Community Cultural Mapping & Developing Meaningful Programmes in Communities June 2021 - May 2022
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: Community Cultural Mapping & Developing Meaningful Programmes in Communities June 2021 - May 2022
How do you know what issues to address in
communities or assets to tap on?
How do you utilize that information to
design and implement creative or arts-based
programmes in communities?
Is there a way to also evaluate the effectiveness
of the programme implemented?
ArtsWok Collaborative with be launching the
next iteration of The Greenhouse Lab, an action-
learning programme that equips arts and other
practitioners on approaches to actively research,
design, implement and monitor arts-based
community development projects. This time
round, participants will join the team at ArtsWok
Collaborative and Bold At Work to engage
youths in Yuhua, where Bold at Work is located.
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In Phase I of the programme, participants will learn
about the methodology of community cultural
mapping from educator and facilitator, Janet
Pillai-a veteran cultural researcher and practitioner.
Under Janet’s remote teaching and ArtsWok’s
on-site facilitation, participants will design and
execute a community cultural mapping exercise to
identify needs and assets within the community in
Yuhua, with a focus on youth and well-being.
During Phase II, participants will be equipped with
the skills to Design, Implement, Monitor and
Evaluate (DIME) an actual 6-8 weeks long arts-
based community engagement programme based
on research findings from the cultural mapping
exercise. Training and mentorship will be provided
by ArtsWok Collaborative, an organisation skilled
in producing and intermediary work in the field of
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arts-based community development.
• Guided by our trainer, Janet Pillai, a veteran of community and cultural
practice and research, design and implement a mapping project in an actual
Project community
• Equip yourself with cultural mapping tools for your future community
Highlights engagements
• Learn to design programmes systematically to address specific needs, and
work towards specific outcomes under the training and mentorship of Ngiam
Su-Lin and Justin Lee from ArtsWok Collaborative
• Work with a multi-disciplinary team to spearhead and implement an arts-
based community engagement project in Yuhua
• Understand ways to monitor and evaluate projects by incorporating these
approaches when designing the project, and through executing a full project
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cycle
Target
Participants
• Artists, Creative Professionals, Arts Managers, Cultural/Social/Community Workers
• Some experience (preferred) or interest in creative placemaking or community-engaged arts
• Comfortable interacting with residents across ages, ethnicities and socio-economic groups
• Interested in process art or co-creation
• Commitment to the whole 11-month programme
• Able to commit time and energy outside of workshop hours for planning, mapping and
programme implementation with residents, as well as evaluation
(Approximately 96 workshop hours and an average of 8 hours per week outside workshop hours
during mapping and community-engaged programme)
• Patient with an action-learning process which is participatory, reflective and dialogic
• Likes working in a multi-disciplinary team in a collaborative way
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Phase I: Community Cultural Mapping
Overview of Programme Session Dates Curriculum (Training by Janet Pillai and ArtsWok)
1-6 Jun-Jul 21 Intro to Cultural Mapping and Developing the Mapping Framework
18,24,25 Jun (Full day)
9 Jul (Half day)
*Excluding mapping days
7-11 Jul-Aug 21 Participatory Mapping of Target Group & Focus Area
30 Jul (Full day)
13, 27 Aug (Half day)
*Excluding mapping days
12-15 Sep-Oct 21 Data Assessment, Recommendations and Debrief
17 Sep (Full day)
15 Oct (Half day)
Phase II: Design, Implement, Monitor, Evaluate
Session Dates Curriculum (Training by ArtsWok Collaborative)
DESIGN 1 19 Nov 21 (Full day) Understanding Arts-Based Community Development & Designing a Programme Logic
2 26 Nov 21 (Full day) Understanding and Learning about Community-Engaged Arts Practices in Singapore
3 3 Dec 21 (Full day) Sharing of Programme Proposals and Introduction to Programme Evaluation
4 10 Dec 21 (Full day) Consolidating and Communicating the Programme Design and Evaluation
5 17 Dec 21 (Full day) Finalising Programme Proposal and Planning for Programme Execution
IMPLEMENT Mid Feb 2022 to Participants will implement a 6-8 week programme according to their programme
MONITOR Mid Apr 2022 design
EVALUATE Mid May 2022 Participants to complete programme evaluation report; share programme evaluation
report findings and recommendations with organisational stakeholders
*Full day would involve sessions from 10am-6pm. All sessions will be at Bold At Work (Jurong East St 31)
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Curriculum
Phase I: Community
Cultural Mapping
Sessions 1-6 Intro to Cultural Mapping and Developing the Mapping Framework
18, 24, 25 Jun Participants will be introduced to the site and community at Yuhua, as well
Full day workshops as the practice of cultural mapping. They will be guided through the process
of designing a mapping framework and exercise in Yuhua.
9 Jul
Half day workshop Homework
• Mappers to flesh out the mapping plan and approaches for a baseline
mapping exercise
26 Jun-29 Jul • Engagement with community to encourage participation during mapping
Planning and • Engagement with relevant stakeholder organisations about mapping
execution of baseline plans
mapping exercise
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Curriculum
Phase I: Community
Cultural Mapping
Sessions 7-11 Participatory Mapping in the Community
30 Jul Participants will be completing the mapping framework and plans based on
baseline mapping data collected. This will be followed by a fuller mapping
Full day workshop exercise on-site to collect data, as well as learning how to organise, visualise
13, 27 Aug and analyse data.
Half day workshops
Homework
• Mappers to complete their mapping, data visualisation and analysis
31 Jul-16 Sep (Mappers will need to map over a longer period depending on residents’
Planning and schedules/availability etc.)
execution of full • Engagement with community to encourage participation during mapping
mapping exercise • Engagement with relevant stakeholder organisations about mapping plans
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Curriculum
Phase I: Community
Cultural Mapping
Sessions 12-15 Data Assessment, Recommendations and Debrief
17 Sep After collecting data from the mapping exercise, participants will learn
to analyse and synthesise the data to gain insights into the assets, needs
Full day workshop and gaps that exist within the Yuhua site and community. Participants will
make recommendations and these will inform the next phase (DIME) of
18 Sep-8 Oct The Greenhouse Lab.
Completing the Homework
mapping report • Mappers to complete cultural mapping report
• Participants will share mapping findings and recommendations with
15 Oct community members and organisational stakeholders
Half day debrief
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Curriculum DESIGN
Phase II: Design, Implement, Monitor, Evaluate
Understanding Arts-Based Community Development & Designing a
Programme Logic
01 • Introduction to Arts-Based Community Development and the broader
context in Singapore
19 Nov 21
• Introduction to designing a Programme Logic and creating a Theory of Change
(Full day) framework for Yuhua
Homework
• Participants to research on ideas for programmes
Understanding and Learning about Community-Engaged Arts Practices
02 in Singapore
• Sharing by invited artists and other practitioners/field-trips to sites of
26 Nov 21 community-engaged arts practice
(Full day) Homework
• Participants to individually develop a programme in relation to the
programme logic at Yuhua
9Curriculum DESIGN
Phase II: Design, Implement, Monitor, Evaluate
03 Sharing of Programme Proposals and Introduction to Programme
Evaluation
3 Dec 21 • Presentation, review and discussion of programme proposals
(Full day) • Introduction to programme evaluation
Consolidating and Communicating the Programme Design and Evaluation
04 • Consolidating programme design and evaluation approaches
• Introduction to proposal and report writing
10 Dec 21 Homework
(Full day) • Participants to finalise programme design and evaluation approaches
Finalising Programme Proposal and Planning for Programme Execution
• Finalising programme design and evaluation approaches
05 • Proposal writing
• Project management planning for implementation and monitoring
17 Dec 21 Homework
(Full day) • Participants to complete writing of programme proposal
• Engagement with relevant stakeholder organisations about programme
proposal and plans
10Curriculum
Phase II: Design,
Implement, Monitor,
Evaluate
IMPLEMENT Mid Feb 2022 to Mid Apr 2022
Participants will implement a 6-8 week programme according to their
MONITOR programme design
EVALUATE May 2022
• Participants to complete programme evaluation report
• Participants share programme evaluation report findings and
recommendations with organisational stakeholders
11Programme Fees, Fees for Early Bird (before 1 May): $320
Artists/
Registration and Creatives
After 1 May: $400
Contact Info Fees for Early Bird (before 1 May): $400
Non-Artists/ After 1 May: $800
Creatives
ArtsWok will bear all implementation costs of community cultural mapping
and community-engaged arts programme.
Register at http://bit.ly/tghl2021 by 14 May 2021
A limited number of 8 places are available for The Greenhouse Lab.
Participants will be confirmed by end-May.
For more information or any enquiries, please email michelle@artswok.org
12Profiles
The trainers and Janet Pillai served as an associate professor at the Department of
Performing Arts in University Sains Malaysia (until 2013) and founded
facilitators Arts-ED (2007), a non-profit organization in Penang which provides arts
and culture education for young people.
Janet is currently an independent researcher and resource person
advocating for research and development of cultural sustainability.
Her specialisation is in arts education, community-engaged arts,
sociology of culture and creative pedagogy. Her ground work entails
research, programming and managing community-engaged projects
in partnership/consultation with community, local agencies, artists and
professionals.
Janet has authored 3 books and numerous articles on arts and culture
education and sustainability. She also contributes as expert resource
person in organisations such as UNESCO Bangkok, APCIEU Korea, and
GETTY Foundation.
13Profiles
Justin Lee is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute Ngiam Su-Lin is the co-founder and Executive
of Policy Studies. He is interested in issues related Director of ArtsWok Collaborative and has been active
to disability, community development and social in the arts scene for close to two decades, specifically
services. He has created a wiki platform that allows in the areas of education, community, creative
mass participation in the mapping of social needs producing and interdisciplinary collaborations.
(wiki.socialcollab.sg) and co-founded a skilled
volunteer matching platform (serve.sg). She has produced community theatre and festivals
in collaboration with the public and private sectors,
He has provided consultation to voluntary and worked with numerous schools, social service,
organisations, government agencies and corporations community and health organisations to incorporate
on the design of their social programmes and strategic arts processes and approaches into their programmes.
plans.
She has a double degree in theatre and psychology
Justin has a PhD in Sociology from the University of from the National University of Singapore and an MA
California, Los Angeles. in Drama-in-Education from Queensland University of
Technology. She is also a trained counsellor.
She believes that being human and fully alive is to
be in life-giving relationships with self, and others, in
community. 14About the Organisations
ArtsWok Collaborative is an arts-based community Bold At Work is a community-based innovation and
development organisation that connects communities education lab located in Yuhua. Through our Real World
by harnessing the power of the arts to create dialogue, Campus project, the community becomes the real world
invite social participation and build bridges across context in which innovation and learning takes place.
difference. We work on catalysing youth and community agency
through the projects that we host. Over the course
We work with multidisciplinary teams to design and of the past 3 years, we have established our presence
implement community-based arts projects, facilitate in the area through lively community engagement
learning and exchanges while building capacity among touchpoints such as their Pazaars (open house) and
practitioners as well as conduct research and advocacy big scale events such as Parking Day, the first ever in
in the field of arts-based community development. Singapore to be held in a neighbourhood outside of the
downtown area.
We are behind projects such as Both Sides, Now (co-
presented with Drama Box); M1 Peer Pleasure Youth https://www.boldatwork.sg
Theatre Festival, in collaboration with Esplanade -
Theatres on the Bay; and IPS Prism by the Institute of
Policy Studies (co-produced with Drama Box), amongst
others.
ArtsWok Collaborative Limited is a recipient of the
National Arts Council’s Major Grant for the period from 1
April 2021 to 31 March 2024.
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