YOUTH ARTS + SCHOOLS

South Australia

• Patch and Windmill Theatre are examples of companies working to create curriculum integrated/or and interactive student engagement opportunities attached to live experiences. 
• SA’s Act Now Theatre offers a number of interactive performances and workshops including Generation of Change, created with Reconciliation SA and reaching over 1200 students across the state. 
• Cirkidz have created online circus learning with Tackerz TV and this vid shows their work helping students transition to high school. 
• Now supported by the South Australian Department of Education, Carclew Youth Arts’ engagement model shows how a comprehensive program can reach and empower both students and teachers, including those in regional, remote and indigenous communities. 

Carclew Youth Arts Case Study

Queensland

• Along with other Queensland companies, like Brainstorm Productions, created entirely for schools’ engagement, Goat Track Theatre have been creating powerful connections with local schools. 

Goat Track Theatre Case Study

Tasmania

• As well as extensive ongoing engagement across Tasmanian schools, DRILL Performance partnered with the Tasmanian Department of Education to create a series of online videos teaching contemporary dance and movement for upper primary students. 
• Primary STOMPIN, an inclusive dance project, invites students from Northern Tasmanian primary schools to make a work about issues important to them.

STOMPIN Case Study

Western Australia

• Spare Parts Puppet Theatre offer a variety of school engagement opportunities including substantial regional school touring.
• Barking Gecko Theatre also work with schools, including their Inspire program for 28 primary schools located in low socio-economic suburbs.
• Sensorium’s Sensory Theatre School Residency Program is a flagship offering for schools, delivering shows to more than 40 Western Australian schools and centres.

Sensorium Theatre Case Study

Victoria

• In Melbourne’s West, Western Edge Arts have created in-school residency and workshop programs that foster collaboration and inclusivity.
• Also in the regions, Barking Spider Theatre creates school programs like Kids Country with Beeac Primary school. 
• Arena Theatre in Bendigo have been working with schools in cross-arts practice and new technologies for storytelling.

Arena Theatre Case Study

New South Wales

• Born out of the back of a ute delivering projects into schools, Outback Theatre for Young People continues working to give rural teachers and students creative confidence. 
• FLING PHYSICAL THEATRE offer school-tailored dance and movement programs to schools across the Bega Valley. 
• Tantrum Youth Arts have developed in-school performances of Opening Doors, addressing domestic violence and sexting.

Tantrum Youth Arts Case Study

The Northern Territory

• Corrugated Iron Youth Arts has had success engaging students by integrating circus into the whole-school PE Curriculum at Ludmilla Primary School, with circus now featured in the school song! The schools’ partnership with Corrugated Iron Youth Arts was sighted as being one of the most beneficial and productive partnerships seen in a school via a Northern Territory Government assessment.

ACT

• Canberra Youth Theatre run popular, custom-designed after-school drama programs in several near-by schools, and offer other school show engagement opportunities.

National Connections

• National connections are maintained with widespread school touring and engagement initiatives like those delivered by NSW’s Monkey Baa Theatre and CDP, VIC’s The Songroom and QLD’s Shake & Stir theatre co who send in-school touring teams across the country.  
• In recent digital developments, Neo Learning, connected to the remote Western Australian community of Roebourne, is TAS-based Big Hart’s innovative online program that shares education content developed by First Nations young people.
• As well as free access for online theatre shows and drama games through On Demand, ATYP’s On Demand Plus offers an online package for teachers, using literacy and drama strategies to explore the curriculum. 
• Poetry in Action bring poetry to life through performances across the nation and internationally, including the Lilla Project in remote Central Australia.