Conquer

Auspice Organisation: Youth Ballet WA

Conquer was a project that gave 20 young ballet dancers an opportunity to work for two weeks with highly experienced contemporary dance choreographer Reed Luplau. The project culminated in a showing at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts.

The dancers were all at the stage in their training where they would soon be leaving Perth and looking for positions in schools and/or companies around the world. One of the key qualities that directors of schools and companies around the world look for is a solid contemporary technique – and more importantly an ability to interpret contemporary movements.

This project allowed the young dancers a fabulous opportunity to extend their abilities in grant writing and project coordination.

Amount Funded: $3000

Kirkos

Auspice Organisation: Disco Cantito

‘Kirkos’ by Circus Allsorts was an indoor, two show performance that comprised of five short performances in different locations on the performance site – City Farm!

Audiences were lead through a sideshow labyrinth as they filter into the main performance venue. In each of these were acrobats performing fire eating, close-up magic, fortune-telling, contact juggling, sculptural exhibits and comedy character performances.

Amount Funded: $2998

Teen Stories

Auspice Organisation: Reel Connections through the City of Stirling.

Teen Stories is the brainchild of young African migrant Gisele Ishimwe. This project provided young people the opportunity to tell their stories through acting and filmmaking.

Each participant was offered the chance to complete a number of film and acting workshops *held by professional mentors from *Filmbites and Frog Prince Productions.

The result of the workshops was a production about the experiences of young migrants that was screened at a launch event for family, friends and community members. The film focuses on young people from migrant backgrounds and the problems they face growing up in two cultures.

Amount Funded: $3000

Winters Past

Auspice Organisation: The D’Angelo Trust

Winter’s Past was an all ages music event conceived by young music lovers, FOR young music lovers.

Taking place at the Fremantle Arts Centre on Saturday the 24th October 2009, it showcased WA local talent to an audience often overlooked in the music scene. In four and a half hours, six bands played including The Veescars, The Morning Night, Simon Kelly and his Band, One Tiger Down, Heathcote Blue and Goodnight.

The event allowed a group of arts administration students the unique chance to practically apply what they had learnt through TAFE.

Amount Funded: $3000

Debut

Auspice Organisation:Free Range Studios and Gallery.

The Debut Project was a youth visual arts project that included a visual arts exhibition featuring seven artists, aged 16 to 18; and a submission art zine that called for submissions from young artists in the general public. This zine was launched concurrently with the exhibition.

The exhibition featured artists working in a broad variety of visual art forms including illustration, photography, street art, painting and sculpture/installation.

Professional artists, including Stormie Mills, Tanya Shultz and Sean Morris mentored each artist over the Summer of 2009.

The exhibition and zine acted to Debut the works of young artists who may not have had the chance to exhibit to the general public as yet.

Amount Funded: $3000

dotdotdash

Auspice Organisation: Black Swan Press

dotdotdash aimed at producing a creative journal providing a space for both literature and art from local youth cultures and the literary and art culture of Australia in general. In order to create dotdotdash the team held a weekend of zine-making workshops at the State Library of Western Australia for young and interested writers and creatives.

The dotdotdash project has been instrumental in connecting the Perth youth literary community over 2009.

Amount Funded: $3000

Arts Workshops with Rob Jenkins

This series of workshops, with artist Rob Jenkins was timed to coincide with national Mental Health Week. The young Project Coordinators aimed to engage young people in the community in a series of arts workshops that explored themes of mental wellbeing.

Through an artistic exploration of what gives young people mental wellbeing as individuals, they were able to raise their awareness of mental health and go some way to reducing any stigma young people may have towards mental illness.

The project resulted in a public exhibition launch at Kurb Gallery in William St Northbridge held on Monday the 19th October. The launch was not only a great opportunity for the visual artists; it also gave great public exposure for the young musicians who performed on the night.

Amount Funded: $2600

Camera Recycle Project

Auspice Organisation: Joondalup Youth Support Service.

The Camera Recycle Project collected disused photographic and technical equipment and put it in the hands of disadvantaged young people. The photographic equipment was donated from the WA community and collated in the form of a “technology library”.

The Joondalup Youth Support Service (JYSS) piloted the library concept through the *COMET program*– an alternative education program for youth.

A professional Perth photographer ran five workshops teaching basic photography and editing skills. The program culminated in a launch at ECU Joondalup on December 8th 2009 showcasing the images that were taken through the workshops.

Amount Funded: $1758

Giant Cold-Blooded Reptile

Auspice Organisation: Remida Creative Reuse Centre.

With the support of Remida Reuse Centre, and mentoring advice from puppet maker Sanjiva Margio, young artist Matt McVeigh and the cross-arts collective collaborated to build a giant reptile puppet.

The giant puppet will be revealed on Remida Day 2009 – a great event where the community and local businesses come together to operate the giant puppet and learn about methods of creative reuse. The giant puppet also appeared as a feature at the ‘Walk Against Warming’ Parade.

Amount Funded: $3000

Viewfinder 6000

Auspice Organisation: Fremantle Multicultural Centre.

The Viewfinder 6000 project saw the development and production of an online photo book that aims to explore the themes of individualism, social alienation and disassociation in adapting to a foreign culture.

Through the use of photography, viewfinder: 6000 relates seemingly arbitrary events surrounding 20 young migrants in Perth to tell a powerful and emotive story of the journey of fitting into an alien culture.

All of the participants telling their stories were given the opportunity to join in photography and creative writing workshops facilitated by professional artists. The images were also curated into an exhibition which acted as the launch of the online photo book.

Amount Funded: $3000