By Charlene Gatt
VICTORIA University is calling on youths to get their art on over the school holidays at Footscray Community Arts Centre.
The university started its Culture Shack event yesterday and will spend until 20 April in play-building, physical theatre, animation, digital sound composition, video, slam poetry and the history of hip hop workshops.
Artists from all over the globe – including Brett Reynolds from Young Playwrights Inc in New York, Canadian Hip Hop artist Nantali Indongo and local social enterprise Youthworx Media – will be running the workshops.
Project director Dr Anne Harris said she hoped the event would encourage more youths from refugee and multicultural backgrounds to get into further education.
“Culture Shack responds to that need by offering free community-based workshops, which assists the participants to work toward Certificate and Diploma credit in Creative Industries,” Dr Harris said.
“The School of Education is continuing its commitment to provide innovative, sustainable and creative pathways for all students to access vocational and higher education in the areas in which they thrive.”
The workshops will culminate with a special one-day public event on 21 April called Artful Practices: A Community Conversation, which will showcase the work.
