To celebrate another year of young artists and their involvement with GRIND, and to welcome the new year, GRIND will be hosting the second annual Youth Art Exhibition opening December 15th at Darwin City Council’s Community Art Space.

If you are aged between 12 and 20 years, we welcome you to submit your artwork for exhibition. We have the resources to exhibit all sorts of art – paintings, drawings, sculpture, scribbles, photos, short films and ANYTHING YOU LIKE! You can even choose to put your art up for sale if you want!

All you need to do to enter is fill out the registration form, which is here on GRINDonline, in the link below. We will then get in contact with you and organise to get your art to the Art Space. Space is limited, so apply now to get space for your art!

Fill out the registration form

Youth Art Exhibition
On display at Council’s Civic Centre, Harry Chan Avenue in the Community Art Space
8am – 5pm weekdays
Thursday 15th of December 2011 – Wednesday 1st February 2012

The first GRIND Youth Art Exhibition, held earlier this year in January.

A few terms and conditions:

- The size limit for art is 594mm x 841 mm, or the size of an A1 poster.

- Although every care will be taken in handling and displaying artwork, Darwin City Council will not accept liability for any works damaged. It is the responsibility of the artist to ensure that their artwork is structurally stable and ready for display.

- Your artwork can depict whatever you like, within reason – it must be fit for public display, so nothing offensive or derogatory.

“This is a fantastic opportunity for one lucky winner to have their design become the only and official festival t-shirt,” Mr Henderson said.

“Not only will the winner get to see their t-shirt worn by thousands of festival goers, they also get a copy of their t-shirt signed by all the BASSINTHEGRASS acts, mounted and framed.”

“You don’t have to be a creative guru to enter – all Territorians are welcome to have a crack at designing what they think would make a rocking festival t-shirt to reflect 2011 BASSINTHEGRASS.

“With a stellar line-up including The Presets, Birds of Tokyo, Sneaky Sound System, British India and Art vs Science – budding designers don’t need to look too far for inspiration,” Mr Henderson.

The official t-shirt will be on sale exclusively at the festival with a sneak peak and first chance to purchase on Friday, 20 May when Perth rock sensations Birds of Tokyo, and the Battle of the School Band winners perform at Casuarina Shopping Centre.

Entries close on Friday, April 15 with full details available www.bassinthegrass.com.au/t-shirt-competition

The GPT Group’s Casuarina Square is launching its Arts, Music and Culture Program and is looking for a talented young individual to be a key component of its success through the promotion and production of in centre performances.

The Bookings and Productions Manager will be responsible for promotion and bookings of performances and exhibitions at Casuarina Square and the production of the performances themselves.

Sound/production experience is highly desireable. The position is 1-2 days per week and will be contracted through Music NT.

This would be an awesome opportunity for a young person interested in production of arts events – you’d build up a lot of experience and contacts throughout the employment.

For more information contact Mark Smith at Music NT – marksmith@musicnt.com.au

To check it out, yours truly headed to the first of their sessions. Hip hopping and dancing doesn’t normally come naturally to me, but my fellow hip-hop newbs* and I were pleasantly surprised at how simple the basics were. From there, the brilliant instructors/artists/awesome people showed how to build on the basics and with only two or three moves, people were already mixing it up and had made some awesome routines.

In just an hour and twenty minutes, I’d managed to get up on my shoulders and head, do basic ‘footwork’ and spun around on the ground while listening to Latino style grooves. And the others in the group were pretty much at his level or better! One guy managed to spin his legs in the air while standing on his head, while another managed to invent a few moves of his own. Everyone, by the way, taking part aside from the guys running it had never danced or been instructed in hip hop before.

The instructors are chill, hip hop is easy to get into and looks cool, plus hip hop can be done to almost any music with a beat and it’s awesome fun, so head down to their workshops. Or get involved in one of the other cool programs the Libraries offer like KAOS or Red Hot Readers! Times are below if you are interested in the hip hop workshop:

*newbs = Newbie. popular in Internet and Gaming slang. Basically means that we were TERRIBLE at the start!

The openingwas held on Friday and was a great success, with plenty of interested people, both young and old, looking, talking and eating. There was also live music performed by local musician Liam Parry-Mills, adding that bit of extra class and ambience to the exhibition.

Each piece of work in the exhibition is interesting and thought provoking. There are some pieces that look beautiful, some that make you think and some that are just plain weird, but all have been made with skill and dedication.

One of the exhibition’s highlights is Olivier Hasan-Fourcard’s series of photography experiments and accompanying letters that he himself wrote, which were recently featured on ABC News.

So why not head on down to Darwin City Council and take a look at the exhibition? Entrance is free and you might find an artwork done by one of your friends!

Looking for something new to do this school hols? Why not check out Corrugated Iron’s new Documentary Filmmaking Workshop For Teens?

Life in a heavy metal band, the art of clowning, Facebook addictions… All topics are open for young people to explore this school holidays in Corrugated Iron’s new documentary filmmaking workshop, Reel Stories. The workshop is a two week long course running from January 10 to 21 every afternoon at Nightcliff Community Centre. It offers participants hands-on experience producing their own short documentary films, learning everything from planning their story, mastering the camera, the perfect interview and cutting edge video editing.

“Apart from learning practical skills, the aim of Reel Stories is to have young people producing clever films that challenge stereotypes and encourages audiences to see things from a teenager’s perspective,” says Workshop Facilitator, Peta Khan.

Films from Reel Stories will be shown at a number of community events in 2011. For more information or to book in for this workshop call Corrugated Iron’s office on 8948 3200 or email info@corrugatediron.org.au. Spaces are limited – so get in now!

To welcome in the new year and to celebrate young artists Darwin City Council will be hosting a Youth Art exhibition throughout January 2011.

If you are aged between 12 and 21 years we welcome you to exhibit your paintings, drawings, sculptures, scribbled on note books, ANYTHING YOU LIKE to be shown in Council’s Community Art space. You can even put your art up for sale if you like!

All you need to do is fill out our registration form and get your work to us by January 1st for the Gala opening exhibition on January 7th, 2011.

The art works can be about whatever you like* (within reason). If you’re stuck for an idea our GRIND crew have come up with some suggestions

- A Journey

- I am…

- Doors

- Pick a colour!

- Inside this envelope…

- Decorate your shoes (clean ones, please!)

Please fill out this form ASAP as limited spaces are available.

This exhibit is has come and gone, but we will be hosting another one next year!

Attach a shot bio and title for each of your works when you drop them off.

Work submitted for display remains the sole property of the artist.  However Darwin City Council may use photo/video footage of submitted work for documentation and promotional purposes.

Art work should be received by Cj, Youth Services Trainee for Darwin City Council no later that January 1st, 2011. If this date is a problem, if your art work is particularly large or you have any other questions please give us a ring on 8930 0403

*We do not tolerate racism or sexism and neither should you.  Council reserves the right to withhold any work from public exhibition.  Not sure?  Just ask us

Another year, another Darwin Festival. And the festival’s line up is looking bigger and better than last year’s frankly awesome line up. We managed not only to get a sneak preview on the festival’s program, we also managed to get an interview with Joe Duffy, the artistic director of the festival. There is also a snippet of what to expect from the festival as well, which we have put together into a short clip so you can see what Joe Duffy has to say and the interesting performance.

So what about the line up itself? Well, there are sorts of things, from the comedic genius of former ROVE Corinne Grant to the famous names of music like John Butler Trio and The Cat Empire, just to name a few. There are 75 events, 47 of them involve artists from around here! Similar to last year, there are plenty of free events, like Dancing in the sand, and the famous Teddy’s Bear picnic makes a return. There are dancers from all over the world as well as people from local areas. And aimed squarely at the youth of Darwin, events such as Silent Disco, Hip Hop battle and an all new event, En Route, based around mobile phones and IPods. All this will happen between 12th and the 29th August in Festival Park, otherwise known as Civic park, with the lighthouse, in the amphitheatre and other places. Tickets are to be sold online, and from box offices in DEC, Festival park and other places, so look out for places that sell tickets.

So watch, Grinders, and see you at the festival! And check out their website