CREATIVE and performing arts students from Irrawang High School took their skills on the road last week with a string of gigs from Dreamworld to the Whitsundays.
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About 50 students including singers, dancers, thespians and drummers, as well as a dedicated student media team, polished their skills in front of appreciative crowds.
“Some people would stop for a few seconds but others would stand for the whole show and applaud us,” Year 12 student Monique D’Arcy said.
“Not many students get an experience like this and it was a massive learning experience.”
Irrawang High School CAPA has in past years been to Canberra and Melbourne. The coach trip to Queensland took in the sites like the Great Barrier Reef.
But they were there to perform, and they did at a range of venues including the Big 4 Holiday Park at the Whitsundays and Marketplace Warner (Brisbane suburbs).
“It gives them the opportunity to practice their particular creative art in different venues,” the school’s community liaison Lue Fagan said.
“They did great, next year we’re off to Longreach.”
The students subsidise the cost of their trip through fundraising and have even got Marketplace Raymond Terrace on board as sponsors.