About P.Arts

How it all started out...

When a strong working partnership developed between The Edge and Scripture Union, leadership of both groups started to get excited that maybe God was pointing to somthing new in the way both of these ministries share the good news of Jesus among youth and families.

"The Edge" Creative Arts Community and Performing Group ...was formed in 1991 by a group of Christians committed to serving God through the performing arts. Over the years since, The Edge has had a number of different expressions of Christian community, and has worked with a growing number of young people in schools, camps, youth groups and churches. The group has helped young people hear about Jesus Christ, investigate and explore faith in Him, and learn what it is to be creative beings formed in the image of God. In a year the group can perform to several thousand students in more than 55 schools, 21 churches and 5 major outreach events including the Easter Awakening and the Global March for Jesus.

Scripture Union

Introducing young Australians to Jesus, the Bible and the local church. This is the focus of the work of Scripture Union in WA. Scripture Union has a long history of working with young people in schools, in camps and with local churches.

Scripture Union is a large organisation of volunteers who are supported by a small number of paid staff. SU seeks to help the Christian Church in its reconciling role in the world, but functions interdenominationally and autonomously. SU endeavours to be prayerful, purposeful, creative focused on people rather than programs, professional in approach and passionate about hte task to which it feels called by God.

Fine Edge Theatre Company is a professional theatre company for young people established in 1998. It has a reputation for bringing vibrant, entertaining and educational theatre into schools and community groups around Western Australia. Since establishment, the company has performed to approximately 80,000 people at schools, community events and churches throughout Western Australia. Prior to 1998 the company ran under the name of The Edge Creative and Performing Arts Community and founded in 1991 by Tim and Nikki Bowles.

The aim of Fine Edge Theatre Company is to introduce the arts to young people using relevant themes, while encouraging positive choices and decisions. The primary and high school shows are contemporary and interactive. The high school program includes an intensive, small group, workshop time with the students discussing the themes and issues within the show and how they impact on their lives.

The actors in Fine Edge Theatre Company are professionally trained & experienced in performance and youth work.

Fine Edge Theatre Company also opens the opportunity for groups to work with the artists in drama workshopping and residences linking to curriculum, school and community needs. A curriculum pack, which includes activities linked to the Curriculum Outcome Statements’ Learning Areas, is available with each booking.

Fine Edge Theatre Company is based within a non-profit organisation. The subsidised show costs are possible through the generosity of grants, sponsorship and donations.

Moves & Voices Christmas and Easter presentations use Puppets, Music, Drama, Dance and interactive Games for Primary Schools.

Our aim is to continue to present a creative, contemporary, age- appropriate message about Christmas and Easter. Ellie Macpherson and other presenters are skilled experienced performers and have worked with Primary students.

Previously known as Red Letter Days, established in 1997, Michael Lush and Ellie Macpherson over the years have performed to over 80,000 School students throughout Western Australia.

Previously enjoyed Shows have been Christmas Wrapping, Easter Eggsactly, In Bethlehem Tonight, Billabong Christmas Bash, Easter Imagination, Long Live the King, Crackers , Startrax and Easter Xpo.

EPYC – a dream for this generation. (Empowering Peacemakers in Your Community)
The focus of EPYC is to work with young people in their school and community environments to empower them to be peacemakers through interactive seminars. Jarrod and his team have gained permission from the Education Dept of WA to conduct these seminars which use music, media and visual arts to engage the students.
The seminars work with the relevant themes of:

• Nonviolence Education (not merely a tactic of social change but a lifestyle)

• Peace Studies

• Personal, environmental and social justice issues and concerns
  

• Spirituality of Engagement (not escapism) to meet the needs of that school or local community.

The young people participate through activities which give them practical and personal examples of making choices to empower a peace making process for themselves and their community. EPYC works towards providing networks, which assist in the continuing development of cultures of peace.

EPYC – a dream for this generation. What is the dream?

• An unearthing of our heroic impulse for our lives to be about more than ourselves. Journey of integration, a journey towards wholeness, that we may dedicate our existence to the betterment of others.

• Young people rising up, willing to weep over the state of the earth we share and let the tears become the fuel for a peaceful revolution.

• A generation of gentle revolutionaries, of gentle prophets. Gentle not just a qualifier but their very revolution, their prophetic message.

• This generation engaging their personal journey into ever deepening connectedness, and deep empathy.

• Living deeply within the oceans of Life, while so many are simply content to be wet on society’s great expanse of surface shallowness.

• Learning from the past, seize our present, choose our future.

• This generation to move from small stories of self, to epic tales of joining the Spirit in the advancement of the reign of love.

• Living with the earth and not against it, live with one another and not against one another.

• A generation that hungers and thirsts for personal and social justice, who understand that because our destiny is bound up with the oppressed, in working for their good we help free ourselves.

• Living for the substantial matters of life, economic and environmental justice, personal and social compassion and faithfulness to the path we have chosen.

• This generation empowering the powerless, protecting creation, fostering understanding and interdependence.

• This generation living for people before profits.

• Leaving a world to the next generation that we would want to live in.

• Seeing compassion not as a part of life, but life itself.