MY STORY / OUR STORIES: GROWING AND CONNECTING THROUGH ENACTED STORIES

This paper reports on a study of four performing arts projects in Melbourne schools led by SCRAYP Youth Arts with an Edge. This community arts company works with disadvantaged and culturally diverse young people and employs and mentors emerging artists. The study focused on the ways in which young people make sense of their world through their enacted stories. The research highlights the young people's construction of moral frameworks and social messages in the performances they create and present to their communities.