Designing a Public Program
Date: 31 August, 2pm-4pm
Location: SIGNAL, Northbank, Flinders Walk, Melbourne VIC 3000
Event Description: This workshop is designed for community workers passionate about designing and executing public programs like workshops and public events. Jessica will share their tips on program design and support you in designing a public program with confidence.
In this workshop, you will:
Be introduced to a framework for designing a community-responsive program.
Use The Collaborative Dictionary to understand your community’s perspective
Share your idea and connect with other Quiet Queers.
Troubleshoot issues collaboratively with other participants
There will be a focus on designing a unique activity-based community consultation in this workshop.
Most of this session will be a mock-planning session, where each participant will design a program for quiet queers using The Collaborative Dictionary.
About the speaker.
Jessica Tanto is an artist and facilitator using art as a tool to gather diverse stories and perspectives of the general shared human experiences. Their work ranges from workshops, programs, public interventions to gallery installations across Australia and Indonesia. Some organisations they’ve closely worked with include Connection Arts Space, Testing Grounds, Blackbird Foundation, Prince Claus Fund, Rumah Tangga (Jakarta), GUDSKUL, and ruangrupa. Jessica is passionate about encouraging people to innovate new ways of listening, tailored to the community and issue at hand.
This workshop blends Jessica’s 8 years of experience designing and managing programs in art communities and social research background to offer a unique perspective on community data collection.