Shift This 2014:Program

Welcome to Shift ThisShift This is Youth Action’s festival to empower young people in NSW and equip them to take action on issues which they care about.

When you walk into Shift This in 2014, you’ll walk into a room buzzing with chaotic excitement. You’ll have the space to get hands on experience developing projects that respond to issues in your community.

You’ll spend time working with other young people to explore issues affecting young people in NSW, designing and testing project ideas, learning how to plan and implement projects and pitching your idea to a panel of experts.

This isn’t a boring, passive learning experience – this is about getting your hands dirty and learn-ing how to change your community, in just 48 hours!

So dive in and have a great time at Shift This 2014!

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Important Information

Where:All of Shift This is being hosted at the UTS Aerial Function Centre, a short walk from Central Station. Level 7, Building 10, 235 Jones St, Sydney NSW

 

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Phone Numbers:

Need some help finding the place? Who ya gonna call?Jake: 0437 237 491Eamon: 0431 534 790

Venue MapShift This will happen entirely inside the UTS Aerial Function Centre, so you only need to remember one place to be. If you do have to leave the venue for any reason, please just let somebody at the Information Desk know.

 

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Need Help?Somebody will be at the information / registration desk through the entire conference. If you have any questions, need any help or just want to chat, you can find a Youth Action staff member or volunteer there.

Rules & ExpectationsShift This is a fun, interactive environment and we want it to be a space where everybody can have a good time. To help make that happen, we just need you to follow a couple of rules throughout the conference:

Photography & Social MediaThroughout Shift This, we’ll be taking photos and RTing Twitter and Instagram posts. If you do NOT want a photo of yourself to appear in any Youth Action or Shift This publication, or if you don’t want your content RTed, please let us know when during registration or at the information table during the conference. #ShiftThis2014

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AgendaShift This 2014 is all about young people taking action in their community. In just 48 hours you’ll go from exploring different issues to presenting a ready-to-launch project that you can take back to your community. Throughout the 3 days we hope to: Inspire you to make positive changes in your community

Support you to develop feasible community impact projects

Empower you with entrepreneurial, teamwork and project management skills, knowledge of issues, which affect young people, and the confidence to take action around issues that you care about.

Showcase how young people make a positive contribution to their communities.

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Keynote TalksWhere Do Good Ideas Come From?Dr Tim Rayner

‘Ideas are like rabbits’, the novelist John Steinbeck quipped. ‘Get a cou-ple and pretty soon you’ve got a dozen’. But not all ideas are born equal. Relatively few ideas are any good. Most ideas are like rabbits: fun to play with for a little while but totally useless and impossible to tell apart.

Where do good ideas come from? Are they the product of personal ge-nius? Or do they emerge from the ‘hive mind’, through many conversa-tions and exchanges? The truth lies somewhere in between these two positions. Good ideas require disciplined thinking and years of work. To generate them consistently, we need to create collaborative social envi-ronments, where a diverse mix of people can share hunches, respectfully criticise one another, and collaboratively develop breakthrough insights.

About Tim RaynerDr Tim Rayner is a philosopher and disruptive thinker. He is a Co-Founder of One Million Acts of Innovation and the writer of the award-winning short film, ‘Coalition of the Willing’ (2010).

Getting An Idea Off The GroundSimone O’Connor

Three things, that’s all it takes to get an idea off the ground. Starting out seems like a daunting, scary prospect, but when it comes down to it, it’s really just about taking a first step. 3things (an initiative of Oxfam Australia) believes that all you have to do is commit to doing three things in order to get started.Simone will share the three elements, which were integral to the success of 3things, particularly when they were finding their voice and purpose. She’ll explore their journey and draw out what they learned along the way.About Simone O’ConnorSimone grew up in country New South Wales, in a pretty sheltered, normal, not-so-interesting family. Up until she was 18 she had cruised through life and never really questioned anything that was too much outside her tiny bubble. However, when she realised that there was inequality and suffering in the world, she instantly changed her direction and started to re-imagine the life she wanted to create.Since them Simone has been working to improve her knowledge about how change happens and has found that working with youth movements and young people is really where the passion and creativities lie for sustainable social

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Session Overview

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Lunchtime TunesAt lunchtime come and chill out with these awesome young performers.

Alfie Wall is 12 years old, and has been playing the guitar, singing and writing songs since he was 8. In the last 12 months he’s recorded an album of original songs titled “My Universe”.

He is a regular busker in Manly, has supported for Steve Poltz at Lizzottes in Dee Why and has played at the Manly Food and Wine Festival, as well as The Boat Shed, Bar Nora, The Music Lounge, The Sugar Lounge, Yo Yos Youth Centre, Narabeen Markets, and Manly Markets. Like all good up and coming musicians, you can find him on You Tube.

Ella Mitchell is a 15 year-old girl with a passion for writing, sing-ing and performing music who attends Pittwater High School on Syd-ney’s Northern Beaches. Ella started singing in the Newport Primary School choir aged 7 and in the Young Musicians finals aged 11. Since then, Ella has taught herself to play the guitar and piano - YouTube has been an extremely useful tutor.

She’s played to audiences of thousands in Australia and for TV pro-ducers in London, but you can often find her busking around Sydney’s northern beaches or playing a local community gig.

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Our SponsorsShift This wouldn’t be possible without the support from our partners. Youth Action would like to give special thanks to our major sponsors.

We’d also like to thank these organisations for their support of Shift This:

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