Big Night Out

This term's ‘Big Night Out’ in the College Theatre showcased Bentley’s Arts program, providing a great night of entertainment for family, friends, students and staff!

Hosted by College Captains and talented Arts students Able and Jemma, the event brought together Secondary Music, Drama and Dance students and delivered an array of entertaining performances across two acts.

Well done to all the creatives who performed at this special evening:

• Musicians and vocalists: Lily, Heidi, Khloe, Oscar, Samantha, Gwendolyn, Sophia, Akamoe, Creana’Lee, Jeremy, Miley, Billy, Jason, Felicia, Rhys, Giaan, Jemma and Able, and the BPC Jazz Combo and Senior Choir.
• Actors: Nye, Kassie, Uneke, Taylor, Johnathon, Jake, Lily and Heidi
• Dancers: Bella, Genevieve, Aria, Savanna, Tiana, Nelia, Nelly and 7A Dance

The performances were beautifully complimented by the Art Gallery in the Theatre Foyer, with a magnificent display of painting, drawing, sculpture and ceramics created by our visual arts students. Congratulations to the winners of the inaugural ‘People’s Choice Art Awards’  -  Year 12 student Brooke for her painting 'Tainted Mind', and Year 9 student Elise for her turtle sculpture!

A massive thank you to our dedicated Arts staff for their work behind the scenes in the lead up to and on show night - Fiona Johnson (Music), Ivana Nicolaou (Music), Georgia Henson (Dance), Rachael Fullston (Arts), Adam Nash (Drama), Adam McCormick (Film), Karen Howser (Art) and Manuela Moro (Art)!

Big Night Out: Performances

Big Night Out: Visual Arts

People's Choice sculpture by Elise

Cairns Eisteddfod

The 2025 Cairns and District Junior Eisteddfod runs from 19 June to 4 July, with many BPC students performing on the stages of CPAC and the CDJE Hall over the 16 days.

School competitions were held this week – congratulations to all our performers! A huge thank you to teachers involved – Mrs Johnson, Mr Nash, Miss Henson, Mrs Nicolaou, Mr Barbagallo, Ms Bowen and Ms Hosking. Thank you also to our parents and carers for supporting these events!

Music:

• Percussion Ensemble: 2^nd place
• Stage Band: 3^rd place
• Secondary Choir - Vocal Ensemble: 3^rd place
• Concert Band: Highly Commended
• Junior Band: Highly Commended
• Secondary Choir – Modern Chorus: Highly Commended

 Drama:

• Shakespeare Monologue - Johnathon: 1st place
• Myth Legend Original Poem/Yarn - Taylor: 1st place
• Senior Set Poem - Johnathon: 1st place
• Year 7-9 Drama troupe: Highly Commended
• Poetry recitals - Nye and Taylor: Highly Commended
• Shakespeare Monologue - Taylor: Highly Commended

 Dance:

• Secondary Contemporary and Jazz Dance performances

Cairns Show Billboard Competition

Congratulations to Year 12 Visual Art student Chase for winning 1st prize in the digital art section of the 2025 BLA Cairns Show Billboard Competition with this work, Peace Out ! 

Chase's work will be displayed on a 12 meter-long billboard at Scott Street during the Cairns Show, and he will attend the BLA Awards ceremony at the Pullman Cairns International Hotel in November.

Receive>Respond

Year 12 Visual Art student, Wendy, was selected to participate in the 2025 Receive > Respond arts challenge, with the culminating exhibition launching at Tanks Arts Centre recently.

Artists aged 15 to 25 in the Cairns region are paired with another artist, with each artist responding in some way to that image to create a new artwork.

The resulting exhibition places the paired works together and gives the artists the chance to meet each other and discuss their responses.  Wendy is pictured here with her artwork on the left, ‘Metamorphosis’, and the paired work ‘The Glow Within’.

The exhibition runs at Tanks Arts Centre until Thursday 26 June, from 9am to 4.30pm Monday to Friday and 10am to 2pm on the weekends.

Thank you to Cairns Regional Council, Peninsula Art Educators Association, Cairns Art Gallery and The Tanks for giving young artists this enriching artistic opportunity.

Upcoming Arts Events:

• Cairns and District Junior Eisteddfod: 19 June – 4 July
• Year 12 Drama: School holiday rehearsal 11-12 July
• Cairns Show Band and Dance performances: Thursday 17 July
• Year 9 Dance excursion to see Dance North: Thursday 24 July
• ‘It’s a Mad World’ School Performance Tour: Wednesday 20 August
• College Band Tour to Melbourne: 29 August to 2 September