Pom Pom is a drop-in, contemporary art space dedicated to engaging children (up to 12 years) and their families, open Saturdays and during school holidays from 11am-3pm. Pom Pom is free and focuses on engaging young people and their community with exciting contemporary art ideas and skills.
Located in Davoren Park in Adelaide’s northern suburbs, Pom Pom offers 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 children enchanting contemporary arts experiences. Young artists and their families are welcome to collaborate with artists to make, create and play while exploring their personal capacities and potential.
Where
Davoren Park Shopping Centre
45 Peachey Road, Davoren Park
When
11am – 3pm Saturdays during school term
11am – 3pm Weekdays during school holidays
Pom Pom Relaxed Hour
Pom Pom Relaxed hour is a program run within the Pom Pom contemporary Art Space exclusively for neurodivergent children, and for children with sensory access needs, along with their families.
This program offers hands-on creative workshops with leading artists where young creators and their families can create, play and be inspired.
The program is designed to reduce anxiety and sensory stress by providing a quieter and less stimulating environment in which to engage with the Pom Pom program.
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Where
Davoren Park Shopping Centre
45 Peachey Road, Davoren Park
When
10am – 11am Saturdays during school term
10am – 11am Weekdays during school holidays
Pom Pom Youth Arts
Pom Pom Youth Arts is a program designed with and for teenagers 12-17yrs to provide them with a safe, inclusive space to learn new visual arts skills under the guidance and mentorship of professional artists.
The FREE program is like our much loved Pom Pom program that provides visual arts workshops to children (up to 12 years old). Many of the children who attended Pom Pom and turned 13, told us how much they missed the program and wished for a teen visual art space to keep learning in. We’re proud to offer Pom Pom Youth Arts at Northern Sound System with our program partner City of Playford.
When: Wednesdays, 3pm – 4.30pm
Where: Northern Sound System, 73 Elizabeth Way, Elizabeth
Cost: Free
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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
Funded by the Australian Government Department of Social Services.
Visit www.dss.gov.au for more information.
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
