QUEENSLAND PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE ANNUAL REPORT ...

About the Queensland Performing Arts Centre
2011-2012 ANNUAL REPORT
The Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) is the State’s leading home of live performance. Located on the banks of the
Brisbane River, QPAC is one of four organisations that make up the state’s Cultural Centre.
QPAC fosters an environment of innovation, creativity, entrepreneurship and learning. QPAC is driven by a desire to entertain,
a capacity to create and the genuine wish to support moving and memorable experiences.
QPAC’s operations are underpinned by a belief in the essential value of performing arts as well as the broader contribution
art can make to cities and societies. QPAC encourages participation in the arts and engagement in creative process as a means
of promoting learning, wellbeing, civic participation and social inclusion. QPAC takes a leading role in the advancement of
research and debate that articulates the value of creative industries as fundamental drivers of economic growth.
Each year QPAC showcases the best in performance from Australia and around the world. Our venues host leading
international and Australian actors, dancers, musicians, artists and companies. In addition, QPAC produces or coproduces
some of Australia’s most innovative and successful shows.
QPAC is also a performance home to some of the State’s leading performing arts companies including Queensland Theatre
Company, Company Queensland Ballet, Queensland Symphony Orchestra and Opera Queensland.
Host to over a million people in 2011-12, QPAC delivers integrated services designed to offer audiences an experience that
extends beyond the walls of the theatre, providing information and exchange before they arrive and inviting dialogue after
they have gone.
Our Purpose
QPAC is operated by the Queensland Performing Arts Trust (the Trust). The Trust is a Queensland Government statutory body,
created and with responsibilities outlined in the Queensland Performing Arts Trust Act 1977.
The Trust’s purpose, as set out in the Act, is to contribute to the cultural, social and intellectual development of all
Queenslanders. In achieving this purpose, the Trust functions:
a. to produce, present and manage the performing arts in the building occupied by the Trust at the Queensland Cultural
Centre or any other building;
b. to establish and conduct schools, lectures, courses, seminars and other forms of education in the performing arts;
c. to teach, train and instruct persons and promote education and research in the performing arts;
d. to provide or assist in providing premises and equipment for the purpose of the presentation of the performing arts;
e. to promote and encourage the development and presentation of the performing arts;
f. to promote and encourage public interest and participation in the performing arts;
g. to promote and encourage either directly or indirectly the knowledge, understanding, appreciation and enjoyment of the
performing arts;
h. to encourage, for persons resident in Queensland
i. participation as performers for the performing arts; and
ii. involvement in other aspects of the performing arts
i. to perform the functions given to the trust under another Act;
j. to perform functions that are incidental, complementary or helpful to, or likely to enhance the effective and effi cient
performance of, the functions mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (i);
k. to perform functions of the type to which paragraph (j) applies and which are given to the trust in writing by the Minister.
For performing its functions, the Trust has all the powers of an individual and may, for example, enter into arrangements,
agreements, contracts and deeds; acquire, hold, deal with and dispose of property; engage consultants; appoint agents and
attorneys; charge, and fi x terms, for goods, services, facilities and information supplied by it; and do anything else necessary
or desirable to be done in performing its functions.
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