Claudia Chidiac
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My name is Claudia Chidiac I work for Powerhouse Youth Theatre in south west Sydney. In terms of the art forms that I work with, they cross from community cultural development into multimedia, new media, traditional forms of theatre and contemporary performance.
The project we applied for to community partnerships was a project called Hard Daze. Hard Daze is a project working with young people with and without disabilities across western Sydney and addressing themes of working rights.
When deciding on the partners that will support the development of this project it's really important to keep in mind who can contribute to the development of the project. There is no point in getting partners on board just for the sake of it. It’s about what a project needs and who can bring those essentials to the project. Once that has been decided it's meeting up with those partners and sharing the goals, the aims and objectives and hopefully they will come and meet you half way and then begin the lovely working relationship you will have.
The level of community engagement that is vital for any project to happen is consulting with the community. It's making sure the community is represented in the story you are going to tell. So first and foremost for me is about the people and making sure they are represented creatively and physically in the performance.
When you have a clear vision you have clear themes, you have a clear objective, and also one of the most important things is having a set amount of questions that you are wanting to investigate. One as an artist, questions for the community to investigate, and questions for your audience. I feel once you have those elements and they are put into a grant application then it makes it easier for people to actually understand what you are wanting to achieve.
Writing the application is the last thing that you do, there is a whole process that you need to go through. One being identify the wants of the community not your own want but what the community wants, whether it's that they want to create change or identifying struggle. But that’s the first step, then its about fleshing out the questions. What is it you want to ask, what is it that you want to say? Then engaging your partners, getting people on board like the artists and other organisations that can help realise your vision. Then speak to people who you want to fund the project ask them as many questions, as general or as broad as they might be.
Keep the vision clear. Keep the focus of what you're doing really clear and really sharp. Remember your application is one of at least 100 applications that will go through at one given time. There needs to be that something that makes the assessment team sit right up and go hey I actually haven’t heard something explained like this before. I want to support this project.
The project we applied for to community partnerships was a project called Hard Daze. Hard Daze is a project working with young people with and without disabilities across western Sydney and addressing themes of working rights.
When deciding on the partners that will support the development of this project it's really important to keep in mind who can contribute to the development of the project. There is no point in getting partners on board just for the sake of it. It’s about what a project needs and who can bring those essentials to the project. Once that has been decided it's meeting up with those partners and sharing the goals, the aims and objectives and hopefully they will come and meet you half way and then begin the lovely working relationship you will have.
The level of community engagement that is vital for any project to happen is consulting with the community. It's making sure the community is represented in the story you are going to tell. So first and foremost for me is about the people and making sure they are represented creatively and physically in the performance.
When you have a clear vision you have clear themes, you have a clear objective, and also one of the most important things is having a set amount of questions that you are wanting to investigate. One as an artist, questions for the community to investigate, and questions for your audience. I feel once you have those elements and they are put into a grant application then it makes it easier for people to actually understand what you are wanting to achieve.
Writing the application is the last thing that you do, there is a whole process that you need to go through. One being identify the wants of the community not your own want but what the community wants, whether it's that they want to create change or identifying struggle. But that’s the first step, then its about fleshing out the questions. What is it you want to ask, what is it that you want to say? Then engaging your partners, getting people on board like the artists and other organisations that can help realise your vision. Then speak to people who you want to fund the project ask them as many questions, as general or as broad as they might be.
Keep the vision clear. Keep the focus of what you're doing really clear and really sharp. Remember your application is one of at least 100 applications that will go through at one given time. There needs to be that something that makes the assessment team sit right up and go hey I actually haven’t heard something explained like this before. I want to support this project.
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