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    Put pen to page or take to the stage with our short courses in Sydney!

    Ever wanted to write a novel but can’t establish a compelling story arc? Perhaps you make your friends laugh but are afraid to take it to an open mic? Designed to instruct, support and inspire any beginner writer or performer, you can channel your inner comic, poet or actor in one of our creative writing and performance courses.

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    Improve your work skills by learning how to craft and deliver your story through our acting & communication courses online & in Sydney. Everybody has a story to tell. Stories captivate, entertain and motivate people. Being able to confidently tell your story at a gathering, a job interview, business event or on stage is a powerful rewarding skill. The art of performance storytelling has surged in popularity recently with live shows including The Moth, Bespoken Word and Storyclub...

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    Storytelling Course: Write & Tell Stories With Impact

    <p>Improve your work skills by learning how to craft and deliver your story through our <a href="https://www.sydneycommunitycollege.edu.au/courses/writing-performance/acting">acting</a> &amp; <a href=

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    2024-03-12 Tue 12 Mar 2024 - 2024-04-30 Tue 30 Apr 2024
    7 sessions, 17.5 hours total
    6pm - 8:30pm (UTC+11:00) (first session)
    2A Gordon St, Rozelle
    John Knowles
    $429 Limited GST free / $343.20 / $364.70 / $386.10
    Storytelling Course: Write & Tell Stories With Impact

    <p>Improve your work skills by learning how to craft and deliver your story through our <a href="https://www.sydneycommunitycollege.edu.au/courses/writing-performance/acting">acting</a> &amp; <a href=

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    2024-08-27 Tue 27 Aug 2024 - 2024-10-08 Tue 8 Oct 2024
    7 sessions, 17.5 hours total
    6pm - 8:30pm (UTC+10:00) (first session)
    2A Gordon St, Rozelle
    John Knowles
    $429 Limited GST free / $343.20 / $364.70 / $386.10

    Learn how to perform a full length play with our acting short courses in Sydney! Sydney Community College is proud to present this acting course in partnership with Darlo Drama. The Play is an acting class in Sydney where you will discover the thrill of performing a full length play, taking a script from page to stage! The focus of this course, is the rehearsal and performance of a contemporary theatre production, staged in the Darlo Drama Theatre across a season of three...

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    Advanced Acting: The Play

    <p>Learn how to perform a full length play with our <a href="https://www.sydneycommunitycollege.edu.au/courses/writing-performance/acting">acting short courses</a> in Sydney!</p>

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    2024-04-08 Mon 8 Apr 2024 - 2024-06-16 Sun 16 Jun 2024
    15 sessions, 45 hours total
    6:30pm - 9:30pm (UTC+10:00) (first session)
    Darlo Drama Darlinghurst
    Darlo Drama
    $799 Limited inc GST / $639.20 / $679.20 / $719.10

    12 x Sessions + 3 performances

    First read: Mon Apr 8, 630PM-930PM

    REHEARSALS BEGIN: Mon Apr 15, 630PM-930PM

    REHEARSALS CONCLUDE: Mon Jun 10, 630PM-930PM

    SUNDAY REHEARSALS: Sun May 26, 10AM-1PM & Sun Jun 2, 10AM-1PM

    PERFORMANCES: Fri Jun 14 @ 7PM, Sat Jun 15 @ 7PM and Sun Jun 16 @ 5PM

    Improve your work skills by learning the techniques of writing a novel with our comprehensive writing short courses online and in Sydney! There are many different approaches to plotting a novel, some writers find success by broad stroke planning with flexibility and revisions and others benefit from intricate planning before a word is written. Regardless of your chosen strategy, the end goal is always the same: to produce an organized manuscript with a logical beginning, middle,...

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    Creative Writing Course: Novel Planning

    <p>Improve your work skills by learning the techniques of writing a novel with our comprehensive <a href="https://www.sydneycommunitycollege.edu.au/courses/writing-performance/writing">writing short

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    2024-04-08 Mon 8 Apr 2024 - 2024-04-29 Mon 29 Apr 2024
    4 sessions, 10 hours total
    6:30pm - 9pm (UTC+10:00)
    Online via Zoom
    Shannon Curtis
    $270 Limited GST free / $216 / $229.50 / $243
    Enrol in 3 creative writing courses and get 15% off!
    Creative Writing Course: Novel Planning

    <p>Improve your work skills by learning the techniques of writing a novel with our comprehensive <a href="https://www.sydneycommunitycollege.edu.au/courses/writing-performance/writing">writing short

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    2024-10-21 Mon 21 Oct 2024 - 2024-11-11 Mon 11 Nov 2024
    4 sessions, 10 hours total
    6:30pm - 9pm (UTC+11:00)
    Online via Zoom
    Shannon Curtis
    $270 Limited GST free / $216 / $229.50 / $243
    Enrol in 3 creative writing courses and get 15% off!

    Learn the art of performing a story with our acting courses in Sydney! Sydney Community College is proud to present this acting course in partnership with Darlo Drama. Improve your characterisation skills, become well-versed in establishing theatrical relationships, and build your confidence on stage by performing in front of an audience! This course will give you a fundamental understanding of the processes involved in staging a play, such as working as an ensemble, script...

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    Beginner's Acting Level 3: The Story

    <p>Learn the art of performing a story with our <a href="https://www.sydneycommunitycollege.edu.au/courses/writing-performance/acting">acting courses</a> in Sydney!</p>

    <p>Sydney Community College is

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    2024-04-10 Wed 10 Apr 2024 - 2024-06-08 Sat 8 Jun 2024
    11 sessions, 33 hours total
    6:30pm - 9:30pm (UTC+10:00) (first session)
    Darlo Drama Darlinghurst
    Darlo Drama
    $695 Limited inc GST / $556 / $590.80 / $625.50

    COURSE BEGINS: Wed Apr 10, 630PM-930PM

    COURSE CONCLUDES: Wed Jun 5, 630PM-930PM

    PERFORMANCES: Fri Jun 7 @ 7PM & Sat Jun 8 @ 7PM

    Learn how to read and write poetry with our writing courses in Sydney! From the outcries of praise and lament in the Bible to the musical expressions of delight and despair in the songs of Taylor Swift, lyric poetry been helping humanity turn emotional outbursts into art for centuries. In this course, we’ll look at poems that use the lyric ‘I’ to make public declarations of love, sadness, anger, joy, bewilderment, and more – while analysing how poetic modalities can amplify...

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    Creative Writing Course: Reading & Writing Lyric Poetry

    <p>Learn how to read and write poetry with our <a href="https://www.sydneycommunitycollege.edu.au/courses/writing-performance/writing">writing courses</a> in Sydney!</p>

    <p>From the outcries of praise

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    2024-04-10 Wed 10 Apr 2024 - 2024-05-01 Wed 1 May 2024
    4 sessions, 6 hours total
    6:30pm - 8pm (UTC+10:00)
    2A Gordon St, Rozelle
    Louise Carter
    $229 Limited inc GST / $183.20 / $194.70 / $206.10
    Enrol in 3 creative writing courses and get 15% off!

    Improve your work skills by learning the skills of screenwriting and movie script writing with our writing short courses online and in Sydney! This online writing course will be delivered via Zoom with a small class group. Screenwriting is a discipline that requires creativity and imagination - if you can imagine a scene, you can write it. In this scriptwriting course, you will learn techniques for creating memorable scenes, developing character-based and plot-based stories,...

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    Creative Writing Course: Screenwriting

    <p>Improve your work skills by learning the skills of screenwriting and movie script writing with our <a href="https://www.sydneycommunitycollege.edu.au/courses/writing-performance/writing">writing

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    2024-04-22 Mon 22 Apr 2024 - 2024-06-10 Mon 10 Jun 2024
    8 sessions, 16 hours total
    7pm - 9pm (UTC+10:00)
    Online via Zoom
    Gabiann Marin
    $385 Limited GST free / $308 / $327.30 / $346.50
    Enrol in 3 creative writing courses and get 15% off!
    Creative Writing Course: Screenwriting

    <p>Improve your work skills by learning the skills of screenwriting and movie script writing with our <a href="https://www.sydneycommunitycollege.edu.au/courses/writing-performance/writing">writing

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    2024-07-29 Mon 29 Jul 2024 - 2024-09-16 Mon 16 Sep 2024
    8 sessions, 16 hours total
    7pm - 9pm (UTC+10:00)
    Online via Zoom
    Gabiann Marin
    $385 Limited GST free / $308 / $327.30 / $346.50
    Enrol in 3 creative writing courses and get 15% off!

    Advance your acting skills with our acting short courses in Sydney! Sydney Community College is proud to present this acting course in partnership with Darlo Drama. Actor’s Lab is a renowned course that introduces you to a more truthful and personalised way of connecting to your work as an actor. Classes begin with studio based exercises aimed at; creating openness and availability, identifying blocks, releasing control, finding and creating energy and opening the senses to a full...

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    Advanced Acting: Actors Lab

    <p>Advance your acting skills with our <a href="https://www.sydneycommunitycollege.edu.au/courses/writing-performance/acting">acting short courses</a> in Sydney!</p>

    <p>Sydney Community College is

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    2024-05-04 Sat 4 May 2024 - 2024-05-25 Sat 25 May 2024
    4 sessions, 16 hours total
    10am - 2pm (UTC+10:00)
    Darlo Drama Darlinghurst
    Darlo Drama
    $550 Limited inc GST / $440 / $467.50 / $495

    Improve your work skills by learning the techniques of writing a novel through our comprehensive writing short courses online and in Sydney! The interactive live online novel writing course will be delivered via Zoom with a small class group. Writing a novel may seem like a tremendous task to undertake, but this practical novel writing course will give you a comprehensive understanding of the fundamentals of fiction novel writing, along with a writer's toolkit full of techniques...

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    Creative Writing Course: Novel Writing

    <p>Improve your work skills by learning the techniques of writing a novel through our comprehensive <a href="https://www.sydneycommunitycollege.edu.au/courses/writing-performance/writing">writing

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    2024-05-06 Mon 6 May 2024 - 2024-06-17 Mon 17 Jun 2024
    6 sessions, 15 hours total
    6:30pm - 9pm (UTC+10:00)
    Online via Zoom
    Shannon Curtis
    $400 Limited GST free / $320 / $340 / $360
    Enrol in 3 creative writing courses and get 15% off!

    Learn the basics of improvisation with our acting short courses in Sydney! Think on your feet! Have fun and learn the fundamental skills and principles of improvisation, as seen on shows like “TheatreSports”, “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”, and “Thank God You're Here”. We always seek to create a playful and supportive, you-can-do-no-wrong environment in our classes. Our aim is always to coach our students to success. This is a fantastic course to build confidence, improve your...

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    Improvisation Classes for Beginners

    <p>Learn the basics of improvisation with our <a href="https://www.sydneycommunitycollege.edu.au/courses/writing-performance/acting">acting short courses</a> in Sydney!</p>

    <p>Think on your feet! Have

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    2024-05-09 Thu 9 May 2024 - 2024-06-20 Thu 20 Jun 2024
    7 sessions, 15.8 hours total
    6:30pm - 8:45pm (UTC+10:00)
    Darlo Drama Darlinghurst
    Impro Australia
    $385 Limited inc GST / $308 / $327.30 / $346.50
    Improvisation Classes for Beginners

    <p>Learn the basics of improvisation with our <a href="https://www.sydneycommunitycollege.edu.au/courses/writing-performance/acting">acting short courses</a> in Sydney!</p>

    <p>Think on your feet! Have

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    2024-11-04 Mon 4 Nov 2024 - 2024-12-16 Mon 16 Dec 2024
    7 sessions, 15.8 hours total
    6:30pm - 8:45pm (UTC+11:00)
    Darlo Drama Darlinghurst
    Impro Australia
    $385 Limited inc GST / $327.30 / $346.50

    Drop into our Trial class: Intro to Beginners Acting, part of our Acting short course program in Sydney! Are you a complete beginner to acting? Have you always wanted to give it a go but never had the confidence to dive in? Are you ready to step into the world of acting and explore your creative potential and be part of a thriving community? Darlo Drama's 2 hour trial class is an intro to beginners acting and an opportunity for you to see if the classes at Darlo Drama are for you....

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    Beginner's Acting Trial Class

    <p>Drop into our Trial class: Intro to Beginners Acting, part of our <a href="https://www.sydneycommunitycollege.edu.au/courses/writing-performance/acting">Acting short course program</a> in Sydney!</

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    2024-05-18 Sat 18 May 2024 2024-05-18
    1 session, 2 hours total
    10am - 12pm (UTC+10:00)
    Darlo Drama Darlinghurst
    Darlo Drama
    $29 Limited inc GST / $23.20 / $24.70 / $26.10
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