Artstart - Shopfront Theatre for Young People
Overview
Areas Covered: Sutherland, Hurstville, Rockdale and Kogarah
Our Approach
Our ArtStart program offers a range of projects including podcasting, Le Parkour, improvised music, magazine development, DVD production graphic novel workshops and recycled sculpture design and construction. There are nine projects coordinated by community organisations and young facilitators, additional skills development workshops and over 300 young people involved. Work will be exhibited and performed during the regional program.
Key Festival Events:
- Graphic Novel exhibition, 05/06/2007, Kogarah Library, 5:30 PM
- A City of Shadows & Ice, 18/08/2007, Kogarah Town Square, 7:30 PM
- Sculpture Exhibition, 01/12/2007, Shopfront, Carlton, 7:30 PM
- Winter Arts Days, 30/06/2007, Shopfront, Carlton
- Threshold, 28/09/2007, Shopfront, Carlton, 8:00 PM
Local ArtStart Supporters:
St George Migrant Resource Centre, Kogarah Intensive English Centre, St George Youth Services, Youthzone Youth Centre
Key ArtStart Projects for 2007
Project Organisation:
Youthzone Youth Centre
Location:
Hurstville
Facilitators and Artists:
Edgee Ribiero
About this Project?
The project provided opportunities for disadvantaged young people to gain skills in filming a journal of their experience during a camping trip.
Through a street work program a group of young men who are educationally disadvantaged and from unstable backgrounds were targetted to learn a set of skills in production and editing, recording a physically and emotionally challenging camping trip.
Participants had the opprtunity to gain an introduction to camera equipment, sound, lighting and post production. A short DVD will be produced to show at schools as part of a local education program.
Contact email: admin@shopfront.or.au
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Project Organisation:
Kogarah Intensive English Centre
Location:
Kogarah High School
Facilitators and Artists:
Curiousworks
About this Project?
This Graphic Novel project told stories of difference and separation. Seventeen students from the Intensive Language Centre in Kogarah, aged 14 - 17 years, participated in the project. Despite coming from many different countries, the young people found commonality in their stories of arriving in Australia such as the sadness of leaving friends behind and the struggle with language barriers. Their works were exhibited at Kogarah Library and some students also performed songs they wrote to accompany images with Sydney band Entropic. Some of the works were featured in a large site specific production in Kogarah Town Square in August (A City of Shadows and Ice). The artwork created in this project was beautiful and resonated with a very diverse audience.
Contact email: admin@shopfront.org.au
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Project Organisation:
VibeWire
Location:
Shopfront, Carlton
Facilitators and Artists:
Vibewire: Maddy Phelan, Elizabeth Willhem
About this Project?
A Zine project that combined peer -led education and mentoring, the project included a workshop program with sessions on magazine conceptualisation, writing, photography, layout and design.
The project trained 8 young people in Southern Sydney in a complimentary set of skills around media production, and addressed negative stereotypes of young people in the media.
Contact email: admin@shopfront.org.au
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Project Organisation:
Shopfront Theatre For Young People
Location:
Carlton
Facilitators and Artists:
David Kirkpatrick, Steven Hawker
About this Project?
This series of workshops introduced young people to the processes of setting ip a PA for live performance and gave them the opportunity to mix a live band (young emerging band).
In addition participants had the opportunity to undertake introductory skills development in lighting design for performance, and utilised these skills to set up a rig for a small production and operate lights during the show.
Contact email: admin@shopfront.org.au
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Location:
Carlton
Facilitators and Artists:
Alesha Murray, Mia Elbourne
About this Project?
Participants learned design and building skills in the creation of sculptures and 3-D artworks using recycled materials and natural resources. Final products were included in an exhibition during November and December at Shopfront, Carlton. Participants also learned about recycling processes.
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Location:
Carlton
Facilitators and Artists:
Natalya Ladyko, Nikki J Witt
About this Project?
This project gave 9 young female performers aged 18-25 the opportunity to train in stage combat with a professional fight choroegrapher. This was highly physical and intensive training in an area of the arts industry dominated by males.
The workshops culminated in a demonstration and was also documented on DVD.
Skills attained broadened the skill set of young participants, and brings a new physical awareness to performance - heightening reaction and response time and spatial awareness.
Contact email: admin@shopfront.org.au
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Project Organisation:
Packrat Productions
Location:
Shopfront Theatre
Facilitators and Artists:
David Kirkpatrick, Ruvani Perumal (Producers)
About this Project?
Over 2 nights this event brought over 20 emerging laptop musicians, experimental bands and multi-media artists together for performances at the forefront of technology.
Performers included Space Project, Ruvani Perumal, Michael Cuthbertson, Murray Stace, Leigh Perrett, The Concrete Orchestra, Mee-Lang Phang, Rachelle Wildmare, Dan Portelli, Aemon Webb, KJack Kirkpatrick, Paul Kopetko, Andrew Brown, Andrew Sorensen, & The Medics.
Contact email: admin@shopfront.org.au
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Project Organisation:
St George Migrant Resource Centre
Location:
Shopfront
Facilitators and Artists:
Entropic, Forays 4 You, Sydney Parkour Association
About this Project?
This project engaged young people living in the St George and Sutherland areas who have recently settled in Australia in three strands of arts workshops - Le Parkour, Improvised music and spoken word, and podcasting.
The project aimed to engage young people in a dynamic arts experience which reinforced their connection to community and to each other, and offered skills development in a variety of areas from the innovative and risky manouvres of Le Parkour to the techncal savviness of podcasting. The project also sought to give young people agency through providing a voice for their unique cultural perspectives.
Contact email: admin@shopfront.org.au
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