• Reverberate Interactive Festival of Sound

    Reverberate Interactive Festival of Sound

    On Saturday May 18th 2013, the streets of Deniliquin’s CBD will be brought to life with interactive sound and video works created by young people in collaboration with artists Danielle O’Keefe (Artistic Director, Reverberate), Vic McEwan (Cad Factory), and Jim Coad (Video Architecture).  The event will begin at Deniliquin’s Waring Gardens, where the audience will be guided by an interactive app, engaging with both intimate works and large scale performances, finally arriving back at Waring Gardens for a staged event featuring Deni born garage rock band ‘King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizards’, supported by the experimental sounds of local emerging [...]

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  • Opportunity of Everything from Outback Theatre for Young People on Vimeo.

    Opportunity of Everything

    Opportunity of Everything from Outback Theatre for Young People on Vimeo. Last year brought some very special achievements for us as a company however nothing is as special as the communities we get to work with and the people we meet. This documentary, “Opportunity of Everything” gives a unique insight to four exceptional young people from Mallan Public School, which closed it’s doors for good last year. This film is a story of community, strength and resilience. The short film, which a part of our Illuminate project based in the Wakool Shire, was directed by Artistic Director, Ange Frost and [...]

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  • artsHub Award

    artsHub Award

    We are so honoured to have been selected as the People’s Choice for artsHub’s ‘Innovation Award for a group, organisation or company’  for Secret Places: The Connections Project.  The award recognises an innovative achievement by a group, organisation or company, meaning ‘a notable highly creative and original piece of work produced by a group of artists, arts organisation or company’. The artsHub awards were developed to “recognise those who create and support work that is exciting, engaging, challenging or simply excellent and to offer recognition of unique and upcoming Australian artists… (and) aims to encourage and recognise creativity and achievement in [...]

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  • What is Illuminate?

    What is Illuminate?

    Illuminate is a celebratory theatre project designed to bring young people together from the isolated townships of the Wakool Shire of NSW. This project will work with participants to create art that reflects the strengths, and encourages the resilience, of the communities they belong to. Each two-week intensive will create its own distinct outcome, but also generate ideas, themes and frameworks for a large-scale visual theatre work, which will be produced at the end of the second stage in 2013; and will see each community feeding into one performance outcome that will tour the communities in the Shire. For more [...]

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  • SECRET PLACES: TV DEBUT

    SECRET PLACES: TV DEBUT

    SECRET PLACES TV DEBUT: DISTANCE NO BOUNDARY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE FROM GRIFFITH AND WESTERN SYDNEY  Proving that distance is no boundary for passion, 60 young people participating in ‘Secret Places: The Connection’s project’, a creative partnership between Outback Theatre for Young People and Powerhouse Youth Theatre, will feature on the ABC Network again in October. The story, which also aired in September, follows the remote collaboration between students from Griffith in South West New South Wales and students from Western Sydney.  Over a 10 month process that began in October 2011, young people from Griffith and Wade high schools in [...]

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  • wet. povo. slick. yolo. from Outback Theatre for Young People on Vimeo.

    Full video of “wet. povo. slick. yolo.”

    For all you folks who missed it, here is our amazing production of “wet. povo. slick. yolo.” created by the young people of Griffith.

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Illuminate 2013

Illuminate 2013

Illuminate Summary 2012 from Outback Theatre for Young People on Vimeo. Check out this short documentary of ideas and interviews collected in Illuminate Stage 1, 2012. Illuminate Stage 2, 2013 is underway! Artists Angela Frost and Richie Hallal will work with 6 students from Braham High school to develop a new original touring theatre show based on local themes and ideas such as small town culture, farming, environmental changes, population decline, creativity and resilience, leadership and responsibility. The new work will showcase and celebrate the extraordinary young people growing up in the Wakool Shire. Primary school students from Barham, Moulamein [...]

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Reverberate Interactive Festival of Sound

Reverberate Interactive Festival of Sound

On Saturday May 18th 2013, the streets of Deniliquin’s CBD will be brought to life with interactive sound and video works created by young people in collaboration with artists Danielle O’Keefe (Artistic Director, Reverberate), Vic McEwan (Cad Factory), and Jim Coad (Video Architecture).  The event will begin at Deniliquin’s Waring Gardens, where the audience will be guided by an interactive app, engaging with both intimate works and large scale performances, finally arriving back at Waring Gardens for a staged event featuring Deni born garage rock band ‘King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizards’, supported by the experimental sounds of local emerging [...]

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2013 project and workshop dates

2013 project and workshop dates

  REVERBERATE 2013 DATES Reverberate is off the ground  with lots of workshops and events happening in the Deniliquin area. Check out what’s coming up Weekly Music makers Tuesday 3.30-4.30: Sing and make musical instruments. Weekly Drama Wednesday Years 5-6 – 3.30-4.30: Learn drama skills and we will create out own play Weekly Drama skills HIGH SCHOOL Thurs 3.30-5pm Young Wild and Free Youth Group Fridays 3.30-5pm Weekly Drama skills HIGH SCHOOL Thursdays 3.30-5pm Young Wild and Free Youth Group Fridays 3.30-5pm: Come and help organise youth activities around Deniliquin. Workshop in visual creation. Date in April TBC – Watch this [...]

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Dreamings film

Dreamings film

DREAMINGS Outback Theatre for Young People’s, Alive and Kicking 2011, presents ‘Dreamings’, made in collaboration with young people from Hay, NSW. dreamings upload from Outback Theatre for Young People on Vimeo.  

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Junkyard Hustle

Junkyard Hustle

Junkyard Hustle Junkyard Hustle is a short silent film shot at the Hay Gaol Museum, NSW, in collaboration with Year 9/10 students of Hay War Memorial High School. This film was one of many outcomes of Outback Theatre for Young People’s ‘Alive and Kicking’ Project. Junkyard from Outback Theatre for Young People on Vimeo.

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