Email fro Christian

Hey Christian,
I started to send a response email, but I think I forgot to send it.
I already sent letters to all the services saying we had the money. How are you for early July to catch up and set dates?

Karen
Sent: Tuesday, 8 June 2010 2:35 PM
To: Karen O - INSYNC
Subject: Artsporations
Hi karen,
Great to hear we can organise the Artsporations project. Do you want to make a time to meet to sort tasks & possible dates. I can send out some info to agencies to confirm interest unless it needs to have the spiritus stamp. I have a couple of weeks in August & Sept to do the workshops. Let me know what you recommend as our plan of attack!
Catch you soon,
Christian.

Marking of my blog is done

Yah the marking of my blog is completed. But I feel that it is important to ensure that I keep this process going. I need a few days break from it but I am back.
We got the money for the project so next week, will start to organise times to make this happen. All the other services have been notified by snail mail so they are aware that we will be making times soon.
Need to contact Bron for CHAC and set time for my talk to the school.
The pictue is one that I came across in my travels wth flickr and love this B movie, just need to put it in at some point- here we are at some point.

I got Funding to run Art workshops

Last year I had a uni student on placement at my service and as part of her placement she developed a funding submission which we submitted to our local Council. The projects aim is to develop the links between community services, their clients through Art workshops with Christian from Aerograffix.
We were unfortunately unsuccessful on that occasion, but we were asked to resubmit for the second round due to the strength and scope of the project.

And today I received the letter advising that we got the $8000.00. I called Christian as soon as I found out and he is setting dates to begin the workshops in a couple of months. It  is a  great opportunity to link up the art work project with the school and have them involved with the multiple workshops over the coming months.

The project will:

Involve up to 72 participants, six per session over 12 sessions.
The target group will include people with disabilities or who are currently disengaged from mainstream community activities.
Each participant will have the opportunity to complete an individual artwork on canvas or contribute to a group mural.
Participants can also attend an exhibition to celebrate achievements and display works of art for community members to view.

The services and the clients of the services who will be involved are Redlands District Committee on Ageing, Canteen,Babi Youth Services, Cerebral Palsy League Qld, Redlands Bayside Disability Service, Boystown, TRACC South Foster Care and Horizon.
 
Happy ending to a very long funding process and community development project for Uni

Reflecton on Blogging and Project

Well here we are in the final week and I have just been going over Lynda's notes from Class and a few things stand out for me at the end of this process.

In Week 1- Lynda talked about Love and Fear.
For me I have to say I definitely started in Fear. I was worried about doing the blog. It was very different from any other form of assessment that I have done in my masters course. I always feel a little bit anxious  attempting new things. In particular with the computer technology.

For me the community that Lynda was hoping to achieve given the limited time that we were going to spend together in class, seemed ambitious. I was fortunate that I started the course knowing a few people very well. WE have been supporting each other through our course for a year already at this stage.
Much of the original support I got was from them. But in true Community Development Lynda had activities that ensured that we got to know others within the group.

I had strong on going support from my close community within the group, but found through the discussion board, and following the nine blogs I chose I developed a great community network.
This lead to the love of blogging- I think I have become slightly annoying to all my work colleagues and friends as I yadder yadder on about this technology. I took another  huge leap last week and jumped on to twitter as part of my blog.

Having said this and how much I love the blogging  I have convinced a few networks I am involved with that we need to go down this path. It is also proving to be a useful tool for clients as a reflective diary (you can lock of the blog so no one else can view it).

Now that I have made the commitment they are patiently waiting for my uni commitments to stop and I will then set them up and manage them for 2 network groups I am involved in for work.
So I am ending love of the technology and of the learning process.

In reviewing my project  I see my self  having done the dance between Retreat- Advance, Top down -Bottom up and Real- Ideal.
Getting the balance right in between these and the right timing  can be difficult. Mostly this balance for me has been the reliance on others. The main people involved in the project, the students had as busy work commitments as I did .

The project timing was difficult for all of us, and  we were overly ambitious in our time frame to get the art work shop done prior to the 23rd May- exceptionally Ideal. Our discussion to re launch and get others involved at a later date after the mid year assessment period for the student is far more Real.
Which meant times I had to take the lead when I was hoping to have a bottom up approach happening in  order for things to be decided.

I mention a lot about Collective Action in my blog- much of the research I did showed that when young people become involved n community issues are more likely  to remain involved in civic and political matters on an on going basis. So it has become a focus of the community project.

Lynda mentioned for us to go and 'Be brave and go out there' and 'Fail gloriously'. I think I did this. I did fail in down loading a video I wanted, I struggled in getting n to Utube, and finding podcasts. But the hard work and failure helped with developing the connection to others in the course for help to get things done.

Part of what I am most excited about is my new version of a Butterflies wings flapping- which for me was Twitter. Joining this and making it apart of my project has opened up a whole new world. I am now sharing this experience with others and the information that I am getting from my twitter and those that I am following.
It has been a long semester  but I have learnt a lot and my skills with the computers has progressed in leaps and bounds.

It has been Great.

Video add I have developed for next phase of the project

Arts Project from Karen O'Donohue on Vimeo.

I have finally managed after weeks of trying and faling to get the technology to work for me. This website allows me to lock down the video to access with code access only. This is the video I wll be using at my talk at the school to get people nvolved in the next phase of my project.

Business and the Community

Hi All,
As we think about moving out into the world and working n the community some of the community members we really need to target and get involved within  their community to make a difference s business.
I came across this utube from a twitter link, it is very insightful. It is business men at a conference answering  "If you could redesign the world, what would you do" . Technology as a tool and introduced efficiently and quickly is one of the identifyed points interesting. Have a look.
http://sn.im/wy6h4

Reminer all human lives should be valued

Hi All ,
came across a great Twitter site where the focus is on promoting Human rights. In thinking about technology- I think I need to have a bit of a focus for my Twitter account to. Not sure what that is yet. I am trolling through many and getting an idea of all the possibilities and the potential that is out there first.
Check out the twitter site
https://twitter.com/QueenRania