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We're excited to kick off another amazing term of drama workshops! 🎭🌟 Returning friends and new faces, we can't wait to create, collaborate, and have fun together. There's still time to join us - learn more at stmartinsyouth.com.au/enrol/. Don't forget our fully refundable 2-week trial period!

Happy Friday afternoon! Application deadline pushed back to 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟐 𝐚𝐭 𝟓 𝐩𝐦! You have a few more days to ensure your submissions truly shine. ✨ Breathe a sigh of relief, and take this opportunity to showcase your talents! Learn more and to apply: stmartinsyouth.com.au/embolden/

EOIs for EMBOLDEN open until 𝐅𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟐𝟖! We are calling out for expressions of interest and will be selecting an ensemble of participants who will meet regularly throughout 2025 to devise, create, and perform an original theatre production together. stmartinsyouth.com.au/embolden/

Welcome & welcome back to St Martins' drama workshops! Get ready to unleash your creativity and make new friends along the way. See you on Thursday at Northcote and Saturday at both South Yarra and Northcote! And if you haven't signed up yet—spots are still available!

St Martins will be forming an ensemble, and helping you create, devise, and produce a show in partnership with Melbourne Fringe . We will be accepting expressions of interest starting Friday next week, with more information to come. 👀Watch this space!

St Martins is proud to launch EMBOLDEN, our very first professional development program for emerging theatre artists. We will be forming an ensemble, and helping you create, devise, and produce a show in partnership with Melbourne Fringe. More info next week!

Enrol now to secure your spot for Term 1 2025! For more details, go to: stmartinsyouth.com.au/enrol/ St Martins 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐚 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐬 harness the creativity of young people whilst instilling principles of focus and group work and building the confidence to speak your mind and share your ideas.

This Giving Tuesday, St Martins invites you to join our mission of making a difference! 🌟 You may have thought, "If I could, I would support causes close to my heart." 💭 Help us to nurture the next generations of artists and creative leaders ❤️ Donate here stmartinsyouth.com.au/donate/

St Martins’ most artistically ambitious work to date brings together an ensemble of eleven young, diverse performers with a cohort of established practitioners. 17-26 May 2024 Magdalen Laundry, Abbotsford Convent Book tickets at: stmartinsyouth.com.au/works/the-wo...

This giving season consider donating to Young Changemaker, our free of charge program that provides a safe and consistent environment for children who are unable to access extracurricular drama programs due to economic, geographic or personal barriers. stmartinsyouth.com.au/donate/

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At St Martins we ensure children are equal owners of the creative process and are recognised as artists in their own right. Next May we will present THE WORD, a site-specific, immersive performance, fusing spoken, physical and video texts at the Abbotsford Convent. Stay tuned!

St Martins offers a unique methodology where children and teenagers create work for audiences of all ages by collaborating with professional artists whom we provide with stable and flexible employment. This season of giving please support our team: stmartinsyouth.com.au/donate/

St Martins teen ensembles and Cross-Age Studio will come together on 9 & 10 December to perform HATCHED in our Irene Mitchell Studio at our St Martins headquarters in South Yarra. stmartinsyouth.com.au/hatched-2023/

Teens from St Martins' workshops and Cross-Age Studio will come together on Sat 9 & 10 December to perform HATCHED in our Irene Mitchell Studio. All works presented in HATCHED are original, devised performances created by each group in collaboration with their workshop artists.

Cost of living stress can be a barrier to the arts for many young people. Applications for our 2024 financial scholarship program are now open, with extra places for our Northcote workshops, proudly supported by the City of Darebin Community Grants Program. stmartinsyouth.com.au/scholarships/

Yesterday Nadja and Thomas from St Martins were honoured to attend The Betty Amsden Foundation Annual Gathering where we learned so much more about Betty and her generosity, met other grant recipients, and mingled with trustees including Simon Abrahams and Jeanette Brookes.

TODAY IS #GIVINGTUESDAY! Join this global generosity movement and change the lives of young people by donating to our Young Changemakers program. Every dollar you give is tax deductible and will be matched (up to $50K) by Creative Australia's Plus1 program. stmartinsyouth.com.au/donate/

The St Martins Young Changemakers Program delivers a foundational creative workshop program addressing essential well-being and life skills, increasing children’s multiple literacies, confidence and creative capacity, and includes performance outcomes. stmartinsyouth.com.au/workshops/yo...

Today we celebrated the birthday of Irene Mitchell, the founding member of The Little Theatre which later became St Martins! Irene remained an active supporter of St Martins until she died in 1995, and her legacy of passion, courage, and leadership lives on. Thank you Irene ❤️

The social challenges and overwhelming changes faced by young people can affect self-esteem, identity and relationships. The YOUNG CHANGEMAKERS program is designed to build creative skills that apply not just to drama, but to equip young people to navigate other parts of life.

Giving Tuesday is coming! Donate to our YOUNG CHANGEMAKERS program to help shape the lives of some amazing young people. And your generosity will go twice as far! With Creative Australia's Plus1 program every dollar you donate up to $50,000 will be matched! stmartinsyouth.com.au/donate/

At St Martins, we believe that every young person deserves to feel empowered, inspired, and confident in themselves and their abilities. We're proud to say that 100% of young people who attend our workshops report feeling better afterwards.

Great catching up with Adrian Murdoch from Minus18 whom we worked with on ESCAPE VELOCITY (escapevelocity.net.au). We're so grateful to Adrian for generously sharing his experiences and expertise in fundraising and marketing. We achieve wonderful things working together!

Coming up at St Martins: Quiet Roar presents the Victorian premiere of DRY LAND by Ruby Rae Spiegel, a play about female friendship, resilience and what happens in one high school locker room after everybody’s left. 21-26 November | $30-$45 | Bookings: bit.ly/DryLand2023_...

Throw back to HATCHED 2022, our end of year celebration showcasing works devised and performed by our Teens and Cross-Age groups. We can't wait to see what they present this year!

We were visited yesterday by Nicholas Barton-Wines from Glasgow’s Royal Conservatoire of Scotland where he runs a performing arts program for 12-19-year-olds. Nicholas and our Artist Director Nadja shared their experiences and stories about working with young people today.

Did you know St Martins offers financial scholarships to our workshops? Proudly supported by the City of Darebin Community Grants Program we have extra scholarships places available for our Northcote workshops in Terms 1 and 2 of 2024. More info at stmartinsyouth.com.au/scholarships/

Yesterday we celebrated the incredible work done by The Heart Gardening Project (theheartgardeningproject.org.au) on revitalising our carpark gardens as part of the Melbourne Pollinator Corridor. A huge thank you to Uncle Mark Brown for his beautiful Welcome to Country smoking ceremony.

Good morning from the St Martins Hall (available for hire!) stmartinsyouth.com.au/venue/the-mi...

Tickets for DIY Collective's production of FOOTLOOSE are sold out for tonight's performance, but there are still limited seats available for tomorrow night's show and both shows on Saturday.

Thank you to everybody who recently shared their thoughts with us about our workshop program for children and teenagers. Your feedback helps us improve and encourages us to keep up the good work! stmartinsyouth.com.au/workshops/

'Every word that healed me, and every word that hurts... my words all drift out of my hands.' We are very excited to present our next major show THE WORD to you all in May 2024.

When theatre-maker and HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD actor Ben Walter dropped in to see us, our work experience student Roshni couldn't believe her eyes! They had a great conversation with St Martins AD Nadja about making theatre, sharing three generations of perspectives.

Tickets are selling fast for DIY Collective's production of FOOTLOOSE, happening next weekend at our Irene Mitchell Studio. Thur 9 - Sat 11 Nov, book now: www.trybooking.com/events/landi...

Coming up at St Martins' Irene Mitchell Studio, Quiet Roar presents DRY LAND, a play about female friendship, resilience and what happens in one high school locker room after everybody’s left. 21-26 Nov. More info and tickets from Humanitix at events.humanitix.com/dry-land-by-...

Our drama workshops are run by professional contemporary theatre makers, such as Alice Qin before becoming our Artistic Associate. Don't miss seeing Alice performing in a new play at Arts House, by Melbourne playwright Michele Lee, later this month: www.artshouse.com.au/events/how-d...

Did you know St Martins offers financial scholarships to our workshops? Proudly supported by the City of Darebin's Community Grants Program we have extra scholarships places available for our Northcote workshops in Terms 1 and 2 of 2024. More info at stmartinsyouth.com.au/scholarships/

St Martins Garden Update 🌿 It's amazing to see the results of the hard work put in by Emma Cutting from The Heart Gardening Project and all the volunteers (St Martins staff, families and friends included 💪) over the last few months. Over 1000 plants in! Make sure to visit!

Melbourne Fringe show at our Irene Michell Studio! JMC Academy and Artefact Theatre Co. present a return season of their critically acclaimed Shakespeare’s 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨 & 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐭 production. 23 - 28 October 7 PM Read more and book tickets here: melbournefringe.com.au/event/romeo-...

Our Term 4 workshops are off to a flying start! Massive w🧡e💛l💚c💙o💜m🧡e to all our continuing and new workshop participants across Melbourne! Don't forget to follow/like us to stay updated on the availability of places for the 2024 workshops.

A couple of weeks ago, we held a private showing of some of the ideas we have been developing for our next upcoming production, 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐝. The feedback was amazing, and we are very excited to present the full show to you all in May 2024. Follow us to stay up to date!

We love it when our fantastic alums pop in for a visit at our office in South Yarra! It's great to catch up with them, learn about their current endeavours, and listen to their memories of St Martins! Here's the amazing 𝐀𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚 𝐃𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐞 with our AD Nadja Kostich.

Recently in our Irene Mitchell Studio, one of St Martins’ young people, 16-year-old Jackson, performed a couple of songs and got to meet the great broadcasting icon Pete Smith! Between Jackson's singing and Pete's legendary dulcet tones, it was an afternoon of auditory delights!