Urban Culture Project

An interview project run by Nadia Cusimano throughout 2012

What is culture to young people? This is the underlying question driving the Urban Culture Interview Project together with the desire to listen and not assume what young people might think. To listen to what inspires youth. To hear about what kind of activities they would like to be doing and what they want to see happening in the area where they live. To ask youth what they would like us to be doing. Generating an art project within the youth community that is about asking the simplest question of a people and place to - what is culture to you?

Nadia is an artist living in Christies Beach who has been undertaking interviews with the community and will continue to do so throughout 2012 to collate information for film installations and a printed publication.

Nadia Cusimano

Nadia was born in Milan and since 2011 has lived in Adelaide. She studied dance, accountancy and physical education in Italy and in 1996 received a BA in Performing Arts, EDDC Arnheim. From 1996 to 2002 Nadia was a member of Sasha Waltz and Guests collaborating and touring internationally with the works Allee der Kosmonauten, Na Zemlje, Korper.

Nadia has created a variety of her wn works and also collaborated on projects with Paul Gazzola, Sasha Waltz and Guests, Luc Dunberry, Xavier Le Roy, Eszter Salamon, Constanza Macras, Angelika Oei, Nigel Charnock and Lone Twin Theatre that has seen her operating at the forefront of international contemporary dance and theatre practices.

She is a qualified BMC® Somatic Movement Educator and Certified in Classical Pilates and continues to work as a dramaturge/performer for dance/theatre projects in Germany, Italy and Australia.

For further information please contact

Nadia Cusimano
0422 520 451
nadiacusimano@googlemail.com

Urban Culture Project

Urban Culture Project is a program of ExpressWay Arts, a pilot project of Carclew Youth Arts.

Urban Culture Project is a multi-arts workshop and performance event created by young people from Adelaide’s southern suburbs with local and international artists.

Conceived as a visual and physical theatre spectacular, Urban Culture Project explores the notion of ‘culture’ as an active and ever-evolving framework, informing and being informed by the interactions and activities of a community.

The workshop program and performance will incorporate circus, theatre, costume and set design, hip-hop, break dancing, street art, music, community interviews, film and audio visual projections.

Creative Team

Creative Producer - Katrina Lazaroff

Key Artists
Stephen Noonan – Theatre/Circus
Scott and Juliette Griffin - Circus Elements
Nadia Cusimano – Interview Project
Seb Humphreys – Graffiti Art Project
Poe One - Breakdance
Paul Gazzola – Set/Costume Building
Penelope Shum, Emma Dawson and Jessica Statton - Hip Hop Dance
Dianne Reid – Film
Derek Madcap – Dj-ing

Urban Culture Project FREE event

Saturday 15 December 2.30pm - 6.00pm
Ramsay Place, Noarlunga

2.30pm - 4.00pm: Circus, Dance & Theatre performances, Graffiti Art and Interview Project Video Installation

4.00pm - 6.00pm: Art of Rhyme Breakdance Battle and K21 MC

Get Involved

Workshop programs will be facilitated throughout the 2012 school holidays at youth centres, community art centres and The Arts Centre, Port Noarlunga.

Community arts projects in street art and sculptural design will also be hosted throughout the year.

Term 4 - Circus Elements Workshops

Join tutors Scott and Juliette Griffin for a series of circus workshops to be held every Thursday throughout Term 4.

All Urban Culture workshop programs will culminate in a public performance event on December 15 at Ramsay Place, Port Noarlunga.

Circus Workshops

Every Thursday throughout term 4
October | 11, 18 & 25
November | 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29
December | 6 & 13

4.30 - 6pm
Suitable for ages 10 – 18 years
Cost FREE
The Arts Centre
Gawler Street, Port Noarlunga

For further information or bookings phone Katrina or Tess 0407 712 729 or email katrina@expresswayarts.com.au

Urban Culture Project

A graffiti art project run by Seb Humphreys throughout 2012

Participants will engage in aerosol art projects on various walls throughout the City of Onkaparinga. The project will include mentoring in aerosol art and community engagements with local businesses and community organisations.

Seb Humphreys

Now 26, Seb Humphreys grew up in Prospect during the early nineties. It was his daily trip through KAB 101’s Alleyway (Honeysuckle Lane) to and from primary school that he got his first touches with Adelaide’s burgeoning legal aerosol art scene.

The influence stuck and the love of design and the nuances of letterform and typographical construction became the source of his artistic output from then on. Moving from Prospect in 1999 and relocating to the Adelaide hills for the next 7 years, Seb infused his love of design with the appreciation of natural forms and developed his trademark ‘organic style’. This recent greenman work can be seen on King William Street, the pillars underneath the Morphett Street bridge and other spots in and around various cities nationally and internationally.

Practicing professionally since 2008, Seb works across the community arts, studio and mural artwork platforms, keeping in touch with the grass roots of the legal aerosol art scene through teaching aerosol workshops and pushing the limits of the artform with large scale mural projects. Seb has worked with Carclew’s Visual Arts and Digital Media Program, Arts and Education Program and was a mentee in JUMP National Mentoring Program for Young and Emerging Artists during 2010.

For further information please contact

Seb Humphreys
0488 957 815
sebhumphreys@gmail.com