Dear People, I’m watching the fig tree birds congregate in the tree outside my window whose view I have enjoyed for the last eight years, watching the changing skies, the cycle of leaves drying, falling and becoming soil – only then to spring green shoots and become vibrant again as summer approaches. This reflection reminds […]

Over the last 27 years, BYDS has initiated and executed over eight hundreds arts and cultural projects with the communities of Bankstown and surrounds. Over that time we helped develop scores of young artists from the area as well as provide a platform for thousands of young people to have their voices heard using high […]

Dearest friends, BYDS and Story Factory want your votes for “Courtroom Slam”, an innovative project that will engage hundreds of local young people in a creative process examining justice and the law through slam poetry and multimedia art. We are hoping that our supporters and friends living in the Bankstown state electorate will find a […]