The Freedom Centre is ExSIGHTed in the lead up to the ‘ExSIGHT Art Project’: a series of community arts workshops for young people with Diverse Sexuality, Sex and/or Gender that will take place at FC on February 26 through to March 2011. The workshops will see the young participants produce visual arts to exhibit in FC’s new Youth Art Space and it will all culminate with an Exhibition launch in April.
Local artists Martin Wills (www.territorytwelve.com) and Peter Farmer have kindly agreed to work with the Freedom Centre, and will mentor the young people while facilitating the ExSIGHT Art workshops. The workshops will be based around visual arts – incorporating different media such as painting, drawing, graffiti/street art, screen-printing, and sculpture elements to conduct a series of workshops that will support young people to enhance their existing artistic skills as well as providing an avenue of creative expression for LGBTI+ people aged under 26.
The Freedom Centre hopes ExSIGHT will also enable participants to develop their artistic skills and confidence by providing an equitable, safe space for young people to creatively explore issues that are important to them and express themselves.
If you’re under 26 and want to get involved, let us know – you can come to one or all of the workshops and throughout FC sessions in February and March. Please RSVP to info@freedom.org.au if you want to attend the workshops!
The Freedom Centre’s ExSIGHT Art Project and Exhibition Launch are proudly sponsored by Propel Youth Arts WA and Healthway to promote the Drug Aware message and will be entirely drug, smoke and alcohol-free environments.
Dani Wright
Freedom Centre Coordinator
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