'Sammi, Bo, Kellie' - Who’s Holding My Dream 2009
'Bo &Lee - Who’s Holding My Dream 2009
Teacher's resources
HighWater productions address many of the issues faced by young people today. The following resources are provided for teachers and workers who wish to explore the issues with their students. Topics include bullying, drinking and drugs and homelessness. These materials are most useful after seeing a HighWater performance.
The following pdfs each contain discussion starters; relevant articles as well as individual and group learning activities.
- BULLYING: SOCIAL NETWORK SITES – Discussion Starters; Activities; Links to VELS (pdf)
- OUT OF CONTROL: Drinking, Drugs, etc -– Discussion Starters; Activities (pdf)
- HOMELESSNESS: Facts; Discussion Starters, Activities (pdf)
In addition, links are provided to short films made by the Company on these and associated topics:
- The Learning Journey - Felicia's Story
- I Wanna Go to School But...
- Bullying
- Out of Home Care/Homelessness
If you are interested in purchasing these short films as DVDs please contact us for further details.
Scripts:
Bring Her Home
Tell Her That I Love Her
Call My Name and Another Kind of Freedom
Art Books:
Splash of Life ($10) - contact us to order
Artworks by Women in Prison Post Release and Beyond 2005 - 2007
HighWater Partnership Report Partnership Report By Osfield Consultants
Since 2001, Somebody’s Daughter Theatre has been working in collaboration with Gateway Community Health (formerly Upper Hume Community Health Service) and the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development on an intensive creative arts-based education program with a small group of rural teenagers called ‘HighWater Theatre’ (HWT). All of these young people are aged between 12 and 16 years, are not in the formal education system and haven’t been for some time. Most are or have been homeless or are or have been in Foster Care. The reasons for their precarious situations are predominantly related to histories of abuse and family trauma.
The HighWater Theatre Partnership Report documents key aspects of this award winning partnership and analyses in detail why and how the partnership and indeed the program is so successful.
In the words of Artistic Director Maud Clark, “There is no other partnership that I know of where there has been such trust given to the creative model.”
So what have been the challenges for this creatively led partnership - the learnings, the challenges, the reasons why it is still flourishing after 9 years? This report gives unique and comprehensive insight into this best-practice model.
To purchase report, or seek more information, contact Somebody’s Daughter Theatre on
somebody@somebodysdaughtertheatre.com