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Arts Collective Event~ this is going out to all connected with Arts Collective ~
Hello Everybody,congratulations on making it happen! Pulling together to create a superb inaugural event. The exhibition was humming with interested people all weekend, giving great exposure and raising the profile of the Arts in Whangamata.Having it alongside the market day by Enterprise Whangamata was a great move to ensure the town was buzzing with activity.The chalk bomb outside the Art Gallery was much enjoyed by children & adults alike, the chalk signs on the pavement working well to direct visitors to our Pop Up Exhibition venue at 715 Port Road.A cheap quick marketing tool, something that we can do again with the stock of handmade non toxic chalks produced for the chalk bomb. Feedback Feedback was very positive. There a few things we can do better next time, such as space allocation, but hey, I think we did well for our inaugural event.Money raised from gold coins and donations has been used to give the building owners a handsome thank you gift and any leftover money will go towards a banner for our next event. Yarn Bomb Port Road Gallery has taken the lead on this one and already installed one mini Yarn Bomb, now to make it spread. Take a look next time your passing, can’t miss it . . .Please contact me if your interested in Ninja Knitting, subversive Guerrilla Crochet or plain old Knit & Natter.Lets brighten town up for summer. Next Event Arts Collective is now planning to do it again on Labour Weekend October Set up Friday 23rd October Exhibition open for the weekend of 24th & 25th(so long as the building is still available, if not we are working on a plan B to find another empty shop) Another market day is planned for Sunday 25th October by Enterprise Whangamata to encourage people to stay in town after the Lions Market on the Saturday. Please spread the word, we would like to have more music, pottery, 3d arts, etc.Perhaps Ukulele Club & Theatre or Dance Groups, etc, would just like to have space to promote their activities show people whats available in town. Date of next meeting Wednesday 14th at 1:30 pm, Whangamata Club upstairs room (TBC)To talk about Labour weekend event and progress reports on our short term goals from the steering group.Also we are working on some loose guidelines for participation in the collective. Cheers C At our productive meeting yesterday, we collectively made some major decisions the first of which as you will have noticed is an identity.
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 Next meeting: Wednesday 19th August
Venue: Whangamata Club upstairs meeting room - 1pm Agenda
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
Cheers C Progress report:
Wednesdays meeting saw 18 people from various creative disciplines - a great turn out, thank you everybody for taking time to be part of whats happening. Lots of new faces too, for or those who had not been before we had a quick introduction session followed by a brief overview of our aims following this ground swell of support. We discussed
No objection were raised to using EW as the umbrella organisation, so, I would like to invite anybody interested in being part of group structure to get in touch with me - Christina, with a view to being Co opted onto the Arts sub committee of Enterprise Whanagamata as the Arts Plus or + or Arts Link whatever we choose. Now we have almost have an identity I think we will now be ready to take things further. Personally I like Arts+ or (plus) Next meeting: Wednesday 19th August Venue: Whangamata Club upstairs meeting room - 1pm FORMAT:
Community Arts Project - an update
What a brilliant meeting we had, with the help of Paul Bradley of Creative Waikato we have made huge strides towards identifying and actually realising some of our goals. All those who attended will be pleased to know that they have contributed to the TCDC regional arts strategy compiled by Hilary Falconer. Next meeting: Wednesday 22nd July Venue: Whangamata Club upstairs meeting room All welcome, please spread the word the more creatives involved the better. Format:
Ideas so far: Some pictures here:- https://www.pinterest.com/christinascurr/community-arts-project
See you on the 22nd Cheers Christina Hi Folks,
Date of next event: Local Arts Strategy Workshop 1pm Wednesday July 1st 2015 ~ Whangamata Club in the newly refurbished upstairs room
I’m hoping the Info Plus and Coastal News will be able to help us with publicising the workshop event. Give me a day or two and we will have some flyers to hand out & display, pop into the gallery to get yours. Please do spread the word, invite and encourage other interested parties to come and give us some input. Especially Theatre group, musicians, writers and anybody else you can think of . . .. Lets see if we can make Arts Festivals happen here and grow the arts scene in our neighbourhood. Cheers C followup: Community Arts project - ideas Trawling around on Pinterest I have found and put together a pile of ideas we could try:- https://www.pinterest.com/christinascurr/community-arts-project Take a look at these . . . inspirational and so easy. See you all on the 1st I hope ! Cheers |
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