Forget about Ramsay Street and Summer Bay, the hottest spot in Australia is Western Sydney!

Aged between 14 and 18 years of age, the Power Up Ensemble come from across Liverpool, Fairfield and Bankstown. Armed with passion, and a whole bunch of talent, these performers have devised a show about time and living life to the full.

Forever-Ever?… asks the question, “What if the clock did stop ticking? How would you live your life if tomorrow was your last?“

The show begins at a Year Six Farewell and unfolds as we follow the life stories of a group of students once they have said goodbye to primary school forever. On this night the clock stops ticking for one student and time is thrown out of whack…

Through a series of scenes that warp between the past and the future, audiences are taken on a journey across the time continuum; Forever-Ever? explores love, loss, relationships, ageing, seasons, life and death.

A mix of comedy, hip-hop and powerful musical voices, the 12 performers shine with a balance of levity and gravity that will leave any audience entertained and moved.

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LINK TO MORE INFO ON THE POWER UP ENSEMBLE! – includes videos and photos of the ‘making of’ Forever-Ever?

The artistic team:

Director – Candy Bowers
Associate Director & Lighting Designer – Andy Ko
Set Design – Arthur Koutoulas
Costume Design – Ben Sinnott
Beats Production & Production Manager - Kim (Busty Beatz) Bowers
Stage Manager – Nicole Cervonaro

PRICE
$5 School special group booking, Teachers come free
$8 Concession/ $10 Adults
8 SHOWS OVER 3 VENUES.

VENUE 1: PYT – FAIRFIELD SCHOOL OF ARTS
19 Harris St, Fairfield

- Thursday August 6th -@ 11am & @ 2pm (schools shows)
- Friday August 7th @ 7:30pm
- Saturday August 8th @ 2pm & @ 7:30pm

VENUE 2: CASULA POWERHOUSE
1 Casula Rd, Casula
Thursday August 13th @ 11am (schools show) & @7:30pm

VENUE 3: REVESBY WORKERS CLUB
2b Brett Street, Revesby
Saturday August 15th @ 4:30pm (all ages show)

Bookings  – 02 9724 6077 or bookings(AT)pyt.com.au

From the landscapes of Africa to the urban scapes of Australia, Walking In My Shoes is a play about the lived realities of African Australians written and performed by young people from Western Sydney.

A new and powerful work about the journeys of hardship and survival of young people and their families where tragedy and exile are interwoven with stories of love and hope.

Young people share their stories of culture, resilience and survival.

Written and performed in collaboration with ACDN’s African Youth Theatre Ensemble: Mohamed Abdirahman, Amer A Achiek, Dor Akech Achiek, Sunday Achiek, Awek Akech, Alimasi Mohammed, Kuach Deng, Mohamed Jalloh, Saa James, Sonah James, Jimmy Johnson, Malvin Kamara, Johnny Lukudu, Meling Maya, Yar M Mayen, Mohammed Nabeel.

3 SHOWS ONLY
Sat 16th May 2pm & 7.30pm
Sun 17th May 6pm
Lennox Theatre
Riverside Theatres Parramatta
Cnr of Church and Market St
Parramatta
$15 /$10

Book your tix at 02 8839 3399 or
www.riversideparramatta.com.au

ARTISTIC TEAM

Director: James Winter
Set Design: Arthur Koutoulas
Musical Composition: Busty Beatz
Video Artist: Fatima Mawas
Choreography: Solo Tohi
Photography: Belinda Mason
Poster Design: Symple

This project is a partnership between Auburn Community Development Network (ACDN) and Powerhouse Youth Theatre (PYT). It is funded by
Australia Council for the Arts and supported by Auburn Youth Centre, Auburn Council and Auburn Diversity Services Inc (formerly AMRC). ACDN
receives core funding from the Department of Community Services NSW. PYT is supported by the Commonwealth Government through the
Australia Council for the Arts and the NSW Government through Arts NSW.

A carnival of mundanity, bursting at the seams with love, betrayal, work place relations and dark humour.

Set in the still beating industrial heart of Sydney. A modern factory space comes to life as the mixed ability ensemble sings, dances and flings open the door on the private underbelly that is the day-to-day going-ons of a modern workplace. Be astounded and let your senses be assaulted with humour, triumph and tragedy – this is Seinfeld meets Eraserhead. Come for the voyeuristic display of box packing – stay for the random.

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KEY ARTISTS Director Craig Anderson • Production Design Kate Shanahan • Dramaturg Claudia Chidiac • Sound Design Peter Condello • Musical Composer Milo Taylor •  Production Manager Larry Kelly •

Cast PYT Mixed Abilities Ensemble • Georgia Cranko • Janet Diane • William Erimya • Collin Gosper • Ana Nguyen • Andrew Pall • Ramak Razy • Tracie Sammut • Omeima Sukkarieh •

DATES April 23 – 26
23RD @ 7.30PM
24TH @ 11AM & 7.30PM
25TH @ 2PM & 7.30PM

VENUE 2 Factory Street, Clyde

COST $15/$10  Carers are free
BOOKINGS Moshtix
GETTING THERE
The venue is 2 minutes walk from Clyde Station, 10 minutes walk from Granville Station, and there is limited parking in the surrounding streets. Please contact PYT (02 9724 6077) if you have a group booking and need to make arrangements for buses.

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KEY ARTISTS • Director (Geelong Season)  Claudia Chidiac • Writer Khoa Do • Production and Tour Manager Eleanor Winkler • Cast Hieu Phan, Kathy Nguyen, Sheena Pham, Vico Thai
DATE March 16 – 21
VENUE Courthouse Arts Centre, Geelong

After a successful season in 2008, Mother Fish will tour to Courthouse Arts Centre, Geelong in March 2009. Mother Fish tells the story of two sisters fleeing Vietnam by boat.

This tour is made possible by support from the Australia Council for the Arts, Arts Victoria and Courthouse Arts.

DATE Saturday April 4, 7pm LOCATION PYT 19 Harris St Fairfield

PYT would like to congratulate the 2009 ShortCuts winners!

SHORTCUTS 09 – BEST FILM
Sally Struthers – “After You”

SHORTCUTS 09 – PEOPLE’S CHOICE
Dulce De Guzman – “Whispers”

ACHIEVEMENT IN EDITING
Sally Struthers – “After You”

ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND DESIGN
Saber Baluch – “24/7”

ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY
“Whispers” – Justine Kerrigan

ACHIEVEMENT IN ACTING
Jan Langford-Penny – “My Nan, The next Cate Blanchett”

The Fairfield School of Arts played host to Powerhouse Youth Theatre’s 6th Annual Shortcuts Film Festival for young people, staring 10 new films made entirely by young film makers from the West.

Vying for the prestigious prize of Shortcuts 2009 Best Film, the finalists competed against each other to win a share of an unprecedented $6000 worth of prizes and to hear feedback from established filmmakers such as George Basha ( Writer/Actor of The Combination), Belinda King ( 2 time Tropfest Winner) and Serhat Caradee ( Director of the upcoming drama “Cedar Boys”).

With the venue jam packed with an enthusiastic crowd of friends and family this was a rare opportunity to Sydney’s west to uncover its young emerging Spielbergs.

Featured Judge, George Basha emphasised the support for the film explosion of in the West.
“These kids have a lot of talent and its great to see them showcased on screen.”

Journalist turned Liberal representative, Ms Dai Le attended ShortCuts 09 and believes the festival is vitally important for the cultivation of filmmakers in Western Sydney.

“I worked 18 years as a filmmaker and journalist at ABC and to tell a story from a different point of view is very rare because many of the people involved in film today have no experience about what many have experienced in Western Sydney.”

Sally Struthers, 24, of Kingswood radiated on screen, winning Best Film and Best Editing for her visionary and personal film After You. Her film innovatively chronicled her personal emotional struggles of losing a friend to suicide while her father was diagnosed with cancer for the 2nd time.

No stranger to film festivals herself, Sally was overwhelmed by the response at Shortcuts 2009.
“I didn’t really realize how big it would be. It was great, it went really well”

PYT Artistic Director Claudia Chidiac, is delighted at the success of ShortCuts 09 and is excited by continuing to work along side young film makers and our project supports to keep growing the film culture in Western Sydney.

PYT also sends a BIG THANKS to our project partners and sponsors – we couldn’t do it without you!

* Fairfield City Council * Information and Cultural Exchange * Rumble Pictures * Metro Screen * SAE College * Film Ink * Madman * Show Cast * Inside Film * The Production Book * Hoyts * Art(e)Fact Magazine * Switch Multimedia *

The Auburn Community Development Network (ACDN) has been working with young people from diverse African backgrounds living in Western Sydney, training them in theatre and performance since the beginningof 2008.

In 2009 young people will come together to develop a dynamic piece of theatre based on their experiences of being recent arrivals. Through a series of creative development workshops, the participants shared their ideas to create a new theatrical work that celebrates their unique stories of resilience, set against the experience of migration to Australia.

This project is a partnership with ACDN and PYT.

POWER UP is a performance project that PYT will develop in partnership with high schools and young people living in Fairfield, Liverpool and Bankstown. Over 2009 an ensemble of young people will work with professional artists and train in performance and production, with the goal of creating a brand new piece of live theatre. The work will tour the area and the process will be documented online.