Community arts

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Past projects in the Avondale area

RAW local arts project

Two groups of youths aged 15-20 years (from Best Training and Avondale College) worked on separate but connected artworks under the guidance of Grant Hall and Sean Coyle. Two large murals depicted images and motifs that were personally meaningful to the participants and reflected the influence of other New Zealand artists. One of the murals was installed at an empty site near Avondale Village and the other outside Avondale Primary School.


Bus mural	School mural

Urban Suburbia Served RAW

In 2004, RAW programme for "tweens" (10 to 13 year olds) saw over 65 young people creating stories about their community using dance, singing and poetry. After workshops young people from the Wesley, Avondale and Oranga areas came together for a performance at the Avondale Community Centre.

In 2006, Urban Suburbia Served RAW ran workshops in heaps of community centres and developed a major performance at The Auckland Performing Arts Centre (TAPAC).

Children participating in the RAW workshops