Urban Music workshops for Fijian Youth
Free urban music workshops for Fijian-Australian youth
ICE has teamed up with Fijian-Australian youth organisation, Fiji Youth Initiative (FYI), to run an exciting series of urban music workshops starting in August.
The workshops will enable eager young people between 15 – 25 year olds from the Fijian-Australian community to develop their lyric-writing and music production skills.
FYI is a new organisation made up of volunteers from the Fijian-Australian community who are committed to working with young people and providing opportunities to improve their quality of life.
ICE Director, Lena Nahlous, is excited about the partnership between ICE and FYI. “One of our aims at ICE is to assist seed organisations to become self-sufficient. We are looking forward to working with FYI to deliver an urban music program tailored to the needs of the Fijian-Australian community”.
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Participation Details
To be eligible, participants must be 15 -25 years old live in Western Sydney of Fijian background.
The course will run every Saturday from 4 August to 15 September 2007, 12–4pm, at ICE’s Switch Multimedia and Digital Arts Access Centre in Granville.
The course is coordinated and led by famous hip-hop artist MC Trey who has been supported by the Vodafone Australia Foundation since 2006 to run urban music programs at ICE.
Trey, herself a member of the Fijian-Australian community, explains that the course will encourage participants to “express themselves through song and to discuss, research and write about issues that affect them and their peers. There will also be youth and health workers available to shed light on these issues.”
FYI will also bring on board established musicians from the Fijian-Australian community to tutor and work alongside participants.
To register or to get more information call ICE on 02 9897 5744 or email urbanmusic@ice.org.au
Switch is a partnership between ICE and Parramatta City Council and receives core funding from the NSW Government through Arts NSW
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[Article posted 31 July 2007]
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