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Expressway Arts aims to locate and support young artists and creatives in the southern suburbs of Adelaide.

EXPRESSWAY ARTS CALL OUT

Calling young performers!

Do you want to improve your acting and make your own piece of theatre?

ExpressWay Arts is embarking on a brand new project, called LOCKDOWN – a professional youth theatre project responding to violence in schools and families. LOCKDOWN will be created with the ExpressWay Arts ensemble, a team of professional artists and YOU!

Meeting every Friday at the Arts Centre, Port Noarlunga, ExpressWay Arts will help you take the next steps in your theatre making practice by equipping you with skills in acting, writing, devising, directing and presenting all while making your very own show that will have its outcome in a professional theatre space. The best bit is, attendance is FREE!

So get in touch with our Creative Producer, Claire, and come and give it a try.

Program enquiries:

Claire Glenn, Creative Producer, ExpressWay Arts (Carclew) | Email: cglenn@carclew.org.au

ExpressWay Arts is an initiative of Carclew undertaken jointly with City of Onkaparinga which aims to nurture and invest in young people’s creativity in the southern suburbs of Adelaide.

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More about ExpressWays Arts

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

Through three core strategies to nurture and invest in young people’s voices in Onkaparinga, over these last 4 and a half years 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 2500 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 also seeded and supported a range of other projects, outcomes and new thinking in the Onkaparinga region.

This included 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 and assisted by Government of South Australia through Arts SA.

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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.

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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.