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MCA Learning

Locality: The Rocks, Sydney

Phone: +61 2 9245 2400

Address: 140 George St 2000 The Rocks, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.mca.com.au/learn

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23.01.2022 Creative Connections is back! Coming up on Friday 7 May we have our Creative Connections: early childhood teachers workshop. Join us for a hands-on professional learning program specifically designed for Early Childhood Teachers and Educators. Book your place today!... Jacquie Manning

19.01.2022 "While being rather playful, inflatables can also hold space for speculative thinking and be poignant political symbols" says Keg de Souza about her work 'Impossible Utopia' (2011), in an interview with MCA Curator Stephanie Berlangieri. In this recent publication for MCA's Stories & ideas, de Souza and Berlangieri discuss the work, its connection to public housing and the importance of community during the COVID-19 pandemic. 'Impossible Utopia' has been installed as part of ...the new MCA Collection show 'Anywhere but here'. Berlangieri and co-curator Lucy Latella have responded to the global upheaval of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak with a collection of works by artists who have participated in Primavera, the MCA’s annual exhibition of young Australian artists aged 35 and under. Experience the exhibition for yourself and consider how the works reflect our own changes over these last few months. Images: 1. Keg de Souza, Impossible Utopia, 2011. Installation view, Primavera 2011, MCA Offsite, The Rocks, Sydney, 2011. Image courtesy and the artist. Photograph: Alex Davies 2. Keg de Souza, Impossible Utopia, 2011. Installation view, Anywhere but here: MCA Primavera Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2020. Nylon, lightbox: screenprint on acrylic, Museum of Contemporary Art, purchased with funds provided by the MCA Foundation, 2018. Image courtesy and the artist. Photograph: Anna Kuera 3. Keg de Souza, Impossible Utopia (detail), 2011. Installation view, Primavera 2011, MCA Offsite, The Rocks, Sydney, 2011. Image courtesy and the artist. Photograph: Alex Davies

16.01.2022 School holidays may be over, but that doesn't mean you can't still have some fun this term! And what better way to kick it off than with a new online professional development workshop open to all primary school teachers! Our STEAM primary workshop, happening Oct 24, is a NESA-accredited course which combines an online workshop with a self-directed offline session, contributing 5 hours towards maintaining Proficient Teacher Accreditation in NSW. During the online session, deli...vered via Zoom, you will learn strategies to support your students' engagement with science, technology, engineering and mathematics through the lens of contemporary art. You will also engage with works from current exhibitions and the MCA Collection and hear short talks from artists about where the STEM subjects are evident in their practice. In the offline session, you will experiment with technology and everyday materials to design fun learning activities that challenge and extend your students’ creative capacities in STEM. Click on the link below and secure your spot now!

15.01.2022 **Please note: this program has now been postponed to Friday 23 July** We have some exciting teacher workshops coming up in March First up, join us for our first onsite namuru of 2021 on Friday 12 March! Build your confidence in delivering Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander content in your classroom and learn best-practice strategies for teaching and learning about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and art practices. Sign up today!

10.01.2022 We are so excited to announce that the guest artist that will be joining us for our Namuru professional development workshop this Friday will be Jazz Money! Jazz is a poet, filmmaker and educator of Wiradjuri heritage, currently based on the beautiful sovereign lands of the Darug and Gundungurra nations. Her poetry has been published and spoken widely across so-called ‘Australia,’ and reimagined as murals, installation and video art. Jazz is the 2020 winner of the David Unaip...on Award. In 2019, Jazz was also the inaugural winner of the Aunty Kerry Reed-Gilbert Poetry Prize and a recipient of the Copyright Agency First Nations Fellowship. Her first collection of poetry is forthcoming with University of Queensland Press. Jazz’s writing can also be found on the pages of the Australian Poetry Journal, Australian Poetry Anthology, Westerly, Overland, Runway, Firstdraft, Rabbit Journal, Running Dog, Lieu, West Space Offsite, Meniscus and FNAWN, amongst others. As a freelance film maker and digital producer, Jazz is interested in the intersections of art, culture, community and technology, with a research focus into Indigenous Data Sovereignty. She also works as a researcher for the arts program CANVAS on FBi 94.5FM, Sydney’s independent radio station for music, art and culture. Jazz's previous work within the education sector (early childhood and tertiary) informed her interest in creative collaboration and the importance of self representation for First Nations communities. So if you haven't booked in for our Namuru secondary workshop this Friday (Oct 23) or our early learning and primary workshops later in the year, click on the link and get your last minute tickets!