Be one of the Youth Curators for The YA Collective presented by Scribblers Festival. Scribblers Festival is looking for people aged 13-17. If you love books, storytelling and festivals, this is your chance to gain skills and experience curating and working on a major event.

Calling all young talents! If you're aged between 12-26 and have a passion for performing, we want you to be part of our busking lineup!

Are you a local band/act under 18? Looking for a gig opportunity to perform to a live audience? Here’s your chance to win a 30 minutes live set and perform with us for KickstART Festival Closing Party – Golden Sounds!

Calling all young creatives aged 12-26: Sign up for the free Paint My Precinct Mural Workshop series and learn the tricks of the trade from a professional mural artist!

Express your interest to be a part of the Sustainable Art for a Sustainable Mind Youth Arts Exhibition presented by KickstART Festival 2024 and City of Melville. Sustainable Art for a Sustainable Mind is a program is for young disabled and neurodiverse people aged 10 to 25 to create new artworks to be exhibited at Atwell Gallery through a series of workshops led by local young artist Neish P. 

Partnering up with SEE & B and WhyNot for Youth Week WA 2024 KickstART Festival, we’re seeking out vibrant and diverse creatives eager to share their unique stories that encapsulates the contributor and their creative journey.

Call to young artists to create an artwork in response to Perth Festival’s Theme: Ngaangk.

This is an open call to artists between 14 and 26 years old, anywhere in WA, to create a new piece of art in response to our 2024 Festival theme ‘Ngaangk,’ meaning both ‘sun’ and ‘mother’ in Noongar.

Submissions for Pulch Issue Three are open now!
To celebrate the new year, Pulch will be opening submissions for their third issue from now until Sunday the 31st of March at 11:59pm, so be sure to share the news with all the young artists and writers who may be interested in getting published with Pulch.

CALLING ALL CREATIVE MAKERS! EOI to be a 2024 Youth Week WA KickstART Festival Market Stall holder is now OPEN.

We are gearing up with Plastic Jungle for the 2024 Youth Week WA KickstART Festival Market, and you can now apply to be one of our stallholders!

The Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarships offer talented young artists (aged 21-35 at the closing date) the chance to explore, study and develop their artistic gifts through travelling either interstate and/or overseas.

In 2024, the scholarships will provide financial support for the disciplines of acting, instrumental music, painting and poetry to help talented Australian artists achieve their dreams. In 2025, the scholarships will provide financial support for the disciplines of architecture, ballet, prose, sculpture and singing.

The ever popular KISS club returns in 2024 with Propel Youth Arts WA’s Youth Week WA KickstART Festival, in partnership with Midland Junction Arts Centre.

KISS club is a showcase of works in progress by emerging and established artists from various live and experimental arts disciplines. It was founded by Sydney artist Karen Therese and has been run by pvi collective, a tactical media group, since 2010. From 2017 to 2020, KISS club was delivered in partnership with PICA, and in 2022, it became a platform exclusive to emerging artists with the inaugural KickstART Edition.

In collaboration with The City of Cockburn, Propel is calling all young artists and creatives ages 12 to 27 to apply for our new funding initiative!  The City of Cockburn is pledging a whopping $10,000 across multiple artists, towards an Expression of Interest (EOI) initiative to shine at the Coogee Live 2024 event. 

The City of Swan is seeking Expressions of Interest from a range of West Australian creatives including but not limited to: authors, poets, playwrights, visual artists, song writers & musicians to participate in the City of Swan’s inaugural Creative Writing Residency. Creatives of all career levels (whether community, amateur, emerging or professional) are encouraged to apply.

The Variety Heart Scholarships support the continued development of talented or gifted WA kids between ages 5 to 17, striving to achieve excellence in fields of the arts, sport, or academics. 

Democracy Repairs Services presented at The Blue Room Theatre between 7 to 25 November 2023, is hosting four community engagement workshop. All workshops are FREE and hosted at The Blue Room Theatre.

Attendees to these workshops will also receive discounted tickets to any performance of Democracy Repair Services. *Discount code will be provided

Young Makers Program is brought to you by Propel and in collaboration with The Blue Room Theatre (TBRT). We are inviting 10 young people from First Nations and CaLD backgrounds (15 - 18 years of age) to experience TBRT’s live performance festival, Summer Nights 2024.

Pitch Your Project is back for Youth Week WA Kickstart Festival 2024! 💫

If you find yourself sitting with a beaming creative idea and are in the age bracket of 12 to 26, pitch your project for the next KickstART Festival in April 2024! Remember your idea can take any shape or form, including (but not limited to!) performances, workshops, exhibitions, talks, and mentorship programs.

MYAC expressions of interest are now open!

Are you passionate about your community and making change? The Minister for Youth is seeking young Western Australians to step up and join her advisory council.

The City of Bayswater invites submissions for 2023 Community Art Awards. Emerging and established artists are invited to submit their artwork into the City’s 2023 Community Art Awards for the opportunity to win up to $5,000 in prize money and have their work on sale to the public.

The team of Democracy Repair Services, are holding auditions this July!
This is a new play by theatre-maker and climate activist Noemie Huttner-Korros (Mother of Compost, The Lion Never Sleeps), directed by Andrew Sutherland (small & cute oh no, Salome delta) is being presented at The Blue Room Theatre in November 2023.