What

Museum Staff-led

When

Terms 1 to 4, Monday to Thursdays
1pm

Duration

90 minutes (includes gallery visit)

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Curriculum links & Accessibility

Year level

Years 9 to 10, VCE

Minmum student numbers

Minimum 1 students

Maximum student numbers

Maximum 30 students

Cost

$9 per student + education service fee

Booking information

Bookings 13 11 02

School visit information

In this English-curriculum aligned workshop led by museum staff and including digital content by Wiradjuri poet and artist Jazz Money, high school students explore their creativity by responding to the Joy Exhibition through poetry and creative writing.

Students will learn

• How to participate in collaborative activities.
• To complete individual writing exercises.
• How to produce a poem or creative piece of writing.
• How to respond to the Joy Exhibition.

Students will experience

• Techniques for sparking creativity through collage, erasure, and blackout poetry.
• Ways to engage with personal content and ideas to jumpstart their writing.
• Insight into Jazz Money’s artistic practice, exploring themes of place and identity in their poetry and artwork.

Students will need

• Pen or pencil.

Jazz Money

Jazz Money is a Wiradjuri poet and artist based on Gadigal land, Sydney. Their work Our Laughter Will Become the Waterfall is part of Immigration Museum's Joy exhibition.

Jazz's practice is centred around poetics while producing works that encompass installation, digital, performance, film and print. Their writing has been widely published nationally and internationally, and performed on stages around the world.

Jazz’s first poetry collection, the best-selling how to make a basket (UQP, 2021) was the 2020 winner of the David Unaipon Award. Their second collection mark the dawn is forthcoming from UQP in 2024. Jazz’s first feature film is WINHANGANHA (2023), commissioned by the National Film and Sound Archive.

Victorian Curriculum links

English: Levels 9 and 10

Literature and contexts

• analyse the representations of people and places in literary texts, drawn from diverse historical, cultural and social contexts, by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors and a wide range of Australian and world authors
  VC2E9LE01
• analyse representations of individuals, groups and places and evaluate how they reflect their context in literary texts by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors and a wide range of Australian and world authors
  VC2E10LE01

Engaging with and responding to literature

• analyse how literary devices and language features, and still and moving images, shape an audience’s preference about the social, moral or ethical positions presented in literary texts
  VC2E9LE03
• analyse the ways that social, moral or ethical positions are represented in a range of literary texts
  VC2E10LE03

Creating literature

• create texts, which may be hybrid, that experiment with literary text structures, language features and devices, and voice, for purposes and audiences
  VC2E9LE06
• create texts with a sustained voice, selecting and adapting literary text structures and devices, and language, auditory and visual features for purposes and audiences
  VC2E10LE06

English VCE

Unit 1 Crafting texts

Intercultural Capability: Levels 9 and 10

Culture, Identity and Belonging

• how diverse cultures, including their own, influence one another in a range of contexts and how this impacts identity and a sense of belonging and inclusion
  VC2CI10C01

Cultural Diversity

• how diverse worldviews can contribute to addressing social and environmental challenges
  VC2CI10D02