Incite Arts

Introducing Incite Arts Inc

Incite acknowledges the Traditional Owners of this land and gives respect to them and their cultures, and to the Elders both past and present.

Incite Arts grows community-led arts in Central Australia in collaboration with the communities of Alice Springs and the Central Desert region.

Incite began its life as the Alice Springs Youth Arts Group (ASYAG) in 1998. Initially an umbrella organisation that grew out of an Arts NT forum, ASYAG was set up to help young people share their stories in a contemporary youth arts context. After several years of delivering youth arts activities on a project basis, the organisation became an incorporated not-for-profit association under the name InCite Youth Arts Inc in 2004.

Over the last decade, Incite has developed and grown to become a key facilitator of community arts and cultural development projects in the Central Australian region. Through strong organisational partnerships and years of collaboration and consultation with remote Indigenous communities, young people and people with disability, Incite has become a significant contributor to community capacity building in the region through participation in the Arts.

Following on from the years of success of these partnerships, working with new communities and conducting extensive consultation, in 2013 InCite Youth Arts Inc formally re-articulated the scope of its work and became Incite Arts Inc.

Our programs are developed to build social capital and a sense of collective efficacy through building and nurturing individuals’ ability and motivation to be civically and personally engaged in their lives and communities.

This is achieved by delivering high-quality, accessible, arts programs that meet the needs and aspirations of the communities we work with. The ongoing successful design and delivery of targeted, multi arts programs happens through investing in a shared vision of success and adapting to changing community needs. In collaboration with arts and non-arts organisations, mentoring artists and project workers, We facilitate safe, culturally appropriate environments that support both first time and ongoing arts engagement.

Incite’s primary objective is to provide creative and accessible opportunities for ongoing skills development and life long learning. These ongoing opportunity pathways increase individual and communal well-being and contribute to producing social, economic and cultural benefits for individuals and the larger community.

Exploring pertinent issues of belonging, place, identity, cross-culturalism and multi-culturalism, Incite builds connections between cultural groups, re-defining how we see and value each other and the role we all play in defining Central Australian and the national cultural identity.

Through the development and celebration of Central Australian stories, Incite will continue to contribute to the cultural profile of Alice Springs, the Central Desert region, the Northern Territory, and Australia as a whole.