On Monday, October 30th, Wyndham College had an exciting visit from the Good Vibrations crew. Michael Luck Schneider, a sound artist, and Bruce Odland, an installation artist fresh from New York city, were accompanied by Lucas Ihlein, Education Officer at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art, Vic McEwan the preparatory artist at the MCA and Darrin Baker who is making a documentary on the ‘art making’ process. The group have been travelling to various schools in Sydney to work directly with special needs and mainstream students to collect sounds and pictures to incorporate into their artwork. All are part of the MCA’s Bella Program for Youth with Specific Needs.

To make sure we arrived on time at Nepean High School, the “Good Vibrations” crew parked up overnight at the Nepean River Holiday Village caravan park in Emu Plains.

Royal Far West School already boasts a very strong art program, and we were pleased to be able to slot right into it. The school welcomes students from far and wide who are having treatment at the Royal Far West Children’s Health Scheme.

Today we hit the road for Wyndham College in Quaker’s Hill. We were greeted with great hospitality, cups of tea, trays of sandwiches, and some excellent year 11 art students who assisted us with the workshops. Seedpods, a wobbly bridge over the creek, and an old well were our musical instruments…
Check out all the photos over here.

At Kingsgrove North, teacher Betty Siourounis set us up in the quadrangle, where we welcomed dozens of curious students from the Support Unit and mainstream classes during the course of the day.