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Community
Arts Development Program - CADP
**Upcoming
CAD events**
December
2009 CAD event details out soon
**Info
from 2009 CAD Events**
"Writing
in & out of community" (Monday 16 November)
Presented
as part of CAN SA's Community Arts Development Program.
Finegan
(28) has had 35 of his commissioned plays performed around
Australia, North America, Europe and Asia, with 19 new
works set to have (inter)national seasons to 2011. This
year, he writes commissioned works in England, Ireland,
China, Hobart, Sydney and Adelaide.
In
2009, The Tragical Life of Cheeseboy (Slingsby) won the
2009 Australian Writers' Guild Award (AWGIE) for Best
Children's Play in Australia. As well as the 2009 AWGIE
Award, Finegan received the 2009 Young Tasmanian Artist
Award, 2008 Best Childrens' Theatre Playwright Oscart
(for …Cheeseboy), 2007 Best Playwright Oscart (for This
Uncharted Hour - Brink Productions), 2006 Jill Blewett
Playwrights' Award, and 2002 Colin Thiele Scholarship.
"Introduction
to Digital Storytelling" (October)
A
practical Introduction to Digital Storytelling designed
to provide the basics to digital storytelling with an
emphasis on the narrative and it's role in an art context.
Facilitated by Joyce Louey with Guest Speakers:
- Jen
Jones, Corridor Films
- Kath Dooley, Stella and Blanche Films
- Daisy Brown, The Misery Children
"How
to develop your project"(September)
Ollie
Black was contracted to deliver this workshop to arts
practitioners, staff, associates and people who have broader
connections to Kurruru Youth Performing Arts. This workshop
gave participants a formalisation of project development
work with specific emphasis on "how to prepare an effective
plan before doing the work".
"How
does your Arts Market?" (August)
The
joys and difficulties of Artist and Artisans markets -
A SALA forum
Facilitated by Lisa Philip-Harbutt with panellists:
- Anika Williams (Artist/Trader)
- Cher mcGrath (Convenor, Willunga Artisan's Market)
_ Helen Bock (Convenor, Semaphore Community Market)
- Lynda Pearl (Producer/Trader, Gilles Street Market)
Online
workshop for Funding Applications (July on)
AN
ONLINE WORKSHOP FOR FUNDING APPLICATIONS
This workshop is part of CAN SA's Community Arts Development
(CAD) Program
of workshops and forums.
Online
TODAY
"Instruction
Manual for artists: A nuts n bolts workshop" (June)
A
FREE step by step workshop delivered by Joyce Louey and
Jo Ankor that looked at:
-
Turning your project ideas into action
-
Planning for success and great outcomes
- Finding resourcess and support
- Covering your ass-ets: rights and responsibilities
Community
Theatre: addressing youth suicide
A Forum for all Artists, Theatre and Community workers
(April)
Stephen
House discussed the process and outcomes of a community
theatre project addressing youth suicide rates in regional
South Australia. ‘The Yum Yum Room’, produced through
this project, will be appearing in the 2009 ComeOut Festival,
and Stephen offered discount tickets to the 28 May performance
to attendees of the forum.
International
Practice Forum (April)
Georgie
Davill spoke of her 2008 Asialink Residency with the Makhampom
Foundation, Thailand. This forum gave artists and artsworkers
interested in working overseas or simply interested in
what’s happening out there an insight to her work with
cultural action troupes: Makhampom Theatre (Thailand),
Mindanao Cultural Theatre Network (Philippines), Yuyachkani
Theatre (Peru), Theatre Simple (USA).
Covering
Your Ass-ets (review) (February)
The
first of many workshops and forums to kick start the CAN
SA year and Community Arts Development (CAD) Program,
the Covering Your Ass-ets workshop revealed that there
are many questions that hopefully we were able to shed
some light on and that those who felt ‘bare’ were able
to get some cover. CAN SA’s Lisa Philip-Harbutt and Joyce
Louey, with guest speaker Evan Jackson from Guardian Insurance,
co-presented the latest of CAN SA’s CAD Program workshops
on Wednesday 18 February.
In the 3 hours we were able to touch on risk; contracts;
artsworkers rights (Copyright, Moral Rights, Intellectual
Property and Indigenous Cultural Rights), liability and
insurance. CAN SA’s interpretation of the topics and bringing
in the professional advice of an insurance broker such
as Evan - who I learnt has had a connection with CAN SA
since 1977 when staff wore kaftans and listened to Jimmy
Hendrix (synonymous of that era) - was a great chance
for the participants to ask questions; to try and demystify
the legal-ness of liability and insurance and provide
some accessories and clothing to take away to mix and
match and see what fits.
Thanks
to everyone for attending and participating!!!
**Info
from 2008 CAD Events**
"Digital
Storytelling" (November Workshop)
An
introduction to digital storytelling with strictly limited
numbers,
delivered by Lisa Philip-Harbutt and Ollie Black on 26
November.
An
Artists talk with Petra Kuppers & Neil Marcus (October
Forum)
The
wrap up from this exciting evening held on Wed 29 October
2008 will be uploaded here in the coming weeks.
Petra
Kuppers is a disability culture activist, community artist,
wheelchair dancer, and Associate Professor of English
at the University of Michigan and author of a handbook
on community performance practice, ‘Community Performance:
An Introduction’ Neil Marcus is a poet and Butoh dancer,
film actor (on ER) and award-winning playwright who lives
in Berkeley, California. They
chatted about The
Olimpias and together they have written a book of
poetry called ‘Cripple
Poetics: A Love Story’
Arts
& Health: An International Perspective (September
Forum)
This Forum was held on 24 September
2008 and was well attended with over 40 people coming
along to hear Clive Parkinson (Director of Arts for Health
at Manchester Metropolitan University) speak about arts
in health with a panel of local arts in health professionals
consisting of Sally Francis, Christine Putland & Lisa
Philip-Harbutt. Clive
is the project lead on the HM Treasury funded; Invest
to Save: Arts in Health Project, working within the Faculty
of Art and Design, in MIRIADs' Arts
for Health.
Improve
Your Chances (August
Workshop)
The ‘Improve Your Chances’ workshop
on writing applications for grants attracted 24 artists
and arts workers on Wednesday 26 August. Part of CAN’s
Community Arts Development series of workshops and forums,
the workshop aimed to assist those artists and arts workers
new to writing applications to understand how it all works.
How to look for funding sources, what ‘criteria’ are,
understanding your own project well enough to be able
to write about it, how to ask for a Letter of Support
– while these skills develop with experience, we all find
it a big challenge to put it into application format.
It was great to see intensive networking happening during
the break and the feedback participants gave each other
as each presented their ‘project pitch’ was constructive
and reflective. There’s lots of great work going on out
there – pity they can’t all be funded!
Hints
for writing a funding application sheet
SALA
Forum - Community Arts How to make it work!….
A “frank” discussion
(August Forum)
A
great group of 42 attended the ‘Community Arts – How to
make it work’ “frank” discussion on Wednesday 13 August
at CAN’s Big Space. Experienced community arts development
practitioners discussed what has worked, and what has
not, in making community arts projects for them. Matthew
Ives – Unley City Council, Marg Edgecombe – City of Marion
Council, Sandy Elverd – freelance artsworker, Bob Daly
– freelance artsworker along with Cheryl Dean and Irene
Dougan from Beach Road Artworks Inc gave the audience
a précis of their varied experiences.
It is always wonderful to regain a wide view of the constant,
exciting, invigorating and immensely valuable work going
on ‘out there’. Each presenter talked about their own
experience for about 10 minutes, with entertaining and
informative supporting pictures and notes, and covered
projects that they have been involved in that ‘worked’,
the story of a project that didn’t ‘work’ and why it didn’t,
and were encouraged by Lisa to impart one ‘pearl of wisdom’
they wanted the audience to take away from the night’s
discussion. Everyone was beautifully ‘warmed up’ for the
discussion by home-made soups shared during the evening.
Thanks to the fab cooks! Following the presentations,
Lisa chaired a panel discussion on strategies for making
Community Arts.
- Matthew
Ives - Was amongst our first crop to get through CAN's
graduate dipploma, He's an ex board member, well known
for work at the Parks Arts & Function Complex and
is currently at Unley
Council.
- Sandy
Elverd - balances the building of a practice within
the overlapping spheres of Community and Visual arts
and Craft.
- Irene
Dougan and Cheryl Dean form Beach
Road Artworks Inc.- Cheryl is another CAN graduate.
Beach Road is well known for its Mosaic work down South,
they work with members of the local community, and their
public artwork is displayed at various sites within
the City of Onkaparinga.
- Bob
Daly- current CAN board member. Kalyna and Bob are well
known for their bright and colourful work in communities
across Australia.
- Marg
Edgecombe - Recent CAN graduate, who comes from arts
practice but is currently working within local government,
with Marion
City Council.
Background/
Rationale to the CAD program
Community Arts Network SA Inc (CAN SA) believes that community
arts activities, underpinned by principles of social justice,
can change our lives and therefore our communities and
all our futures. CAN SA is committed to developing the
skill levels of all those participating in Community Arts.
We have a long track record in undertaking this work.
The abolishment of the Community Cultural Development
Board and the more recent establishment of the Community
Partnerships at the Australia Council has consequently
changed in the way the sector is being supported federally.
CAN SA is now funded in a 3 way agreement between Arts
SA, Australia Council and CAN SA which is to deliver services
to metropolitan Adelaide.
We have also attracted a small amount of Industry Development
funds from Arts SA which allows us to offer some of these
services to the rest of South Australia. We have identified
however that this new structure negates the important
role that CAN SA has previously played in delivering high
quality professional development training, in advocating
for the sector and in scoping the sector for current trends
and future needs in this area. This program of workshops
and forums will offer professional development opportunities
for anyone working or participating in community arts
practice. They will cover both arts practice and arts
business topics and will use ccd philosophy. The CADP
will occur on a regular basis over this 18 month period.
Several exciting Forums and Workshops have already happened
and more are being planned. Stay tuned for upcoming workshops
or forums as part of this program. We also will be updating
this page with papers, photos etc from previous forums
& workshop.
Graduate
Diploma in CCD
Due
to funding restraints and greater compliance requirements
for RTOs, the Graduate Diploma in Community Cultural Development
will not be offered for new students in 2009. This course
offers professional development for arts practitioners
and other workers in the use of art projects to facilitate
community and cultural expression and growth. It is based
in the practical application of cultural studies and aimed
at furthering the open society Australians believe to
be the best form of community and personal living. It
is taught by professional educators who are also practitioners
and is a nationally registered post-graduate course delivered
online across Australia. It is not limited to applicants
with prior degree qualification but, in line with the
ideology in which it is situated, recognises prior experience
and encourages health workers, artists, project managers,
local government, youth & community service workers, activists
& educators to apply.
While
the course has been running since 1996 with many graduates
working nationally and internationally, the current economic
situation, for both our organisation and our students,
inhibits us from offering it to new student in 2009. We
are working toward advertising the Graduate Diploma in
community cultural development in the very near future.
Course
in business skills for creative people
Business Skills For Creative
People
A
Regional Arts Australia Initiative
Course
Code 40594SA Smart in business is a nationally recognised
skills development program for people who volunteer and
work in the arts and cultural sector in regional Australia.
The course was reaccredited for five years in May 2008
as "Course in business skills for creative people" and
replaces the course known as "Creative Volunteering: No
Limits". The Course in Business Skills for Creative People
program aims to increase the professional skills of volunteer
workers in the arts and collections sectors in regional
and remote Australia through the delivery of accredited
short-course training modules.
The
course offers ten units - one core and nine electives.
Core
Unit: Network within communities (1 day workshops)
Single
elective units (1 day workshops)
Network
within communities (CVNWC01A)
Carry out business planning (CVBSP02A)
Develop funds and resources (CVFAS03A)
Undertake marketing (CVMGP04A)
Work with collections (CVWWC05A)
Plan and program events (CVPPE06A)
Contribute to effective organisation governance (CVGOV07A)
Cultivate productive relationships (CVTPF08A)
Double
elective units (2 day workshops):
Train
others (VCVRT09A, TAAENV405B, TAADEL301B)
Manage
a project (CUSADM03A)
Registered
Training Organisation Community Arts Network S.A.
National Provider Code: 1459
Accredited Course Number: 40594SA
Course
in Business Skills for Creative People
Student Handbook
For
further information please contact CAN SA
Business
Skills For Creative People
Indigenous
Pilot Program (Stage 1)
- completed 2008
Recognising the low take-up by Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islanders during the initial roll-out of the program,
in 2007 the Regional Arts Fund provided funding to increase
Indigenous engagement with the initiative. The project
delivered a pilot program with modified training delivery
in two regional or remote communities.
Extension
of the Indigenous Pilot (Stage 2)
- completed 2009
The overarching long-term objective of the Pilot is to
provide equitable access to training opportunities for
Indigenous communities, particularly given their high
level of disadvantage and the potential for arts activities
to provide positive cultural, social and economic outcomes
for Indigenous people.
Federal
funding was provided to extend the Pilot to a second stage,
with objectives to:
•
further trial the findings and recommendations of stage
one of the Pilot, particularly in more remote and isolated
Indigenous communities;
• deliver targeted training aimed to increase the capacity
of participating Indigenous communities to manage cultural
projects and businesses
Funding
enabled the delivery of two workshops (4 days) in five
Indigenous communities.
Workshops
and Seminars
CAN
SA provides a range of workshops, seminars, training and
forums. CAN SA aims to provide professional development
and training that develops and furthers the standards
and practices of community cultural development. Over
the years CAN SA’s reputation as a professional association
and provider of appropriate training to the sector continued
to increase its profile.
Highly sought after, these industry
specific training provide participants with practical
skills based knowledge. Topics include How to Develop
Your Project, How to Write Successful Funding Applications,
and Cross-Cultural Communication. Responding to industry
trends, new topics are developed and updated and sessions
can be tailored to meet individual or group needs. Sessions
are available on site at CAN SA or at your workplace.
click
here for a copy of the Off-the-shelf
Workshops
THREE
ANANGU STORIES PROJECT AT WOMADELAIDE!
In
February and March 2009, Better World Arts in association
with the WOMADelaide Foundation will present an intensive
cultural workshop between Anangu artists from the Anangu
Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands and the wider
community.
Storytelling,
song, dance and visual representation merge with spiritual
elements to tell Three Anangu Stories. After six days
of artist workshops to capture important traditional stories
in performance and recorded form, WOMADelaide will feature
artists creating large collaborative paintings, performing
and teaching dances, and exhibit paintings, rugs, landmarks,star
constellation photos, tools and sacred objects that relate
to the three stories.
Above:
Mulykuyu Ken and Margaret Richards with Mrs Ken's painting
and rug
Presented
by the WOMADelaide Foundation in association with Better
World Arts and supported by Community Arts Network SA.
Conferences, Forums and Masterclasses
Stimulating
and provoking interest in community cultural development
practice and philosophy, CAN SA's conferences and forums
provide a focus for critical debate and opportunities
to highlight models of best practice. CAN SA actively
works in partnership with allied sectors to further the
use of the arts as a successful way of working with and
for community.
For
more information about the CAN SA Training and Development
Program contact training@cansa.net.au
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