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Drug Aware Youth Arts Unearthed presents HOME 2010
Aboriginal students from Aranmore Catholic College worked with artist in residence Poppy van Oorde-Grainger and photographer Mike Ellis to create a permanent artwork for their school. The theme of the work was “Home” and collectively they chose to focus on Australian wildlife and hunting as the things that reminded them most of where they are from. The two images created by the students were of a house floating on Lake Monger and an urban hunting scene set in Woolworths.
Drug Aware Youth Arts Unearthed presents LIVE IT NOW 2010
 Young people joined forces with drama specialist Kerry Shaw from Headspace Great Southern and artist Poppy van Oorde-Grainger to create interactive performances for the Live It Now Festival to launch National Youth Week in Western Australia. A troupe of “bingo-playing, paint-fighting old biddies” and “human canvas animals” were created and caused quite a scene on the day.
Drug Aware Youth Arts Unearthed presents Albany Christmas Pageant 2009
 Young people and staff from Headspace Great Southern and YMCA Mobile Youth Service teamed up with artist Poppy van Oorde-Grainger to create a futuristic, post-apocalyptic marching group in the 2009 Albany Christmas Pageant. The group marched as part of a youth-driven timeline with Southern Edge Arts and Kinjarling Yallors Indigenous Dancers. The YMCA Mobile Youth Service bus joined them in the parade which drew a crowd of 3,500.
Drug Aware Youth Arts Unearthed presentsTrashcatchers 2009
 Trashcatchers Filmmaking Project involved eleven young people, Charlotte Glance, Wareif Ismail, Michael Taylor, Georgia Hooper, Isabelle Macdonald, Jenny Newman, Lucette Combo-Matsiona, Holly Pepper, Cassandra Nguyen, Giles Roberts and Julia Ngeow working with artist Poppy van Oorde-Grainger and filmmakers Damian Smith, Belinda Kelsall, Deland Tay and Steven Aiton to create a film about reducing waste.
The film will be used by Mindarie Regional Council as an educational tool in WA schools. The project was sponsored by Healthway, Drug Aware, Remida, Department of Culture and the Arts, Mindarie Regional Council and YMCA HQ.
Drug Aware presents FESTYHEAD: Youth Arts Unearthed Festival 2009
 Local filmmakers, aerosol artists, break-dancers, musicians, djs, skaters, crazy hair stylists and wannabe sumo wrestlers all headed down to the free FESTHEAD Youth Arts Unearthed Festival at YMCA HQ 4th April 2009.
The festival featured free interactive aerosol art workshops run by Drew Straker, Dave Garland and Will Heerey. The Graphite Crew, Perth premier aerosol art collective, also created a fresh piece on the day. Up and coming and pro-breakdancers battled in a comp MCed by renowned breaker Beni Benz. Local artist Campbell Whyte opened his solo exhibition “In dreams I” and local film makers screened short films. Punters could have a jam with Junkadelic Hedge Bandits Collective and make instruments from obscure household junk and those who were chasing prizes chose from array of competitive pursuits including the Sumo Wrestling Championship, Sing Star Idol, Crazy Hair Comp, 3on3 Basketball Comp or the Game of Skate.
FESTYHEAD Youth Arts Unearthed Festival was proudly sponsored by Drug Aware, the longest running youth focused drug and alcohol prevention programme in Australia. The festival was produced by the YMCA HQ in collaboration with the Town of Vincent and National Youth Week.
Drug Aware Youth Arts Unearthed presents In the Blink of a Night 2008
 In the Blink of a Night, An Exhibition of Captured Dreams was exhibited at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts as part of Silver 25 Years Artrage Festival in October 2008. The project involved six young photographers, Hannah Brown, Lucette Combo-Matsiona, Adhya Putri, Tim Green, Ella Moore and Phebe Shields, working with artist Poppy van Oorde-Grainger and photographer Michael Ellis to capture images of their dreams. These surreal images were then turned into stereoscopes by animation artist Steven Aiton and mounted into eye mask goggles.
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