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The Artful Dodgers Studios - Gateway, JSS

The Artful Dodgers Studios - Gateway, JSS

The Artful Dodgers Studios are innovative and creative spaces for young people whose lives have been affected by difficult circumstances. Young people work in fully equipped art and music studios with experienced artists and musicians - exploring and developing their creative skills, meeting and connecting with other artists and musicians and getting involved in high profile projects, exhibitions and other public outcome events.

The Artful Dodgers Studios form part of the Jesuit Social Services Gateway Program. The Gateway program aims to assist young people to access education, employment and training for young people aged 15 - 28 who have multiple and complex needs. Additionally the Gateway program addresses young people's health and wellbeing needs while they particpate in pre-employment programs.

The Artful Dodgers Studios are open Monday to Friday 11 - 4 pm. The studios offer - painting, drawing, sculpture, digital art, stencil, graff work, animation, print making, multi-media, music tuition, sound engineering, song writing and radio production skills.

Social Enterprise

We have received two year seed funding from the Australia Council for the Arts to expand and explore the possibilities for social enterprise at the Artful Dodger Studios. Over the next few years we are committed to putting time and effort into getting a range of social enterprise projects up and running within, and cohabitating with, the regular and well established studio program.

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