Youthweek 2011

FUNDERGROUND: WHEELIE BIN BEAT BOX NSW YOUTH WEEK 2011

In April 2011 we were invited to support the NSW Youth Week and our Sunny Bins were used to perform live music, transmit speeches and present performance art and dance at various locations around Western Sydney. Our team were on hand to deliver and pick up the bins for the youth week events and to assist with set up and use. The art and design on the bins was produced by our artist Greg Archer while two of the bins were decorated by participants of Youth Week. Many of the community centres, having hired the sound systems, went on to purchase them for use in their youth events calendar. Communities New South Wales purchased four Sunny Bins. Bankstown, Wollondilly and Camden Councils as well as Liverpool’s Street University also bought bins for future programs and events.

Youth paint a bin that Camden Council purchased

Seahorse Bin sold to Communities NSW

Pirate Bin sold to Communities NSW

Solar panels for a sustaninable recharge

Youth week promo shot

Sunny Bin Youth jam

Mount Druit Youth Week

Sunny Bins supporting youth art projects

King Pig bin sold to Communities NSW

Mexican bins sold to Communities NSW

Street jamming

Sunny Bins in performance mode

Street jamming

Many different colours bins for Communitys NSW 2011

Range sold to Communites NSW

The Crocodile bin. Custom made models

The Pirate bin

Street jamming

Youth week promo shot

NSW communities press release ;

Make some noise during Youth Week Minister for Youth Peter Primrose has announced a major new event in Western Sydney for this year’s Youth Week called the Wheelie Bin Beat Box.Mr Primrose said a number of portable 240-litre plastic bins would be retro-fitted with solar powered amplifiers and rolled out across Western Sydney for community beat box and live music events.

“The Wheelie Bin Beat Box event might be a little unconventional, but it’s a great way to showcase the talent and creativity of young people across Western Sydney,” Mr Primrose said. “The sound systems will be used for live performances and DJ mixes at several sites across the region during Youth Week.

 “Young people will also be involved in organising the musical line-up for the events events and creating artwork to decorate the bins.”

The event’s project leader, and Manager of the Powerhouse Discovery Centre at Castle Hill Christopher Snelling said the first wheelie bin sound systems appeared on the streets of Sydney’s inner west around 2000 and have now become a regular fixture at community and other grassroots events.

 “Because of their portability and simple design,, wheelie bin sound systems are perfect for small gatherings such as street parties, picnics or public events,” Mr Snelling said.

 “They can be plugged in to microphones, laptops, ipods, mixing decks or CD players and area really versatile, and environmentally friendly powered by a few solar panels on the lid. “We’ve already had a huge amount of interest from young people who want to be involved in this event and we’re looking for more talent.”

Mr Primrose said the Wheelie Bin Beat Box was just one of hundreds of Youth Week 2011 events that are listed on the event website at: www.youthweek.nsw.gov.au