Heaps Decent is an initiative committed to finding and nurturing the creativity of underprivileged and Indigenous young people and emerging artists. By providing resources and opportunities, Heaps Decent supports the development of high quality Australian music with a unique identity.
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Projects

Check out some of the major projects which we’ve been a part of.

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Wilcannia Sessions

Heaps Decent facilitators armed with professional recording equipment and a whole lot of enthusiasm will be now be leading music production workshops with disadvantaged and Indigenous young people in the remote community of Wilcannia in north west NSW thanks to some funding from the Department of Human Services.

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Home Base

Home Base is our weekly workshop at Redfern Community Centre. The workshop is run as a drop-in format with young people able to come and record with one of our facilitators in the quality studio. A high standard of production is maintained, targeting skills ranging from lyric writing and beat making to professional conduct.With performance outcomes as one of the focuses of the project, some of the young people have performed at Parklife festival and at the Australian Parliament House!

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Juvenile Justice Big Up Program

This project is supported by the NSW Government through Arts NSW and sees Heaps Decent facilitators carry out music production workshops in schools within Juvenile Justice Centres in Lidcombe and Wagga Wagga. This program seeks to provide the young people within these centres with a voice, motivation and heightened self-esteem by engaging with their experiences through music.

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Key College

Supported by the Sidney Myer Music Fund, Heaps Decent runs a weekly workshop with the young people of Key College in Redfern, a private College run by Youth Off The Streets that provides education for young people without stable housing. Heaps Decent have been leading weekly music workshops at Key College since 2008.

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Wagga Sessions

Wagga Sessions is a monthly workshop project in the regional hub of Wagga Wagga in NSW. The project consists of 3 days of workshops each month at various centres around Wagga Wagga with young people in incarceration, post-release young people and budding local producers and performers.

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At The Drive In

A Shopfront Contemporary Arts and Performance project in partnership with diverse organsiations such as West Darling Arts (Broken Hill, NSW) and the Hazelhurst Gallery (Gymea, NSW) At The Drive In was an exciting interactive media installation, performance and touring festival culminating in performances at an abandoned Drive-in in Broken Hill.

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Detours & Destinations

Detours & Destinations was a joint project between Heaps Decent, Shopfront: Contemporary Arts and Performance and the Department of Juvenile Justice with the Sydney Opera House. D&D was an integrated multi-media arts project framing the stories and experience of young people from Lomandra School in Campbelltown, Miimali Aboriginal Community Association in Blacktown and Fairfield Intensive English Centre.