Newsboys Foundation Regional Music Award Winner 2021
Ash Murdica, a student at Drouin Secondary College, is the winner of 2021 Newsboys Foundation Regional Music Award. Ash was undertaking grade 7 AMEB piano, and working towards her grade 4 AMEB theory exam when she won the award. For her application, she performed Frédéric Chopin’s Nocturne in E Minor, Op.72 No. 1 on piano,…
Newsboys Foundation Regional Award Winner 2020
Flautist Eliza Creek, 17, from the small town of Nhill near the border between Victoria and South Australia, has been named as the recipient of the Newsboys Foundation Regional Music Award 2020. A recent story published by The Age is available to read here and our media release is available to read here….
Cycling greats Cadel Evans and George Hincapie in online conversation at 8pm on 4 July 2020
On July 4, to mark what should have been the start of one of cycling’s greatest annual events, the Tour de France, two great cyclists will discuss the highs and lows of their cycling careers and experiences. In an online charity event hosted by SBS cycling commentator Matt Keenan, Australia’s Cadel Evans and America’s George…
Skyline Education Foundation featured in The Age
Congratulations to Skyline Education Foundation on an excellent article in The Age featuring former Skyline students Shehelah Dassenaike and Gypsy Akhyar. Check out The Age article here….
ABC 7:30 interviews Akat Mayoum from Sunshine Heights Cricket Club
Congratulations to Akat Mayoum from Sunshine Heights Cricket Club for his amazing interview on ABC’s 7.30 Report about his cricket journey and the scholarship he received from Newsboys Foundation to go on the life-changing cricket tour to England, Italy and Spain in 2011. In 2019, Akat continues to be an outstanding leader in the club, and in the…
Applications now open for the Melbourne Recital Centre’s Bach Competition
Now in its tenth year, Melbourne Recital Centre’s Bach Competition, including the Newsboys Foundation Regional Music Award is dedicated to young musicians passionate about J.S. Bach. Applications close on Wednesday 8 May 2019 at midnight and the finals will be held at Melbourne Recital Centre on Sunday 16 June 2019. The Newsboys Foundation works with the Melbourne Recital Centre…
New Videos
As part of the Newsboys Foundation’s 125th Anniversary celebrations, a series of videos have been created to document the history of Newsboys Foundation, the 125 BPM concert, and the various organisations Newsboys Foundation has supported in Victoria. Check out our new videos and subscribe to our YouTube channel here….
Phunktional & Melbourne Youth Orchestras documentary short
With support from the Newsboys Foundation, Phunktional & Melbourne Youth Orchestras have recorded a short documentary featuring young people from Robinvale recording original songs for the 6-part miniseries “Stories Beneath the Vale”. Newsboys Foundation was proud to support Phunktional and Melbourne Youth Orchestras (MYO) to make a short documentary featuring young people from MYO and…
Kids Thrive – Kids Manifesto
As part of the Newsboys Foundation 125th anniversary celebrations, we were delighted to partner with Kids Thrive and Arts Centre Melbourne to deliver the inaugural Kids Manifesto event on 22 October 2018. It was a great success! Read all about it on the Kids Thrive website. Congratulations to Kids Thrive on a wonderful event and a big…
125 BPM Concert a great success
125 BPM concert with MYO and OUP at Melbourne Recital Centre to celebrate 125 years of the Newsboys Foundation was a great success. See the rehearsal pics here….