Community arts

Three groups of young people will be chosen to make films... and they will get:

• a $1,000.00 budget to make their film!!!!
• weekly meetings with an experienced filmmaker Paula Jones
• workshops on idea development, cast and crew, budgeting, marketing and story boarding.
• access to all the gear to shoot and edit their films
• a film premiere night for their movies.
• to make a short film about whatever they want. The film could be a: music video, a hard-hitting documentary, a horror film, a comedy, an arthouse film, an animation...whatever.

Email us if you have an idea for a film you would like to discuss.

Like all RAW projects this filmmaking opportunity is 100 per cent free.

The crew will be run by Justin Haiu aka JandelJ (made famous on TV3's So you think you can dance? and Showstoppers). Justin is trained in heaps of different styles... including bboying, locking, popping, krumping, traditional Maori/Pacific Island dance styles, contemporary and classical.

To join the crew you don't need to be experienced... but you do need to:

• now how to move
• be committed to training once a week on a Monday evening
• be aged between 14 and 17 years
• be local to the Mt Roskill/Three Kings area
• be free to try out between 4pm and 7pm on Monday 3 March 2008
• be free to attend a rehearsal intensive camp on the 2, 3 and 4 April 2008 up at Waiwera.

Register by emailing us your name, age, address and daytime phone number

Like all RAW projects, joining the crew is 100 per cent free.

If you are into drama, dance, singing, writing, backstage work, costume design or visual art we need you to get involved in our theatre show.

'Voice of Wesley' - December 2007

External facilitators

• our Playwright, Fiona Graham, will work with local people of all ages to share their stories and ideas for the play
• our Artistic Director, Justine Simei-Barton, will work with young people to develop a crew of actors. These actors will turn the communities' stories into a devised show and be the stars of the performance in August
• our Music Director, Daren Kamali, will work with local singers, rappers, drummers and musicians to create original music for the performance
• our Visual Artist, Terry Koolatamangi Klavens, will run projects using, photography, graphic design, painting and drawing, set and costume, sculpture and more
• our Artist in Residence (Dance) Sefa Enari, will be working with young women aged 15 to 21 years to create dances drawing on a range of traditional Pacific Island styles.

Our Production Manager will be looking for volunteers to help with the backstage work: run the sound, lighting, staging, health and safety, etc.

Contact us to volunteer to be involved.

Weekly workshops will run in term one and term two, and we'll have performances at end of each term to show off our new circus! Like all RAW projects, circus training is 100 per cent free!

Contact us if you would like to join the new circus.