Tuesday 2 October 2001

2001: Canberra Youth Theatre - 21C Happenings. Feature article.

Watch out for young artists all over town for the next 4 weeks. 

Canberra Youth Theatre kicks off with Time Control Chapter 1 (Gorman House 6 pm Wednesday October 3).  The very young can Write Your Own Adventure with Jackie French (at National Museum 11 am Thursday October 4).  Philosophy with bubbles is at Currong Theatre in The Clockwork Divide.  And this week also sees young filmmakers on the Big Screen in Garema Place (Friday and Saturday 8.30 pm); Time Control Chapter 2 on Saturday; and Demons exploring Dostoyevski Thursday to Sunday at The Street 8 pm.   
   
    In following weeks CYT's Time Control goes through all 6 chapters; the ACT Writers Centre shows 8 - 14 year olds how to illustrate stories at the National Museum; art installations by Ken Lee will appear somewhere yet to be announced; the Choreographic Centre's youth will take a Quantum Leap into Transdance 3091 at The Street.  At Tuggeranong Arts Centre, NUTS will show Picasso and Einstein being intuitive in Picasso at the Lapin Agile by Steve Martin; at Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Manuka (and on a nature strip in your suburb soon) Daniel Maginnity's Urbane Mosaics will materialise; and Canberra College photographers will be Extraordinary at Gorman House.

    And where else but North Canberra Bowling Club would you expect to see a four-piece funk band called Baron Samadhi and Others?  Dickson College goes Train Surfing at Currong Theatre; and ACT Playgroups have a big festival at Corroboree Park, Ainslie 10 am - 2 pm October 23. 

And that's not all: there's the Tuggeranong Rotary Youth Arts Awards; Theatre in Decay from Melbourne Kissing the Ground Goodbye; Canberra College being Artrageous; Marymead with Who Cares If I Care?; Famillease directed by Eulea Kiraly; Ethnic Schools Languages Day; Silhouettes for massed recorders and prerecorded tape; and maybe a couple of other things which aren't yet finalised.

Checkout the Canberra Youth Theatre Company's web site for details.  They did all the work drawing together 21C Happenings, to show the whole city what the youth of Canberra are doing this October.  www.cytc.net will get you there.

© Frank McKone, Canberra




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