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Announcement

The Reel Connections partnership between CAN WA, City of Stirling, Filmbites Youth Film School, WA Police and City of Wanneroo was awarded a 2009 Multicultural Community Service Award on Tuesday, 1 December.

The awards honour the positive contributions that individuals and organisations have made in the lives of WA people from linguistically and culturally diverse backgrounds.

Citizenship and Multicultural Interests Minister John Castrilli presented the Award to the Reel Connections partnership stating, "The awards promote cultural diversity as an international, economic and social asset for Western Australia".

CAN WA is proud to be a finalist in the 2009 AbaF Award's Young and Emerging Artist category. The award recognised the successful partnership between CAN WA, City of Stirling and Filmbites Youth Film School for the Reel Connections Project. The national AbaF Awards 2009 will be held 15 October 2009 in Brisbane.

Youth arts and culture

CAN WA works to engage young people in arts and cultural activities, helping to create and activate opportunities. We believe that young people’s energy, perspectives and creativity can be harnessed to revitailse and inspire communities.

Since 2000, CAN WA has been facilitating programs under Liveworx, a program that utilises community arts and cultural development with creatively designed vocational education to provide opportunities for young people. We have a successful history of partnering with local governments, with Liveworx proving an effective way of providing a space for young people to come together and creatively celebrate the differences and diversities that exist between each other.

Liveworx

The LiveworX program is a nationally accredited skills development program for young people aged 16 – 25 years. The program was developed by CAN WA to inspire and motivate young people and to foster some of the basic life and workplace skills needed to access, and thrive in, employment, further education and community life.

Objectives

The LiveworX Programs utilises community arts and creatively designed vocational education to provide opportunities for young people to:

Tell their stories and express their ideas
Explore their identities and aspirations
Cultivate places and spaces they can call their own
Become more active in their community
Develop vocational and life skills
Make new connections and friendships
Build their confidence and self-esteem
Pursue their dreams.

Services

Through the LiveworX Program, CAN WA can assist your organisation or community to sustain the needs and enhance the wellbeing of young people through:

The delivery of accredited and non-accredited skills development and training
The development and/or delivery of arts and culturally based activities, projects and programs, designed with and for young people
Youth engagement and consultation services
Facilitation of Cultural Mapping and Planning processes with communities who are developing youth spaces, places and programs
Designing and delivering presentations and workshops for young people, and for professionals and artists working with young people.

Youth Engagement Support program (YES)

The Youth Engagement Support program is a consulting and advice service for local governments. The program provides the necessary ideas and skills to engage young people in the local community through arts, creativity and training.

This program will be offered to local governments in 2010.

YES can help benefit your community by:

Offering new and different ways of engaging young people and connect young people to other parts of the community
Assisting in developing innovative community art projects
Applying the use of best practice principles to community events and festivals
Finding new sources of funding support for young people and the arts
Exploring innovative arts-based ways to advocate the issues of young people to your council.

CAN WA will:

Provide creative arts-based approaches to engaging and consulting young people in your community
Find creative solutions to developing and implementing arts programs
Assist in finding and applying for grants appropriate to your arts programs
Connect you and your council with innovative ideas for working with young people and the arts
Provide professional development for Youth/Arts Officers
Help you with creative survival skills for Youth/Arts officers in administrative overload
Put the fun back into your working relationships with young people.

For further information on these programs, contact Sian Brown, Arts and Cultural Development Manager on 9226 2422 or email sian@canwa.com.au.

History

Find out more about the history of Liveworx at CAN WA.

Partnerships

Under Liveworx, CAN WA is currently in partnership with two local governments; providing opportunities for young people in their communities through arts and culture.

City of Stirling

CAN WA partnered with the City of Stirling and Filmbites Youth Film School through the Reel Connections initiative with the uniquely customised Fired Up: Sparking Arts and Creativity training program.

City of Gosnells

CAN WA has been working in partnership with the City of Gosnells in supporting the overall wellbeing of young people living or recreating in the Maddington and Kenwick location.