Front Page of the Industry Document

In a response to frequent requests for detailed information about the status of VCA particularly from Arts Businesses, SAVE VCA have produced a document which gives readers “the full story” all in one place. Indeed many VCA staff and students will find some of the information new, such is the difficulty in getting detailed information from the University of Melbourne and from Dean Sharman Pretty. If you don’t have time to read the whole document, there is a two page Executive Summary (in the PDF below).

You will find a full copy of this document here > SaveVCA Information for the Arts

Screenshot of the VCA Video

Brumby has pledged to answer the question which gets the most votes.

Visit the YouTube channel, click on “Vote”, click on the “The VCA” video and give it a Green “Thumbs Up”

http://www.youtube.com/user/premierofvictoria

Thanks for your help!

The seven-metre-high King Kong being built by CTC at a workshop in West Melbourne. The finished creature will be controlled by 70 motors.

The company employs 32 full- time staff and has had 14 VCA graduates working in its puppet fabrication department. The company expects to employ 60 people on its King Kong project by next year.

But Mr Tilders said the company’s future in Melbourne and Australia was ”potentially capped” by the lack of talented creative staff it could draw on. ”This is one of our biggest issues; we need people with the skills and practical experience, but also the sensitivity to this genre,” Mr Tilders said. Read on…

From “Brumby spurns calls for financial help to VCA“, The Age Newspaper 27-08-09

THE State Government has rejected calls to provide a financial lifeline to the Victorian College of the Arts in the face of growing opposition to its merger with Melbourne University.

With a high-profile delegation of former arts ministers to meet the university’s vice-chancellor Glyn Davis tomorrow to voice their concerns, Jeff Kennett has called for Premier John Brumby to step in. Read on…

The VCA was discussed in an epic debate at Parliament House

The transcript of yesterday’s marathon VCA debate that resulted in all Members unanimously passing the motion which ‘expresses its concern that the actions of the University of Melbourne, with limited consultation, have not been consistent with the assurance of the State Minister for Finance in the second reading debate of the Melbourne University (Victorian College of the Arts) Bill in 2006 that the integration would “guarantee that the College’s role as Australia’s pre-eminent provider of visual and performing arts training and education can continue.”

You can view the documents as follows

Liberal Notice Of Motion (pdf)

Hansard Document – Council 16 September 2009 (pdf)