Last month the SSH ran an interview with Charlie from Heaps Decent, the Australian-based dynamic arts organisation that works with young people and emerging artists from marginalised and disadvantaged communities, about their Home Base workshops. This month Julia Jacklin headed to the Redfern Community Centre to get a glimpse at the inner workings of the Heaps Decent workshop.
Heaps Decent is an Australian-based dynamic arts organisation that works with young people and emerging artists from marginalised and disadvantaged communities, providing space and means for self expression through music. One of their programs, Home Base, operates out of Redfern Community Centre. Charlie O’Brien from Heaps Decent talks about the work being done in Redfern.
REDFERN: Gunawirra is a not-for-profit, member-based organisation made up of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal professionals and specialists working side-by-side for Aboriginal young women, men and their children aged 0 to 5 years.
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