Canberra College

Kudos! Year 11 Dance student Charlie Thomson and Year 12 Dance student Chloe Curtis performing in METTLE by QUANTUM LEAP AUSTRALIA last weekend💃🌟

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THE EDGE

A new contemporary dance work.

Congratulations Emily McCoy, Yr 12 for smashing her lead role in the recent contemporary Dance Production with The Training Ground - The Edge.

THE EDGE pulls audiences into a razor-sharp world where corporate power meets psychological unravelling. This trail-blazing dance experience exposes the machinery beneath the polished surface — unflinching, intoxicating, thought-provoking.

With a cast of elite dancers from the ACT and surrounding areas, this production showcased the remarkable talent emerging from a rigorous 6-month contemporary dance training program.

Congratulations to Poppy Henderson, Yr 11, who was awarded the Highly Commended Prize in the Senior Category at the 2026 Canberra Museum and Gallery (CMAG) Secondary School Photography Prize.

The 2026 CMAG Secondary School Photography Prize attracted a record 225 photographic entries submitted by 85 students from 20 schools across the ACT and surrounding regions.

Students were invited to create original photographs in response to Maria Fernanda Cardoso's Spiders of Paradise exhibition at CMAG, which combines art, science and nature through large-scale photography and immersive video to reveal the extraordinary colour, beauty and courtship rituals of Australia's tiny Maratus spiders.

Entries were judged on both technical skill and the strength of each student's creative response to the exhibition. The judges looked for photographs that demonstrated compelling imagery, a distinctive personal voice, and thoughtful engagement with the exhibition's themes.

Winning and selected student works are currently featured in a digital exhibition at Canberra Museum and Gallery alongside Spiders of Paradise, on display until 23 August 2026.

As part of the prize, winners have also been invited to participate in an exclusive photography workshop with professional photographer and 2026 CMAG Secondary School Photography Prize judge Ben Kopilow, providing a valuable opportunity to further develop their photographic practice.

Congratulations again to Poppy on this outstanding achievement.

NAIDOC events this week at CC. Today we enjoyed a staff V Student Buroinjin game. Rumour has it that the staff players were a competitive bunch!

The latest edition of Canberra College’s anthology of student writing is out now! Titled That Is Why, it’s a collection of short stories, poems and monologues, written by students in 2025, that will make you laugh and think and escape into the minds and worlds of others. It is now available for borrowing from our library.

Congratulations to all the past and present students who contributed work, including Sienna M for the beautiful cover artwork.

Huge congratulations to our amazing Emily McCoy! The Australian Classical Challenge was last week over 3 tough and competitive days. Emily performed her way through each challenging level of the comp, eventually 🏆WINNING the senior contemporary finals!!

Emily won $3k (towards tuition in dance) and an impressive trophy.

Australian Classical challenge is one of the most prestigious dance competitions in Australia and we are very proud of her!

A close up peek at some of the fabulous student work showcased last night at our Term 2 Art and Ceramics Exhibtion. Congratulations to students and teachers, Kathleen, Shelley and Grace.