2008/2009 Home Truths On-Line

Home Truths On-line will be an interactive web site using providing an on-line experience of the performance installation and its accompanying concepts, including some insights into the young people who developed the artworks.

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2008 Stranded in Paradise

A full-scale new work of original theatre was developed and produced by a team of professional artists, young people and adults from the rural seaside communities of Swansea and Triabunna. The play was entitled “Stranded in Paradise” and represented the ideas thoughts and feelings of the local people involved in the production.

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2007 Madame Tojo’s Café

Original theatre and music production promoting intercultural understanding. A play with music, written and directed by Jami Bladel and Matthew Fargher, with African-born and Tassie-born young people.

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2006 Baby Bonus
Kickstart Arts partnered with Centacare Tasmania to produce a series of performing arts workshops for young mothers. These workshops provided an introduction to Circus, Dance and Theatre.

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2006 Screen Power

A DVD and public large screen screening of 15 short films developed by young people with professional artists that explore notions of POWER fro the young people’s perspective.

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2005 Brainstormers

Music, writing and composing workshops culminating in the development of  a 90 minute program of new songs produced to CD and performed live at a Moonah Arts Centre and  various events. All the participants of the project live with mental illness.

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2005 Every Wrinkle Tells a Story

Original theatre and music production. Devised with a group of 20 Elders celebrating stories from their lives and providing insight into an older generation of Tasmanian’s for primary school audiences.

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2003-2004 Home Truths

Performance Art installations exploring notions of home from the perspective of young people from Rwanda to Lutana. Installed at the Carnegie Gallery.

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2000 - 2004 Mining The Imagination
A creative multimedia Carom produced over 4 years working with young people and their community, that depicts Queenstown’s social history and contemporary life, landscape, industry and culture in a manner that captures the spirit and complexity of this extraordinary place.
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2004 Love No Pretty Thing
A producer, 2 musicians, 2 health workers and 15 people living with mental illness developed and produced an original music CD: Rising Above the Madness of the World.
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2004 A Cat Called Bird
Original full scale theatre and music production.  Exploring what it means to live with a mental illness, by people with who live with mental illness.









2003 Dusk Drive
Community outdoor short film event. Films made by young people, sometimes collaborating with family members or older friends, on super8 cameras. Shot over 48 hours, edited in-camera and shown on the wall of a factory building on a summer evening with live accompaniment from contemporary jazz band – The Benjafield Collective who played live soundtracks to the films, and featured performances using industrial machinery from the plant.






2003  Wicked Weekly
Animation studio Blue Rocket, filmmaker Rick Mourant and cartoonist Bradfield Dumpleton created a series of films and other moving images are which were edited together into a magazine format and then posted onto the web as an E-Zine in collaboration with a large team of young people.






2003-2005 24/7 EZINE
Sixty three at risk young people express their ideas through drawing, animation and video workshops. The work was screened to an audience of over 400 people of all ages on a balmy summer evening on the outside wall at Pasminco Hobart Smelter, an industrial site just outside of Hobart.






2003 The Works Street Parade
The main street of Glenorchy was full of young people, some in outlandish papier mache costumes, some masked, some with wings, some carried a 20 foot high woman whilst others played percussion in a 20 piece drumming band on the back of a huge earth moving machine and young men performed a Fork Lift Ballet in the rain.






2003 Place Mats
Visual artist John Vella worked with school students to create an installation which peoples domestic space is recreated in a public space. Exhibition at Moonah Arts Centre from May 4th.

2003 Blockbusters

4 site-specific theatre shows, either by or for young people, directed by Ian Pidd, Rick Goddard and Jessica Wilson









2002 What’s Your Story?
A series of short films made by the young people in the municipality of Sorell featuring local stories. A large screen public screening was held in the Sorell High School, and local youth and community bands performed at the event.






2001 Daddy Digs Graves
Film & Animation project with primary school students in Glenorchy City Council region. Children made short films about the work their     parents do.









2001 Sculpture Slam – performance art
Improvisation using found objects and a comedy commentary. Staged in the main street of Glenorchy.












2001 Forklift Ballet
Kickstart produced a performance in the Glenorchy Bus Mall, which featured the incredible virtuosity of the Toll Forklift team as they took their forklifts through their paces in a choreographed ballet for the assembled crowd.









2001 and 2003 The Works Festival
Kickstart Arts were the founding producers of the award winning THE WORKS Festivals in Glenorchy in 2001 and produced the second festival in 2003. The Works is now part of the cultural life of Glenorchy and is run as a biennial festival by the Glenorchy City Council.






1999 - 2000 Off the Rails
Radio play, based in the Huon Valley, Off the Rails was about being young in a rural community. It explored issues of fitting into a small community, risk taking and youth suicide.






1998  Living In/Living Out
Artists Poonkhin Khut, Miranda Morris and Martin Walch worked with the last 100 residents of the Royal Derwent Mental health Hospital in New Norfolk just before it’s closure in 2000.  They used 3D photographic images, storytelling and sound  art to create an installation in the old hospital.

1996 Pulp
An Industrial Opera, An Exhibition. A Documentary Film.
Celebrating 60 years of paper production, artists and community created a contemporary opera perfored on site; an exhibition of artworks by artists who had grown up in Burnie and a documentary film about the entire project capturing the transformative art making process.

1996 Salibury’s
A traditional “art in working life: style project in which artist/boilermaker Warren Walker photographed his place of work, the historic Salisbury’s foundry in Launceston. The resulting exhibition in the Queen Victoria Museum contained historical material as well as Warren’s images. The project was supported by the Australian manufacturing Workers Union and Salisbury’s foundry.

1995 Public and Private
Artists Neal Haslem and David Walker collaborated with public servants in the state government in an exploration of the impact of     information technology on issues related to confidentiality in the public service. The resulting exhibition was installed in a government office and on the (then quite new) internet. The project was supported by the Dept. of Tourism Sport & recreation and the state public services federation of Tasmania.

1995  The Launceston General Hospital Project
The use of diagnostic image making technology in a collaboration between artist Kevin Todd and scientific and non scientific hospital staff. Staff gained computer skills and access to the creative potential of the technology. An exhibition of the work created was held at the hospital.

1994 Queenstown Sculptural Mural
This prominently positioned mural acts as a tribute to the people of Queenstown and their contribution, past, present and future, to the towns economy and culture. Kickstart Arts artists worked with a group of young people from the Landcare Environment Action Program. Digital technology was used to alter photographic images of various community figures. These images were then transferred to aluminium templates to create a relief sculpture. The mural has become a source of tremendous civic pride. The artists undertook specialised computer training in a text book example of mentoring and professional development for artists.

1994 The ANC Workshops - Songs of South Africa.
Siphiwo Lubambo, The ANC’s clultural representative in Australia was brought to Tasmania to conduct a series of workshops in contemporary South African songs. This resulted in a sellout concert and the creation of a choir, Sisonke, which is still going strong today.




1993 Billboard Project
Artists: Barbie Kjar, Milan Milojevic.
Artists worked with workers from non- English speaking backgrounds to create large scale artworks for display on billboards.