We are thrilled to announce that ‘Our Stories, Our Voices’ and ‘My New Life’ were selected to take part in Colourfest 2019. Colourfest celebrates films about diaspora and migrant experiences. The two films were screened as part of Harmony Day 2019 and have been distributed to public libraries in New South Wales, South Australia and Western […]
Youthworx are proud to annouce that we are featured in social traders new book Dollars & Sense! The book recognises, champions and celebrates social enterprise in Australia. Focusing on the people who benefit from the work of social enterprises and highlighting innovative commercial models of impact investment, Dollars & Sense is a blueprint for a […]
The national youth commission is now underway with hearings being held across Melbourne. The national youth commission is a really important initiative run by our parent body, youth development Australia. The purpose of the commission is to give young people a chance to voice there opinions and concerns about issues relevant to there transitions from […]
Youthworx has just started our new drop-in program, Colour Them Safe is the brainchild of Albie Colvin who is an incredible designer in his own right, the program runs the first Thursday of every month here at Youthworx 29 Tinnings street, Brunswick. Any young person experiencing marginalisation is welcome to come along, we have a […]
This week has been a big one for Youthworx! First and foremost, welcome to the latest batch of students to join our certified media training course! Our certificate two and three courses kicked off this week with the classroom in full swing. We’re always on the look out for new students so if you, or […]
Youthworx is upgrading its downstairs section to include a snazzy new classroom equipped with more computers, a recording studio, a lounge, a film studio and a new kitchen area!
We at Youthworx are happy to welcome our newest member to the team! Hannah is a filmmaker driven to create moving drama and documentary based on social issues. Her experience includes all aspects of film production, as well as teaching and youth work.
Youthworx is proud to announce we now have a trained drone pilot with a Remote Pilots Licence (RePL) certification and is in the process of getting our Remotely Piloted Aircraft Operators Certificate (ReOC). We look forward to offering our clients drone video and photography services. The youthworx crew were out in force this morning filming […]
Youthworx will be screening two films publicly in february! Brown Paper Bag ‘Brown Paper Bag’ was self produced by Youthworx and is the story of a young indigenous boy who has been ‘acting up’ at school until he experiences a story session at school with acclaimed author and storyteller Boori Monty Pryor. His interest in […]
Applications are now open for our certificates 2 and 3 for semester 1, 2019 The curriculum is focused on film production, radio broadcasting and media industry knowledge. All students participate in presenting a weekly radio show for SYN 90.7 FM. As well as radio, students work on individual and group film and documentary projects gaining […]
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.
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’.
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 […]
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 employment and training for marginalised youth at Brunswick social enterprise Youthworx has 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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 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. /
STREETSMART SUPPORT Streetsmart is a fantastic Melbourne based organization that raises money and awareness for organizations tackling homelessness. Since 2003 they have been doing this awesome work – recently they have provided us with a small amount of funding to help buy some film equipment that our young people can use. Thanks Streetsmart. This type […]