If you have an interest in arts, and especially in supporting young creatives, then get behind the dynamic team at Propel Youth Arts WA. Propel Youth Arts WA provides young people 12-26 with access and opportunities to engage with arts and culture “on their own terms”. It is a not-for-profit membership-based association established in 2003 as Youth Arts Network.

Many RJAFTA award recipients are actively engaged in the same creative pursuit that won them their award. We delight in following their careers, and feel privileged to have played a small role in helping to elevate their artistic dream. But what have our previous award recipients been up to since winning their award? Fortunately we have been able to keep track of most of them. Today, meet an internationally acclaimed artist who divides his time between WA and the English countryside.

Design Artist Cara Baldwin is the Robert Juniper Award for the Arts 2020 Winner! Cara is the first person living with disability to apply for, and win, this prestigious Award in the award’s 33 year history. The RJAFTA Trustees, and Friends of the Trust, are thrilled with Cara’s win and look forward to Cara’s Runway Show in 2021.

It wasn’t Corona Extra with its pleasant malt and hop aromas keeping us all 2 metres apart and bereft of live theatre, AFL grandstand experiences, and School Concerts these past 6 months. The Robert Juniper Award for the Arts Schools Concert, an annual fund-raising event, was held a little later than usual, and the format had to change to adhere to Covid 19 requirements. Rather than holding one concert with all schools performing to one audience, the evening was split into two sessions, with 3 schools performing in the first session and two schools in the following session