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Books have undeniable benefits when it comes to learning and relaxing. Below is an article from Huffington Post about the 6 scientifically proven advantages to reading a book.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/health-benefits-reading_n_4081258

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This art based project is taking one step closer in creating acceptance in our community by focusing first on the things we can accept from multiculturalism but sooner or later, we would have to recognize the diversity of beliefs and ideas that set us apart. My beliefs of creating harmony have been reinforced through this project as it aims to reveal an outer layer of culture that is appealing for all.

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Organisation that support migrants and refugees in WA

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Organisation that support migrants and refugees in WA

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http://www.asetts.org.au/
ASeTTs' vision is a more peaceful and just world where human rights are recognized, violations of human rights are challenged, and where there is support for people who have endured torture and trauma and for their families.

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Organisation that support migrants and refugees in WA

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Organisation that support migrants and refugees in WA

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http://mscwa.com.au/
MSCWA is the organisation that support Australia for harmonious settlement of migrants and refugees at both the Commonwealth and Territory levels of government.

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Why Event Coordinator and why would I contact such organisations?

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Why Event Coordinator and why would I contact such organisations?

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As my role in the project as events manager, I played my part by seeking support from well-established organisations and government officials of this nation. This is important in many aspects of community life because there is no point in creating an inclusive environment without the support of organizations and government officials.
I find the government of Australia to be very supportive of projects like this, as many people of Australia are very aware that this is a land of diverse cultures and people of ethnic backgrounds, and keeping harmony by celebrating diversity through art-based projects creates an appealing atmosphere for everyone.

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Figure 3: Hunter Langston, Everybody's Human. 2011, digital art. Flickr. Available from: https://www.flickr.com/photos/picsbyhunter/6474904183/

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Figure 4: Anna Sudit, Womens March. 2017, digital art. Available from: http://www.creative.r29.com/womensmarch/

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Figure 2: Chris Calle, Human Rights/Manacled Hands Releasing Dove. 1990, mixed media on hot press illustration board,12.125 by 14.375 in. Wind Rivers Studio. Available from: http://www.artworkoriginals.com/EB5SB9LP.htm.

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To inspire the indivduals in the workshops during the brainstorming stage I'd like to provide example works like the one shown in figure 2 by Chris Calle, figure 4 by Anna Sudit and figure 3 by Hunter Langston.

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COMMUNITY ARTS PROJECT – “COMING TOGETHER” – HARMONY IN HUMAN RIGHTS

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COMMUNITY ARTS PROJECT – “COMING TOGETHER” – HARMONY IN HUMAN RIGHTS

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Information collected and organised by Troy Combe
Padlet organised and formatted by Megan Baker
Project Scope: To design and plan a Community Arts Project (CAP) which provides information that engages and promotes awareness in the community regarding the plight of refugees focusing particularly on their experiences relating to human rights issues.

Approved Details: The team has decided to hold a local community festival which, based on participation rates within the local and surrounding areas, will become an annual event held in the Spring of each year.

The festival will feature a number of different workshops and displays which explore the topic of togetherness and harmony in human rights. They are;

•        Five Part Art Workshop and Gala

•        Storytelling Forum

•        Reference Space providing human rights information

Benefits: The purpose of the festival is to enlighten the community of human rights issues currently being faced not only in our backyard but right across the world and create empathy in this cause. Our festival aims to generate open discussion regarding human rights and how what affect this has in the home as well as the wider community. The festival will also look to stimulate ideas to create ongoing plans to address human rights violations.

Target demographic:There is no target demographic for our festival. The festival will encourage participation from people of all ages, races, and backgrounds.

Promotion: The Festival will be supported by a professional marketing team who will be responsible for event promotions which will include soliciting the engagement and support of local government officials, councils and multicultural community/service centres as well as the production of marketing material such as brochures, websites and an event social media campaign.

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Discipline: Anthropology and Sociology
Project Role: Project Manager and Stream Lead. This role involves planning and documenting the scope of this project and scheduling project deliverables. In addition, I will be coordinating the delivery of a storytelling forum with a human rights focus.

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My contribution to the community arts project ‘Coming together' - Harmony in human rights will be twofold. Firstly, I will be taking on the role as Project Manager which involves documenting the scope and schedule of this project ensuring that all stakeholders understand the project deliverables and driving outcomes based on the agreed scope and timelines. In addition to the Project Manager role, I will be leading the coordination of a storytelling forum performed by prominent Australians speaking to their experiences of human rights issues as refugees to this country.

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My inspiration the holding a storytelling forum was the organisation TED. TED has provided the world a platform which promotes the free distribution of ideas believing that these ideas have the power to change thinking and attitudes. In the link below are collection of TED talks which embody the power of a good story.

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Project Management is the application of tools and techniques to introduce control into projects to assist in their successful execution. The reason why we have introduced the project management discipline into the community arts project is to ensure that each of our team members has;

- the opportunity to participate in requirements gathering having input into the project.
- an agreed and clear understanding of project deliverables.
- an understanding of their individual responsibilities and responsibilities to others.
- controls which outline deliverables, when they need to be completed and by when.

The production of a scope and schedule on behalf of this project and its ongoing monitoring and control will provide the group direction in being able to deliver the project within prescribed quality controls and timeframes.
Figure 1: elemental-projects.com.au, "About the Planning Phase." Google Images. link

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The TED website below provides some excellent tips on how to formally engage speakers/performers. The basic components of a speaker invitation are;

The name, date, and venue of the event

The theme or focus of the event

Why you think they would be a great speaker for your event

Why it would benefit them

How they can contact you

In addition to these key points it is also important that we recognise the cultural backgrounds of our speakers and shape our communications appropriately by being respectful, adaptive, inclusive and avoiding gender specific terms (Communications Toolkit, Grellier and Goerke 2014, 228-229).

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TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading - through TED.com, our annual conferences, the annual TED Prize and local TEDx events.

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Storytelling is a format that has been used by human beings to convey information and knowledge for tens of thousands of years. From the drawings on cave walls to the blockbuster movies of today, stories entertain, teach, delight, scare and inspire. From a sociological perspective, the medium of storytelling is the perfect vehicle in which to deliver the message of human rights to the community because it;

provides the listener a chance to directly share in the story of a refugee and become emotionally engaged.

allows the listener to interpret and make sense of the story through their own personal perspective.

shapes ongoing behaviour through lessons learned.

For further information on how stories engage the listener, tap into our emotions and illicit behavioural change please follow the links below.

http://www.echostories.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/POWER-OF-STORYTELLING-2.jpg
https://www.cebglobal.com/blogs/files/2016/06/your-brain-on-storytelling.png

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For the storytelling forum and by extension our festival to be a success, it is important the speakers engaged have a proven ability to deliver their story while connecting with and captivating their audience. In addition, to establishing a connection with the audience, it was important our speakers represented a diverse cross-section of the community.

In order to identify the right speaker, Google was chosen as the preferred search engine. The following keywords were used to identify potential speakers;

- Australian
- Refugee
- Human rights
- Success
- Inspiration.

The results provided numbers of potential candidates where I was able to filter this list by researching online content involving news articles, television spots and YouTube videos and selecting the most appropriate. Those selected were;

Ahn Do (http://www.anhdo.com.au/author.html)

Aliir Aliir (http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/afl/teams/sydney/aliir-aliir-set-to-debut-for-sydney-swans-against-brisbane-lions-in-round-6/news-story/0f4cd66b2c9076d45c4d6620f994ace3)

Munjed Al Muderis (http://www.smh.com.au/good-weekend/the-astonishing-journey-of-surgeon-munjed-al-muderis-20140918-10iqce.html)

Aminata Conteh-Biger (http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/real-life/i-was-kidnapped-and-raped-for-being-too-beautiful-20161004-grv3xd.html)

Kbora Ali (http://www.sbs.com.au/news/thefeed/feature/first-her-kind-afghan-refugee-australian-soldier)

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I will contact five bookstores in the local Perth area to invite them to participate in our human rights festival. I will provide the store with details of our festival and explain the importance of sharing books and stories to our community. The bookstore will have the opportunity to participate in the festival while publicising their business in the local community. When the bookstore is confirmed for attending the festival, we can include their details of shop location in our brochure for publicity for their involvement with the festival.

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Every year Clunes (town in Victoria) have a weekend dedicated to books. There are author talks, children's activities, workshops and book sales. There were different book stores, the State Library of Victoria and Readings (a fantastic bookstore with multiple locations in and around Melbourne) at the festival.

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I am seeking to hire spaces around the festival to continue our festival and showcase books, information and stories. I am contacting local organisations such as libraries and community centre that provide these spaces at a low cost to make it achievable to hire these spaces.
City of Perth enquiry form: https://eservices.perth.wa.gov.au/ePathway/Production/Web/CustomerService/DynamicPages.aspx?CustomerServiceId=111435&PageIndex=0&js=1241641271
City of South Perth -- Hire a hall or Venue - Associated cost of hiring a hall or venue or located on the same page.
https://southperth.wa.gov.au/community/facilities/hire-a-hall-or-venue

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As my discipline is librarianship and information management, I will be contributing by firstly, providing the festival with a variety of books on human rights. These stories can include biographies, non-fiction, cook books and children stories. I will organise a book seller to attend the festival for participants who wish to purchase books on the day. Secondly, I will organise talks by relevant human rights community remembers to provide talks at the festival. Lastly, I will organise the hire of a space/hall/room at local libraries and community centres.

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Local library and community centre engagement with festival. 

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Local library and community centre engagement with festival. 

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The below map provides locations of libraries and community centres involved in presentation of material after the conclusion of the festival. I will provide details of payments needed for hire of the spaces.

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Project Role: Collaborative space for books on human rights and inspiring human rights stories.

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Discipline - Completing a History Degree.
Project Role - Stream Lead, planning and creating sample learning materials to educate high/middle school students.

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Discipline: International Relations & Anthropology and Sociology

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Discipline: International Relations & Anthropology and Sociology

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Project Role: Event Coordinator

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As my discipline is International relations and Anthropology and Sociology, my role in this community arts project is more like event coordinator. I will research the organizations that support human rights such as ASeTTS (Association for Services to Torture and Trauma Survivors) , Multicultural Services Centre and Save the Children. I will send the invitation to these organization to get more of multi-cultural community to attend the event as well as I will need to encourage them to participate in Art workshop and human rights issue talks with supporting promotional materials which will be giving by my colleague Megan and Troy. I will also find the organization that will support and sponsor the refreshment for Art workshop and Human right issue talks.

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Discipline: Fine Art & Creative advertising.
Project Role: Chairperson of group. responsible for creating and planning art based workshops.

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Considering my discipline and strengths in art I felt the best way for me to contribute to the festival is to organize an art based workshop series that explores the theme of human rights, where the group of community members work towards completing a large collective art piece. The end goal being a celebration of the unveiling of the final piece where the workshop individuals would Invite family members and further members of the community to come together and celebrate the work of the individuals involved in the workshops.

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Possible locations for workshops and end celebration final piece unveiling.  

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Possible locations for workshops and end celebration final piece unveiling.  

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Hamilton Hill Memorial Hall.
-Lists it's main purpose as an ideal art workshop and exhibition location.
-Accessible with accessible toilet facilities.
-Parking and right next to bus station.
The Meeting Place
- Located in the heart of Fremantle a very artsy community.
-Accessible with accessible toilet facilities.
-Known for holding workshops.
Large room ideal for exibition of final work.
Alice Daveron Centre
-Accessible with accessible toilet facilities.
- Free Parking.
-Large rooms ideal for big group of people and final exhibition.

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The city of Melville recently had local artist Mel McVee create a huge painting by numbers mural and invited community members to come to the community library and get involved in colouring in this joint huge art piece together.
Figure 1: Mel McVee, "Colour by numbers". Facebook. link

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Benefits and Aims of Community art workshops.

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Benefits and Aims of Community art workshops.

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This article was really interesting and important in informing me as to the benefits of community art projects. It supported my initial hopes as to what would be successful about this project in helping the community.
My aim with these workshops is for groups within a community to come together and break down social barriers which madyamingrum and sonn found was possible in their 2010 case study. My hope is that these workshops will also give the opportunity for participants to develop and improve their own art skills and knowledge about human rights.

Madyaningrum, E., Monica and Christopher Sonn. 2010. “Exploring the meaning of participation in a community art project: A case study on the Seeming project.”Journal of Community and Applied Sicial Psychology 21: 358-370. doi: 10.1002/casp.1079

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I think for my art based workshops to most effective they should be broken down into 5 sessions.
I've applied the process we are taught in university to create art to this plan.
Session 1- Brainstorming. As individuals and then as a group. Discussion is a key part of developing ideas. Thinking about all the ways human rights effect us and what topics come up that would make great art.
Session 2 - Dedicated to exploration of themes that come up when brainstorming and different mediums. Hopefully resulting in the group deciding on what theme and material to use in the final piece.
Session 3- Begin work on the final piece.
Session 4- Continuos work on final piece.
Session 5- Continuos and finish final piece.
I would be present and leading in all these sessions but would love for the group as a whole to decide on what the piece will be and what materials to use.