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New Identity - ARTS COLLECTIVE

23/8/2015

At our productive meeting yesterday, we collectively made some major decisions the first of which as you will have noticed is an identity.

Name: After some discussion about the short listed favourites and a last minute addition to the mix. A vote decided upon Arts Collective (South Eastern Coromandel)

Working Group: Arts Collective will utilise the umbrella of Enterprise Whangamata Inc/Info Plus in the short term, by the creation of a sub committee of EW. This is tasked with being a working group to steer the collective over the next 6 - 12 months comprising of:-
- Christina Scurr
- Bernie Ross
- Greta Whyte
- Karyn Hitchman
- Kate Jones Madill
- Lesley staniland.

Long Term: The longer term aim to create an Arts Collective Incorporated Society or perhaps a Trust with charitable status, this will be explored by the working group.

Web site: Set up as www.artscollectivenz.weebly.com with a Facebook group page to follow.

Event: First event will be Sunday 13th September, the G J Gardener Run Walk Festival weekend.

EW has organised a Market Day to encourage visitors to stay on over the weekend for a bit of breakfast, lunch and lots of shopping.
Retailers have responded positively to the call for bargain tables outside shops. Space will be available for Arts Collective and local buskers, face painting, chalk bombing, fund raisers and demonstrations.
Why not raise funds or the profile of your group by doing something?

The Chalk Bomb will be starting at the Gallery 10 am, one great idea was to mark the street with footsteps and arrows to lead people to our Arts Collective displays.
Just organise a table and let Christina know you need a place on Port Road by 27th August please.
No table? No problem! Tables are available for hire/loan from Hire Centre or The Lions and other sources.
Just hope for good weather.

Another brain wave was to ask the owners of the fence between Jennian & Sunnies to allow Art on the railings, more space to display wares - weather permitting.

NEWS FLASH: Thanks to Lesley Staniland we have secured the use of the empty former 100% store on Port Road, with a Big thank you to Helen & Andre Hickson for supporting the Arts.
Next step is to get the key, take a look and organise the space (may need a clean?)
Working bee to be arranged.

Yarn Bombing?
An important point raised by Jo Le Noel was that yarn and wool that would be required for a yarn bomb is currently being taken up and made into Operation Cover up blankets & throws. So if this is to happen a source of cheap or better still free acrylic yarn or similar would have to be found. So that it does not compete with their worthy cause.

Next meeting: Wednesday 16th September to go over the first event and plan the next.

Venue: Whangamata Club upstairs meeting room - 1pm

Cheers
C

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Community Arts Project - Formalising the group

16/8/2015

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Next meeting: Wednesday 19th August
Venue: Whangamata Club upstairs meeting room - 1pm
Agenda

Formalise the group, Co Opting volunteers who will make things happen by utilising the umbrella of Enterprise Whangamata Inc, who are the business networking association and also run Info Plus visitor centre by creating an Arts+ sub committee as a short term umbrella organisation. It gives a support network, exposure through Info Plus and the legitimacy of an Inc Society meaning that as a group we have a voice and can start applying for funding sooner rather than later.

Finalise an identity/brand for the collective Arts in Whangamata. These favourites came from the last workshop
- Arts + (or Plus)
- Arts Link (or Ink/inc)
- Arts Hub (but there is a Youth Hub already)

Events for G J Gardener Run Walk weekend 12th - 13th September, only four weeks away. So far EW is organising a retail/community market for Sunday and local buskers.
Events for Brits at the Beach week in early October.
Resources: equipment availability such as looms, printing presses etc, materials for recycling into projects such as spare paint, yarn, studio spaces to construct or make things, etc.

Keep tabs on this pinterest page - adding ideas all the time:-
https://www.pinterest.com/christinascurr/community-arts-project

For those not at other meetings - here is a catch up list of ideas:

Long term goals

A Matariki Arts Festival in 2017
An Arts Centre
Art Competition - High profile, big prizes, sponsored.
Wearable Arts - masked parade, masked ball
Shoe box competition - sculpture any medium to fit inside a shoe box or indeed a painted show box itself.
Art Tours, Special Evenings - How to look at Art
Sculpture trail

Short/mid term goals, ideas, events, things that we could make happen

Sit & Knit - get people to stop, sit down and discuss the arts, get feed back from the community
Yarn Bombing - giving an ordinary thing a make over, perhaps street furniture such as power boxes.

Pianos - donated then decorated by artists, to be wheeled out in the street to be played
Shop Windows - pop up displays in high street shop windows “ An Artist in your window”
Beach Access Marker Poles or street furniture - create an arts trail. Imagine them painted, papered, wrapped, knitted, woven?
Flags on street lights along the High Street - each decorated by different artists, groups, school, in different mediums.
Art & Craft Exhibitions/Displays - Popup, shop window art installations
Performances - Street theatre, Thespian Flash mobs
Art Flash Mob - Art Attacks, mob turns up and decorates/changes something random.

Literature - Writing & Poetry Workshops, readings.
Weaving, spinning - traditional crafts with a contemporary twist
Film - Cult Movie shown in local theatre - dress up for the event i.e. Rocky Horror show, Star Wars, etc.
Music - Buskers . . . . . list is endless . . . . .

See you Wednesday

Cheers
C

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