- Project and Job Board8
- Media Asset Library8
- Production and Venue Schedule8
- WHS Incident and Hazard Register8
Ideas made visible
Studio Aurora is a multi-disciplinary creative company that brings design, visual art, screen and live performance together under one roof.
CAQA Studio Aurora, design studio, gallery, screen and live performance
Studio Aurora is a multi-disciplinary creative company that brings design, visual art, screen and live performance together under one roof. From a converted warehouse in Collingwood it runs a graphic and spatial design studio that serves commercial and cultural clients, a public gallery with six curated exhibitions a year, and a 180-seat black box theatre that presents music, dance, theatre and comedy seasons. A Docklands unit produces short-form screen content, documentary and branded video with full post-production. Studio Aurora also tours work to regional Victoria through its Bendigo venue partnership.
The company is organised into six departments: Design Studio, Gallery and Exhibitions, Screen Production, Live Production and Events, Audience and Marketing, and Studio Operations and Finance. Core staff work weekdays, while gallery front of house, theatre crew and screen crews work rostered evenings and weekends around seasons and shoots. Freelance designers, artists, performers, camera operators and technicians are engaged by contract for each project. Every project starts with a brief and a job number and moves through the Project and Job Board from concept to delivery, invoice and archive.
Craft
Work is finished properly, checked by a peer and delivered to specification every time.
Courage
The studio takes creative risks with intent and learns openly from what does not land.
Care
Safety, consent, access and the wellbeing of artists, crew and audiences come before the schedule.
Respect
Creators are credited, paid and protected, and cultural material is handled with permission and humility.
Services and operations
To make ideas visible through design, art, screen and performance that audiences remember and clients trust.
Brand and graphic design
Identity systems, publications, packaging, signage and campaign creative for commercial, government and cultural clients, delivered from brief through concept, artwork and print-ready or digital files.
Exhibition curation and installation
Curated exhibitions of contemporary art and design in the Collingwood gallery, including artist liaison, loans, condition reporting, installation, interpretation and public programs.
Screen content production
Short-form branded content, documentary, music video and social media video from concept and script through shoot, sound, edit, colour grade and delivery to platform specification.
Live performance presentation
Seasons of music, dance, theatre and comedy in the 180-seat black box theatre, with production management, technical crew, ticketing and front of house.
Event and spatial design
Design and technical delivery of launches, festivals and hybrid events, including staging, lighting, vision, sound and wayfinding in venues across Melbourne and regional Victoria.
Regional touring
Packaging exhibitions and productions for tour to the Bendigo venue partnership and other regional presenters, including transport, freight, crewing and marketing support.
Six departments, one workplace
Each department has a purpose, a lead, responsibilities, performance measures and the systems it works in. Students are placed in a department by their scenario.
Design Studio
Takes client briefs from first conversation to delivered artwork. The studio produces identity systems, publications, packaging, s...
Visit departmentGallery and Exhibitions
Curates and delivers six exhibitions a year in the Collingwood gallery and packages selected shows for regional tour. The team man...
Visit departmentScreen Production
Produces short-form branded content, documentary, music video and social video from the Docklands unit. The team scripts, storyboa...
Visit departmentLive Production and Events
Runs the black box theatre and delivers events in other venues. The team manages production schedules, bump in and bump out, stagi...
Visit departmentAudience, Marketing and Ticketing
Builds audiences for exhibitions, seasons and screen releases and manages ticketing, memberships and front of house. The team writ...
Visit departmentStudio Operations and Finance
Keeps the company running: finance, contracts, copyright and licensing, insurance, freelancer engagement and payment, building and...
Visit departmentWorking systems with real records
Every system is live in your browser: create, update, search, move cards on a board and export what you did. Reset returns the seed data at any time.
Project and Job Board
Tracks every client job and internal production from brief to archive with its stage, owner, budget, deadline and approvals.
8 recordsMedia Asset Library
Catalogues footage, photographs, artwork files, fonts, music and the licences and releases that allow each asset to be used.
8 recordsProduction and Venue Schedule
Books the theatre, gallery, studio and crew for rehearsals, bump ins, shows, shoots and installations and tracks whether the safety paperwork is in place.
8 recordsWHS Incident and Hazard Register
Records every injury, near miss, hazard and equipment failure reported across the company with its risk rating, actions and close-out.
8 recordsArtwork and Loans Register
Records every artwork in the gallery's care with its lender, insurance value, condition report status, location and loan dates.
8 recordsInbox
8 work requests from managers and colleagues, each linked to a scenario or a document.
Open inboxEight workplace scenarios
Sign in as a role, read the brief, work through the tasks using the documents and systems, then print an evidence summary for your assessor.
Respond to a brand identity brief
You are a Designer in the Design Studio.
Open scenario Entry 2 to 3 hoursPre-flight and package a catalogue for print
You are a Junior Designer in the Design Studio.
Open scenario Intermediate 4 to 5 hoursCondition report and install an exhibition
You are the Exhibitions Officer in Gallery and Exhibitions.
Open scenario Intermediate 5 to 6 hoursRun a location shoot and cut a social video
You are a Production Assistant and Editor in Screen Production.
Open scenario Entry 3 to 4 hoursCrew a theatre bump in
You are a Technical Crew Member in Live Production and Events.
Open scenario Advanced 5 to 6 hoursPlan an outdoor launch event
You are the Assistant Production Manager in Live Production and Events.
Open scenario Advanced 3 to 4 hoursAudit rights and releases before a campaign
You are the Rights and Contracts Coordinator in Studio Operations and Finance.
Open scenario Intermediate 4 to 5 hoursBuild the audience campaign for an exhibition
You are the Marketing Coordinator in Audience, Marketing and Ticketing.
Open scenarioNotice board All notices
- Safety Chain hoist 3 out of service
8 September 2026 - Compliance Working with Children Check renewals
2 September 2026 - Safety Evacuation drill during Night Music technical rehearsal
9 September 2026
Coming up Calendar
- 14/09Night Music bump in and toolbox talk
8:00 am, Black box theatre - 15/09Evacuation drill during technical rehearsal
2:00 pm, Black box theatre and assembly point - 17/09Marketing meeting, Surface Tension campaign
10:00 am, Studio meeting room - 22/09Location shoot day 2, Wattle Street videos
7:00 am, Community centre, Footscray
Mapped to the Creative Arts and Culture Training Package
Every scenario lists the current units of competency and qualifications it supports, with assessor notes and a printable evidence summary. Use it with your own assessment tools or ask CAQA for a matched kit.