Projects

Darwin Community Arts will seek to realise our vision for the coming years through projects -- opportunities for making and sharing art -- that we will build in partnership with our communities. We will have key, major projects that will best help achieve our vision. These key projects will involve a consolidation of existing efforts as well as new initiatives, gathered in more cohesive and articulated frameworks.

We will also continue to run existing projects which we expect will contribute immediately to our vision, and which will grow and develop over the years to further help achieve our long-term vision. We imagine that some projects will end in the coming years, and new ones will emerge according to changing conditions under which we work.

Arts Access Darwin

Arts Access Darwin (AAD) provides arts-based workshops, professional development opportunities and events inclusive of people with disability. AAD partners with disability service providers and arts organisations to increase access to and participation in the arts for people with disability through out the NT. AAD is a member of Arts Access Australia. AAD will work with partners in the disability sector and with Frontline Media to develop assistive technologies, particularly digital tools that enhance artistic production by people with disabilities.

CemeNTworx

CemeNTworx is a community theatre program that offers workshops, productions, and other theatre activities for all ages and communities. Its activities include: CemeNTmix (multicultural youth drama club), CemeNTjam (adult theatre jam group), CemeNTstars (theatre group of people with disabilities), CemeNTfiz and Emotional Health Drama Workshops for schools and communities in remote areas. CemeNTworx also explores sound, voice, movement, dance, and multimedia practice towards an integrated multi-arts approach to community theatre.

Darwin Fridge Festival

The Festival is a salute to art, people and the humble fridge. The festival is a chance for everybody, everywhere, to make art. Community groups, businesses, artists and families decorate fridges, eskies and fridge magnets for exhibition in November. The first Festival in 2010 was held at Malak; the Festival in 2012 spanned two weeks. It featured exhibits at Darwin International Airport and Malak Shopping Centre, and culminated with an exhibition and show at Darwin Waterfront.

Darwin Regional Arts Mesh (DRAM)

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DCA will initiate and spearhead the building of DRAM, a mesh that will facilitate decentralised, distributed, and mobile means and opportunities for making and sharing art across the Darwin Region.

Fist Full of Films

Fist Full of Films is the NT's only homegrown short film festival. Each year it provides Territorian filmmakers with incentives to create new work and build capacity through skills development and networking opportunities.

Frontline

Frontline explores the relationship of people and places using new media. This project builds on previous and ongoing work by DCA with Indigenous, African, and other communities in Malak and the Northern Suburbs of Darwin. It has developed several digital tools, such as Tagtool and webcam piano, for community use; over the last three years, these tools have been adapted by various community groups in Darwin and beyond.

Malak Community Arts and Media Centre (MCAMC)

DCA will consolidate and expand its existing presence at Malak Shopping Centre into the Malak Community Arts and Media Centre, which will serve communities in Malak and the Northern Suburbs immediately, and the rest of Darwin Region. The MCAMC will be a node in the DRAM, and will inform plans for establishing similar centres in Darwin City, Palmerston City, and Litchfield Shire.

MCAMC will include these existing facilities that will be upgraded in the coming years:

Malak Community Shed

The Malak Community Shed is a new community shed promoting creativity, sustainability, social cohesion and a sense of community. The first community shed project to be established in the Northern Territory will be in the Northern Suburb of Malak and coordinated by Darwin Community Arts with funding through Australian Federal Government through the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC).

Malak Monthly Community Dinners

Community dinners are held on the last Monday of every month at Chambers Crescent Theatre in Malak for the local neighbourhood and for various communities DCA works with. The food is catered by My Sisters' Kitchen, and performances are usually from local artists and groups. An average of 200 people attend the dinners. Donations are accepted at the door to cover expenses.

Malak Telecentro

The Malak Telecentro is a community-based computer centre with 12 computers on a wired Local Area Network (LAN) with Broadband Internet access, available for community use every weekday afternoon. It has been running since 2007. Most users are young students from nearby schools. The Darwin Seniors Computer Club assists with the management of the Telecentro. The project has been funded by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship since July 2012.

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