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What
follow up strategies will you ensure for the next ACE event? 

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What
follow up strategies will you ensure for the next ACE event? 

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The topic of next ACE project will be community-based festival and educational program about enhancing bushland birds’ habitat.

Who will be involved?

Scientific community, environmental agency and unions, families, local councils, local schools, community groups, and volunteers will be involved.

Events:

Australia is a highly urbanised country and the rate of urban development continues to increase. As towns and cities expand, much of our native wildlife is unable to adjust to this new habitat. This loss of biodiversity as a consequence of urbanisation is of great concern.

Theatre events (involving making shadow puppetry; designing giant puppets, music and dancing) exploring the perceptions of both nature and people.
Create and manage a bird-friendly garden-gardens that contain a broad range of plant species are more likely to support a broad range of bird species (Guidelines for the development of bird habitat, 2016).

Community education program( food and drinks are provided)

Assistance in undertaking ongoing tasks such as planting, weeding and long term monitoring of the site.

Getting the right conversation messages out into the community.

Increasing public awareness and involvement throughout the initial planning stages provides residents and the community with a sense of ownership, increasing the likelihood that the project will be accepted and has long-term support.( Guidelines for the development of bird habitat,2016)

Measure

Provide evaluation forms and ask participants to provide comments and rate their satisfaction with the event.

Suggestion and comment boxes are a great way to ensure that participants have an opportunity to give feedback about the event (Caring Connections, (2005).

In the future ACE project:  Use resources (energy, water and natural resources) more efficiently to influence sustainable development.

Except communities, local councils, local schools, community groups, and volunteers, other artists I will include are Jim Cummings, Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Kathleen Rogers who come from greenmuseum.org

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A forum was held three month before the project, in which artists, Indigenous elders, councillors, school leaders, community leaders and representatives, and volunteers took part.

An open-ended approach was negotiated, and the direction of the project was determined by a reference group of residents and representatives of government agencies (Mills & Brown, 2004).

Stories, photographs, opinions and feelings were gathered through varied processes of interviews, informal discussions, on-site displays and outreach connections (Mills & Brown, 2004).

A brochure to be launched one month before the project. Then closer to the date, send out more information with details of the project to drum up more interest. The day before and the day of the event, send out last minute reminders for people who won’t realize what day it is or forgot the date of the project.

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What funding and
organisational planning will be needed?

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What funding and
organisational planning will be needed?

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A range of government organisations share responsibility for events management and administer related legislation. Some agencies have specific responsibilities for assisting event planning and in particular with the development of an event emergency management plan. These include (the Division of Local Government, Department of Premier and Cabinet (DLGDPC), 2011):

Legal requirements include: First aid; safety concepts; food safety requirements; noise level and times of the day; residential requirements; transport, parking, and pedestrian management; security and crowd control; weather; toilet and waste.

Philanthropic groups : Foundation for sustainable development;  AEGN-Australian Environmental Grantmakers Network

Generosity

Why I choose them? I choose these groups because they are focus on environmental protection and change in communities around the world.

Arts and community based funding is available for projects such as :

1. Greenmuseum.org.

2. Art Clubs in Melbourne & Victoria

3. Contemporary Art Society of Victoria Inc

4. Brighton Art Society

5. Funding, grants and resources Cardinia Council Grants

6. The funding network Australia

Other logistical things

The following Council policies and guidelines are directly related to the events and project plan (Cardinia Council (2016) :

Festivals and events grant policy

Event Approval and Permit Procedures

Events Planning and management toolkit

Open Space and Venue Usage policies and procedures

Sponsorship Policy 2012

Filming Policy and Guidelines

Community Clean Up Activities procedure

Community Signboards policy 2012

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Cardinia Cultural Centre was built by Council in 2003 to create a focal point for the growing community of Cardinia Shire; it plays an active role in many ways on the area and also has strong relationships with and specialized services for Cardinia communities (Cardinia cultural centre, 2016).

At the Cultural Centre hall, participants are surrounded by visual material in many diverse forms, from paintings to pictures, crafts. There are different activities with variety materials for participants to use at each table. These activities are mainly focus on local birds and nature. Volunteers and specialist teachers are around to guide and explain how to use different materials to make arts at each table. Outside the centre is a park, pebbles painting and sculptures are held in the park as there is a huge place for using.

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I will invited local groups, centres and institutions, communities, children and students, volunteers, visitors, artists who are registered in a not for profit society, Indigenous elders who can bring the local Indigenous cultural way of knowing in arts design and painting to participate the project.

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Think global-act local:  action to improve sustainability is both individual and collective and can start locally and develop into a global outlook.

Learn local, play local:  community-based learning and playing,creating resilient and sustainable communities by developing and strengthening a sense of place in children and citizens through community-based arts and engagement.

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The visual arts involve the creation of works that are primarily visual in nature (Roy, Baker, & Hamiltion, 2015). In these events, visual arts are used to communicate, explain, decorate, influence, enquire and express ideas for human and nature (Roy, Baker, & Hamiltion, 2015), they can reflect the innovations of our times, or traditional methods and conventions, and inform our relationships with local community and with our environment.

Through the project,

Students will explore traditional, contemporary and evolving visual conventions used in artworks of diverse styles and composition, and respect for visual arts as social and cultural practices (Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA), 2016).

Children will explore relationships with other living and non-living things and observe, notice and respond to change and learn that materials can be recycled and reused to produce new products (Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD), 2011).

Communities will learn artistic knowledge and skills, sustain the material culture of the community, arise a feeling of unity, experience a sense of common purpose and build a positive social and cultural atmosphere (Ulbricht, 2005).

All the participants will understand that the arts are vehicles for cross-cultural understanding (Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations for the Council of Australian Governments (DEEWR),2009; Ministerial Council for Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs and the Cultural Ministers Council (MCEETYA),(2007); Ministerial Council for Education, Early Childhood Development and Youth Affairs(MCEECDYA),(2010); Ministry of Education, 2007a; UNESCO,2006), and value that the arts have been a part of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, and they provide a link to some of the oldest cultural traditions known to humanity(Rudd, 2008).

All participantes will learn that the Arts are powerful means by which humans can interact with the environment (Roy, Baker, & Hamiltion, 2015), and develop knowledge and skills to contribute to the future by valuing environmental and social sustainability.

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7) Art in nature

Artists will support participants to use branches and hay to design sculptures.

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6) Use pebbles to design Indigenous painting

Indigenous elders will demonstrate how to use peddles to design Indigenous painting.

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Description of ACE events:
Day 2
Venue:  Lakeside Park

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Children are encouraged to talk what they think about human and nature. They are encouraged to express their own ideas  in drawing.

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Using recycling materials such as newspaper, carton, catalogues to make birds crafts.

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3) Sound drawing
Participants listen to the bird's sound and draw how they feel about the sound.

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There are several feathers from different kinds of birds. Use a hand lens to look at a contour feather and a down feather, make a scientific drawing of each. Write down questions about what you want to know about the feather/bird. Colour, watercolour pencils and white papers are provided for drawing.

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There are many books about Australian birds on the table for participants to look through, participants are encouraged to use paper clay to make flying birds.

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Day 1
Venue: Cardinia Cultural Centre hall

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Aid and support the development of a self-reliant society which is economically, socially, educationally and environmentally secure (Mills & Brown, 2004).

Protect the environment through different programs aimed at conservation and utilization of natural resources in a sustainable manner.

Identify and formulate plans and policies on environment protection and sustainable development.

Creating natural environments and proving natural materials in one way for sustainability to occur.

Increase opportunities for communities to control, develop and promote their own cultural practice and identity (Mills & Brown, 2004).

Offer the chance to build harmony relationships between the communities.

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Discover that arts are everywhere. Everyone has artistic potential, and we all have a right to explore our individual cultures through the Arts(Bamford, 2006; UNESCO,2006);

Experiment with hands on activities to understand sustainability in and through the Arts (Roy, Baker, & Hamiltion, 2015).

Shared perceptions about what it is like to live in a particular culture (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), 2014; Ministry of Education, 2007b), and what it is like to express personal feelings and emotions (Robinson, 1999).

Evaluate the community living environment and build awareness of environment protection.

Explore sustainable living in art design and model building.

Understand everything that we need for our survival and wellbeing relating directly to our natural environment.

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The HOME project aims to raise awareness of sustainability issues, building beautiful relationship between human and nature through design thinking, bringing both to the forefront of young minds and imaginations throughout our communities.

There are many arts activities such as drawing, pebble  painting; sculpture. All across the project, artists and designers have worked with families, communities and visitors to explore concepts of sustainability through a hands-on making process; to build connection between human and nature and natural environment.

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With the developing of Cardinia Shire, more farm lands are replaced with roads and new houses. An area’s stable and prosperous serves the interests of every residents, while with more residents move in also brings pressure for the environment.

Cardinia Shire is home to many native plants and animals, including a number of endangered species (Cardinia Council, 2016). HOME
is an Art, Community and Environment project reflecting the current relationship between humankind and nature in Cardinia Shire encourages participation in the cultural life of this area and supports people in the further development of their own neighborhoods. Art education and primary school students, villagers, local unions can all cooperate in bringing art to the communities and in using art to meet local needs.

HOME project concerns with the natural environment, addressing the sustainability on resolving the tensions between economic development and environmental protection. The project employs arts as a way to connect to environment and community in sustainable ways because Arts are an excellent vehicle for raising awareness of environmental sustainability (Roy, Baker, & Hamilton, 2015). HOME project gets artists, Indigenous elders, students, local communities and other groups working together and to generate new practices for developing Cardinia Shire areas and celebrating regional identity. The project will last for two days and rich activities will be held in Cultural Centre and Lakeside Park.