A positive piece of work from a collaboration between VicHealth, Arts Victoria and Castanet:
“Collaborations between artists and communities can result in extraordinary creative works and extraordinary social, educational and community strengthening outcomes.”
This resource:
- Outlines the community-based arts approach
- Provides links and resources around arts in the community
- Outlines how to properly respect and acknowledge participants (including ethical considerations and a code of conduct)
- Talks about processes and practices for engaging with the community, and provides links and resources for doing this
- Outlines the value of working with professional artists
- Takes you through developing the project concept (determining stakeholders, outcomes and timelines)
- Goes through managing the project
- Goes through managing the stakeholders
- Goes through managing the budgets and resources
- Provides a brief overview of managing events
- Goes through closure of a project (evaluation, funding reports, dissemination of results etc.)
With case studies dispersed through the document, this is worth a read, find it here.