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Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands - Working towards Celebrating Healthy communitiesCarclew Youth Arts spent the best part of 2004/05 in consultation with the community in the APY Lands, working towards designing a two year program which seeks to address alcohol and substance misuse (and other contemporary social issues) affecting 12 to 20 year olds in the APY Lands through the delivery of arts and cultural workshops (with a focus on education, health and wellbeing) over a two-year period. The Program has received funding from the Commonwealth Fund the Alcohol Rehabilitation and Education Foundation (AERF) and Arts SA to conduct a series of artistic and cultural workshops and programs on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands (APY) working with young people and the Youth Sheds over a two-year period. While the focus will be on young people who are engaged in or at risk of engaging in alcohol and substance abuse, the workshop program will be multi-layered. It will also engage young people who have dropped out, or are at risk of dropping out, of the traditional education system. In particular, young people transitioning from primary to high school will be targeted. A theatre performance and other arts activities, and the associated artistic process, will be developed as an intervention strategy for young people experiencing multiple layers of disadvantage. Key strategies will be to enliven the APY Lands community youth sheds as hubs for young people (with a view to programming arts activities at night) and to identify alternative education pathways. A growing body of worldwide research supports the powerful role that artistic and cultural expression can play in achieving positive health outcomes in both hospital and community settings. In particular, research has demonstrated that the arts can successfully engage young people at risk. This evidence underpins the SA Government's proposal to use a two-year intensive arts program as the vehicle for education and behavioural transformation regarding alcohol and substance misuse among young people in the APY Lands. The arts program will provide young people living in a nationally recognised community-in-crisis with a rare opportunity to explore contemporary health issues affecting them in their community. The two-year project will be led by Carclew Youth Arts (SA's specialist youth arts agency), which will work in partnership with long term local service providers on the APY Lands, including Government-funded youth and health workers and the local schools. Carclew and its partners will add value to existing structures and programs that have proved successful in the past. Apy Lands Project 2008 UpdateThe IACP Program are celebrating the APY Lands Project in reaching its targets between July and December of last year and have delivered and produced some of the most exciting projects so far. The APY Lands Project owes its successes to the ongoing support and collaboration between Carclew, its professional artists and most importantly the APY Lands Communities. Strong community partnerships have been forged and include Amata Anangu School, Ernabella Anangu School, Tafe, Tjala Arts, ANTEP, Community Council's, Nganampa Health Service , Dept of Families and Communites and the Youth Sheds, SAPOL, Community Stores, Drug and Alcohol Services Australia, Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Council and NPY Womens Council. Regular workshops facilitated on the APY Lands by professional artists and 16 mentorees between July and December 2007 has resulted in some amazing productions. So far 11 songs have been produced and recorded, four video pieces have been filmed and created and two performances have featured, one at Amata Youth Shed and Blak Nite and one at Amata Anangu School which included 55 participants and 270 community members in attendance. Media outlets have been in contact with the intention to organise for some of the works to be shown on the National Indigenous Television and heard on local radio. This will give a huge buzz for the artists, participants and their communities. The APY Lands Project Director, Lee-Ann Buckskin and APY Lands community members are currently working on an exit strategy that will provide the best resources and workshop opportunities that will leave a legacy to instill and continue to provide alternative activities for young people at risk living in the APY Lands.
ContactLee-Ann Buckskin APY Lands Project Director and Manager Indigenous Arts and Culture Program Carclew Youth ArtsKaurna Country11 Jeffcott StreetNorth AdelaideSouth Australia 5006Ph 08 8267 5111Fax 08 8239 0689
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