Happy New Years!
We are back and feeling refreshed, we had an amazing last year and can’t wait to have another one! We hope everyone had a good festive season and can’t wait to start working on more projects.
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Different to screen at the Free Feb Film
We are delighted that ‘Different’ was selected to screen at the Free Feb Film outdoor cinema at Siteworks in Brunswick on Feb 1st! It was screened with another short film made by Youthworx (‘Brown Paper Bag’) and before Warwick Thornton’s feature documentary ‘We Don’t Need a Map’.
Happy Birthday!
We would like to wish Amelia a happy 21st birthday! Amelia has been involved with Youthworx since they were 14 and has been working as a Youthworx staff member for the last four years. It has been incredible having Amelia as part of the team and watching them grow and develop their professional skills over the years. Amelia is now a mentor to other young people and we look forward to the next stage of their professional and personal journey!
P.S. If you were wondering, the cake was delicious!
Impact Photography
Youthworx is excited to have collaborated with The Funding Network to create this great new photography module
“Module #6 of the Impact Storytelling Toolkit – a guide to powerful storytelling for social impact”.
This awesome new module is delivered by our very talented resident photographer Damien Baumgart – be sure to check out the website!
For more: https://www.rootsofchange.org.au/visual-storytelling-through-photography
Youthworx feeling REEL thankful for local MP’s donation
More employment and training for marginalised youth at Brunswick social enterprise Youthworxhas been made possible by a 17.5 thousand dollar donation. The money, given by Federal MP
for Wills Peter Khalil will go towards creating a whole new floor of training facilities at
Youthworx’s existing site on Tinning St – freeing up space for more employment and corporate
productions at the same time.
The certified training program, run in collaboration with Melbourne Polytechnic, lies at the core
of what we do here at Youthworx. The ability to grow and develop the training and production
facilities means more opportunities for young people to re-engage in learning and employment
pathways.
Having this space these past ten years has been really great for the organisation’s growth. But the social enterprise is pretty much at a point where we have to turn down client projects because we don’t have enough space for computers for editors to work on! Expanding will allow us to grow our business and is a dream come true for all of us!
We’re still fundraising to fit out the space and run more programs so get in touch if you have any ideas!
Photographs By: © Ilana Rose
Graphic Design
In early October we kicked off a second round of a free, one-day-a-week graphic design taster course thanks to a grant from the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation and supported by skysdesign and Youthworx. Led by Albie, a talented socially-conscious designer, along with support from Damien and Callum from Youthworx. The participants have been learning about the design process and how to create logos, business cards, and designs for merchandise. At the end of the program participants have the opportunity to do some work experience at skysdesign to give them a taste of how a professional design studio operates and work on client projects.
Social Procurement In Action
Youthworx had the pleasure of doing photography and videography at the recent Social Traders conference. Check out some of the interviews we did with other organisations in the social procurement space
We’ve been shortlisted!
We’ve Been Shortlisted!
We are really proud, really proud to have been shortlisted for the Social Enterprise Growth Award for this years Social Enterprise Awards presented by Social Traders. This is a great honour and after 10 years of using creative practice to empower young people we are really excited to be recognised in this context and stand alongside the other fantastic organisations nominated STREAT, Salvos Legal and Enable IT.
Youthworx Promo
YOUTHWORX TRAINING PROMO
At Youthworx we offer Certificate II and III in Creative Industries – here’s what some of our students had to say…
P 1 Million Leonie
P 1 MILLION LEONIE
Over the past 12 months we have been privileged to work on Project 1 Million in partnership with C31. As part of this project we made this beautiful short film about elder Leonie (Kngwarraye) Palmer with another great organization called Children’s Ground. Check out the film here.
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