August 2020

Richard Roberts is an Australian freelance theatre designer and design teacher, based in Melbourne. His design experience includes designs for drama, dance, film, television a...

12 August 2020

Australia’s seminal art journal, Art + Australia, will explore the conjunction of art and science in its next issue, titled Event Horizon, which will be released th...

12 August 2020

"We teach students how to think, how to look at art, and how to make art." Artist and Lecturer in Painting Dr John Meade has been described as having "an omnivorous eye". He u...

12 August 2020

Jordine Cornish has lived, worked and danced across Israel and Europe. Now her feet have landed back in Melbourne, where she is strengthening her creative career with a Master...

31 July 2020

Jo Briscoe is a production designer working in film and television and is a Lecturer in Design at the Victorian College of the Arts. Her professional design practice includes...

31 July 2020

Steph Kehoe has worked as a teacher, director and performer in Australia, Europe, the Americas and Asia. She trained under Jacques Lecoq at Ecole International de Théâtre Jacq...

31 July 2020

Derrick took the plunge to move to Melbourne from South Australia to study a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Animation) at the Victorian College of the Arts. Fortunately, he's "200% co...

30 July 2020

Raafat Ishak is the Head of Painting at the Victorian College of the Arts. Working across painting, installation and site-specific drawing, Ishak’s practice is informed...

30 July 2020

Samantha Hargreaves entered the Master of Music (Opera Performance) with her singing voice quavering, but now has many production credits to her name. Meet Samantha and learn...

30 July 2020

Mikaylah Lepua is studying photography as part of the Bachelor Fine Arts (Visual Art) and is exploring her culture through her own unique lens. She describes herself as loud,...

30 July 2020

An Arrente woman from Alice Springs, Sherry-Lee Watson always wanted to perform. Now she's on her way to living her dream in Melbourne, studying a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Music...

29 July 2020

Six films by Victorian College of the Arts Film and Television alumni have been selected as part of a new MIFF Shorts retrospective focusing on connections....

28 July 2020

Apples were the order of the day for University of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and a select number of Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) students. After the great success of the...

21 July 2020

Improvisation is a core skill built into the curriculum of our emerging actors. Budi Miller, Head of Acting at the VCA, talks us through the Mike Leigh Improvisation Method, a...

20 July 2020

The Melbourne Conservatorium's Interactive Composition students are well positioned to innovate in times of trouble. Indeed, in their recent Open House streaming concert, stud...

20 July 2020

Celebrated Melbourne Conservatorium composer Katy Abbott discusses her latest work, incorporating letters sent by members of the Australian public to detained asylum seekers o...

16 July 2020

Henry Kelly graduated from the first cohort of the re-imagined Bachelor of Fine Art (Theatre) course at the Victorian College of the Arts. Life has presented many highs and lo...

16 July 2020

Morgan Rose is a graduate of the Master of Theatre (Writing) (formerly Master of Writing for Performance) program at the Victorian College of the Arts. She works with teens th...

10 July 2020

Playwriting Australia’s (PWA) Dear Australia offers bite-sized monologues that give voice to the hopes and fears of Australians facing the persistent threat of COVI...

2 July 2020

Friends, family and colleagues of distinguished Australian concert pianist and music educator Ronald Farren-Price AM gathered for a small online ceremony today to mark his 90t...

2 July 2020

Sport and animation are not considered to go hand in hand, but Bachelor of Fine Arts (Animation) student Sophie Ash has blended her love of mogul skiing and fine art into one...

2 July 2020

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting) students had already started rehearsing for their annual Shakespeare showcases when COVID-19 took us into a virtual campus. Not to be perturbed,...

1 July 2020

The screenwriter may not be the first name to roll in the credits – but more often than not they're the backbone of any film and television project. We spoke to some wri...

1 July 2020

What happens when Music Theatre students and Interactive Composition students from the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music bring together their creative talents in the lockdown era...

30 June 2020

Take a deep dive into the life of a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) student. Kyle Ramboyong shares the sage advice he wishes he'd heard before beginning his dance journey at the...

25 June 2020

Multi-instrumentalist Danna Yun talks composition, collaboration, video-game music and life goals....

25 June 2020

Lisa Osborn has worked as a stage manager throughout Australia and internationally and has been at the VCA since 2018. She has worked on productions for many leading companies...

24 June 2020

Jade Nye auditioned at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music for voice studies, so she certainly wasn't expecting to graduate on the saxophone. And yet .....

24 June 2020

Paul Fletcher is a Senior Lecturer in the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Animation) program at the Victorian College of the Arts. Here, he tells us about the course and what it involv...

24 June 2020

Budi Miller is Senior Lecturer and Head of Acting at the Victorian College of the Arts. His career highlights include coaching Michelle Williams for her Academy Award-nominate...

17 June 2020

Dianne Miranda auditioned for three different programs at the University of Melbourne – but since starting her Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting) course, she hasn't looked b...

1 June 2020

For the latest in our How To series, voice coach and VCA Theatre (Voice) lecturer Amy Hume gives some clear tips on protecting your voice while working and playing online...

22 May 2020

First-year Master of Film and Television students were tasked with creating a unique piece of content from home, and ... they hopped to it....

19 May 2020

In the latest in our How To series – shot from home while the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music operates virtually due to COVID-19 restrictions – Head of Guitar Dr Ke...

13 May 2020

Acclaimed sculptor and art writer Noel Hutchison established the first Honours Degree at the VCA and was its first coordinator. His friend and colleague Aleks Danko, Honorary...

12 May 2020

Most arts and music disciplines rely on collaboration, but maybe none more so than orchestral performance. By its nature, an orchestra is a collective – the trick, more...

1 May 2020

The University of Melbourne is partnering with the ABC and the Australia Council to present TOP 5 Arts – a media residency for graduate early-career practitioners and Ph...

3 April 2020

With doors closed across Melbourne's Arts Precinct, the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music is looking for ways to support its community of artists and musicians....

10 March 2020

In 2021, the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) will introduce an updated Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) curriculum, in which students will continue to take practical, studio-ba...

5 March 2020

Dr Brad Merrick is a passionate educator and performer who has been involved in music and performance teaching for many years. What does his life look like since he joined the...

4 March 2020

Victorian College of the Arts Film and Television alumni will have the opportunity to work at the former home of Charlie Chaplin in Los Angeles, thanks to a new partnersh...

13 February 2020

In 2019, Scotty So began exploring notions of reality and authenticity – but how did this lead to his alter-ego being accidentally picked up by international news m...

7 February 2020

More than $100,000 has been raised for Wildlife Victoria and the Gippsland Emergency Relief Fund in an art exhibition hosted by the Victorian College of the Arts at the Margar...

31 January 2020

Eugyeene Teh and Adena Jacobs met at the VCA in 2007. 13 Years later, they’re collaborating with fellow Australian theatremaker Jenny Hector, Indonesian artist Kamila An...

20 January 2020

Dr Suzanne Fraser is Centre Coordinator at the University of Melbourne's Centre of Visual Art (CoVA) and was previously a lecturer in Art History at the University. As well as...

10 January 2020

A creative trailblazer, Victorian College of the Arts Theatre lecturer Robert Walton has been credited with creating the world’s first piece of iPad theatre and has tour...

23 December 2019

2020 promises to be an exciting year at the Melbourne Conservatorium, with milestone anniversaries, an incredible array of public performances, and teaching, research and musi...

12 December 2019

Award-winning filmmaker and television director Corrie Chen graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts with a Bachelor Film and Television (Hons) in 2008, and a Master i...

4 December 2019

Digital archives of sung poems might seem a long way away from dance movement therapy, but for Dunphy it’s all part of a broader engagement with art, culture and communi...

3 December 2019

A new course at the University of Melbourne will help equip music teachers with the skills to work with students with special needs and ensure they have equal access...

28 November 2019

Since 2016, Chris Kohn has been working on a PhD looking at theatre made by people with intellectual disabilities and those identifying as neurodiverse. Right now, though, he'...

27 November 2019

Every year's VCA Art Grad Show is an event to remember, but this year it's bigger and better than ever....

26 November 2019

Each year, the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development takes University of Melbourne students out on Country. Mireille Stahle joined the team in Yorta Yorta...

26 November 2019

The Victorian College of the Arts film screening season takes place between Friday 6 and Sunday 15 December 2019 at The Capitol, Melbourne....

15 November 2019

What do Georgia Wilkinson, winner of the 2019 Herald Sun Aria competition, and Chloe Harris, who won this year’s prestigious Richard Divall Prize, have in common? Well,...

14 November 2019

Luke Devenish is a novelist, screenwriter, playwright and lecturer who currently teaches Screenwriting at the Victorian College of the Arts. So how do all of those skills comb...

11 November 2019

After moving to Melbourne to pursue design, Priya Namana found herself increasingly frustrated at the socio-political climate around her. She talks about how she found a const...

31 October 2019

Homeside is training family carers worldwide to use music interventions to manage behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia....

29 October 2019

In this edited extract of her recent 2019 Lin Onus Oration at the University of Melbourne's Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, Dr Lou Bennet makes a compelling case for the impor...

28 October 2019

Dr Katy Abbott, Senior Lecturer in Music (Composition) at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, has been announced as one of the winners of the 2019 Paul Lowin Prizes in a ce...

28 October 2019

Every VCA graduation film since 1966 is now stored in digital form. A new exhibition at the University of Melbourne showcases this treasure trove for the first time....

24 October 2019

Richard Frankland is not surprised his 2002 play about deaths in custody, Conversations with the Dead, is being restaged or that the story is still topical....

17 October 2019

Master of Production Design for Screen student Lauren Gould discusses her career-defining internships in film and television....

16 October 2019

Having grown up in rural NSW, VCA Theatre student Caitlin Overton is looking for ways to bridge the gap between rural and metropolitan creatives....

14 October 2019

Melbourne Conservatorium of Music student Krishan Meepe says Ethnomusicology has given him the tools to unpack some of the complex intersections of music, and politics....

14 October 2019

Omar Hassan enrolled in the VCA Art (Photography) degree straight out of high school and is determined to take each day as it comes....

11 October 2019

Buoyancy is Australia's submission for Best International Feature at the 2020 Oscars. We talk to the director of this brutal and beautiful film....

8 October 2019

Manus Island refugee processing may be coming to an end, but new portraits shine a light on the lives left in limbo....

3 October 2019

Now in her third year, musician Tilly Webb explains why she chose to study Interactive Composition, and how she learned to trust her gut....

25 September 2019

BFA (Narrative) student Athina Wilson talks about empathy, team-building and women in cinema....

20 September 2019

Claire Bird is studying a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre). She talks about the moments of discovery while studying and the importance of failing gloriously....

18 September 2019

Nathan Santamaria is a sound designer, engineer and composer studying a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Design and Production), he talks about travelling to Prague this year to attend...

17 September 2019

Jasmine Vaughns, Bachelor of Fine Arts (Music Theatre) student, talks about meeting her idol in New York and the importance of being brave....

17 September 2019

After a 40-year career in psychology and education, Liz Smith is on her way to becoming an artist full-time via the Graduate Certificate in Visual Art at the Victorian College...

17 September 2019

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Screenwriting) student Danni Zhang talks about her run-in with Mr. Feminism, and what excites her about a career in screenwriting....

13 September 2019

Richard Tognetti is Artistic Director and leader of the Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO). Here, the violinist, composer and conductor reflects on the University of Melbourne...

6 September 2019

From teacher to filmmaker, Master of Film and Television (Documentary) graduate Charby Ibrahim is passionate about social justice. He talks about how he’s trying to push...

6 September 2019

A new Master of Creative Arts Therapy course has been announced by the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music at the University of Melbourne....

2 September 2019

Ellen Grimshaw graduated in 2018 from the Victorian College of the Arts with a Master in Writing for Performance. Here she discusses her new show, inspired by her work for the...

27 August 2019

A new masters course has been launched to provide students with industry-leading knowledge and skills to work as a professional voice coach in the performing arts, film and te...

21 August 2019

The VCA Digital Archive is a living audiovisual record of student films that date back to 1966. The articles in this series respond thematically to the depth and bre...

20 August 2019

Willow Sizer, who graduated from the University of Melbourne in 2017 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Music Theatre), is one of 30 student and alumni artists from the Faculty of...

13 August 2019

Andrew McAliece and Richard Simmie’s decision to support performing arts students, through their lifetime giving and a gift in their Wills, has opened up a whole new wor...

9 August 2019

The Faculty of Fine Arts and Music at the University of Melbourne welcomes a new Director to the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, Dr Richard Kurth....

30 July 2019

Ahead of Yamandu Costa’s performance at the Melbourne Conservatorium in early August, guitarist and Faculty of Fine Arts and Music alumna Rose de La Montaña speaks to th...

25 July 2019

After completing a three-year diploma in music composition at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore, Ng Sze Min moved to Melbourne to study Interactive Compositio...

25 July 2019

The VCA Digital Archive is a living audiovisual record of student films that date back to 1966. The articles in this series respond thematically to the depth and bre...

24 July 2019

Ahead of the First Commissions exhibition in Melbourne on 27 and 28 July, multidisciplinary artist – and Vice-Chancellors Professorial Fellow of the University of M...

18 July 2019

The VCA Digital Archive is a living audiovisual record of student films that date back to 1966. The articles in this series respond thematically to the depth and bre...

16 July 2019

He recently won the Leitz Cine Discovery Prize during Critic’s Week at Cannes. Meet the Changzhou-based filmmaker and VCA Master of Film and Television graduate Qiu Yang...

16 July 2019

Elijah Wald is a musician, writer and historian who has been playing guitar for more than 50 years. Ahead of his keynote address at the Melbourne Conservatorium of M...

16 July 2019

Open House Melbourne visitors can be among the first to see the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music’s new world-class spaces at Southbank on 27 and 28 July, as part of a broa...

16 July 2019

The International Symposium on Performance Science (ISPS) is a biennial meeting of performers and scientists that provides a platform to discuss all facets of performance and...

10 July 2019

Bill Henson is one of Australia’s best-known contemporary photographers – but it was not always thus. As the First Commissions art project launches ahead of an exh...

10 July 2019

His talents and virtuosity are recognised and celebrated worldwide. Ahead of Brazilian guitarist Yamandu Costa’s performance at the Melbourne Conservatorium next month,...

4 July 2019

A major Australian arts project presented by the University of Melbourne has been launched at the feet of Michelangelo’s David, the world’s most famous statem...

1 July 2019

The International Symposium on Performance Science (ISPS) is a biennial meeting of performers and scientists that provides a platform to discuss all facets of performance and...

27 June 2019

The VCA Digital Archive is a living audiovisual record of student films that date back to 1966. The articles in this series respond thematically to the depth and bre...

20 June 2019

The VCA Digital Archive is a living audiovisual record of student films that date back to 1966. The articles in this series respond thematically to the depth and bre...

19 June 2019

Robert Tripolino graduated in 2011 with the first ever cohort of Music Theatre students at the Victorian College of the Arts. Now Robert has landed the title role of Jesu...

13 June 2019

The VCA Digital Archive is a living audiovisual record of student films that date back to 1966. The articles in this series respond thematically to the depth and bre...

7 June 2019

Acclaimed Yorta Yorta soprano, composer and Artistic Director of Short Black Opera, Deborah Cheetham AO, has been awarded the 2019 Sir Bernard Heinze Memorial Award....

6 June 2019

The VCA Digital Archive is a living audiovisual record of student films that date back to 1966. The articles in this series respond thematically to the depth and bre...

4 June 2019

More than 250 student and staff musicians helped bring The Ian Potter Southbank Centre to life for the official launch on 1 June 2019, with a program featuring orchestral work...

3 June 2019

Students and staff at the University of Melbourne will have unparalleled access to education and research opportunities with a $1 million partnership with the Australian Chamb...

31 May 2019

The VCA Digital Archive is a living audiovisual record of student films that date back to 1966. The articles in this series respond thematically to the depth and bre...

28 May 2019

Although Bethany Fellows knew she wanted to study at the Victorian College of the Arts, she never knew she’d end up studying stage design in the Master of Desi...

28 May 2019

The percussionist, composer, conductor and artistic director of Speak Percussion is known for tackling complex and ambitious art music projects. Here, he discusses his time at...

24 May 2019

The VCA Digital Archive is a living audiovisual record of student films that date back to 1966. The articles in this series respond thematically to the depth and bre...

1 May 2019

It was a long journey for Kliment Poposki from science to Dramaturgy, but now he can’t imagine doing anything else....

24 April 2019

Adam Elliot completed his Post-Graduate Diploma in Animation at the Victorian College of the Arts in 1996. He went on to win the 2004 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Fil...

18 April 2019