Focus Fest is a professional development conference held annually in Term 4 (usually the first Friday and Saturday of December). Each year, Focus Fest explores a topic or theme primarily catering for secondary school Visual Arts teachers, with cross-disciplinary and cross-curricular connections, which may be of value to secondary teachers in other Key Learning Areas.

Relevant links to the junior syllabus and senior syllabus are incorporated into the two-day program. The program includes presentations, lectures and workshops by museum educators, curators, artists, art critics, experts in related fields and secondary school teachers.

Important notice

Unfortunately the annual Focus Fest teachers conference will not take place in 2008 due to the replacement of the Gallery's escalators and refurbishment of the Domain Theatre, preventing access to Lower Level 2 (Contemporary Art floor) and Lower Level 3 (Yiribana Gallery) from November 2008.

Focus Fest will be back on 4 and 5 December 2009, refreshed with a bold new theme and program.

See Previous years.

Persistent URL:
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/?p=7642