SB3 Community Art Community - Initial Collective Brainstorm

BRIEF:
-Working as a collective, not collaboration          
-Develop a clear mission statement and an identifiable USP         
-Creative practical project informed by professional theory
-Community centred creative venture
-Promote the creative and business talents of your collective in order to successfully meet the identified needs of your community

HOW ARE YOU GOING TO FUND IT?
WHERE WILL IT EXIST?
WHO IS YOUR COMMUNITY?
SERVICE OR PRODUCT?
HOW WILL YOU PROMOTE YOUR VENTURE?

3 personal strengths I offer to the collective
1. Comfortable with responsibility
2. Committed to exploring craft practices and heritage
3. Professional communication skills

TOPIC: MENTAL HEALTH

IDEA GENERATION:

CONTENT
-educational tool for students [secondary school and uni]
-SELF CARE, sensitivity and awareness
-celebrating mental health as strength not weakness
-mindful practices/ healthy practices
-uplifting/ positivity
-combat repressed feelings
-promoting the value of feelings
-being able to speak to family and friends
-'nipping it in the bud' approach

METHOD
-touring exhibition or workshop, visit students unions, colleges
-engagement through interactive publication
-establish relationship with university unions and societies
-establish an in-uni society
-hotdog book spreading valuable information and reassurance [pamphlet to poster]

SUMMARY:
To educate and support an identified target group through mindfulness guidance and promotion of self care. A service that reaches out to universities and schools, offering resources and workshop models. Celebrating the strength that comes from self care through a 'nip it in the bud' approach, promoted through an in-house society.