Digital content made by, with and for young people aged 13-25.
At Arts Centre Melbourne, we believe that young people have a right to be seen and heard. As we navigate through these difficult times, it will be young voices and their new narratives that shape our future. That’s why they are front and centre in Seen & Heard, our new online youth hub.
Check in regularly for inspiring performances and podcasts made by young people, at-home workshops, and exciting opportunities to get involved in the performing arts.
These school holidays, join leading arts facilitators for fun, interactive online workshops! Learn the basics of Ableton Live, try your hand at lyric writing or perfect TikTok choreography. The entire program of workshops are FREE for all participants. Registrations are essential.
Beat Machine Online Workshop – Saturday 26 September, 2pm (Ages 13 – 18)
Viral Dance - Choreography for TikTok – Wednesday 30 September, 2pm (Ages 13 – 18)
Our New Slang committee, a team of music fans aged 14-17, put their heads together (virtually, of course) to imagine the future of live music. The result? Steri-LIVE, a socially distanced, sustainable and diverse festival with no bounds.
Celebrating the engagement of young people through performing arts, this documentary is an uplifting look at Dig Deep, Arts Centre Melbourne’s dynamic and inclusive youth hip-hop and urban music program.
Enjoy a series of hilarious sketches from the LOL Squad crew, a team of funny peeps aged 14-18 from the Class Clowns program. Meet a ghost with low self-esteem, witness a very unusual heist, get into some hardcore parkour and more.
5 emerging composers. 5 new works. 5 minutes.
In the midst of the global pandemic, five outstanding emerging Victorian composers explored the theme of Memory.
During this extraordinary time we were afforded the opportunity to look back and engage our memory to reflect on the way life was. Technology has continued to play an integral role in our lives, keeping us connected and entertained. 5x5x5: Memory was able to flourish with the support of technology and in their home studios, five emerging composers were equipped to produce beautiful pieces, exploring this vital theme.
Listen to audio from the 2019 Future Echoes festival, where young creatives aged 13-30 years old challenged ways of thinking and invited audiences into their processes.
Look out over the horizon, fast forward your watch, is the apocalypse closer than you think? Express Media curated an immersive, stirring and playful hour of young writers who propelled us forward in time and shared their visions for the future.
Curated by Emerging Writers' Festival, this panel of young creatives brought the future into the present, centering Indigenous voices, looking beyond access, transcending gender and placing artists at the centre of social change.
In this workshop you will learn the basics of hip-hop songwriting. Themes covered will include: using a piece of music to inspire the mood and direction of a song, developing a unique song concept, finding an effective and powerful way to deliver a song’s message and putting all these ideas into action to create lyrics for a verse and chorus.
Using household items and the Koala Sampler app, Benji will show you how to make yourself a unique sample-based drumkit. Once you’ve refined your kit, Benji will take you through the basics of putting together a drum beat, so you can use your DIY drumkit as a live instrument!
Each fortnight our team round up some of our favourite programs from artists and companies across Victoria, as well as content made by, with and for teens, in these curated lists.
Browse new digital works from young artists, watch an online music festival or join creative industry talks from the NGV and ACMI.
Watch documentaries on incredible First Nation’s musicians Lady Lash and Ziggy Ramo, hear from industry leading writers and creatives and tune in to the perfect at-home, lo-fi hip hop soundtrack.
From hip-hop drop ins and songwriting tutorials, to weekly workshops and development programs, there’s plenty of opportunities to engage with the performing arts online.
