Areas Covered

Marrickville, Leichhardt, Ashfield, Burwood, Canterbury, Strathfield and Canada Bay

Our Approach

For the 2011 ArtStart program, Queen Street Studio invites expressions of interest from individual artists, groups, organisations and facilitators to develop art projects within their local communities for and with young people. To support existing and new youth initiatives that further enrich the cultural activities in this unique area of Sydney.

ArtStart Projects

Game Plan
Project Organisation Rozelle Neighbourhood Centre
Location Rozelle
Facilitators and Artists Ever After Theatre Company, Legs on the Wall and Rozelle Neighbourhood Centre
About this Project Acclaimed physical theatre company Legs On The Wall are joining forces with Rozelle Neighbourhood Centre’s Ever After ensemble to run “Game Plan”, a project which will enable young people with a disability to access skills development workshops and e
Contact Email: leisure@rnc.ngo.org.au
Check this project out: http://everaftertheatre.wordpress.com/lates/

Impressions
Project Organisation Rosemount Good Shepherd Youth and Family Services
Location Marrickville
Facilitators and Artists Arunus
About this Project A community Photo Voice project called “Impressions”, designed to highlight and celebrate the views and voices of young people through the creative medium of photography. The participants will benefit from the project by learning and developing skills in photography and editing and participating in various workshops and a final exhibition.
Contact Email: lynharrison@rosemountgs.org.au
Check this project out: http://www.rosemountgs.org.au

Check it Out
Project Organisation Youth Block and Babushka Youth Arts Inc
Location Newtown and surrounds
Facilitators and Artists Jennie Bradbury
About this Project Babushka Youth Arts Inc are teaming up with Camperdown Youth Health Service to creatively and artistically engage marginalised young people in Sydney’s Inner West through a series of workshops across drama, physical theatre and visual arts to address sexual health and ethics.
Contact Email: info@babushkaproductions.com
Check this project out: http://vimeo.com/30115250

CreAYT Workshops
Project Organisation Ashfield Youth Theatre
Location Ashfield
Facilitators and Artists Curious Works
About this Project Ashfield Youth Theatre (AYT) is teaming up with leading new-media and arts organisation CuriousWorks to deliver a series of 8 intensive and hands-on workshops in film and new-media making, to a team of young people from Sydney\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s inner west.
Contact Email: aimeef@ashfield.nsw.gov.au
Check this project out: http://ashfieldyouththeatre.com/2011/09/22/we-like-the-ball-game/

Mosaic Workshops
Project Organisation Wesley Mission
Location Ashfiled
Facilitators and Artists Stephen Sion
About this Project A mosaic art project with young people from the Ashfield area that will be presented as a permanent public fixture in footpaths and walls in the municipality of Ashfield.
Contact Email: Dennis.Laris@wesleymission.org.au
Check this project out: http://ashfieldmosaic.blogspot.com/

DIY Music Video Workshops
Project Organisation Twenty Ten
Location Newtown and surrounds
Facilitators and Artists Tiger Brown and Dean Allan from Jump Academy
About this Project A series of 4 x DIY Music Video Workshops where participants will learn the skills and process of pre production, production, editing and the sound component to create music videos. Along with this, the young people will create a \"workshop video\" to document the process, and share the skills they learned while making these music videos.
Contact Email: rebecca@twenty10.org.au
Check this project out: http://www.twenty10.org.au/for-young-people#diymusicvid

Vacant Room
Project Organisation PACT Centre for Emerging Artists
Location Erskenville and surrounds
Facilitators and Artists Halcyon Macleod, Cat Jones and Julie Vulcan
About this Project Vacant Room: an emerging artist program that offers interdisciplinary emerging artists the opportunity to develop a new idea or project with the artistic support and mentorship of the company and guest artists.
Contact Email: associatedirector@pact.net.au
Check this project out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-mzEiFJLvs