Participation: Young People in the Arts

Some interesting bit of research I came across today from the Australia Council for the Arts is that:

‘Young people in Australia displayed higher levels of creative participations than the rest of the population”.

This demographic are savvy in the engagement of the technology and creativity and this is quite evident amongst high schoolers these days.

When we refer to “participation” we mean the attending of arts events and/or creating art and young people tend to engage in visual arts and crafts, theatre and dance, creative writing and music. Meanwhile, the oldies are into being the audience of visual arts and theatre and youngies dig their music.

The internet has proven to be a gold field for artist development through research, creating and promoting own music, writing or video art and to engage in social network.