Welcome to Paperworks
News Flash: Paperworks has moved to M16 Art Studio, Blaxland St, Griffith, ACT
Our new locations offers a friendly and spacious working environment.
From this term onwards, Paperworks offers the following activities:
Manufacturing workshop activities for employed artisans on Tuesday. Tuesdays are also dedicated to delivering training opportunities for school leavers with special needs too.
Friday mornings: socially inclusive workshops to help break down barriers for socially marginalised people in Canberra. These workshops are tailored to meet others while having some fun making paper.
Friday afternoons: Wind down session for experienced papermakers. Everyone that has made paper before, are welcome to join these workshops where we explore various fibres and techniques together.
Contact Marja Rouse (details on our contact page) for information about this term's workshops and to find out about employment opportunities for school leavers with special needs.
Social inclusion
Paperworks aims to engage in activities that will increase the participation of socially marginalised (due to their disability or disadvantage) people in our community.
Activities include, but is not limited to:-
• Artisans Studio which promotes the engagement of / and opportunity to work together for artisans with and without a particular disability
• the training and development of independent and sustainable artistic skills for marginalised people
• Part-time rotational employment in an Artisans Studio as part of a social enterprise to create handmade and other paper craft products for sale
• offering papermaking workshops to schools, community organisations and the wider community
Community outcomes
Paperworks is aiming to facilitate community outcomes based on building participants’ skills, inner strengths and community interaction. Through open studio exhibitions and craft activities, participants will be encouraged to become more independent, to develop relational skills, foster new friendships and interact with the wider community and arts organisations.