Experience Stream

Students participate in authentic learning experiences in a professional performing arts environment that cannot be replicated in the classroom. Arts based programmes are offered to year 1-13 students and are in line with the NZ Ministry of Education’s Learning Experiences Outside the Classroom (LEOTC) programme to compliment and enrich school based learning. All programmes in the Experience Stream are free.

To further improve access to the workshops, a free bus programme is made available for schools looking to participate in the Experience as well as the Engage stream.

Programmes

Dancing with Mythology
Dancing with Mythology is interactive storytelling through a series of short dance and drama workshops delivered by Atamira Dance Company and other performing arts professionals. It is open to students from Year 1-8 and teaches Pacific legends and histories of migration to Aotearoa based on TelstraClear Pacific’s majestic carving Pou Kapua.

Pou Kapua or Cloud Pillar stands a stunning 21 metres tall and is truly inclusive of indigenous peoples. Having taken 30 carvers from around the world and 3 years to complete, it tells the creation myths of indigenous peoples and includes the stories of Kupe, Rangi and Papa and Tangaroa. Students will explore Maori Myths through basic performing arts workshops and will culminate with a wrap-up on stage.

Matariki Short Workshop Series with Atamira Dance Company 

New Zealand’s leading Maori Contemporary dance company will be holding dance workshops based on three new short works in June 2012. This contemporary Maori dance intensive will be offered to Year 11+ dance students over 3 days with a different work focused on each day. The day’s programme will include, warm up with company members, a workshop focusing on the choreographic process of one of the new works, part of a rehearsal and a discussion about the programme led by the dance company’s choreographer(s).

Storylines Story Tour

Each year as part of the Storylines Festival of New Zealand Childrens Writers and Illustrators, the Story Tour brings writers and illustrators to schools and early childhood centres throughout Auckland. This year, the Story Tour will establish base at the TelstraClear Pacific for its Auckland leg. This will give a chance for students to get to meet the people who create the books which they have read and enjoyed, and to give students a spur to their own artistic, literary and dramatic efforts.

The Story Tour will visit the TelstraClear Pacific in Aug 2012.

School Production

The School Production Programme is a unique opportunity for six (6) schools to hold their Year 12/13 production at the Genesis Energy Theatre complete with basic sound and lighting equipment, venue technician and front of house staff on event day — Free of Charge! Dates of application of expression of interest to be announced.

Official LEOTC Provider