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Roebourne’s awesome young artists at work |
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Written by Alan Richardson
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 Quarnis Edgar & William Eaton The creative talents of Roebourne’s bright young things will be celebrated later this month in Perth, at the 2009 Awesome Festival.
In addition to an inspiring array of international, national and local artworks, Awesome will be showcasing the ‘Open Book’ Creative Challenge Installation and Photographic Exhibition, which includes artwork from the budding young artists of Roebourne District High School and ten other regional and remote Western Australian communities.
The Awesome Arts Creative Challenge visited Roebourne over the last two weeks with the ‘Open Book’, a contemporary story-telling project for young people, supported by Woodside.
Awesome artists-in-residence Mat de Koning, a film maker, and Danielle Goronszy, a performer and designer, facilitated workshops to explore the stories, ideas and identity of the young people to then create a ‘book’ to reflect the culture and environment of the Roebourne community.
“Our book transpired in the form of a film, with the central characters being finger puppets made by the students.
The students did a fantastic job of making their puppets and then creating voices to go with each character,” said Mr de Koning.
“The kids have wild imaginations and our stories included aliens and spaceships, dinosaurs in the pre-historic age and robots called Milly and Dilly,” he said.
“We made a second film where two puppets take the audience on a tour of Roebourne District High School so it will be great for people at the Festival to see Roebourne through a kid’s-eye-view,” he said.
The ‘book’ was unveiled last week at a celebration at Roebourne District High School, where teachers and families were invited to enjoy the works created by the students.
The Awesome Festival is on in the Perth CBD from 22nd to the 29th of November and boasts the latest and greatest contemporary arts from France, Netherlands, the UK, Australia and of course, the best from the West!
Awesome Arts inspires and encourages creativity amongst young people and aims to be the catalyst in developing creative, open-minded, young Western Australians who are engaged with the world. |
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