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Reimagining Our Collective Future (All-ages)
Come join an interactive virtual community gathering that invites you to explore the collective future of BIPOC artists, community weavers, and leaders. How might we build deeper relations and connections with one another for years to come?
InsideOUT - Care For Yourself, Care For Others
This workshop will tie together the interdependence of caring for oneself, to then care for others, and caring for others to then care for oneself. Perhaps expanding the resistance in receiving love and giving love. For without the ability to open to receiving this care, and equally giving it out, true care is unachievable.
A Meditation Workshop For Healing, Growth and Inspiration by The Sit
The Sit will run a meditation workshop for healing, growth and inspiration. Facilitated by Amsha Yogaraj and accompanied by Kristin Gibbon, a graduate muscian who will play the flute, guitar and sound bowl for a relaxing sound experience
Securing A Safe Climate Future for WA
A conversation amongst young people with an emphasis on the importance of storytelling and different community roles in securing a safe climate future for WA. Presented by Clean State.
Songwriting with Claudie Joy
Join Claudie Joy for an afternoon of spirited collaboration in the elusive art of song writing. All you'll need is an instrument, a notebook & pen, and a mind ready to wander.
Noongar Language with Sharon Gregory
Why do most of us know some French or Italian but know little of the language of the traditional owners of the South West of WA? Help keep the Noongar language alive with Sharon Gregory in this workshop that is easy to follow and loads of fun. Noongar waangkaniny koort kwobakan (Noongar language makes my heart beautiful).
Expression: From Body to Object
Puppetry is the art of transposing life from oneself into the inanimate. By developing our physical expressiveness in our own bodies, we can extend our skills to create bolder characters in all our work. Participants will train the foundational skills for giving thoughts and emotions a theatrical form, rhythm, and texture.
Bringing Our Goals To Life Through Vision Boards with Carers WA
Master the process of vision boarding and achieve attainable goals. Creating a vision board is a process that brings inspiration by giving thought and focus to your goals, dreams, and life fulfillment. It can provide you with direction and clarity which continues long after the process of creating the vision.
Creative Movement
Moving and improvising with dance artists Khia Emslie O’Brien with Daisy Sanders. This workshop will be an opportunity to explore and get lost in movement. To be able to daydream and discover. Purely a creative process, in this session, we will spend time in movement, resting, forgetting, and making maps.
HTML Gardening: Growing A Website From The Ground Up
HTML is the first shoots of the Web - it is in this very website! What makes HTML special is its accessibility and ease of use. Building websites has become complex, but you can do a lot with HTML. In this workshop, we will be writing HTML, and maybe a little CSS together over three online sessions.
Dealing With Difficult Transitions In An Uncertain World
The workshop will discuss things around what to expect when moving through life, how to cope with difficult transitions like high school, university, workforce, and many others. It will also cover information around dealing with these difficult transitions in a world that is so uncertain.
Dance x Visual Art Improvisation
Learn Giorgia Schijf’s unique dance improvisation practice of combining improvised movement states with visual art and imagery. You will learn how to develop movement styles and textures, how to draw these found states, and how these two mediums can feed each other simultaneously.
Editing Essentials with Pulch Mag
Editing is the caring conversation with a contributor about how to make their work the best it can be, ready to be shown to the world. Bringing their experience in both online and print publication, powerhouse Pulch Mag duo, Sophie and Lauren will teach you how to collate and edit work ready for publication… and maybe even how to make your own project!
Trashy Fashion
Make your own garment from recycled materials! This workshop will be held in person at the Cockburn Youth Centre. Working in teams of 2-3 people, participants will create their own garments from recyclable materials in a 3-hour workshop to promote team collaboration and sustainability.
All The Ways To Tell A Story
How can we use art to tell our own stories and the stories of others? All the Ways Theatre Company has created a show that blends theatre, film, music, and storytelling to explore stories about the different types of love we will experience in our lifetime, and the importance of expressing it.
Decolonise Your Writing: Poetry
In this workshop, guided by the work of First Nations poets including Ellen van Neerven and Evelyn Araluen, participants will deconstruct traditional colonial ideas of poetry, and learn what it means to decolonise the form, and how this goes beyond poetry.
Songs of Nature
Learn the ways of creating nature-inspired art through song or any art form. Learn the process of nature memories, often called mnemonics, and create your own art. For any art form, any experience.
Self-Compassion For Thriving Creative Careers
For young artists and creatives wanting to take their passion to the next level. As a young artist myself, I feel very passionately about empowering young people and providing them with all the tools necessary to make this brave leap. I believe that a core skill you need to have a successful creative career is self-compassion.
Decolonise Your Writing: Nonfiction and Memoir
This Zoom Webinar, presented in partnership with the Centre for Stories, will provide a space for writers to develop their personal understanding of decolonisation as it relates to their nonfiction and memoir writing practice.
Reimagining Our Collective Future (for 18-26 year olds)
Come join an interactive virtual community gathering that invites you to explore the collective future of BIPOC artists, community weavers, and leaders. How might we build deeper relations and connections with one another for years to come?
Decolonise Your Writing: Fiction
The universal rules of ‘good’ or ‘bad’ writing are turning out to be colonial relics. In this workshop, emerging Chinese-Australian writer Tiffany Ko will share her perspective on writing fiction with a deepened sense of cultural understanding and sensitivity.
Wear Your Art On Your Sleeve!
Discover the magic of flower-making and create wearable art that will last forever! Wearing flowers is a long-standing tradition that societies from different cultures have practiced, celebrating life events throughout history. In this video tutorial, you'll learn tips and tricks from artist Carrissa Wu to craft your own flowers from crepe paper inspired by nature's details.