Backbone Youth Arts

National Cultural Policy

Nick — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 06:22:24 +0000

Watch this space!

Backbone 2high Festival 2011

steph — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 02:43:29 +0000

Australia’s one-of-a-kind multi-arts festival for young and emerging artists and cultural practitioners.

Australia’s one-of-a-kind multi-arts festival for young and emerging artists and cultural practitioners is looking for the next generation of arts coordinators to deliver the 2011 festival.

Backbone’s 2011 workshop program launched

Nick — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 04:32:12 +0000

Backbone’s 2011 term-based and school workshop program has been launched and is available for download. Enrol now to ensure that you do not miss out!

Profile: Clint Bolster

admin — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 06:23:03 +0000

Term-based and In-schools Facilitator
Clint has worked professionally in Australia and overseas as an actor, stilt performer and clown for 8 years. He has extensive performance experience in Australia and internationally in Japan and Singapore. Clint is also a Commedia, Clown and Mask workshop facilitator and Artist In Residence for Schools, for many arts organisations.

Clint has performed for Queensland Theatre Company in Hurry Up And Wait (Debase and QTC Co-Production). Other theatre credits include: Cafe Floriani, The Spirit Of the Mask,Thoughts Have Feelings Too, Where is Santa? (Lightwire Theatrical Productions and Nexus Arts Victoria 8 years). Clint has recently performed in Hurry Up And Wait at The Edinburgh International Fringe Festival, The Little Green Road To Fairy Land (QLD Music Festival), Drama On the High Seas (Princess Cruises/4MBS Classic FM), Much Ado About Nothing andThe Wind In The Willows (4MBS Classic FM), Manoeuvre Stilts (Jupiters Casino and Aerial Angels, 9 months), The Search For The 5th Element and Booff In Concert (Universal Studios Japan, 1 year), Sounds & Clowns, A Treasure Hunt Clown Show and Evocations for Collusion, Freak Street (Show Theatre and Woodford Folk Festival), The Carnival Of Misrul(Transient Theatre and Woodford Folk Festival), Glue (MAP Theatre), The Comedy Of Errors and Pyramus & Thisby (QLD Shakespeare Ensemble), House Broken Hearts (Theatre Active 8), The Merchant Of Vengeance (Diane Gough Productions), The Third Rock Rangers (Janelle Productions), Twisted View (Scatterbox Theatre Company), The Tempest (The Groundlings), Outside Edge (Brisbane Arts Theatre), The Witches (Nash Theatre) and The Two Lovers of Verona (Capillaries and Smashed Eggs and Olive Oil for QUT).

Clint owns and manages Manoeuvre, Queensland’s premier Roving Stilt Company catering for corporate events, night clubs and festivals, both accross Australia, Asia and Europe.

Profile: David Burton

admin — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 04:17:55 +0000

Term-based Facilitator
David Burton is a Queensland playwright currently based in Toowoomba. He has been the recipient of both national and state awards, winning acceptance into the Queensland Theatre Company’s Young Playwrights Program two years running as well as the Australian Theatre For Young People Fresh Ink Award in 2008.

David Burton is the author of The Bachelor Prophecies (2007), Smashed (produced with Sunshine Beach State High School in 2008), Spirits in Bare Feet (headlining the University of Southern Queensland’s Children’s Theatre Festival in 2009) and Lazarus Won’t Get Out of Bed (produced with AS Theatre and Metro Arts in October 2009).

His work has touched on youth issues, indigenous land rights, alcohol abuse, depression and sexuality. He is also the artistic director of Zeitgeist Theatre and directed their debut production of Bloom by Claire Christian. He currently teaches at the University of Southern Queensland in theatre and is involved in many projects across the state.

Profile: Lisa Worthington

admin — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 04:16:38 +0000

Term-based Facilitator
Lisa Worthington is a teaching artist, with experience in teaching, directing and performing. Her directing credits include Hating Alison Ashley (1999), So Much to Tell You (2005), Grease (2006), Aladdin (2007) and NQADA’s production of Macbeth (2007).
While living in Cairns, she worked as an associate director and performer with NQ Academy of Dramatic Art (NQADA) including 15 Minute Hamlet (2004), Secret Bridesmaid Business (2005) and Minefields and Miniskirts (2006). Lisa has also directed a variety of one-act plays but most notably received the Best Director award for Seven Days in the Far North Queensland One Act Play Festival in 2008. While she completed her Bachelor of Education at Central Queensland University, she was a performer and co-writer of The Storybook Theatre Project (2001), The Lighthouse Café (2002), Short Snips (2003) and a regional Queensland touring project Metro City (2002). In 2009, she completed Zen Zen Zo Phyiscal Theatre company internship has training in Viewpoints, Butoh dance theatre and the Suzuki Method of Actor Training.

CLOWN CLUB Holiday Workshops

steph — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 05:54:23 +0000

Check out the amazing new holiday workshops offered in January 2012 here!

Profile: Anja Homburg

admin — Mon, 31 May 2010 05:06:29 +0000

Term-based Facilitator
Anja Homburg is a performer and emerging director of contemporary performance. She is currently completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Drama) at Queensland University of Technology.

Her previous productions include The Vagina Monologues (2009), Richard Jordan’s Family Portrait (2008) and Oh the Humanity (2011). She has worked both as a research and writing dramaturge, and was the 2010 General Manager of Vena Cava Productions. Anja is an active contributor to Brisbane’s emerging arts scene, and was a fundraising project co-ordinator for the Handful of Fragments Collective in 2010. This same year she was a recipient of the QUT Alumni Leadership Excellence Award. She worked with Backbone Youth Arts as a mentored tutor with Matthew Ryan in 2009.

Profile: Lauren Sherritt

admin — Mon, 31 May 2010 04:27:44 +0000

Term-based Facilitator
Lauren Sherritt is an emerging theatre artist building her career in writing and directing contemporary performance.

Since graduating from the University of Southern Queensland’s Theatre Arts program in 2009, Lauren has explored themes of modern youth psychology and technology developing the play The Girl Who Went Missing From Nowhere, and has had fun gallivanting around town writing music reviews for Life Music Media. Lauren completed a semester long facilitation secondment with Backbone Youth Arts in 2010.

2011 Coordinators

steph — Sat, 22 May 2010 02:54:50 +0000

Creative Producer:
Rebecca Smith

Producer (Programming):
Nicholas Paine

Performance Coordinators:
Kaitlyn Rogers
Belinda Davis

Exhibitions Coordinators:
Alexandra Winters
Hilary Perrett

Music Coordinators:
Sam Oliver
Nuala Furtado

Marketing Coordinators:
Athalia Foo
Jana Penshorn

Production Coordinators:
Samantha Tilly
Lizzy King

Program Resources and Digital Coordinator:
Carlin Beattie