By CASEY NEILL
ART celebrated creativity and highlighted diversity at St John’s Regional College last week.
The Dandenong school held a week-long arts festival in the lead up to Harmony Day on 21 March.
The event started with an arts-inspired college assembly featuring a year nine drum performance, year 12 bands and the announcement of the 2014 Brother Amedy Molloy Arts Prize.
The prize was named for the school’s founding principal and is each year awarded to a year 12 student who is studying visual arts, media or visual communication.
The winning work – this year a photograph by Ronica Marinas – becomes part of the St John’s Regional College Arts Collection and the artist receives $200 in prize money.
Students performed on an open air stage each lunch break during the arts festival and year 11 VCAL students held a barbecue during Thursday’s performance to raise money for Make-A-Wish Australia.
Year nine student Svetlana Brillantes worked on a mural throughout the week after pipping her peers to win a harmony-themed design competition.
St John’s hopes to make the arts festival an annual event.
