Searching for Winta, Round 2: Bigger and Better!

Searching for Winta, Round 2: Bigger and Better!

Phoenix Youth Theatre is proud to present a new contemporary youth devised production, Searching for Winta.

This showing of Searching for Winta is the second stage in the creative development of the vibrant new work devised by the Phoenix Youth Theatre.

Some of us are believers, some are non-believers. One thing’s for sure there have been sightings. Everyone’s searching for something.

Winta is everything you are looking for.

Followed by:

Why do we do it for?

A forum about socially engaged youth theatre.

This dynamic and democratic forum explores what we might mean by ‘socially engaged’ art and what the purpose and value of our practice is in an increasingly divided society and and rapidly expanding digital world.

A panel of emerging artists will speak about their practice and respond to questions, then it’s open to the audience to engage, challenge and generate discussion.

Panel:
Oti Willoughby – Edge Ensemble and Massive Hip Hop Choir
Piper Huynh – Edge Ensemble and independent artist
Sophia Constantine – Deputy Chairperson of Platform Youth Theatre
And representatives from Uprising Youth Theatre, North Geelong Youth Theatre and Phoenix Youth Theatre.

Panel questions:

• If you represent bad stuff on a stage, do you encourage young people to do bad things?
• How responsive to community standards should our work be and what are those standards anyway?
• Should youth theatre have moral messages?
• Where is the line between social activism and art?

The panel will be facilitated by independent emerging writer Georgia Symons and Western Edge Director Dave Kelman.

Date: Friday 14 August
Time: 6pm for Searching for Winta
7pm for Why do we do it for? discussion panel.
Venue: VU Footscray Nicholson campus (cnr Nicholson and Buckley Streets Footscray). Building N (Beanland Building) Room N221 level 2
Free Entry