Pom Pom
Pom Pom is a free drop-in contemporary art space dedicated to engaging children (up to 12 years) and their families with exciting contemporary art skills and ideas.
Offering hands-on creative workshops delivered by leading arts practitioners, Pom Pom supports an art making process between children and their families and carers, while offering enchanting contemporary arts experiences.
Located in Davoren Park in Adelaide’s northern suburbs, young artists and their families are invited to collaborate with artists to make, create and play while exploring their personal capacities and potential.
Relaxed Hour
Relaxed Hour is a program run within the Pom Pom contemporary art space that is exclusively for neurodivergent children, children with sensory access needs and their families.
Taking place an hour before Pom Pom, Relaxed Hour offers hands-on creative workshops with leading artists so that young creators and their families can create, play and be inspired.
Designed to reduce anxiety and sensory stress, Relaxed Hour provides a quieter and less stimulating environment in which to engage with the Pom Pom program.
When
Every Saturday during the school term and some weekdays during the school holidays.
- 10am – 11am: Relaxed Hour
- 11am – 3pm: Pom Pom
For details about school holiday programs, please check back here or join the Pom Pom Facebook Group.
Cost
All activities at Pom Pom are FREE.
Bookings are not required. Drop in anytime.
All children MUST be accompanied by a parent, guardian or carer
Where
Davoren Park Shopping Centre
45 Peachey Road, Davoren Park
Pom Pom is funded by the Australian Government Department of Social Services.
Visit www.dss.gov.au for more information.
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Building up Hope
Building Up HOPE was a youth-led placemaking project that transformed the outdoor concrete jungle around Pom Pom’s studio at Davoren Park Shopping Centre into a colourful oasis.
Carclew worked with the City of Playford and CareWorks SA’s Hope Street youth drop-in centre to facilitate the project led by young people who use the area the most. They worked together with professional artists and community workers to workshop ideas, develop a design, oversee installation and finished with a celebration event to welcome families into the revitalised space. The long term vision is to create a place where people feel comfortable to connect with the wider community and more young people are attracted to participate in programs.
“We want a space where young people actually want to visit and engage in activities,”
Lachlan (19)
“It looks really plain and I want to light up the area,”
Shayla (10)
Like many young people, Playford youth have experienced significant impacts due to COVID-19. Building Up HOPE promoted positive physical and mental wellbeing and community connectedness.
Building for HOPE was a City of Playford project in partnership with CareWorks SA’s Hope Street and Carclew’s Pom Pom. This project received funding from the Department of Human Services Youth-led COVID-19 Recovery Grants and administered by the Local Government Association of South Australia. Views and findings associated with this project are expressed independently and do not necessarily represent the views of the Government of South Australia or the Local Government Association of South Australia.
Banner image by Dave Court
