When: 7-9pm Friday nights 27^th Aug & 3^rd Sept

Where: Alice Springs Youth Centre, Wills Tce.

What: InCite Youth Arts presents free hip hop music workshops as part of the Youth Culture project. Run in partnership with CAAC Youth Outreach Team, fully supervised, meal provided.

Who: All young people between 12-25 years old welcome, music mentors are Dan & Ash of Catch The Fly and Dan n Dee.

Call Elspeth on 8952 6338

or  admin@inciteya.org.au for more information

Read more about International Youth Day here social.un.org/youthyear/ 

With huge smiles lighting up the stage, Acacia Hill School senior girls shimmied, shaked and Mexican waved their way into the history books and into the hearts of the audience. It is the first time the school has participated in the Centralian Eisteddfod and they totally rocked it.

The crowd loved their Macarena inspired dance to ‘Sisters Are Doin It For Themselves,’ especially the solos, where each student had the opportunity to dance their own moves centre stage at Araluen. It was a proud day for all of us! Students have also performed at the recent national conference for the Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care.

This signifies the realization of a long term plan to foster inclusive activities and build awareness in our community. It was a great opportunity for the whole town to celebrate the diversity in our community. The Acacia Hill Performing Arts Program continues to run with Miriam & Elspeth running weekly dance activities. Miriam continues to work with the senior girls group every week. We look forward to continuing to dance with Acacia Hill well into the future!

Check out the photos here: www.inciteya.org.au/

Check out the photos here: www.inciteya.org.au/

The paint has only just dried on Gap Youth Centre’s brand spanking new aerosol art mural.

Guest artist Dash88 has been guiding InCite’s hard working crew of young artists to install the mural over the last two weekends. The crew (aged 14-21) have all done aerosol projects with InCite before on installations at Traegar Park and Milner Road. They’ve been meeting with Dash88 over the phone for last few months to sort out their design for the wall, which this time has a music and natural landscape theme featuring white Ghost Gums and Heavitree Gap in the MacDonnell Ranges.

While Dash88 was here there was also opportunities for young people who are new to the art form to develop their skills. Workshops were run with Gap Youth Centre’s Late Night Program and Central Australian Aboriginal Congress’ After Hours Youth Service. Young people learnt how to sketch up their own designs and how to handle a spray can correctly – which is harder than it seems!

While improving their can technique these guys started brainstorming ideas for when Dash comes back up soon in the July Holidays, when they’ll paint their own large scale mural. Miriam Pickard is currently editing a film she made about the process, so we’ll put up a link to that soon as well.