'Make Your Move'

The Smarter than Smoking Creative Challenge, sponsored by Healthway, is AWESOME’s year-round creative program celebrating the rich cultural and environmental diversity of regional Western Australia.

The 2007 Creative Challenge will see AWESOME send artists into 10 remote WA communities in the Goldfields, Mid-West and Gascoyne.

The program encourages young people to understand and appreciate their individual and collective identity by exploring and expressing the uniqueness of their local community.

The 2007 Creative Challenge explores ideas from young participants through a series of workshops in dance, sound and performance. Through these workshops, a shared and common theme for each community will be selected to drive the creative process. Each community will create a unique performance installation where movement and sound combine in an interactive audience/performer situation. This interactive structure comes from a model created by lead project artist Aimee Smith.

This project allows participants to realise artistic outcomes by working with practicing artists. Through the workshops and performance, a work will be created which communicates the participants’ viewpoint and instils a sense of pride in their community and environment. This project offers young people a new form of expression and the opportunity to develop confidence and new skills.

For more information, email Amanda Premici on amanda@awesomearts.com , Aimee Smith on aimee@awesomearts.com or call 9485 0560.