Community Arts Project - Formalising the group

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