COMMUNITY/YOUTH PROJECTS dLAB Eastern Riverina Arts through a partnership arrangement with Wagga Wagga City Council are providng ongoing local co-ordination and support for dLuxMediaArt’s dLAB project. The core of the dLab Program is directed to up-skilling young people and local facilitators with a special focus on young women from CALD and indigenous backgrounds. By using art, media and technology as a tool to engage young people into the sciences for community development. By building confidence through hands-on learning, the dLab program encourages individuals to move from simply participating in the program to being collaborators in projects. As a partner organisation we are working collaboratively to build the resources and infrastructure to sustain community initiatives as well as to create access for continued learning and opportunities for career development. CONNECT THE DOTS With funding from the Telstra Foundation, Eastern Riverina Arts has developed a creative digital media kit as a resource for local governments and community groups in our region. Alongside the kit, workshops have been provided at major youth events in the region including OurSounds, Westfest and Take Charge where Scott Howie presented a workshop to 120 youth leaders from the region on Using Social Media for Good. Throughout 2013 Project Officer Thom Paton worked with youth officers
in the region developing small projects, workshops and access to the media kit. FRESH | DANCE | FILM Fresh | Dance | Film is an exciting two year project which commenced in 2013. It works across six towns in the region, Coolamon, Tumut, Tumbarumba, Temora, The Rock and Urana. Local hip-hop dancer Centennial Tuvale has been providing a series of nine two-day workshops to high-school aged participants, and so far has worked with over 80 young people. The workshops form part of an ongoing process where each group has learnt basic choreography and dance moves. Then, working with guidance, the participants will form their own routines and work with a local filmmaker to capture them in a way that will also highlight the community and landscape of their region. ASHMONT ART SPACE Eastern Riverina Arts manages a shopfront exhibition space in the Ashmont Shopping mall. Featured exhibitions in 2013 included Faces of Ashmont, Yindyamarra, an exhibitions of collaborative works by Aboriginal students of Shepherds Park Education and Training Unit located in the Riverina Juvenile Justice Centre, and video work by students participating in dLAB.