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Community • Member of Atherton Garden’s Youth and Children Networking Group. • Chenai from Brotherhood of St Laurence’s EMC and Elissa Sacks from New Hope Foundation have been attending Mondays for Youth Voices. • Carol Cumming from Artful Dodgers worked with the Youth Voices group for their film project. Projects • Arts Workshop Project 2013–2015: Clubhouse is partnering with Yarra Youth Services and Visionary Images. We have worked with Chris Parkinson (YYS) and Maria Fillipow (Visionary Images Creative Director) to submit a proposal for funding. These arts based workshops are focussed on Yarra middle-years young people during holiday periods. • Dion Stojsavljevic’s fundraising event: We are working on a fundraising project with Intel mentor, Dion, whereby the Clubhouse members design, plan and organise an event for Dion’s Prestige Car Club. All of the proceeds would go to the Clubhouse. • Hope – Refugee Week Video Project: The project had a fantastic result at the film festival in June. Clubhouse members were excited to receive second and third place for their work, receiving vouchers worth $700. • Illumination – Gertrude Street Projection Festival Project: This festival saw an entry from the Clubhouse in July and the group involved attended the opening night celebrations. Mentors and members had a lot of fun creating stop motion animations and abstract photography for their piece. • Young Animators Collective – Frame By Frame. An Animated Shorts Studio: Wednesdays have been dedicated to animation with mentors working in small groups. Members built valuable skills in stop-motion animation as they explored the process of filmmaking and iStopMotion software. • Digital Photography: Digital photography, photo manipulation and Photoshop layering skills have continued throughout the term. • Music – Guitar: One on one guitar chord lessons with a mentor. • Printmaking: Illustrated designs for print making has been popular with the middle years members. • Mural: Collaborative art project for interior wall and Clubhouse doors working with mentors throughout Term 3. • Patterns: Textile pattern design using Photoshop is a project which began in Term 2 and continued through into Term 3. The process will be completed by members designing their own individual T-shirt to be printed externally. • 3D printing and design: This aims at the members designing a 3D project using new software which will be printed by 3D printers. Technology Thanks to Jo Staunton we have purchased a new iMac and Intel has donated four laptops and four desktop computers. The animation projects have been exploring the iStopMotion software, lightbox tables, and digital SLR cameras and tripods, and the green screen and portrait lighting kit used for photography and video production. We use online maths and science games and we are exploring 3D printing and design, Photoshop and Premier Pro. Fitzroy Learning Network Annual Report 2012/13 5