SOCIAL ENTERPRISE ARTyCáf
Art on show with coffee to go
[2009-2011]
CATEGORIES
- Graphic and Web Design and Publishing
- Short Film Production and Live Video
- Music Production and Performance
- Education and Training
- Policy, Planning and Implementation
PARTNERS
- Camden Council
- Australian Government, Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations - Jobs Fund, Get Communities Working stream
- MTC Work Solutions
- Work for the Dole participants
- ArtsNSW
Council's Cultural Development Coordinator Angela Pasqua laying down the 'foundation gemstones'
TASKS DELIVERED
- Artist café concept co-development
- Co-authoring infrastructure, training, jobs and activities funding submissions, securing over $600,000
- Devising and delivering 'Ready, Set, Promote!' educational / training workshops in branding and cultural industries for Work For the Dole participants
- Logo design / branding consolidation and promotional materials production
- Preparing ARTyCáf audio-visual gear fit-out brief
- Live performances technical coordination for pre-launch and official launch
- Devising and delivering short-course training in graphic design, desktop publishing and web design
- Devising and delivering 'Reflections and Projections in the Urban Civic Space' - three multimedia community cultural projects, for presentation at the café
ARTYCÁF – A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE
The opportunity to take advantage of strategically important partnerships and locations was vital to the implementation of Council’s Cultural Plan. Such an opportunity arose with the recent addition to the Narellan Town Centre of new shops and a cinema, with the main entrance now facing the front of Narellan Library.
Funding via the Australian Government’s Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) Jobs Fund was secured to transform the unused front lower corner of the Library into an arts café and partnerships, programs and projects established to both fit out the facility and commence activities towards providing education, training, part-time employment and fostering sustainable creative industries in the local government area.
MULTIMEDIA PROJECT READY, SET, PROMOTE!
Camden Creative Studios partnership with the DEEWR-funded MTC Work Solutions employment agency extended into a fourth six-month Work for the Dole project, this time to give participants hands-on experience in preparing promotional material of all kinds in direct relation to the newly emerging ARTyCáf.
Sometimes the tasks were simple skills-in-demand-type office duties or, perhaps, a range of explorations in graphic design. At other times, though, they were somewhat more esoteric. For instance, in the pursuit of expanding their aural horizons for producing home-grown audio CD content for release and sale at the Cáf as part of a set of creative industries workshops, participants spent a solitary morning together in the Studios’ control room listening carefully to turn-of-the-century French Impressionist orchestral compositions by the likes of Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy and Eric Satie ... a welcome alternative to their other life, repainting the Minto PCYC walls for the umpteenth time!
MULTIMEDIA PROJECT REFLECTIONS AND PROJECTIONS IN THE URBAN CIVIC SPACE
Through ArtsNSW support, three sets of educational, digital design and production workshops were conducted at the Studios over a year, with some of the outcomes being performed and/or projected at the fledgling ARTyCáf:
- MOVING PHOTOS – Stills on a Timeline
- WORD, VOICE AND TEXT – Singing, Sampling and Typography
- LET'S PLAY – Lightweight Theatre and Virtual Props
