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Create Yourself..

Me, Myself, and I

Shopfront is an exciting and innovative arts centre - focused on contemporary performance, hybrid arts and cross- disciplinary forms.It’s a one stop creative haven where under 25s make engaging new work and meaningful connections
Shopfront provides an amazing platform for young people; a cultural network and production co-operative where all young people, regardless of background or ability can express themselves and create exciting work based on their own stories and experiences . We provide an extensive program including workshops, projects, seminars and training in a number of art forms and also technical production practice.

"who says we have to stand still, who says we need a narrative, a script or even a single room? This expansive imaginative landscape will do nicely"
-- Tommy Murphy's review of Shopfront's 2006 production POP UP!

SUPERPERFECT - upcoming major project in 2009

Faster Better Stronger

Shopfront partners contemporary Japanese performance group Nibroll and Keio SFC University to explore what it means to be good enough, to be perfect, to measure up! Superperfect combines comic-book illustration, music, web-design and dance to create a real-life and online exhibition/performance in Sydney and Yokohama.

Superperfect Creatives:

Director TJ Eckleberg joins industry luminaries Meem – (sound design); Lighting designer Stephen Hawker, Melbourne designer Kate Davis, movement artists Victoria Hunt and Bronwyn Turnbull and the image team Tam Morris and Rhys Morris – to mentor young people – including performers from Sierra Leone, an Aboriginal dancer from NAISDA and Shopfront’s resident young artists. The team is joined in Australia by Nibroll’s outstanding film maker and multi-media artist Keisuke Takahashi, noise guitarist / producer SKANK, world renowned choreographer Mikuni Yanaihara, and young Japanese artists – assembling the myriad images and offerings into a resonant performance.

Superperfect Development

Superperfect is the result of over two years of development, bringing together artists and young people from diverse backgrounds. Earlier this year six young Shopfront artists traveled to Yokohama for a work in progress showing - generating ideas, choreography and stories to bring back to Australia.

Superperfect Outreach:

Over two hundred young people have contributed through extensive workshops, including young people who are disadvantaged (Bankstown Multicultural Youth Service), new migrants and refugees (Fairfield and Beverly Hills Intensive English Centres), Aboriginal (Kirinari Hostel), still at school (De La Salle College, Cronulla) or at risk (Engadine Youth Service, Woniora Road School). Their ideas, images and stories wind through the performance, are featured in an interactive exhibition, and are curated online at a dedicated website www.shopfront.org.au/superperfect.

Superperfect Opens August 14

Sydney Performance Season:

88 Carlton Parade, Carlton. Sydney

$10 Preview, August 13 @ 8pm
August 14 & 15 @ 1pm/8pm
August 16 @ 5pm

Tickets:
Adults $22/ Conc. $15/ Groups (10) $13pp/ Family $50
*Family ticket includes 2 adults + 2 children

Bookings: 9588 3948

(lost toy story) - 2008 project

Shopfront’s spectacular major project (lost toy story) was a multi-media interactive arts festival weaving through the streets of Hurstville CBD. Part installation, part block party, (lost toy story) explored lost toys, lost hopes and lost fears. With over 200 young people contributing towards the development of the project and nearly half that number making up the cast of lost toy characters on the street.

Shopfront Showreel (2002-2007)

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