Special Projects

Throughout the year, AWESOME runs community and arts development programs in regional and metropolitan Western Australia.

AWESOME aims to provide engaging contemporary arts experiences through the exploration of identity, stories, community and family. Each program is a celebration of the cultural and environmental diversity of Western Australia and the talents of the bright young things that live there.

  • Punmu Stories

    Punmu Stories is a digital media program that reflects the stories, identity, history, landscape and culture of the Martu people from the Punmu and Kunawarritji communities in the Pilbara, in remote Western Australia.

    Over three two-week residencies in 2008, digital media artist Mat de Koning worked with the young people of the Rawa Community School to create a 30-minute film entirely produced in the community… [more]

  • AWESOME@Vale

    AWESOME@Vale is a community development partnership between AWESOME Arts and Multiplex Living. Vale is a new master-planned community located north-east of Perth. Throughout the year, local, national and international artists work with the young people living at Vale to collectively create public artworks. The program delivers contemporary arts workshops… [more]

  • AWESOME-For-All

    AWESOME-For-All is a donor program enabling young Western Australians who are disadvantaged physically, economically, culturally or geographically, to participate in the annual AWESOME Festival and its workshops.

    AWESOME-For-All aims to reach young people who have not been able to experience the considerable social and educational benefits that the AWESOME Festival provides… [more]