Art Where You Live

Kickstart Arts Inc is a Community Cultural Development (CCD) organisation based in Hobart, Tasmania.

We create artistically and socially groundbreaking art with young people and their communities. We invigorate and engage communities through art that moves! We use hybrid art forms - video, audio, performance, dance, theatre, film, song and networked digital media to tell stories about the places that we live in.

Each year Kickstart Arts employs professional artists to work with communities to create a program of exciting projects.

You can view our current program here or look at some of our past projects here.

Kickstart Arts Vision

A creative, compassionate and empowered community brought together through transformative arts processes.

Kickstart Arts Mission

To develop, strengthen and empower young people and their communities through the arts and creativity

Organisational Objectives

1. To foster intercultural understanding, tolerance and compassion between disparate groups within the community through powerful, innovative and excellent story based art making.

2. To create opportunities for young Tasmanians to develop their creative capacity, confidence, skills and abilities in the creative arts so they may raise their profile and become active contributors to the cultural life of their communities, especially in regional and rural Tasmania.

3. To facilitate opportunities for young Tasmanians and their families to develop supportive networks.

4. To assist young Tasmanians to develop pathways to education and employment.

5. To develop evidence based community cultural development strategies for increasing the understanding of happiness and its root causes in the Tasmanian community.

6. To ensure excellent governance, financial management and cross-sectoral partnerships.

STAFF

Jami Bladel
Artistic Director/CEO

George Williams
Administration Trainee


Pip Stafford
Producer/Publicist

BOARD MEMBERS

Graham Speight - Chair

Louise O’Kelly - Deputy Chair

Richard Bladel - Secretary

Steve Pike - Treasurer

Tom Lynch

Jami Bladel

Michael Fortescue

Special Advisor - Neil Cameron