APCS Young Professionals Program

Be part of July’s Asia Pacific Cities Summit in Brisbane and join Richard Branson together with business leaders and young professionals from around the world to share ideas and solutions to global challenges.

More details of the program are on the APCS website

Please click here to download the young professionals’ program or read abit about them below.
 
What is the 2011 APCS?
•A global event, the 2011 APCS will be held in Brisbane – Australia’s new world city – from Wednesday 6 to Friday 8 July 2011
•Leaders from multinational corporations, world municipalities and academic institutions will share ideas and solutions to global challenges 
•A high profile line-up of internationally acclaimed speakers will feature alongside plenary sessions, panel discussions, question and answer forums and international case studies 
•APCS 2011 dialogue will be focused on the key theme – “The Business of Cities” and the three sub-themes:  “the business of green cities”, ”the business of smart and connected cities” and “the business of growing cities”
Young professionals’ program
Young Professionals (YPs) will enjoy complete access to the Summit program as well as a pre-Summit networking session and workshop on Tuesday 5 July. The unique program is hands-on, run by other young professionals and designed to create a fast-moving and open dialogue focusing on the key Summit themes.

This exclusive development session has limited places. Participants will collaborate with other leading young minds to test and grow ideas and later showcase them to the wider Summit delegates. 

 
APCS young professional checklist
•Are you a young professional aged between 18-25 years?
•Do you want to engage with global business and civic leaders?
•Are you passionate about “the business of cities”?
•Do you want your ideas heard by top global leaders?
Does this sound like you or someone you know? Register now and get involved!
Exclusive young professional opportunities at the 2011 APCS
Once registered, YPs will have the opportunity to apply for one of three speaker positions at the YP workshop or the YP representative who will join the interactive panel session on the final day of the Summit. Complete the ”2011 YP speaker application for”’ to be in the running.

Additional opportunities for YPs at the 2011 APCS include:

•Showcasing ideas within the Trade Market Square, the Summit exhibition space
•Developing and delivering the YPs’ Accord to the full Summit audience on Friday 8 July
Key dates  
YP speaker application form submission deadline 20 June 2011 
Young professional speaker applicants notified 27 June 2011 
Young professionals pre-Summit workshop 5 July 2011 
2011 APCS 6 – 8 July 2011 

* Young professional registration deadline exclusive only to those that meet young professional criteria

Contact Academy

Visible Ink are excited to be part of CONTACT ACADEMY: a 3 day workshop for young artists, actors, singers, dancers and event organisers. 

To register your interest please email Candy B at candy@contact.org.au or call Contact Inc on 07 3255 3900. Please tell us your name, age, art-form and why you’re passionate about the arts .

Please RSVP by the 24th of June 2011 limited space available, bookings essential! Participants must be age 12-26 to take part in Contact Academy.

Qld Young Volunteer Awards

The Awards recognise the achievements and contributions of young volunteers aged 12 to 25 who give their time to disaster relief, culture, arts and sporting activities; health and emergency services; social welfare or environmental protection.

Winners will receive $500 and a certificate of recognition. Nominations will close at 5pm on Friday 24 June 2011.

Who is eligible?

Nominees must be aged between 12 and 25 years at the close of nominations.

• They must reside and have undertaken their volunteering in Queensland during the previous 12 months.
• Nominees aged under 18 years must have their parent or guardian’s consent for the nomination.
• Nominations can be made by a community leader, organisation or teacher or the young volunteer themself.

Award categories

There are seven award categories that recognise either individuals or groups. There are two age groups – 12 to 17 years and 18 to 25 years – in the following categories:

• Arts and culture volunteers channel their passion for arts and culture into entertaining and educating the community
• Community service volunteers contribute to the strength and well-being of their community
• Green volunteers contribute to protecting the natural environment
• Online volunteers contribute to their community or a cause they care about via the internet and online networks
• Social innovators create their own social enterprises, or new activities within established organisations, or use innovative fundraising methods
• Sport and recreation volunteers create a more active, healthy community.

One award will be presented in the following category:

• School action volunteers reach out to their communities through school-organised activities.

How to nominate

1. If you’re nominating someone else you will need to ask the nominee/s (and their parent or guardian if they are under 18 years) if they agree to be nominated, and if they give their permission for their personal information to be provided to the Department of Communities.If you’re under 18 years and nominating yourself, your parent or guardian will need to give their permission for your information to be provided to the department.
2. Download and print the nomination form (PDF 19 KB)  and send your nomination to:

   Queensland Young Volunteer Awards
   Office for Volunteering
   Department of Communities
   GPO Box 806
   Brisbane Qld 4001

   or email the scanned nomination form to: volunteering@communities.qld.gov.au
   or Fax 07 3008 5198

3. Tell us, in no more than two A4 typed pages (300-500 words), about the nominee’s volunteering contributions and achievements. Make sure you include the following information:
   • volunteering role – describe the specific activities and responsibilities of the individual or group over the previous 12 months
   • volunteering achievements – describe the difference their volunteering activities have made to both their communities and themselves.
4. All nominations, including self nominations, should provide contact details for a referee who can confirm the nominee’s volunteer work.
5. Submit the nomination form online or send the completed form by mail, email or fax to the Office for Volunteering, Department of Communities by 5pm Friday 24 June 2011.

How we pick winners

The judging panel will select award winners who have:

• shown innovation or creativity in their volunteering
• demonstrated leadership in creating and developing projects
• used their energy, commitment and enthusiasm to raise awareness
• created something worth replicating elsewhere
• inspired others to get involved in volunteeringv
• demonstrated a willingness to develop their talents into new areas.

The panel will include representatives from youth organisations, Volunteering Queensland and the Department of Communities.

The judging panel’s decision on the Queensland Young Volunteer Awards winners is final. The panel reserves the right not to award a particular category.

For more info, contact Office for Volunteering, Department of Communities

Kuraby Skate and Scooter Finals

Zillmere Festival

 The Zillmere Multicultural Festival was on June 4th. Check out all the details at www.zillfest.org.au

The festival is in its 10th year and promotes and shares the diversity and rich cultural backgrounds of the Zilmere community and its surrounding areas. Focus is placed upon interaction and experience in a free entry, family-friendly, one day only festival.    Attendees were offered a wonderful array of food and craft stalls with many cultural groups exhibiting displays, workshops, crafts, demonstrations, song, dance and their traditional food. There was plenty of free activities and workshops for both children and adults alike, with local community groups and government agencies also providing information, displays and their own activities.

As part of this years festival 30  young people from Brisbane north worked with Contact Inc to develop skills in dance and music over 11 weeks.  A partnership with  Contact Inc, Jabiru REspec, Brisbane City Council, Zillmere PCYC and Zillmere YACCA, the Breaking Ground Program culminated in a huge performance at the Zillmere Festival. The performance showcased the creative talent of young people involved in the workshop process and the skills developed as a collective over the 11 weeks.

Fete dela Musique

Fête de la Musique is the largest international live music event in the world, held in 450 cities across the globe on the very same day each year – June 21 –developed by the French Government in 1982. The aim of the event is to make music everywhere, to celebrate music and to expose as many people to music as possible.

An International Charter is the common link for more than 110 countries who participate in this music event. Musicians and venues donate their time for free, supported by a small army of volunteers, all in the spirit of making and celebrating music.

Now in its fourth year, Fête de la Musique Brisbane provides a performance platform for all people who love making music: whether a professional musician who has been playing for years or an aspiring performer who is looking for a chance to try out their skills.

So how does it work? Musicians and venues register to be involved on the website.  The website then helps them to find each other, similar to an online dating service.  People can also organise their own event and register it online as part of the festival.

VISIBLE INK IS HOSTING A STAGE IN CHINA TOWN MALL FORTITUDE VALLEY…..and heres the lineup (starts midday):

12.00 -12.30 Daddy Loops
1.00 – 1.30 Eyes Of Azure
2.00 – 2.30 Grape Soda!
3.00 – 3.30 Taka & Yuji
4.00 – 4.45 Candice McLeod
5.00 – 5.30 Tango
6.00 – 6.45 Bang Bang Boss Kelly
7.00 – 7.45 Beauty and the Beats
8.00 – 8.45 SHEPPARD!

Baywave Festival 2011

 

BAY WAVE Youth and Community festival

Bay Wave Youth and Community Festival celebrates and recognizes the importance and achievements of all young people in the local community and happens in June each year. The purpose of the festival is to create opportunities for showcasing the talents, skills and ideas of local young people. The Festival offers a range of activities, workshops and performances throughout the day for the whole community to enjoy and participate in. Bay Wave Youth and Community Festival is organized and delivered by the Youth and Community Program based at BABI Youth and Family Service (funded through Brisbane City Council and Department of Communities).

Bay Wave Youth and Community Festival each year includes performances by young people (12-25) in theatre, dance, and music, as well as a variety of markets, youth & community stalls and free or low cost activities. This youth festival is open to individual young artists, bands and youth services in Brisbane and Bayside that work creatively with young people to have the opportunity to showcase their work and promote themselves.

There’s plenty of ways that young people get involved:

 Have a stall at our festival! Available to community services & youth organisations who would like to promote their service, run outdoor workshops, sign up new members, or sell merchandise related to a group performance on the day. Market stalls are available for young people under 26 with art, crafts, and other goods to sell.

 Nominate young people! Anyone can nominate someone (or themselves) that have talent and skills in music, singing, dancing or even drama.

 Youth Voice Committee! Young people living in Wynnum/Manly community assist in the organizing and running of the annual youth festival. If you ever wanted to learn skills in event management and join the coolest group in the community, this is it!

 Nominate your Band! Bay Wave Youth Festival also features a ‘Music Fest’ and it is about giving young and emerging artists an opportunity to play their music and perform on a BIG STAGE!

 Compete in a Skate or a Bike Comp! So you love skateboarding and bikes and you spend days at the skate park trying to learn new tricks and show off in front of your mates!? Enter our competition

 Run a workshop or an activity! Creative ideas for workshops and activities for Bay Wave Youth and Community Festival. In previous years activities included drumming, belly dancing, Hip Hop workshops, candle making, hair braiding, and jewellery making etc.

For more info, call Emina on 3393 4176 (Ext13) or email youth@babi.org.au

Youth Week Files

Here are links to the current draft of all the event documents as PDF files. Figured it was easier that sending a long list of files attached to an email that might clog up everyone’s in boxes. People can’t access this area of the website with out the web link, so please don’t share it around!

If you could have a look and provide any feedback you have, that would be awesome. We are hoping to have this all ready to roll tomorrow (Wednesday) night as soon as the meeting is done. I am still working on the copy for the Healthy & Active Facilitators email.

Email Copy for Visual Artists Unpaid

NYW Email Copy Artists (Paid)

NYW Email Copy Artists (Unpaid)

NYW Booking Agreement (Generic)

NYW Contract (Paid)

NYW Contract (Unpaid)

NYW Getting Paid by Council

NYW Healthy & Active Facilitator Agreement

NYW Media plan for participants

NYW Request for Information

NYW Stall Booking Agreement

NYW Stall Holders Information Pack

Backbone Bounce Advisory Group Now Recruiting!

BOUNCE – an advisory group of artists aged 20 – 26 years that will regularly meet to advise Backbone’s Artistic Director, Andrew Cory on relevant issues, inspirations and aspirations concerning the young and emerging professional artists and their arts practice. Bounce is created to ensure that Backbone has a dedicated platform where young professional artists can directly inform the companies programming and philosophy.

WHO ARE WE?

Backbone is one of Queensland’s leading Youth Theatre companies regularly partnering with the state’s flagship arts companies such as Opera Queensland, Queensland Theatre Company, Brisbane Powerhouse. Backbone is recognized by the broader arts community and government as a leading youth arts innovator and performance creator.

Backbone is about the future! Backbone is about creativity! It is the place where the creative and artistic aspirations of a young generation of performers, theatre makers and cultural producers is expressed and realized. We are inspired by the new ways in which young people engage with the idea of performance and theatre, the cutting edge ideas and reimagining of the potential of theatre/performance/art in the 21st century!

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

The Bounce team will be made up of young and emerging professional artists and artsworkers (20‐26 yrs) in the fields of theatre, performance, new media, design, music and visual arts who resonate with the company’s goal of creating contemporary, relevant and innovative performance works. As part of BOUNCE you will meet approximately once every 2 monthes during office hours to discuss the artistic program and generally talk about the state of the current artistic landscape in not only in Brisbane but from around the world. Your input will help inform Backbone’s artistic agenda and program.

WHAT YOU GET:

As a member of Bounce you will have a direct input into Backbone’s programming and be able to provide immediate feedback on how the company works and what you would like us to be doing. You will be connected to other exciting and emerging artists in the Bounce group and you will be profiled on our website. Ultimately it will be about sharing ideas and be a space for critical discussion. As a member of Bounce you will also have access to Backbone as a mentor and a company that can support your career development.

PROPOSED DATES: (note proposed only)

Mondays 1st March, 26th April, 21 June, 16 Aug, 18th Oct, 13th Dec

FOR MORE INFORMATION…

Click here to be redirected to the Backbone Youth Arts Contact Us Page.

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