Headspace, Elizabeth, SA, July 2012
SLIDESHOW COMING SOON
CHALLENGE:
As part of our A Penny For Your Thoughts initiative, Tallstoreez’ Change Media will work with up 15 youth participants, during a hands-on 2-day workshop at the Northern Sound System. Participants include staff from the Headspace office in Elizabeth, youth workers, youth action committee members and young people dealing with social problems and mental health issues. The aim is to engage with the Change Media production and training methodology, which includes a basic intro to equipment and digital media narratives and how to create relevant digital media art works to raise awareness for mental health for young people.
PARTNERS: Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative; Headspace Northern Suburbs; Northern Sound System Elizabeth; OurCommunity; Tallstoreez Productionz
Headspace media training
OUTCOMES:
All participants will be trained hands-on in no-nonsense video techniques, including HD camera and sound work on Day 1, a strong focus on recording interviews on Day 2 and how to build engaging narratives, create video messages and artistic documentations.
We will develop a scope for a larger partnership with Headspace, to create viral campaign material for mental health strategies and overcoming domestic violence, abuse and other challenges often faced by young people.
On the second day the group will review their footage and discuss improvements and changes for their second attempt at interviewing and developing story structures.
Topics will include: interview techniques training and tips how to structure a story in 5 key points.
Special focus will be given to cross-cultural process and equitable negotiations, the push for excellence as a political necessity especially in community youth arts. We will demonstrate examples from our latest creative laboratories with Bell Shakespeare, Indigenous and refugee communities, to develop innovative strategies to craft messages and use digital media for CACD work and social justice campaigns.
SCREENINGS & AWARDS: Stay tuned for updates!
IMPACT & FEEDBACK:
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Strathmont, SA, Nov ‘11 to June ‘12
CHALLENGE: The Change Media team will run a second series of workshops with clients and staff at the Strathmont Centre, documenting the next stage of the process, challenges and improvements as clients are moving out of institutional care into houses in community care.
During the training day on May 21 at Strathmont Centre, clients and staff members of the Disability Services will also learn skills in film narrative, interview and editing techniques.
PARTNERS: Department for Communities and Social Inclusion – Disability Services; Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative; Strathmont Centre community; Tallstoreez Productionz
Moving Strathmont – Coming July 2012
Click on the image above or the link to watch - Coming July 2012: Moving Strathmont.
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Our team in collaboration with staff and community members is developing a creative approach to produce a unique client-centred documentary with people living with mental disabilities. What does it take to shut down an institution and move clients into community care facilities? Will they be better off in their brand new community house?
The training day on May 21 will form part of our A Penny For Your Thoughts initiative.
Click on the link to watch our current training clips here.
OUTCOMES:
Stay tuned.
SCREENINGS & AWARDS: Stay tuned for updates! The final documentary will be launched at a national health and disability conference in Adelaide, mid August 2012.
IMPACT & FEEDBACK:
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November 2011: Australia Council for the Arts publishes Tallstoreez’ opinion piece in digital media in CACD
Follow the link to our provocative article here or use http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/artforms/community_partnerships/opinion_piece
We would love to hear your thoughts and will publish feedback on our site. Find the full version, amendments and comments also on our director’s blog.
From the Australia Council for the Arts website:
A DIGITAL DIVIDE? DIGITAL TOOLS IN CACD PRACTICE
Using digital media is increasingly popular in Community Arts and Cultural Development (CACD) practice. But is the increasing use of digital media in itself an innovation? Where does the balance of technology skills and storytelling sit best for community? Is it different at all to long standing methods of collaboration in the CACD sector?
Whilst the proliferation of digital tools has in many ways democratised the means of making, has it changed the way the CACD artists engage and work with communities? Have emphases shifted? Is there a presumption of skills-building in using technology as a means to sharing stories, and how does this impact upon existing power relationships between community participants and facilitators? Have the central notions of ‘participation’, ‘engagement’ and ‘shared space’ been transformed through the use of these tools?
The Australia Council asked five artists/arts organisations to reflect on the use of digital media in their own practices.
May 2011: Australia Council grants Tallstoreez’ Change Media project triennial Creative Communities Partnerships Initiative funding
Change Media has been successful in Stage 2 of our CCPI funding proposal to the Australia Council for the Arts, to produce new and exciting works as part of our proposed Creative Communities Partnerships Initiative for three years, 2011-2014.
The Australia Council supports us to deliver new programs for marginalized and young people and their communities across Australia over the coming years, alongside our other partners such as the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet – Office for the Arts’ Indigenous Cultural Support Grant, Bell Shakespeare Company, the Australian Refugee Association; the Ngarrindjeri Land & Progress Association, OurCommunity and all our other partners.
Thanks to all our supporters for all your fantastic work over the last years – we are looking forward to establishing Change Media as a leading initiative for disruptive innovation in the CACD sector nationally and to continue the incredible success we had over the last 7 years in South Australia.