Teacher Professional Learning: Making and Recording Music in the Classroom

Event available in-person and online

Discover how to make and record music in your classroom with know-how, tools and the music industry tricks from leading South Australian musicians and sound artists Margie Jean Lewis and Kiera Simmons.

In this workshop, you will learn how to:

• Create music with what you have in the classroom. 
• Capture sound using low-tech solutions. 
• Use free software to finish your tracks so they are ready to share. 

Along the way, the workshop will highlight copyright and student artist permissions to help your students to understand the value of their creativity and protect it.

This workshop provides an engaging hands-on experience where you can connect with like-minded colleagues and to have your questions answered by experienced teaching artists with real-world experience.

A certificate of professional learning will be provided. This professional learning workshop will support you in demonstrating the following AITSL Australian Professional Standards for Teacher: 2.1, 2.6, 3.4, 6.2

Workshop Teaching Artists 

Keira Simmons 

Keira J. Simmons (she/they) is a South Australian sound artist and sound designer. She creates projects that explore bodily engagement with place and sound, through speculative soundwalking and performing meditative ambient sets. Collaborating with local and global artists on creative projects, her work focuses on queerness, ecology, neurodivergence and embodied theatrical experiences. 

Listen: keirasimmons.com  
Follow: instagram.com/keira.sound 

Margie Jean Lewis 

Margie Jean Lewis is a South Australian musician, composer, multi-disciplinary artist and floral designer who lived and worked in Dublin, Ireland for 13 years before returning to her hometown of Adelaide in 2020. Specialising in vocals, violin, loopstations and electronic sound design, she is known for her live performances of intricately crafted ethereal soundscapes and has toured throughout Ireland, UK and Europe. 

Listen: soundcloud.com/margiejeanlewis  
Follow: instagram.com/margie__jean


Bookings are essential.

Important Booking Information  

This Carclew in Schools program is supported by the South Australian Government through the Department for Education. This event is generously subsided for Department for Education teachers.  

Bookings are prioritised for teachers employed by the Department for Education and must be made with your Department for Education email address. 

Places may be offered to Independent and Catholic Education teachers. To be on the waitlist, please book using your school email and select  ‘Wait List: Independent/CESA Teachers’ ticket.  We will be in touch if places become available. 


Accessibility information 

For in-person ticket holders, this event will occur within Carclew's Ballroom on the ground floor, ramp entrance available at rear of building.

Further information about accessibility for this venue is available on Carclew's website.