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The Final Map

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Draft stage

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What have I done?
I written news stories that would advertise this event and talk about the success of this event and share my group members thoughts. I have also written the side missions to help people communicate during this mission.

Role: Chairperson

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So for the first news story I have chosen to advertise the event to get more people to come.

Format: Feature story
I have chosen this format for 2 stories as it is a more free and creative version of a news stories and you can take your time to explain but in a hard news story you would have to rush and explain all of it in the beginning.

I do like this format a lot as I enjoy  writing in this creative manner.

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Story 1: It will be a story advertising the event set before the event.

Story 2: It will be set after the event and talk about the members thoughts

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Everyone is different and everyone has different languages but still friendship and other relationships are born despite these differences. In fact these are the things that make us unique. A different culture, a different language, a different country. Wouldn’t you be interested? Wouldn’t you want to know? Isn’t that why we travel? Isn’t that the charm of traveling? We humans are social beings, we crave knowledge and we love to see new things. Events happen everyday and every time they are different. What happens is you were given a chance to see different countries without going there? No I do not mean Global village in Dubai I mean right here in Curtin. Students of class Academic and Professional Communication will be holding an event that celebrates cultures as part of a group project. This project mixes color and cultures to break barriers. Imagine a world map of vibrant colors, a dance and small missions to get you acquainted with other people in the university. Ones you probably haven’t met yet. Our goal is to make sure everyone leaves with new friends and new memories. Barriers are meant to be broken, they shouldn’t exist. After all they are only in our minds. Even if you are from different countries it’s easy to talk when you do something that releases stress like our event. It will create an atmosphere that makes you forget your surrounding. Cultures, languages, countries what sets them apart, it’s us human beings that create assumptions that people may be different, less friendly even though they are people just like us. Well it’s time for us to realize that languages maybe different it’s not like we can never talk to them. Like music is universal, color is universal and a smile is universal for you are a friend. Join Diana, Christina, Stephanie, Han and Marika as they take you on a beautiful journey that will hopefully give you more experience.

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Past version

There was an event held in Curtin university to celebrate different cultures and bring international students together. This event was held to bring people together and learn about different cultures. The event comprised of many parts which included each group member and showed their talents. Stephanie was in charge of the main event ‘Colour the map’. “I thought of the globe for this activities but because it did not include everybody I discussed it with my group members and came up with the map,” she said. People coloured the place there were from in different colours and left messages in different languages in the ocean part of the map. To help people start conversations during this event they were given special missions to be completed before they leave.

It was the perfect activity to get everyone together and it definitely created an opportunity for them to talk. Han designed the logo and the T-shirts. “I referred to the meanings of the colours when designing my t-shirt and chose black colour to make it stand out,” she said.

Later there was a show held by Diana which combined the dances of the group members to create an interactive show. It introduced the audience to various dances and she also got them dancing towards the ending. “I asked my group members for their countries’s dances and researched them and chose the most well - known and exciting ones,” she said.

The posters were created by Christina which help get the word around and people wouldn’t have come if not for these posters. “I  chose different colours to make them stand out and I used flags to emphasise on our theme of different communities coming together,” she said. Without their efforts the event wouldn’t have been a success. Everyone enjoyed and hopefully they learnt something and made new friends.

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So for these missions i decided to make them questions that help start conversations and I Think it will help people who find it difficult to talk.

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What are your hobbies?
What are you studying? Why did you choose this?
What is your favourite animal?Why?
Who is your favourite star? Why do you like him/her?
What is your favourite movie, book, or TV show?
What is the weirdest thing that happened to you?
These are just some of the questions  that could be given

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When our group decided that communication barrier is our theme for community project, the first thing that comes to my mind is a smile. In spite of the difference in language, a smile is a universal language that has been acknowledged in every cultures. When someone smiles at you while holding a conversation, it makes you feel more comfortable and easier to talk with.

For the next step, I have to incorporate the idea to the my contribution, which is the logo. The idea of social interaction have to be converted with absolute clarity. Hence, I attempt to form a smile out of the word "communication" since it is the theme of our community art project. However, I notice that the word "communication" is way too long for the smile. Nobody can read or see it properly. For this reason, I need to consider a substitute word that have similar meaning to the word "communication" but with less letters. In the end, the word "connect" is decided to apply into the smile.

Due to the fact that all our team members come from difference countries, the idea of including the global in my logo is a way to show the diversity and difference within international students community. Adding the smile that is formed by the word "connect" on the global surface, I have created a smiling face with the Earth's pattern.

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Final stage

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Draft stage

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For the T-shirt, I have planned to put the logo in the middle of the T-shirt with the addition of a white bubble speech. It is symbolised the topic or what you discuss with other people. I use black as a background colour for the T-shirt since it is the colour that most teenagers wear.

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Project Role: Creating a Cultural Performance
Goal: to connect and learn something about another country

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My first idea
I wanted to create a theatre performance that showcased what it was like to move from Zambia to Australia based the cultural shock i experienced when I moved. My story was going to mainly focus on the differences between school, life and over all adjustment.

My second and final idea:
But then I come up with the idea of having a cultural dance instead because most of my group members come from different countries, so I wanted show how we can communicate through art and the only way I can present that was having different cultural come together and connect on something that is every common in all the countries amongst us as a group that represents difference.

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The reason why I chose to produce the poster is simply because i learned graphic design in my country for 5 years and i got lots of experience of this discipline so that’s why i chose to design a poster as opposed to others.

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◦China and Hong Kong- Folk dance

◦United Arab Emirates- Belly dancing

◦Vietnam- Hat Dance (Non La)

◦Zambia- Makishi Dance

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The traditional dance in both china and Hong Kong.

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my first step is to get some ideas of design a poster online. As you can seen, the first photo is how i get a creative idea, i was thinking maybe i can put one colourful map as the background and then put some countries’ flags as our slogan is colour your life and every countries have their own design of flags. After i organized my ideas, i used some relevant photos to develop my poster, such as what i mentioned, a map and flags.

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Celebrated in most Middle Eastern Countries.

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Mainly used when farming

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To celebrate boyhood

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◦Performers on the stage

◦Dancing to music from country

◦After the performance

◦Dancers invite people

from the crowd to dance

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Final stage

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The Community Art Project: Colour the map 

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The Community Art Project: Colour the map 

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Come up the idea.
We choose our topic and the reason why I will choose this topic is because our group mates are come from different countries and I start thinking of communication how to connect between our countries and communication.

Process:
The first idea is the earth picture is in the middle of paper and this event can make people talk with each other when they colouring the map. At the second meeting I am share about my idea to my group mates and they give me suggestion I think is important which is change the earth picture to the map. If I  use the earth picture then some people are cannot colour their countries then my group mates suggest me that we can choose the map picture

In this event you can use what colour you like

The aim of this event:
I want people come from different countries can talk with each other while during the event. For example, i come from Hong Kong. I'm painting my country then other people will know where I come from and start the communication. Also there are many space in the map then can write something such as your language or comment for this event.

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This project combines colors, performing arts and tiny missions to achieve our goal.
Main: Color the map
Each person will color the country they are form in a color of their choice. This would create a fun and relaxed environment where people can get to know each other and make new friends.
Cultural Dance:
This will be organized by Diana to include people and teach  dances from different countries.

Side: Missions
Tiny missions will be given at the entrance to each participant to make it easier to start a conversation.

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To create an environment which makes it easier for international students to meet new people.
To get to know more about other cultures. To show students everyone is the same even though are from different  countries.
To break communication barriers between people

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Final product

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it is include several parts. As we can seen, the colourful world map is being set as the background, because if you want to advertise on, for example, bus and flyers. it can grab people’s attention. For the logo of my poster, it is include earth, heart and a crown which means that we encourage people who come from different countries to communicate. For the flags, all of our group members’ flags are included. China, Africa, India and Vietnam.