Past and present collide as Corrugated Iron Youth Arts celebrates 40 years

Corrugated Iron Youth Arts, or ‘Corro’ as it is often known, celebrates its 40th anniversary throughout October.
The hero image for Corrugated Iron Youth Arts' 40th anniversary program, Futures Collide: a photograph of a teenaged boy in sunglasses and 1980s fashion, overlayed with fluorescent pink and green.

“When other organisations might be slowing down because they’re not getting people wanting to attend them, we’re growing, because we change with the youth. And I think that’s really important. That’s really pivotal to why [Corrugated Iron has] reached 40,” says 15-year-old Alice Cotter, one of several young leaders who ensure young people’s ideas and influences play a direct role in shaping the annual artistic program of Corrugated Iron Youth Arts

The Northern Territory’s leading youth arts company, Corrugated Iron – colloquially known as ‘Corro’ – celebrates its 40th anniversary this month, with a program that reflects the company’s past while also looking firmly to the future.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts