Cessnock Youth Centre and Outreach Service - CYCOS

25/06/2026

Thank you to St Patrick’s primary in Cessnock for inviting us to run some Aboriginal art activities for their students today to celebrate NAIDOC week!

We provided young people with an DIY pencil case activity featuring artwork from artist Kerri-Ann Taggart.

The meaning behind her artwork “connecting place to place. Aboriginal people gather,hunt and share culture to move to the next. Aboriginal people follow the seasons and come back to start the cycle again.”

Check out some of the artworks below 👇

23/06/2026

❄️Winter School Holidays❄️

Get set for a jampacked program of awesome school holiday fun, with events with Cessnock City Council!

OUR PROGRAMS:

🕺Vibe & Vision Silent Disco Art Workshops 💃
Funded by the NSW Government Holiday Break Grant

Monday 6 July
1pm - 3pm
Performance, Arts, Culture Cessnock PACC

Thursday 9 July
1pm - 3pm
Performance, Arts, Culture Cessnock PACC

🪃Boomerang Arts🪃

Wednesday 8 July
2pm - 4pm
Cessnock Youth Centre Cessnock Youth Centre and Outreach Service - CYCOS

👨‍🎤Learn to Perform with Tantrum 🎭
Funded by the NSW Government Holiday Break Grant

Tuesday 14 July
2pm - 4pm
Performance, Arts, Culture Cessnock PACC

Find all programs here: https://www.cessnock.nsw.gov.au/Things-to-do/Whats-On/2026-Winter-School-Holiday-Program

For Youth Service bookings: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/o/cycos-cessnock-youth-centre-outreach-service-63224000563

CYCOS, Cessnock City Libraries and PACC are owned, operated and funded by Cessnock City Council.

Get set for a jampacked program of awesome school holiday fun, with events at CYCOS, Cessnock City Libraries and PACC!

15/06/2026

❄️Winter School Holidays❄️

Young people are invited to participate in our Winter School Holiday program!

🕺Vibe & Vision Silent Disco Art Workshops 💃
Funded by the NSW Government Holiday Break Grant

Monday 6 July
1pm - 3pm
Performance, Arts, Culture Cessnock PACC

Thursday 9 July
1pm - 3pm
Performance, Arts, Culture Cessnock PACC

🪃Boomerang Arts🪃

Wednesday 8 July
2pm - 4pm
Cessnock Youth Centre Cessnock Youth Centre and Outreach Service - CYCOS

👨‍🎤Learn to Perform with Tantrum 🎭
Funded by the NSW Government Holiday Break Grant

Tuesday 14 July
2pm - 4pm
Performance, Arts, Culture Cessnock PACC Tantrum Youth Arts

to book: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/o/63224000563

All programs for ages 11 -18
FREE
Looking forward to seeing you soon!

CYCOS: Cessnock Youth Centre & Outreach Service

11/06/2026

Simone, our Aboriginal community youth worker has been hard a work providing programming in community!

Here is a snapshot of our Reconciliation week programs!

For all information in regards to Simone and her programs look here: https://www.cessnock.nsw.gov.au/Residents/Community-services-and-support/Youth-Services/Whats-on-for-young-people

For information in regard to NAIDOC week look here:
https://www.cessnock.nsw.gov.au/Things-to-do/Whats-On/NAIDOC-Week-2026

09/06/2026

Bookings are now live for our NAIDOC Week program!

Celebrate NAIDOC Week with Cessnock Youth Centre

Come and join us in celebrating NAIDOC week with DIY Wooden craft Boomerangs create your own story with Wonnurua art Symbols and paint pens, all will be provided on the day.

Date: Wednesday 8 July
Time: 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Ages: 11–18
Cost: Free Event

book your place here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1990292268753?aff=oddtdtcreator

for all NAIDOC programs: https://www.cessnock.nsw.gov.au/Things-to-do/Whats-On/NAIDOC-Week-2026

Each year, communities and organisations across the Cessnock LGA host events and activities to share and celebrate local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture during NAIDOC Week. Everyone is welcome to participate, and it is a great opportunity to support, get to know and get involved with o...

04/06/2026

NAIDOC Week will be held from 5-12 July.

The theme for 2026 is ’50 Years of Deadly’. This years theme marks a milestone. It’s a tribute to the people who built this movement. The Elders who stood firm, the organisers who made space, the artists who turned resistance into expression, and the communities who keep showing up, year after year.

A Calendar of events has been developed that includes events being held by various organisations.

find the calendar and all the information here:

Each year, communities and organisations across the Cessnock LGA host events and activities to share and celebrate local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture during NAIDOC Week. Everyone is welcome to participate, and it is a great opportunity to support, get to know and get involved with o...

26/05/2026

Find the full reconciliation week program here: https://www.cessnock.nsw.gov.au/Residents/Community-services-and-support/Aboriginal-and-Torres-Strait-Islander-communities/National-Reconciliation-Week

26/05/2026

Each year, 26 May marks National Sorry Day, acknowledging the Stolen Generations — Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children forcibly removed from their families between the mid-1800s and 1980s — and the tabling of the Bringing them home report in 1997.

National Sorry Day is an opportunity for all Australians to learn about and acknowledge the truth of Australia’s Stolen Generations history and the ongoing, intergenerational impacts caused by past policies of forced removal.

For more information: https://healingfoundation.org.au/stolen-generations/national-sorry-day/ #:~:text=Each%20year%2C%2026%20May%20marks,available%20to%20Stolen%20Generations%20survivors.

18/05/2026

🚗 National road safety week 🚗

Every year, approximately 1200 people are killed and another 40,000+* are seriously injured on Australian roads. Traffic injury is the biggest killer of Australian children under 15 and the second-biggest killer of all Australians aged between 15 and 24.

These numbers are growing every year but are preventable if we choose to Drive So Others Survive!.

National Road Safety Week is an annual initiative from the Safer Australian Roads and Highways (SARAH) Group, partnering road safety organisations and Government. The week highlights the impact of road trauma and ways to reduce it.

to take the pledge: https://roadsafetyweek.com.au/home/ /pledge