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High school competitions 2025

You're invited to enter our annual highschool creative competition! If you're a student in Years 10, 11 or 12, it's time to get your creative ideas flowing. 

We have five competitions this year in Photography, Fashion, Songwriting, Acting and Filmmaking.

Submissions for all of our competitions close on Sunday 27th July, 2025.

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Competition Categories:

Short Film Competition

Here at Collarts, we believe that Your Stories Matter! We celebrate the art form of diverse storytelling being told by diverse voices! The Collarts’ short film competition provides the opportunity for aspiring filmmakers to showcase their craft by submitting a short film that either aims to inspire, challenge or captivate on every level.

Short films can be any genre, fiction, non-fiction or documentary style. Films must be between 2-5 minutes in length.

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Competition Details

Got Questions? Email: competition@collarts.edu.au with any questions or support with your submissions.

Monologue Competition

Perfecting your craft is key at Collarts. Show us your acting talents with our Monologue competition. Perform an existing piece from theatre, film or television from our prescribed list below.

We encourage you to take your performance to the next level with costumes and props, even a backing audio track to really set the mood.

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Competition Details

Got Questions? Email: competition@collarts.edu.au with any questions or support with your submissions.

Photography Competition

At Collarts, one of our core values is connection and the importance of our inclusive, safe and supportive community. We invite young creative photographers to interpret the competition brief below:

“Home” What does Home mean to you? Is it a physical place? Is it connecting with friends or family or community? Perhaps it’s a thing or a feeling?

Keywords that can assist in your creative process might be “Belonging, Place, Community, Emotional Connection”.

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Competition Details

Got Questions? Email: competition@collarts.edu.au with any questions or support with your submissions.

Songwriting Competition

We invite young musicians and songwriting talents to submit their demo of an original song either as a solo performer or part of an ensemble. First prize winners will get their original demo recorded at our state of the art recording studios by our award winning industry professionals.

Demos submitted must be an original piece by the solo or ensemble artists and you must accompany the submission with the lyrics in a written format in a word or PDF document.

Demo submissions must be in MP3 file format alongside the lyric document.

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Competition Details

Got Questions? Email: competition@collarts.edu.au with any questions or support with your submissions.

Fashion Competition

We invite young budding fashion talents to submit their Re-Purposed garment designs and ideas as part of our 2025 competition.

There are two submission options so it is open to both Fashion Designers and Marketers. You can either design a garment OR you can style an outfit or range of looks using pre-loved/thrifted garments.

The future of fashion is all about sustainability, so ensure that your submissions fit the brief as outlined in the ‘competition requirements’ section below.

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Competition Details

Got Questions? Email: competition@collarts.edu.au with any questions or support with your submissions.

CREATIVITY CAN’T WAIT. NEITHER CAN YOU.
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