Four sessions for $20: Monday, 13 to Thursday 16 April from 2pm-5pm

Find Your Story aims to enrich the lives of young people through community connection and the transformative power of the arts.

Using a trauma informed perspective to work safely with young people , we will be exploring  themes that are impacting and relevant to our local young folk.  FYS participants will be mentored by a youth worker and professional local artist to further explore ways to share these themes through different expressions of the arts.

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The series will include the following workshops with arts professionals;

Monday 13 April from 2-5pm: Bec Schofield and Amy Johnstone

Using elements of Play back theatre to explore ways of using drama to share stories. Esteemed vocalist Bec Schofield (B.A.Theatre Dip. Ed. Drama & Humanities) of THE NOMADICS has supported The Teskey Brothers, Mama Kin & The Waifs. 

Based in Woodichup Bilya, Bec is an internationally trained improv. theatre practitioner, scholarship graduate of PACT Theatre – Sydney, facilitator of ‘The Work that Reconnects’, long-time touring artist & founder of Rebel Choir & Wild Bilya Playback Theatre Troupe.

Amy Johnstone is an Art Therapist, Drama Teacher, Artistic Director, Performer, Choreographer, Dancer and lover of all things Performing Arts- especially when working with young people. Amy thrives on bringing opportunities for young people to express themselves through drama play, movement, games, creating tasks, confidence building activities and more.

Connecting, creating meaning, making sense of our worlds through the vehicle of storytelling & giving the gift of creative expression to anyone of any age brings her pure joy

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Tuesday 14 April from 2-5pm: Bec Schofield and Dave Mann (The Nomadics)

A songwriting workshop & recording with the aim to create a collaborative song inspired by the connections we have with each other.

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Wednesday 15 April from 2-5pm: Sari Bennett

Slam Poetry, an embodied form of live poetry. Lean tools and techniques to through this writing workshop with the aim for creating a group slam. A piece collaboratively written by the young people, recognising the differences between us and celebrating the places where we overlap.

Sari Bennett is a W.A based writer and performance poet who lives on Molloy Island. She is a collector of moments and a seeker of the sacred hidden within in the mundane. Her writing style is unique in the way it weaves whimsical imagery with hard hitting concepts, challenging the status quo and questioning human behaviors… 

With a background in dance, martial arts, acrobatics and physical theatre, Sari’s embodied spoken word performances breathe life into her heartfelt poetry. Sari has performed at many festivals and events including the Nannup Music Festival, The Denmark Festival of Voice, The Nanga Music Festival, Perth Poetry festival, The Wild Village Women’s Festival and More. 

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Thursday 16 April from 2-5pm: Adelina Larsson-Mendoza

Adelina is an award‑winning Swedish/Mexican choreographer, curator, producer, and educator based on Wadandi Country in Wooditjup Margaret River. Her work spans remote and regional communities, with presentations at major institutions including Melbourne Festival, Perth Festival, Sydney Opera House, PICA, Museum of WA Boola Bardip, and the State Theatre Centre WA.

She is the founder and director of Strange Attractor Lab, a national interdisciplinary residency program supporting experimental artistic research with leading facilitators and artists.

Adelina received the 2019 Australian Dance Award for In the Rite II: Solo, the WA Regional Artist Fellowship (2021), and FAC’s Groundwork residency (2023). In 2024 she was selected by renowned director Robert Wilson to create and perform new work at The Watermill Center in New York. She has also held key creative and producing roles with Big hART – Australia’s leading arts and social change company and Critical Path Choreographic Centre. In 2025 she premiered Bell with STRUT Dance and PICA.

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Program Curator – Jacque Ashworth

Jacque Ashworth is a Margaret River based, multi-disciplinary artist with a background in dance, circus, music, roller-skating, sound and events management. Alongside her arts career, Jacque has worked professionally with-in the youth sector as a case manager, project officer, workshop facilitator and mental health recovery worker. Jacque has drawn on her love of the arts to help design programs for young people in a therapeutic manner, including using different mediums for storytelling in trauma informed psychosocial intervention practice.