About this Project?
'Boys Dance Workshops' is a series of workshops based in three local primary schools working specifically with 12 year old boys, with a view to introducing them to movement and basic dance.

These workshops will lead to a public performance by the boys.

The workshops aimed to teach young teen males acceptable and comfortable expressions of male movement and dance, as well as expose them to positive local male role models.

Contact email: timbyds@tpg.com.au

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Fashion Design and Parade was a series of 12 two-hour workshops in which young people designed and made garments that they modelled at 'Youth on Parade' held on 16 November, 2007.

Participants learnt an extremely wide range of skills throughout the program, including use of equipment (sewing machine & overlocker etc), fabric selection and layout, pattern preparation, garment construction, pressing techniques, promotional material design, team work, make-up and hair teachniques, and modelling.

Contact email: admin@chesonc.ngo.org.au

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Flying Pig Adventures Art Program was run as a series of 10 workshops revolving around painting a drawing skills. The culmination of the project was a painting on the back of the mobile outreach/adventure trailer.

The program was extremely popular and engaged 23 young women from the local area. Skills taught included selection of brush strokes, the use of line and colour, selection of materials and surfaces, and art for different contexts. We also focused on general life skills, such as team work, and commitment to an ongoing project.

Contact email: michelean@bigpond.com.au

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Landing was a dance and theatre performance project involving 14 young participants from the Fairfield area. Through a 12-week process of workshops in devising performance and in performance skills, a new work was created by the participants, opening in the Fairfield School of Arts. The 30-minute work explored the participants' ideas about home, land, and the places with which they identified.

"It was hard to adapt to at first, like any other first home, but for seven years it was my sanctuary, a place of comfort, attachment and security. Shelter from danger."
                                                           - script extract, written by participants

Contact email: claudia@pyt.com.au

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'Living Space and Linking Common Threads' was an art project that involved the production of an external mural using the techniques of painting and stencilling to expore individual personal styles of the diverse young people living on campus at Live 'n' Learn.

The particpants explored a range of artistic styles in a series of workshops and planned a design for their mural piece based on what they had learned.
 
The final three workshops focused on the production of the mural and the placement of the particpants' individual designs into personal 'shadows' that were traced onto the wooden panels. The shadows symbolically represented the outer form that others saw, while the individual designs inside the shadows represented the creative inner life of the participants, and the way they saw themselves.  

Contact email: kane@livenlearn.com.au

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New Look Bonnyrigg Youth Centre was a series of workshops held for local young people to develop new artworks to be built into the Bonnyrigg Youth Centre flooring, and signage for the front of the Centre.

Young people worked with a youth arts worker and Guppy and Associates to workshop ideas and develop some amazing works.

Aimed to deveop skills in design and contaxt-appropriate art forms, as well as drawing/sketching, and computer-based graphic design.  

Contact email: phope@fairfieldcity.nsw.gov.au

About this Project?
Young parents had a portrait photo sitting for their children. They then particpated in a training session on techniques for photographing children, and given disposable cameras to practice their new skills on their children during the week.

The participants were also invited to attend scrapbooking classes to make scrapbook frames for the portraits of their child. The portraits were then displayed during an event at the OpportUNITY cafe, enabling the young parents to show their work. 

Contact email: ydoyle@burnside.org.au

About this Project?
Hip Hop Dance lessons for young women (targeting young women from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse backgrounds). A series of workshops running from various venues across Campbelltown and Camden.

The workshops aim to increase skills in dance and movement, creative expression, rhythm and music appreciation, cultural awareness and self-confidence.

Contact email: erin@mdsi.org.au