Blak Superheroes
Years 7 - 8
One-off workshop
In this workshop, students will engage with visual artworks by Dylan Mooney, a proud Yuwi man from Mackay, Queensland, with connections to the Torres Strait and South Sea Islands. He is an artist with disability who creates paintings, drawings, and digital illustrations in an exciting comic book style. Dylan’s art tells stories about strength, survival and love.
Your students will be excited by contemporary art practice and do a drawing activity exploring symbols before expanding on descriptive language and characterisation. Students will create their own superheroes with a unique and powerful talisman, sharing stories in the form of a short narrative. Students will develop skills to make their writing more personal, inventive and engaging.
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Creates literary texts that explore students’ own experiences and imagining (ACELT1607)
Creates literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings (ACELT1794)
Creates texts that adapt language features and patterns encountered in literary texts, for example characterisation, rhyme, rhythm, mood, music, sound effects and dialogue (ACELT1791)
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Analyses how meaning is created through the use of and response to language forms, features and structures (EN4-URA-01)
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Kyah the Brave of Dharug
The arrow. This wasn’t just any weapon. No, It was a weapon that was inherited and survived multiple generations. Once it was in Kyan’s possession, a sense of pressure hit her. This arrow was made for saving Dharug and to weaken the strong and it was all in Kyan’s hands. She cared for the responsibility and she was one of the best. The arrow had many edges. All being dull but one was extremely sharp. That’s what weakened and slowed down the enemies. This weapon saved the Dharug land and that’s what mattered.
-Faith, Year 7, 2025 Gledswood Hills High School
Available in Semester 1, 2026.
