West of the Darling
West Darling Arts
Overview
Areas Covered: Broken Hill, Central Darling and Wentworth.
Our Approach
The Art Start Project 'Western Story Lines' will see participants in each location spend five days full time with two professional arts practitioners. With only 12 places available in each community, this three week project is ideally suited to young people aged 14-16 years who have an interest in performing, documentary and/or film making. Using documentary film making techniques, participants will explore themes of isolation, including, but not limited to:
• The positive and negative aspects of ISOLATION in remote communities.
• A young person’s connection to the idea of ISOLATION whether it is social, emotional, physical, economic or a geographical response.
• The broader interpretation of ISOLATION through both environmental and personal experience.
Ideas will be explored through both drama activities and stories will be documented through mediums of film making e.g. moving footage, still images (photography), slow motion and documentary style interviews.