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OTYP presented with $20,000 grant

December 5, 2012/in News, Past Projects, Uncategorized /by Outback Theatre For Young People

On the 22nd November, NSW Member for Murray-Darling, John Williams presented Outback Theatre for Young People with a $20,000 grant.

Creative Producer, Mandy Field was presented with the cheque that will go towards the Illuminate Project, which works with communities in the Wakool Shire.

“There will be a big outcome; a show that is basically led by a core ensemble of older students,” Ms Field said.

The grant, supported through the Arts NSW 2013 Arts Funding Program, will fund the project’s ‘toolkit’ which will assist teachers and communities with theatre.

Photo: Deniliquin Pastoral Times

artsHub Award

December 1, 2012/in Griffith, Past Projects, Secret Places, Uncategorized /by Outback Theatre For Young People

We are so honoured to have been selected as the People’s Choice for artsHub’s ‘Innovation Award for a group, organisation or company’ for Secret Places: The Connections Project.

The award recognises an innovative achievement by a group, organisation or company, meaning ‘a notable highly creative and original piece of work produced by a group of artists, arts organisation or company’.

The artsHub awards were developed to “recognise those who create and support work that is exciting, engaging, challenging or simply excellent and to offer recognition of unique and upcoming Australian artists… (and) aims to encourage and recognise creativity and achievement in all areas of the arts.”

This year’s awards attracted 52 nominations from across the country in a wide range of art forms. The judges included industry professionals, Deborah Conway, Steven Maxwell, Barry Strickland, Simon Abrahams and Lisa Dempster.

OTYP in Wakool Shire

October 31, 2012/in Past Projects, Uncategorized, Wakool Shire /by Outback Theatre For Young People

Situated 790 kilometres south west of Sydney, in the western Riverina region of New South Wales, Wakool has a population of just 213. The township has a cafe/post office, hotel, services club and primary school, however high school students must travel to other surrounding towns including Deniliquin. OTYP is excited to be working with this unique community through Illuminate. This is a celebratory theatre project designed to bring young people together from the isolated townships of the Shire.

OTYP in Balranald

October 31, 2012/in Balranald, BYO Grown Up, Past Projects, Uncategorized /by Outback Theatre For Young People

Located in a semi-desert area crossing the Murrumbidgee River, Balranald has a population of around 1,200. Agriculture includes charcoal production, sheep farming and some irrigated cropping. Interestingly, Australia’s first telephone was installed at nearby “Yanga” station. More recently however, OTYP ran ‘BYO Grown-Up’ which was a series of two-week school-holiday workshops, running through January 2012. Each young participant brought to the workshops at some point an adult who belongs to them in some way; a parent, grandparent, older sibling or other relative, carer, neighbour or friend.

OTYP in Hay

October 31, 2012/in Alive and Kicking, Hay, Past Projects, Uncategorized /by Outback Theatre For Young People

Hay is situated in the western Riverina region of south western New South Wales, Australia, and has a population of 2,636 (2006 Census). It is one of the country’s leading wool growing and sheep meat producing areas and has irrigated crops such as watermelon, broccoli and lettuce. In October 2012, the young people of Hay showed off their extraordinary talents with the final performance of Outback Theatre for Young People’s Alive and Kicking project.

OTYP in Griffith….

October 31, 2012/in Griffith, Past Projects, Secret Places, Uncategorized /by Outback Theatre For Young People

Griffith is a city in south-western New South Wales and presently has a population of just over 16,000. It is known as Australia’s “Wine and Food Country” thanks to its irrigation which makes it rich in agriculture. OTYP’s most recent work in the area includes Secret Places: the Connections Project which also featured on TV.

What is Alive and Kicking?

October 31, 2012/in Alive and Kicking, Past Projects, Uncategorized /by Outback Theatre For Young People

On October 15, ’12, the young people of Hay showed off their talents with the final performance of Alive and Kicking. For over 20 weeks young people explored theatre, dance, animation, film, photography and story development…weaving together historic photographs, press articles, interviews with older generations.

What is Illuminate?

October 31, 2012/in Illuminate, Past Projects, Uncategorized /by Outback Theatre For Young People

Illuminate is a celebratory theatre project designed to bring young people together from the isolated townships of the Wakool Shire of NSW. This project will work with participants to create art that reflects the strengths, and encourages the resilience, of the communities they belong to. Each two-week intensive will create its own distinct outcome, but also generate ideas, themes and frameworks for a large-scale visual theatre work, which will be produced at the end of the second stage in 2013; and will see each community feeding into one performance outcome that will tour the communities in the Shire.

For more information contact:
Angela Frost, Artistic Director Illuminate
angela@outbacktheatre.com
0433 911 766

What is Reverberate?

October 31, 2012/in Past Projects, Uncategorized /by Outback Theatre For Young People

Reverberate is a two-year music and sound-based theatre project which will bring music and theatrical storytelling together to create an original electronic opera. Working with elective music classes at Deniliquin High School, students from South West Music and an open after-school group, Reverberate will involve a workshop series developing skills in musical story-telling, composition and performance to create an original work based on rural young people’s interpretations of classical themes; and build into a major performance in June 2013.

What is Secret Places: The Connections project?

October 31, 2012/in Past Projects, Secret Places, Uncategorized /by Outback Theatre For Young People

In 2011/12 OTYP in partnership with Powerhouse Youth Theatre produced and created joint works of theatre which were later performed by young people in Griffith and its sister city, Fairfield, in Sydney. The project was about theatrical pen-palling. Creating new dynamic theatre works across large geographical, cultural and social differences.