News
Issue No. 12 - August/September 2003
The Forge — Realising a Dream for Young People
After 12 long years of effort by a large group of people in the school community, Marryatville High School will at last have a new performing arts centre. The State Government has approved funding of $1.369 million towards a $2.2 million state of the art 300 seat facility for music and drama performances, featuring current technology for training students in all the support areas for performance (e.g. sets, lighting and sound), and an exhibition space.
The performing arts centre will be an outstanding facility designed and constructed by Walter Brooke and Associates and Chappell builders that will improve Adelaide’s special infrastructure requirements for arts and performance. This much needed and long awaited resource will integrate a host of features including: a professionally—equipped teaching theatre with state of the art staging, lighting and acoustics; a dynamic 300 seat performance space where students can showcase their dramatic, musical, artistic and technical skills to the rest of the school and the wider community; a foyer art gallery playing host to continuous exhibitions of student work and; a spacious and comfortable meeting place for school assembly, graduation ceremonies and school council meetings.
In June Marryatville High School Governing Council launched one of the biggest capital campaigns ever embarked upon by a public school, with the aim of raising a further $700,000 by 2013.
To prepare for this task in mid 2002 Governing Co...
