Fuse - West Australian Youth Arts Stories

Welcome to the first of an annual series of youth arts publications produced by Propelarts to celebrate and grow youth arts in WA!

The publications will aim to zone in on a different topic each time, to get to the nitty-gritty of how youth arts happens and can happen better-bigger and more sustainably. So we thought what better way to start than tell the stories of some of the incredible youth arts projects and peoples across this vast land. We are not aiming to comprehensively document the extent of youth arts happening in WA – rather we hope to Celebrate & Contemplate a range of different youth arts practices.

In case you haven’t noticed, WA is huge (!) and we’ve been discovering just how incredibly diverse the land, people and cultures are. From this varied source of inspiration, it’s no wonder the creativity of young people also manifests in many different (and frequently surprising) ways.

So let your senses wander into a world of creations, your breath dance across the pages to lift the stories into your hearts. Weave your way through the funky rhythms of Junkadelic… the inspiring desert breakers… the nest of activity that is Artrage… the river of inspiration that is Mangkaja… you’ll find young crew wired to a web of writers across the state… and be reminded by Bonny’s quiet determination to be bold and let our ideas Fuse into life.

FUSE can be downloaded here as a pdf and limited hard copies are still available from the Propelarts office.

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