Outloud is an award-winning, youth-led, intersectional arts organisation based on Darug land in Bankstown. Since 1987, Outloud has championed creative social change by supporting young people to co-create impactful, culturally relevant artworks that reflect their lived experiences and invite dialogue around identity, respect, gender equality, and belonging.
Formerly known as Bankstown Youth Development Service, Outloud has deep roots in the community and continues to evolve with it.
Our work is grounded in a journey of care - a long-term, relational approach that centres trust, safety, and creative development. Our strengths-based programs bring together local professional artists and service providers to support young people to co-create impactful, culturally relevant art that speaks to their lived experiences and helps them to understand, analyse, and have agency in social topics that affect them, and positions them as agents of change both within their own lives and in their communities.
We invite young people to use the arts as a tool for self-expression, critical thinking, and dialogue while also scaffolding transferable life skills and practical pathways into a lifelong engagement with a creative life.
