January, 2012
2012 news
In the next few months of 2012, the Company will:
- Begin work at McGuire Secondary College in Shepparton as part of the Every Child Every Chance Stage 2 program.
This project addresses the issue of student disengagement. It builds on an existing cross-sectoral partnership (HighWater Theatre) to develop and deliver an innovative arts-driven training program for communities in the Hume Region of Victoria. HighWater Theatre has proven its capacity to effect change for participants outside the traditional school system. Every Child, Every Chance also works to motivate positive change within the traditional mainstream education, health and welfare systems that seek to support at risk youth.
Approximately 25% of McGuire students are refugees or children of refugee families – particularly from Afghanistan.
- Work in partnership with the Department of Human Services Gippsland to provide a workshop and performance program with:
- children in out of home care in the area,
- front-line workers and management from relevant children and family services organisations
- Continue weekly workshops with young men and women in Secure Welfare Melbourne.
- Continue core programs with women in prison and post-release at Dame Phyllis Frost centre and Tarrengower. *NEW PRODUCTION/ ART EXHIBITION MID 2012
- Tarrengower/Deer Park Art Exhibition, Phee Broadway, Castlemaine, March. (Details coming soon).
- Continue core HighWater Theatre program in collaboration with Gateway Community Health and the Victorian Department of Education and Training. *NEW PRODUCTION 2012
- Continue to work with communities interested in establishing creative partnerships to enhance the health and well-being of marginalised groups.
November, 2011
Victorian based artist, Kharen Harper, (from Somebody's Daughter Theatre Company) receives the prestigious Ros Bower Award, worth $50,000, for an outstanding, life-long contribution to community arts and cultural development.