1. Community engagement: a School perspective.
School of Arts and Sciences Brisbane

2. ACU Strategic Plan
Student Experience Research and Knowledge Transfer Catholic Identity and Mission Service Delivery and Enablers

3. School Strategic Plan
Our school will focus on teaching, learning, research and service in arts, humanities and social sciences. We focus on these as they contribute to the common good and give the Australian Catholic University a distinctive place in Australian higher education. We are committed to finding ways to express our Catholic mission and identity through our creative arts teaching, research and community engagement.

7. Alasdair Macintosh

9. Develop “Community Arts partnerships” and engagement through our distinctive Catholic identity in teaching, research and community engagement:
Our school’s teaching, research and community partnerships have a distinctive focus. Our focus contrasts with Griffith University(arts practice), University of Queensland (fine arts/theory), Queensland University of Technology (creative industries) approaches.
Our “Community Arts partnerships approach” seeks to allow specialisation as well as integration in the disciplines of Music, Drama and Visual Arts as they intersect with human services.
Our focus of life long learning in Arts works within partnerships with churches, hospitals, choirs and theatre in social contexts developed with Catholic Hospitals, Catalyst, Conservatorium of Music, Queensland Art Gallery, schools and various community arts collaborators.

10. Visual arts Exhibitions (10 per year)
Art partnerships (Qld Art Gallery, Prison Fellowship, refugee arts, art and theology…)
Research (Art in community contexts) Honours, MPhil and PhD.
Art in education (schools and community arts)

12. 7500 children participated in the project with 5000 tiles throughout the hospital.

15. Gallery in the Hospital

16. Wesley Hospital project

17. “Let all the brothers, however, preach by their deeds”
Music
“Let all the brothers, however, preach by their deeds”
St Francis of Assisi

18. Music
Creator
Re-creator
Consumer

19. Links to the University Community

20. Links to the local community

22. Links to the wider community

23. Contributions A Variety of Voices Concert Series
An Evening with the Arts
The Cathedral of St Stephen Concert Series
The Young Voices Festival
Ceremony of Readings and Carols
St Stephen’s Christmas Choir
Youth4Unity Peace Congress (Kidz2Kidz Choir)
Catholic Education Week
ACU Graduation Ceremony

24. Research Project: Music as a focus for community engagement. 2006/2007
Conference presentation 2006
Refereed paper 2007

25. Applied theatre enhancing community relationship
Drama
Applied theatre enhancing community relationship
The McAuley Medieval Fayre (Annually)
‘Queenslander’ Fair Q150 celebration (2009)
Children’s Theatre (Bi-annual)
‘The Golden Year’s Project’ (2009)
‘Kin’ Catalyst Clemente Program (2008)
‘Cold Comfort’ Homeless Project (2004)
‘Scattered People’ Refugee Arts Enrichment Program (2007)
‘The Big Issue’ Homeless Arts Enrichment Program (2006)
Public performances (3 per semester)

26. “The arts” and the possible…

27. Catholic Identity and Mission

28. We are going upwards, we’ve got a goal and learning is such a positive…it takes your focus off your own problems…
(Catalyst student)

29. SKATING ON SANDGATE ROAD
2009
An ACU and Golden Years
Q150 Collaboration
Art work by BA student
Carol Chay 2009

30. Community Relationships
Understanding
Tradition
Community Relationships
Respect
Acceptance

31. Addressing Graduate Attributes
commitment to values consistent with the University’s Mission
a spirit of service to the community
commitment to good citizenship, including respect for individuals, empathy with persons of differing cultural and religious backgrounds, community responsibility and concern for the environment

32. Catholic Education Week 2008
Children’s Theatre
2008
COMMUNITY LINKS
Shared Wisdom
Shared Learning
Celebration
Catholic Education Week 2008

33. Service Delivery and Enablers
The McAuley Medieval
Fayre
The Importance of Being Earnest
Service Delivery and Enablers CC
Cosi
Romeo and Juliet