Workshops

Stencil Art Workshop
with Chris Tamm

A FREE Short workshop that covers the basics of Stencil Art, with stencil artist Chris Tamm. You can bring your own t-shirt or other
object to stencil onto – use your imagination! All paints, fabric inks & stencil gear will be provided, but you need to bring your own
tshirt or other object to stencil on. Facilitator: Chris Tamm

SPACE Mural Collaboration Project
With local Stencil Artists
All are welcome to join in on the smARTarts Collaborative Mural. Local Stencil artists will be involved to assist you, providing a background drawing to which everyone can paint & add their own designs. The theme for the Mural this year is SPACE
Facilitators: Helen Proctor, Chris Tamm, Alana Wesley, Craig Bunker

Write for Rap + Hip-Hop
With MC JR
A FREE short workshop in writing your own rap lyrics for rhyme & Hip-Hop. MC JR will work with you to structure a rap song
using your own life & experiences as inspiration. Facilitator: MC JR. MC JR is an indigenous MC who grew up in Chippendale
& attended Pine Street as a youth. MC JR conducts workshops in indigenous health, Hip Hop, Rap & Rhyme, encouraging youth
to write & rap about their own life experiences.

Giant Origami
With Animania’s Dirza Rezfino
This is just like regular origami – but giant! All materials will be provided to make giant origami works that can be displayed in
our gallery on the festival day! Facilitator: Dirza Rezfino, a regular contributor to Animania, where he conducts origami
workshops and assists with the annual cos-play & anime festival.

yourSPACE FORUM

The smARTarts ‘SPACE’ Youth Forum is a great youth initiative that we would like to make available to youth of all different
walks of life. snARTarts ‘SPACE’ Youth Forum is a free, youth focused careers forum held as part of smARTarts Festival 2008.
The forum is aimed at providing young people (aged 15 - 30) with industry tips, hints & professional advice, on how to network
and get where they want to be. Industry professionals in different creative fields provide an interactive lecture that focuses on
breaking into the industry, gaining experience & getting noticed. We focus on creative industries as getting a start in the Arts
can be very challenging to young people & there are less formal avenues in gaining employment. Pls see below for speaker
profiles.

Pauline Nguyen

Pauline Nguyen, author of Secrets of the Red Lantern, along with recipes writers Luke Nguyen, Pauline’s brother, and Mark
Jensen, Pauline’s partner, are the proprietors of Red Lantern, the acclaimed modern Vietnamese restaurant in Sydney’s
inner-city area of Surry Hills.  They hold in their hearts and their head the Nguyen family’s amazing stories and food secrets. 
In her moving memoir, Pauline Nguyen tells the honest, difficult story of the Nguyen family, following the journey of her parents
from their homeland in Vietnam on their escape to Thailand as refugees, and then on to their eventual resettlement in Australia.
They moved to Sydney’s most vibrant and notorious Vietnamese enclave where Pauline and her brothers grew up. A shared
passion for food is at the heart of this family’s journey.
                                                        
Pauline Nguyen was born at Dua 23 Choi Cau Ong Lanh (market stall number 23 near Mr Lanh’s Bridge) Saigon Vietnam in
1973.  Her parents ran a fruit and vegetable stall and she grew up surrounded by the smells of fresh produce. When the
Vietnam War ended in 1975, her family, like many Vietnamese, fled the Communist regime and escaped in a boat by sea.
After spending a difficult year suspended in Thailand to await their refugee status from Australia, the Nguyen family arrived
in Sydney in 1978, staying at Westbridge Migrant hostel where Pauline had her first experience of Australian food.
Raised with three brothers in Sydney’s South West; Cabramatta, Pauline’s parents ran a Vietnamese restaurant called
Pho Cay Du. After graduating in BA Communications at UTS and spending four years living in Paris and London working
in film and television, Pauline returned to Sydney in 1999.

Red Lantern opened in Crown Street Sydney in 2002 by Pauline, her brother Luke Nguyen and her partner and chef Mark
Jensen. The restaurant won critical acclaim and was awarded Best New Restaurant 2002, Best Asian Restaurant 2006,
Best Asian Restaurant 2007 and gained a high recommendation in Sydney’s Best Restaurant Guide for Asian food.
“Secrets of the Red Lantern” is Pauline’s first book.