Signal 37
January 2014
Young Melbournians get a ten-day taste of the creative industries.
Since Monday an arts initiative with a difference has been tucked behind Flinders Street Station. Some of the city’s finest creatives are taking 90 artistically-inclined youth through Melbourne’s laneways – dancing, drawing, sculpting and stencilling as they go.
Inspiration for the project comes from Gallery 37, a U.S. project which has been running since the early 1990s. For more than a decade now, a downtown lot in Chicago has been used to train young people as apprentice artists, giving them role models, one-on-one mentoring and tangible skills to apply to the workforce.
Here in Melbourne, a free ten-day festival of learning, creativity and inspiration will see kids aged 13-20 participate in a number of workshops and imaginative programming. Artists from Blender Studios are taking to the streets with paint, stencils and a pack of budding street artists to experiment with the urban environment. Also using the streets as a palette, local writer Matt Blackwood will help re-imagine familiar settings as locations for Sticky Stories and acclaimed dancer Deon Nuku will bring the laneways alive with narrative-driven rap and an inner-city party at dusk.
Hands-on, industry-focused projects are also available for Melbourne’s next generation of designers. Installation artists Tara Pattenden and Kate Geck will be crafting everything used in modern theatre, from costumes to abstract video and digitally printed textiles. In a very ambitious move, designers Nick Visser and Freya Robinson will also be guiding the transformation of a three-tonne truck into a mobile design hub.
All of this creative coaching and interactive work will culminate in a big showcase on Saturday 25th. Limited places are still available too book online.
Signal 37, from January 13 – 25. FREE exhibition and participation.
melbourne.vic.gov.au/SIGNAL
Signal 37 Showcase
Saturday 25 January, 8pm – 10pm
Signal headquarters on Flinders Walk, Northbank.
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