"A purpose-built facility where the school can showcase our Arts programs to students’ families and our industry partners is an exciting prospect.”
The Performing Arts Centre includes a music classroom plus four rehearsal/practice rooms, a media lab/classroom, recording studio and learning space, drama classroom, dance studio, theatre and sound stage with dressing rooms and a props/scenery store that will all connect to an outdoor stage area.
The Performing Arts Centre will not only provide Heatley Secondary College students with high-level learning and performance facilities in Dance, Drama and Music but also the Townsville community with much needed rehearsal, performance, recording and production spaces. The theatre/sound stage and recording studio will enable the establishment of a valuable community partnership which allows students to be involved in an incubator program where they will act as house engineers and technical assistants supporting the venue hire program.
Another aspiration for the new space is to establish a community radio station. Broadcasting beyond the school grounds, the station would provide an opportunity to connect with the community. We aim to have recording artists come in so students are able to tap into their expertise.
