Heaps Decent is an Australian organisation empowering young people through skills building, cultural access and creativity.
Working with underrepresented and marginalised youth, our participatory program of music and visual media activities provides a pathway to discovery, personal growth and agency through self-expression.Awesome day in the studio shooting a video for SYDA with the lovely crew from Soulset Studios. All in a day’s work for this 16 year old artist, who made the creative brief for their original track “Widow”, a song with sweet country vibes and a dark underside. Looking forward to sharing the finished product!
We run a free program for skills development in music production right in the centre of Sydney. If you are aged 15-25 years and are interested in exploring your creative ideas get in touch! hey@heapsdecent.com
It provides a framework for the next 10 years that supports artists, creatives and cultural organisations and expands to include the rapidly growing creative industries. At Heaps Decent we are encouraged to see prioritisation of First Nations culture, and also an acknowledgment that creative participation is essential to the wellbeing of everyone, and vital in […]
Heaps Decent x Funskull We’re honoured to announce our limited edition ‘Positive Futures’ t-shirt in collaboration with Australian artist Elliott Routledge (Funskull) who’s created an epic one-off design to raise much needed funds for our inspiring and inclusive music program. Elliott is known for his vibrant abstract work in public spaces internationally. It’s bright, bold […]
From 2019 to 2022, Heaps Decent teamed up with the Multicultural Council of Wagga Wagga to deliver the multi-artform ‘No Borders In Our Sky’ project.
The interactive augmented reality (AR) experience features the original artworks of around 100 young locals and explores notions of home, community, identity and belonging. They will be accessible through an app available from the 1st of April 2023!
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We are now a registered Creative Kids provider! Young people across NSW can redeem vouchers with us. If you don’t have a voucher, claim yours at Service NSW.
We need your help to support change, positive futures, and the development of high quality Australian music with young people. Make a tax deductible EOFY donation to support our work now!
During Artstate, No Borders In Our Sky will present a photographic portrait series titled Future Leaders as well as the interactive public art mural. In the Future Leaders series participants collaged their own additions to their portraits by hand, exploring personal identity, culture and strength.
After over 12 months of multimedia workshops, creating artworks, recording songs, interviews and stories, we were proud to install a large scale interactive mural that celebrates the diversity and creativity of young people engaged in the No Borders project in Wagga. 28 beautiful self portraits make up the mural, each portrait a window into the […]
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We’ve worked with some amazing talent over the years & some of them will be coming together for one big night at Vivid!
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This month we are celebrating 4 years of Heaps Decent tracks played on FBi Radio! Since April 2015, Heaps Decent Radio has been featured (almost) every Monday at 5pm. We did the maths – that’s over 180 songs played!
In March we made the trip to the small town of Enngonia in northern NSW.
Nina Las Vegas, Elizabeth Rose and Sparrows have recently been running all girls workshops in Sydney!
Our 10 Year celebration, I Heart Heaps Decent, was a great success! We sold every single piece and raised over $36,000 for Heaps Decent…
Come and celebrate 10 YEARS OF HEAPS DECENT!
Join our story – a charity art auction will be held on the night, an opportunity to buy some incredible pieces by Australian-based artists while contributing to the future of Heaps Decent. All funds raised will go directly into delivering projects where they are most needed.
Our weekly radio segment continues, with a new song from a Heaps Decent workshop played each week on Monday Arvos on FBi Radio. Tune in to 94.5FM in Sydney or online HERE at 5pm (AET) every Monday!
Our next cab off the rank is HD004, Ata’s ‘Outta Shape’ EP; available for FREE download now.
The T.Era boys recently took on the very first Heaps Decent Cypher. With help from the legends at Subtype Store and The Lord Gladstone, we managed to put it together!
We’re taking over the FBi Click digital airwaves for the next month of our VERY OWN radio show!
An insight into the influences and processes behind Ravin’s music…
Signalling the second release for Heaps Decent, we’re really stoked to bring you HD002!
Rassel Cool’s new single ‘Running’ is available for FREE download now, and make sure you check out his incredible new music video…
We’ve been fortunate enough to receive support from one of the most highly sought after music technology companies, Native Instruments!
The Native Instruments Maschine music production unit has long been a staple of the Heaps Decent workshop setup so we’re truly grateful to receive their help…
Every Monday at 5pm on the Monday Arvo show on FBi Radio, you can catch Heaps Decent Radio! Click through for details…
Heaps Decent is proud to present ‘Pure Mind’, the jewel that completes the experience of Ravin’s debut EP, ‘Soulfood’.
The music video for “Life Don’t Shine” from Ravin’s Soulfood EP is here!
This year Groovin the Moo and Heaps Decent are once again teaming up to present a series of music workshops at their 2015 Oakbank, Bunbury & Townsville events in April & May… Get in quick, applications close 8th April!
Heaps Decent is proud to announce the release of ‘Soulfood’, the debut EP from rising talent, Bankstown-based artist Ravin!
Ask Alice Stationery and Old School New School have collaborated to create an incredible hand-lettered calendar with a ‘hip-hop’ theme, packed with loads of hip-hop references and lyrics. It’s beautifully printed and presented and 100% of the proceeds will go to Heaps Decent!
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs took some time out from his 2014 Listen Out tour to come and do a studio session with Tasha Lee Marshall…
We shot a green screen music video with Ravin, watch this space for the finished product…
We held our 5th Showcase for the talented Home Base crew, it was a great success!
It’s HERE!
Your name in a song thanks to our successful Pozible campaign…. Tag yourself on Soundcloud and share it with your friends!
With great success we pitched our organisation to an extremely generous room of philanthropists at The Funding Network’s Sydney event…
We made it! We smashed our Pozible target with an incredible total of $12,838 thanks to our incredible supporter network!
A huge THANKS for the support of our Pozible campaign! We have 8 days remaining, help us continue to increase our total…
Enter here to win a spot at Groovin The Moo x Heaps Decent music workshop with What So Not on Saturday 3rd May in Bendigo!
Groovin The Moo and Heaps Decent have teamed up with MusicNSW to create a special workshop for emerging MCs and producers: a FREE backstage production and songwriting masterclass with Illy at GTM Maitland!
We’ve just launched a Pozible campaign, help us give a voice to young Australians by getting their music heard. You can pledge your support at pozible.com/heapsdecent
A recap of our Harmony Day event at Riverina Community College!
Check out the first instalment of our newsletter to find out what we’ve been getting up to!
Flashback to November, some beautiful images from the Home Base Showcase at Goodgod Small Club.
Our last trip to Wilcannia was in December 2013, here’s what went down!
Heaps Decent, once again, had a hugely successful New Year period thanks to our benefactor Fuzzy, incredible volunteers and generous event guests!
Last night was the Home Base Showcase, here’s a quick wrap-up with the first of the photos…
Check out Levins’ TEDx talk about using rap at school!
WE WON! the Toyota Community Award at the Creative Partnerships Australia Awards for our partnership with our benefactor Fuzzy
We need volunteers to help Heaps Decent at LISTEN OUT PERTH on 29th September…
A quick recap on Stu and Boz’s latest trip to Wagga Wagga and what’s been happening there for Heaps Decent over the past months…
French DJ & Producer Jerry Bouthier visited the Home Base workshop on Monday!
“Jump Off The Bridge” was made on the last trip to Wilcannia, check out Stu’s account of the workshops….
Heaps Decent facilitators Adam Bozzetto, Joyride and Kristy Lee made their way out to Wilcannia earlier this month for the first week of workshops there this year…
Louisahhh! came and facilitated a workshop at Juniperina where the girls layed down some epic vocals over an incredible techno beat…
A song from our last Wilcannia visit of 2012
An account of Nina’s cousin Paul Wighton, who had been working at Broken Hill High School. Paul accompanied our Heaps Decent’s facilitators on last Wilcannia trip and here’s what he had to say about the trip…
THANKS to our benefactor FUZZY for allowing us to collect over $58,000 at their Parklife, Harbourlife & Field Day festivals!
In November 2012, Heaps Decent facilitators Joyride and Adam Bozzetto ran a week of workshops at the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre. A snapshot of their amazing results can be experienced with this beautiful little video…
Tasha Lee Marshall opened for Grimes’ shows this week. Along with Meds, she provided a brilliant warm up show!
The amazing DJ Gina Turner was a special guest at Juniperina in 2012!
Following on from the success we had with our volunteers at Parklife this year, Heaps Decent are calling out for Sydneysiders to help us collect donations at Field Day on New Year’s Day…
While the Heaps Decent crew are out in Wilcannia this week, check out our recap of what went on during their trip in September!
Check the great little clip for “Hey Hey Hey”, both the song and clip were made on the last Heaps Decent workshop trip to Wilcannia
We can’t begin to thank Fuzzy enough for the incredible amount raised for Heaps Decent at Parklife this year. At each of their events, Fuzzy allow us to collect a $20 donation from all complimentary ticket holders as they enter the festival. These donations have allowed us to keep putting on our workshops each week, […]
Here are a few photos of our Heaps Decent volunteers working hard at Parklife in Adelaide earlier this month – stay tuned for more pics from Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth. Thanks to everyone that helped out on the day, we hope you had a great time and we couldn’t have done it without you!
Parklife favourites Chairlift made a very special appearance at our Juniperina workshops in 2012!
Check out the action from Channel [V] presenter Billy Russell’s recording session at ‘Home Base’…
The debut video from our first Wilcannia workshop is here! The amazingly talented Sydney illustrator Georgia Perry, along with the fine people at Toby and Pete, have crafted this brilliant animation for “Dinnertime”.
Heaps Decent are looking for volunteers to help us out at Parklife Festivals all across Australia!
Check out the new clip for Big H’s “Domestic Violence”!
Heaps Decent has a long history with the Riverina, the region of south-west NSW that includes Wagga Wagga. Since the first ever Heaps Decent workshops at Riverina Juvenile Justice Centre in 2007, we have returned regularly, meeting new people to include in our workshops with each new visit. Over the last 12 months we were […]
On Monday we had a special visit from international DJ/Producers DJ Craze & Codes…
We threw an encore warehouse jam on 20th May for the Home Base All-Stars Showcase!
Kristy and Rowan take some time out from producing hits at Key College to chat with Rhanni about what she’s been up to lately…
In March, we made the trip out to Wilcannia for the first week of our two year workshop project. Check out Kristy’s incredible video for an insight into our amazing few days…
A little over two weeks ago, the back room of Sydney’s Goodgod Small Club was heaving with onstage energy via our Home Base All Stars.
We were recently lucky enough to score some more amazing guest artists from Fuzzy’s touring roster, who came down to work with us at Home Base.
Late in 2011, French producer Maelstrom graced us with his presence at our Home Base workshop in Redfern. After hearing about Heaps Decent from friend and fellow Frenchie Teki Latex, Mael contacted us about coming to a workshop during the Sydney leg of his recent Australian tour so we took him up on his generous […]
Two weeks ago, Heaps Decent was lucky enough to be invited by the Department of Human Services to have some young people we work with perform at Parliament House in Canberra. MC Kurva and Fowl Murk put on a stunning performance, making history in the process as the first ever people to rap in Parliament House!
Yesterday Heaps Decent turned out in force to support the young people we work with at Key College at their 2011 presentation day. We want to extend a huge congratulations to all the Key College graduates and want to thank them for the amazing music that Heaps Decent facilitators Nina Las Vegas and Joyride have been producing with them all year. We are super proud of them all!
Heaps Decent’s October Wagga Sessions saw facilitators Adam Bozzetto and Joyride reach more areas of Wagga Wagga, unearth more budding young rappers and record more tracks than ever before.
Heaps Decent facilitators Kristy Lee and Joyride recently facilitated some workshops with the Hurstville Council. Check out the great music they made with the young people there!
Wax Motif produced hit “Burnt Warrior”!
Check out the awesome EP we’ve just released with tracks from some of the young people are Riverina Juvenile Justice Centre in Wagga Wagga, produced by Heaps Decent superstar facilitator Adam Bozzetto with special guests Wax Motif and Joyride.
The end of the year is hot on our heels, which means huge New Years celebrations Shore Thing and Field Day will soon be upon us. This is a callout for volunteers to help out Heaps Decent at these festivals.
A big congratulations to Icey, Kurva, Tweak and Teks from our Home Base workshops at Redfern Community Centre. Heaps Decent were given the opportunity to program the opening slot on one of the stages at Parklife festival in Sydney this year and the boys from Home Base performed an absolutely killer set. Check out their performance live on tape here!
Last week, A-Trak, one half of Duck Sauce, took some time out from his busy Parklife tour schedule to hang out at Home Base, Heaps Decent’s weekly drop-in workshop at Redfern Community Centre.
Last week in the midst of Parklife madness Charlie Chux, Adam Bozetto, Alison Wilkes and I were joined by none other than Lykke Li and her backing singer Zhala, as we headed to Juniperina Juvenile Justice Centre for HEAPS DECENT.
Check out the exciting final products from the Heaps Decent and Shopfront workshops we’ve been running with Miimali at Mount Druitt High School for the last six weeks.
Snickers Sessions is proof that even Miami Horror and Phrase aren’t themselves when they’re hungry. To raise money for Heaps Decent, they’ve agreed to cover a song completely out of their genres. And the best bit is you get to help choose what track they cover! Vote for your favourite from 11th – 22nd July and Snickers will donate $1 for each vote until we reach $20K!
Our drop-in project Home Base has been running for almost 4 months now! Being set up at the Redfern Community Centre affords us a great facility and location for anyone to drop by and make music with us. We started off with 3 attendees and now have a regular attendance of 10 or more. The young peoples’ ages range from 14 to 20 years old and they are from all parts of Sydney.
Huge THANKS to the Hobo Gestapo guys for coming down to shoot last week’s Tuned In event, run by NSW Reconciliation Council at Oxford Art Factory.