About Playwave (For Parents & Schools)
When it comes to arts and culture, it’s hard for parents to know what their kids are into. Truth is, many 15-19 year olds don’t know themselves. So Playwave have launched a new initiative that makes it easy for adults in the Sydney area to expose the young people in their lives to the arts.
Playwave is a new initiative connecting young people to the best of Sydney’s Arts and Culture. Young people today have more in common with artists, performers and directors than any generation before them. Playwave offers a unique opportunity for Young People, ages 15 - 18, to access and engage with an existing arts community. Sign up your teenager or young person today and help them gain access to an exciting mix of theatre, dance, music, film, opera, literature and visual arts across Sydney.
Why?
Young people are not engaging with arts in the same way that other generations have done. Not only do young people have financial restrictions and a lack of means to purchase tickets online through typical payment gateways, but many them also have geographical and time restrictions on their ability to access live performance in Sydney. The likelihood is that for
many young people a school trip may be their only arts engagement opportunity. Add to this the tangle of issues in getting there and away, and navigating public transport issues, this group have little incentive to venture to our theatres and concert halls to experience the Arts.
What?
Playwave looks at connecting our high school students to the Arts and artists of our city but also creates a space where they can feel that the Arts are there for them; removing barriers, enticing them with relevant and engaging experiences and creating new opportunities to connect with our artists, stories and venues. Playwave presents as varied a cultural program as possible, featuring not only theatre and visual arts but also music, festivals and other activity that might present a softer or more accessible entry into Arts & Culture.
OUR VISION
It is our shared vision, that young people will have affordable access and unrivalled experiences with engaging and relevant Artistic and Cultural content. By enabling young people to access these experiences, we will build a strong future for arts and cultural activity within the city.
Shopfront Arts Co-op specialises in working with Young People within the Arts, and at this dynamic time within the broader Australian arts community, we believe that there is no better placed organisation to create and develop this scheme in Sydney. By utilising a small guaranteed ticket allocation and activating unused assets (empty seats) within cultural venues to provide to students at a low cost, Playwave will play an innovative role in addressing access and diversity concerns identified in the City of Sydney’s Cultural Policy and Action Plan, while aligning with the vision of Sustainable Sydney 2030.
In summary, we will:
- Foster a community of young people to become engaged with arts and culture in Sydney
- Champion equitable access and inclusion for all young people
- Create a program that firmly positions Sydney as a global city; inherently changing how we interact
- with our cultural and artistic landscape
- The program is first and foremost a community for Young People to engage with artistic content.
- For this innovative program