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WANTED : YOUNG CREATIVES

Carclew’s ExpressWay Arts is calling for young people (13-24 years) in the Onkaparinga area, who want to have their creative voice heard and connect with a like-minded tribe.

Read more about our 2021 plans below, and contact Tam for more information, tcollins@carclew.org.au

Skill Building project

Commencing in July 2021 the ExpressWay Arts ensemble will be embarking on a significant skill Building Project through a series of weekly workshops delivered by professional artists to build specific skills, and gain insights, experience and industry connections. Disciplines will include directing, filmmaking, stage combat/physical theatre, voice work, and writing and performing music.

The group will also investigate stories within their own local community and work towards small-scale performance outcomes.

LOCKDOWN

THINK YOU KNOW THE TRUTH?
DEPENDS ON WHERE YOU STAND.

Hunter and Alex break into the school at night. The teachers all think they’re trouble makers anyway, so they might as well make it worthwhile, right? But Scribble and Z are also on their way, and Alana-Rey and JJ have destructive plans of their own.

Paths cross, windows smash and friendships are tested.Set just before lock-down due to a global pandemic, this play follows a group of teenagers who all surreptitiously choose the same night to prove friendships, enact revenge, and make sacrifices for the people they love.

What you think you know to be true depends significantly on where you’re standing.

An exploration of lived experiences, devised and performed by the ExpressWay Arts ensemble, a collection of young creatives from Adelaide’s southern suburbs.

Following its sell-out Adelaide Fringe performance season, this high-drama radio play focusses on one pair of teenagers who choose the same night as their friends to make sacrifices for the people they love, prove friendships and exact revenge.

2021 DreamBIG Festival radio play season

DURATION: approx 15mins
Available online March - May 2021
>> Listen here

Warning: some low-level course language, themes that involve bullying, peer pressure, risk taking, aggression and confrontation

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Lockdown is a project of Carclew's ExpressWay Arts undertaken jointly with the City of Onkaparinga. Also supported by the Australia Council, the federal government's arts funding and advisory body, the Department of Premier and Caninet through Arts South Australia and Adelaide Fringe..

EXPRESSWAY ARTS

Meeting every Friday afternoon at the Arts Centre, Port Noarlunga, ExpressWay Arts supports young creatives from the southern suburbs in developing their theatre and art making practices by equipping them with skills in acting, writing, devising, directing, filmmaking and more. ExpressWay Arts employs experienced professional artists to work with the ensemble.

“It’s a brilliant opportunity to create something well beyond my expectations in a caring and supportive way. I’m really proud of having the opportunity to pour my passion and ideas into a group where I feel they are valued and are given the power to become real things. It has become a really valuable part of my life and I have grown to really care for and respect everyone involved.” - ExpressWay Arts ensemble member

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More about ExpressWays Arts

ExpressWay Arts is a joint initiative between Carclew and City of Onkaparinga to nurture young artistic leaders in the southern suburbs.

Through three core strategies to nurture and invest in young people’s voices in Onkaparinga, ExpressWay Arts has developed and delivered 5 umbrella projects which have collectively created and presented:
•   2 short films
•   3 performance experiences in public space
•   2 performance works in non-traditional venues
•   1 temporary public artwork
•   3 visual art exhibitions
•   1 song-writing project & 6 new songs
•   100s of workshops in creative writing, poetry, installation, acting, performance, voice, installation, design, sound, movement, circus and everything in between

96 young people (aged 11-27) co-created these projects with a collective commitment of over 1600 individual attendances. They made all of this happen at the same time as navigating a range of complex personal and community contexts. They collaborated with, and were supported by, 27 professional artists – 11 of who identify as emerging as per Carclew’s commitment to emerging and early career artists.

Over 2,500 community members experienced the outcomes of this work - right here in Onkaparinga – as a result of ExpressWay Arts firm commitment to presenting work in the community of origin.

Through the embedded work of the ExpressWay Arts Creative Producer, ExpressWay Arts has also seeded and supported a range of other projects, outcomes and new thinking in the Onkaparinga region. These include workshops and performances at youth week events and council managed youth centres, a performance work with Hopgood theatre, street art projects, youth music projects, guest speaking, mentoring, connecting and always, always, quietly but fiercely advocating for young people to have space, ownership and agency.

And of course, you may or may not already know but Carclew continues to deliver and support a whole host of other projects, activities and outcomes in the southern suburbs through other partnerships. And City of Onkaparinga has a dedicated youth team AND a dedicated arts team driving some amazing opportunities for young people. So stay connected and keep the conversation alive. Youth arts matters and we’re all in this together.

ExpressWay Arts is an initiative of Carclew undertaken jointly with City of Onkaparinga

LOCKDOWN

THINK YOU KNOW THE TRUTH?
DEPENDS ON WHERE YOU STAND.

Hunter and Alex break into the school at night. The teachers all think they’re trouble makers anyway, so they might as well make it worthwhile, right? But Scribble and Z are also on their way, and Alana-Rey and JJ have destructive plans of their own.

Paths cross, windows smash and friendships are tested.Set just before lock-down due to a global pandemic, this play follows a group of teenagers who all surreptitiously choose the same night to prove friendships, enact revenge, and make sacrifices for the people they love.

What you think you know to be true depends significantly on where you’re standing.

An exploration of lived experiences, devised and performed by the ExpressWay Arts ensemble, a collection of young creatives from Adelaide’s southern suburbs.

Following its sell-out Adelaide Fringe performance season, this high-drama radio play focusses on one pair of teenagers who choose the same night as their friends to make sacrifices for the people they love, prove friendships and exact revenge.

2021 DreamBIG Festival radio play season

DURATION: approx 15mins
Available online March - May 2021
>> Listen here

Warning: some low-level course language, themes that involve bullying, peer pressure, risk taking, aggression and confrontation

For updates please sign up to our enewsletter or follow Carclew on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.

Lockdown is a project of Carclew's ExpressWay Arts undertaken jointly with the City of Onkaparinga. Also supported by the Australia Council, the federal government's arts funding and advisory body, the Department of Premier and Caninet through Arts South Australia and Adelaide Fringe..

ExpressWay Arts’ latest project is LockDown, an investigation and exploration of violence in schools as experienced by members of ExpressWay Arts. The project is facilitated by Lead Artist, Dr Sarah Peters and will result in a radio play which will then be translated into live performance for Adelaide Fringe in 2021. Using practice-led methodologies Sarah is researching best practice pedagogy for participant-led youth arts projects.

Margo, Addie and Jane are sisters. Margo wants to go to Art School. Addie wants her new relationship to work. Jane wants to go back to the way things were before. But their parents’ marriage is failing. Their Aunt just died. Their father is stifling who they want to be. In the space between, where do they go to find what they’re looking for?

Carclew’s ExpressWay Arts proudly presents The Space Between - a short film written, directed and performed by young people from the southern suburbs of Adelaide.

Over 10 months, Carclew's Expressway Arts ensemble engaged in weekly filmmaking sessions with award winning filmmaker, Craig Behenna. They have been investigating and planning their own short film exploring the theme The Space Between; the space between being a child and an adult; the space between high school and university/employment; the space between the online and real worlds; the space between acceptable and unacceptable behaviour; the space between positive and negative mental health and wellbeing; and any other issues that are identified by the group.

With storyboarding and pre-production complete, the ensemble participated in a week-long shoot during the April school holidays at locations within the Onkaparinga area. The final outcome enabled parents, teachers, youth service providers, and the local, national and international community to become more connected with and develop a deeper understanding of the challenges facing young people in the Onkaparinga community.

THE SPACE BETWEEN SCREENING was held Friday 5 July 2019 at The Arts Centre, 22 Gawler St, Port Noarlunga. The event included Q and A with cast and creatives then post screening refreshments provided by Carclew sponsors Alpha Box & Dice and Little Bang Brewing Co. See the photos taken by Jack Turner photography here.

Watch the Behind the scenes trailer here

Follow Carclew and Expressway Arts on social media for further updates. Facebook | Instagram.

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RAMSAY PLACE RESIDENCY

Building on the work of the Ramsay Place Working Group and 2015 ExpressWay Arts project Express Collective, multi-form artist Brienna Macnish was the artist in residence at Ramsay Place in Noarlunga Centre from 17 - 21 February 2016.

During her residency Brienna explored ‘Third Places’ and the myth of their accessibility by recording interviews with young people who inhabit Ramsay Place.

Ramsay Place is a third place where young people come together to socialise, connect, escape and just be.

Third Places are welcoming and open to anyone and everyone, they are the places we go to meet with the people we know and perhaps with people we don’t. But what happens when individuals or communities don’t have the social, cultural or financial capital to feel comfortable in these Third Places? What happens when people – especially young people – try and create Third Places for themselves? – Brienna Macnish

Using her observations and the audio from interviews Brienna created a 25 minute audio work to be experienced in Ramsay Place .

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ExpressWay Arts is an initiative of Carclew undertaken jointly with City of Onkaparinga and assisted by Government of South Australia through Arts South Australia.

Kids Against Humanity represents a long relationship with a performance ensemble of young people aged 12-19 in Adelaide's Southern suburbs.

It began in 2014 with a project called Run Zombie, Run before turning into a performance ensemble called Kids Against Humanity in 2015. Kids Against Humanity presented their first project outcome Zombie Gauntlet in 2015, followed by their second - the very ambitious Losing Faith in Unicorns as part of the dreamBIG Children’s Festival in May 2017.

These young people are ambitious, brave, fierce, talented and have so much to contribute. And with the ongoing support of Carclew and City of Onkaparinga, they’ll continue to be supported to explore and uncover future (and unknown) opportunities.

WATCH THIS SPACE

You say that because adults have been teenagers, they understand teenagers. This is faulty reasoning. I have been, variously, an infant, a toddler, a small child, a preteen, et cetera et cetera. However, I am no longer any of those things and even though I have many memories of being a small child/preteen/etc., that does not mean that I still remember how it was to be at that stage. No matter how clear, detailed, or emotional one’s memories are of a certain stage of their life, it is in no way equivalent to actually being there.
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Songs for Social Change

From the original protest songs of the civil rights movement to charity singles raising money for those in need, musicians have inspired change through their songs for decades. ExpressWay Arts' Songs for Social Change 2015 project invited young artists aged 15 - 26 years with an interest in song writing to come together in writing and recording their own songs to make a difference.

Seven young artists spent time working with The Emu Tree's Chris Teusner exploring and developing their song-writing voice. Local climate change activist Jamie Dunn offered local, national and global provocations for the participants to respond to.

Four participants completed and recorded one or more songs each on CD with two participants also performing at the Southern Youth Week Launch in Ramsay Place, Noarlunga.

Songs for Social Change was presented as part of ExpressWay Arts DISCOVERY project in 2015. The Department for Communities and Social Inclusion contributed funds to the DISCOVERY project.

ExpressWay Arts is an initiative of Carclew undertaken jointly with City of Onkaparinga and assisted by Government of South Australia through Arts South Australia.

Run Zombie, Run!

Run Zombie, Run was a cultural mapping and volunteering project by ‘stealth’, using the mechanism of creating an interactive zombie theatre experience to work with participants in exploring their own community (and its resources) and how they can create opportunities for themselves and others.

From November 2014 – May 2015, young people aged 11-18 worked with facilitator Claire Glenn to create and present the Zombie Gauntlet.

The participants of Run Zombie, Run are continuing to work together (along with some new faces) as the Kids Against Humanity Ensemble.

Run Zombie, Run and Zombie Gauntlet were presented as part of the ExpressWay Arts DISCOVERY project. The Department for Communities and Social Inclusion contributed funds to the DISCOVERY project.

ExpressWay Arts is an initiative of Carclew undertaken jointly with City of Onkaparinga and assisted by Government of South Australia through Arts South Australia.