arts & travel
Taking
Centre
Stage Rebecca enrolled to help improve
Ignition Theatre and Melbourne Polytechnic have come part of the course, providing students
aimed specifically at people with disabilities. The course is open industry. “Students do individual,
her communication skills. At the start
of the course, she says “I felt shy”
but now she is “developing better
communication because people can
understand me and I can talk more”.
Her classmate Ben agrees that the
course has helped his communication
and confidence.
Industry placement is also a big
together to offer Australia’s only Certificate 1 course in theatre with real life experience in the theatre
to school leavers and mature age students who have a love for paired and group placements,”
theatre and individual learning needs or disabilities. Anthea
Skinner spoke to the program’s coordinator, Le