The Australian Copyright Council has just released a new guide for anyone responsible for seeking permission and clearances. This may prove very relevant for Drama/Theatre teachings reading The Drama Teacher. It is a comprehensive, yet simple and easy to use guide perfect for practitioners in the field or education specialists and covers all the necessary information for plays/musicals, music in artistic works, images etc. The guide includes:

• when you need to seek permission
• the sorts of rights you’ll need to clear (e.g. moral rights as well as copyright)
• who to contact
• streamlining the permissions process
• dealing with common obstacles

I suspect every Drama teacher creating artistic works in Australia needs to have this guide on their bookshelf at work.

$40 including GST & delivery in Australia.

$51 overseas delivery.

73 pages.

View table of contents, sample pages and ordering info.

Australian Copyright Council homepage.

This is unquestionably one of the most exciting posts in recent months on The Drama Teacher, as today the Arts has officially been included in Phase Two of Australia’s upcoming National Curriculum!

Last December, I blogged a disturbing post about how the Arts was absent from Australia’s National Curriculum planning. But after several months of various arts education organisations lobbying Government, including Drama Australia on behalf of all Australian Drama teachers, it was the NAAE, the National Advocates for Arts Education who became our national voice in Canberra.

After a meeting in Adelaide today between federal, state and territory education ministers, Peter Garrett, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts has issued a press release detailing the Arts, both visual and performing, will be included in Phase Two alongside Geography and Languages Other Than English in the new National Curriculum.

The next hurdle? Now we have to convince Government that the Performing Arts in Australian schools includes more than just music education……..

Please read the following media release for more information:

arts-national-curriculum-media-release

Comments are welcome, fellow Drama teachers!