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Wednesday 27 – Thursday 28 April 2016

CQ Hotels Wellington

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Haere mai koutou, welcome everyone!

Welcome to Creative Spaces 2020, a conference for you – the managers, tutors, art workers and

supporters of a sector that inspires creative expression in diverse communities.

The creative spaces sector plays a vital role in reducing barriers to participation in the arts for

people, whatever their circumstances.

In December 2014, 43 respondents representing 48 community-based creative spaces responded to

Arts Access Aotearoa’s survey about future development and sustainability.

The survey respondents identified a strong need to connect in person with leaders and staff from

other creative spaces around the country. You also said you wanted to improve programme delivery

standards; strengthen business management capability; and enhance your ability to increase income

in a challenging environment.

So here we are, 14 months later, connecting in person to address these issues. Thanks to Creative

New Zealand for recognising the professional development needs of a sector that empowers people

to unleash their creativity and make art across a range of artforms.

Regional creative space representatives identified topics they wanted us to address at the

conference. You will see that several creative space staff are workshop leaders and everyone has the

opportunity to give a small presentation about their space, work or project. We’ll also be hearing

from specialists, who will inspire us to stay the course and help strengthen our capacity to deliver

the arts that we’re so passionate about.

Creative Spaces 2020 invites us to engage in strategic direction-setting. What will the sector look like

in four years’ time? And what do we need to do now and over the next four years to meet individual,

organisational and sector goals?

This time together is the opportunity to lay the groundwork and steps we can take collectively to

strengthen the creative spaces sector. Strategic advocacy that communicates the value of your work,

along with improved knowledge and skills, will help creative spaces and their artists thrive.

Nāku noa, nā

Richard Benge

Executive Director

Arts Access Aotearoa

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Meet the Creative Spaces 2020 team

Richard Benge Claire Noble Dawa Devereux Jacqui Moyes Executive Director Community Development Business Administrator Arts in Corrections Co-ordinator Advisor

Iona McNaughton Mayke Blom Eliecer Reverol Communications Manager Event Assistant Photographer and Event Assistant

Creative Spaces 2020 logo credit: Pauline Johns, an artist at Pablos Art Studios

Original artwork: Circle of Critters

Workbook and logo design credit: Eliecer Reverol Alvardo

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CIN CIN 156 Cuba St

Arts Access Aotearoa Level 3, 61 Abel Smith St

CQ Hotels Wellington 223 Cuba St

Alpha Art Studio 55 Abel Smith St

Pablos Art Studios 189 Vivian St

Vincents Art Workshop 142 Willis St

MAP

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PROGRAMME

Time Wednesday Room

8.30 - 9am Registration Foyer

9 - 9.15am Welcome to Creative Spaces 2020 9.15 - 9.40am Ice breaker 9.40 - 10.30am What we do for love – Keynote speaker Richard Benge 10.30 - 11am Morning tea 11 - 11.30am Creative spaces by 2020 - Richard Benge 11.30am - 1pm Creative PechaKucha 1 - 2pm Lunch Downstairs

2 -3.30pm CONCURRENT SESSION: Sustainable funding workshop with Kerry Tilby-Price 3 & 4

2 - 3.30pm CONCURRENT SESSION: Getting It Out There: the stories and the tools with Lize Immelman and Iona McNaughton 1 & 2

3.30 - 4pm Funding resource book workshop 4 - 4.15pm Afternoon tea Foyer

4.15 - 5pm CONCURRENT SESSION: Secret of sponsorship with Kerri Tilby-Price 3 & 4

4.15 - 5pm CONCURRENT SESSION: Deepening our impact: creative spaces, collaboration and partnerships with Kim Morton and Erwin Van Asbeck 1 & 2

5 - 5.30pm Dance workshop with Lyn Cotton 6.30 - 6.55pm A drink at CQ Hotels Wellington before dinner – first drink is on us! Bar

7 - 8.30pm Cin Cin for dinner with musician Andrew London – only $35 extra

Thursday

7.30 - 8.30am Breakfast with Kirsten Mosen – only $28.18 extra 4&5

8.30 - 8.40am Break

8.40 - 8.50am Welcome back, reflections and notices

8.50 - 9.30am Presentation by Stephen Wainwright, Chief Executive of Creative NZ

9.30 - 10.30am Creative PechaKucha

10.30 - 11am Morning tea Foyer

11 - 11.30am Hon Nikki Wagner, Minister for Disability Issues

11.30am -12.15pm CONCURRENT SESSION: Creativity In Corrections with Jacqui Moyes 1 & 2

11.30am -12.15pm CONCURRENT SESSION: A website that works for you with Fraser Carson 3 & 4

12.15 - 1pm Lunch Downstairs

1 - 1.45pm “You choose”, session one - Participant-led discussions where you choose the topic 1,2,3,4

1.55 - 2.40pm “You choose”, session two - Participant-led discussions where you choose the topic 1,2,3,4,

2.40 - 3pm Afternoon tea Piano bar

3pm - 3.50pm Post-conference: next steps and evaluation

3.50 - 4.50pm Success habits for future success with keynote speaker Karen Boyes

4.50 - 5pm Wrap up and close with Julian Raphael

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WEDNESDAY 27 APRIL

8:30AM REGISTRATION OPENS

9:00AM WELCOME TO CREATIVE SPACES 2020!

9.15AM ICEBREAKER

9:40AM

WHAT WE DO FOR LOVE: A PERSPECTIVE ON ACHIEVEMENT, VALUE AND DEVELOPMENT

– KEYNOTE SPEAKER RICHARD BENGE

Creative spaces in New Zealand have diverse histories, management and development models. What they have in common are staff committed to the work and who love what they do. What can we do to sustain and develop our spaces so they can continue to service artists and communities? Richard will explore the results of two surveys Arts Access Aotearoa conducted with the sector. He is just back from a professional development visit to the United States, where he visited the Creative Growth Center in Oakland, California and AS220 in Providence, Rhode Island. What qualities do New Zealand’s creative spaces share with their US counterparts and what can we learn from overseas examples?

10:30AM MORNING TEA

11:00AM

CREATIVE SPACES BY 2020 – RICHARD BENGE, ARTS ACCESS AOTEAROA

What will the creative spaces sector look like four years from now? What do we need to do

from here that will strategically and practically help us navigate a pathway that

strengthens our creative space, our practice or service, and the sector? Themes and ideas

from this workshop will be revisited throughout the two days of the conference.

11:30AM –

1:00PM

CREATIVE PECHAKUCHA – 3 MINUTES TO ROCK IT

Formal presentations be gone! This is a fun, creative, informal way for you to share what you do and why you do it. Topics include: Topic 1: Explain you and your creative space/organisation: Who? Where? What? Topic 2: “My creative space/organisation is awesome because … ” Topic 3: Red light, green light: Share a recent challenge you or your creative space/organisation faced and how you solved it.

1:00PM LUNCH

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2:00PM CONCURRENT SESSIONS

2:00PM

ROOM 3&4

SUSTAINABLE FUNDING – KERRI TILBY-PRICE

Are you sick of scrambling from one funding round to the next? Do you wish you had a reliable income for your organisation but don’t know where to start? This session will open your eyes to a whole raft of fundraising opportunities and give you practical strategies for raising more money, more often. Discover simple ideas you can implement easily in your organisation and move past the “yeah buts” that are holding back your fundraising.

2:00PM

ROOM 1&2

GETTING IT OUT THERE: THE STORIES AND THE TOOLS – IONA MCNAUGHTON AND LIZE IMMELMAN Why do you need to get it out there? This practical workshop will look at how to make a good story great and get people to notice it. Iona will discuss Arts Access Aotearoa’s I’m An Artist Campaign while Lize will talk about the world beyond traditional media and some of the online tools at your fingertips. She reckons the internet ain’t scary. You just need to do it. Please bring your phones.

3:30PM

FUNDING RESOURCE BOOK WORKSHOP

With the collective power of our minds we will create the finest resource book for creative

spaces in just 30 minutes

4:00PM AFTERNOON TEA

4:15PM CONCURRENT SESSIONS

ROOM 3&4

SECRET OF SPONSORSHIP – KERRI TILBY-PRICE

Would you like to develop business partnerships that provide real value to your

organisation? Get clear about what businesses are really looking for in a sponsorship

relationship and how you can create a package that truly meets their needs. Leave with

some real ideas about who to approach and what your first action steps will be. It’s a

chance to look at business sponsorship in a whole new way.

4:15PM ROOM 1&2

DEEPENING OUR IMPACT: CREATIVE SPACES, COLLABORATION AND PARTNERSHIPS – KIM MORTON AND ERWIN VAN ASBECK This workshop will draw on our successful collaborations with arts agencies and non-arts agencies to:

explore what makes a successful partnership identify action we can take to enrich current partnerships and initiate new ones share ideas about the value of collective impact dream up some partnerships we’ve fantasised about but not yet been brave

enough to initiate.

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6:30PM

BAR

DRINKS AT CQ HOTELS WELLINGTON – 1ST DRINK IS ON US!

7:00PM CONFERENCE DINNER AT CIN CIN, CUBA ST

5:00PM

A FUN DANCE WORKSHOP WITH LYN COTTON FROM JOLT DANCE

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THURSDAY 28 APRIL

WELCOME TO DAY 2

8.40AM WELCOME BACK, REFLECTIONS AND NOTICES

8:50AM PRESENTATION BY STEPHEN WAINWRIGHT, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF CREATIVE NZ

9:30AM CREATIVE PECHAKUCHA – 3 MINUTES TO ROCK IT

Formal presentations be gone! This is a fun, creative, informal way for you to share what you do and why you do it. Topics include Topic 1: Explain you and your creative space/organisation: Who? Where? What? Topic 2: “My creative space/organisation is awesome because … ” Topic 3: Red light, green light: Share a recent challenge that you or your creative space/organisation faced and how you solved it.

10:30AM MORNING TEA

11:00AM HON NIKKI WAGNER, MINISTER FOR DISABILITY ISSUES

11:30AM –

12:15PM

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

ROOM 1&2

CREATIVITY IN CORRECTIONS - JACQUI MOYES, ARTS IN CORRECTIONS ADVISOR,

ARTS ACCESS AOTEAROA

Jacqui will lead a discussion about Creativity in Corrections and how creative spaces can make a difference to rehabilitation. Key points include:

7:30AM

ROOM 4&5

BREAKFAST WITH KIRSTEN MOSEN

Kirsten Mason is the new General Manager of Orchestra Wellington. She left Wellington as a young graduate eager to see the world 18 years ago, and has lived and worked for arts organisations in six countries on three continents, bringing performances and musical experiences to communities as diverse as schoolchildren in inner-city Detroit, homeless communities across the UK and audiences in Shanghai, one of the world’s largest cities. Kirsten will share some stories about her own extremely non-linear career and what she has learned from it all.

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What creative practices are currently happening in New Zealand prisons?

How might a creative space partner with the Department of Corrections and what do you need to consider?

What happens when creativity meets Corrections?

Who funds the arts in Corrections?

ROOM 3&4 A WEBSITE THAT WORKS FOR YOU – FRASER CARSON, DIRECTOR, FLIGHTDEC Your website is your organisation’s shopfront. How can it be more dynamic and attract many more visitors? How can your valuable content be published and exposed as never before on other websites, where it’s relevant and welcome? Flightdec is offering a free website (the only cost is a small hosting fee) to creative spaces via Arts Access Aotearoa so you can strengthen your community connectivity and broadcast capability. Find out from Fraser Carson how Flightdec will connect you with your community and the wider sector.

12:15PM LUNCH

1:00PM

ROOM 1,2,3,4

YOU CHOOSE! SESSION ONE

Participant-led discussions where you choose the topic

1:55PM

ROOM 1,2,3,4

YOU CHOOSE! SESSION TWO

Participant-led discussions where you choose the topic

2:40 – 3:00PM AFTERNOON TEA

3:00 – 3:50PM POST-CONFERENCE: NEXT STEPS AND EVALUATION

3:50 – 4:50PM SUCCESS HABITS FOR FUTURE SUCCESS – KEYNOTE SPEAKER KAREN BOYES Success is so much more than strategies, tips and techniques. True success means taking time for yourselves to value your own worth in order to value others. In this inspiring and real chat, Karen will address some of the issues facing tutors, managers and administrators, and give suggestions and ideas to give you the edge, both personally and professionally.

4:50 – 5:00PM WRAP-UP AND CLOSE WITH JULIAN RAPHAEL

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SPEAKERS Richard Benge Executive Director Arts Access Aotearoa

Richard has been with Arts Access Aotearoa for five years. Previous roles include Cultural Affairs Specialist at the United States Embassy in Wellington; Manager of heritage icon Old St Paul’s; and an independent events and communications specialist. After completing a BEd degree from Victoria College Rusden (Melbourne), majoring in drama and English literature, Richard worked as a high school teacher and for Arts Access Victoria as an artist-in-residence in psychiatric hospitals. richard.benge@artsaccess.org.nz www.artsaccess.org.nz

Kerri Tilby-Price National Facilitator EXULT

Kim Morton Managing Director Otautahi Creative Spaces Trust

Kerri has worked in and for the community sector for 20 years but has lived and breathed community her whole life. Kerri has worked as a manager, a volunteer and a consultant, as well as spearheading several social enterprises that are still working today. Her passion lies with grassroots groups committed to making a difference, no matter how hard they have to work to make it happen. She is a MSD Approved Capability Mentor and regularly works with organisations one-on-one to help them to the next level.

kerri@exult.co.nz www.exult.co.nz

Kim leads a creative arts and wellbeing initiative in Christchurch, focusing on the needs of people who are socially isolated, have mental illness and/or experience trauma as a result of the earthquakes. There are two creative spaces and a number of collaborative projects on the go. She draws on my experience as manager of King Street Artworks and a governance member of Vincents Art Workshop. A staunch advocate of the powerful role of participatory arts in post-earthquake Christchurch, she is passionate about how collaboration and partnerships can increase our impact. She recently joined Arts Access Aotearoa’s board

kimm@ihug.co.nz www.facebook.com/ocstrust

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Erwin Van Asbeck Managing Director Toi Ora Live Arts Trust

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Toi Ora is a multi-disciplinary creative arts space, where Erwin has been for nine years. He’s had a diverse work life, studied in youth and community development in the performing arts and outdoor pursuits, and produced a community mental health radio programme on Planet FM. His passion is working with people and learning environments that can transform and inspire. He has spent most of the past 20 years in community mental health and the arts. He is committed to positive social change, celebrating diversity, and the creative process to empower and heal. erwin@toiora.org.nz http://www.toiora.org.nz/

Kirsten Mason General Manager Orchestra Wellington

Stephen Wainwright Chief Executive Creative New Zealand

Kirsten has recently joined the Orchestra Wellington team as General Manager. Before returning to New Zealand in May 2015, she set up and ran a New Zealand Music Festival in Shanghai for four years, which featured many of our best-loved Kiwi artists. She also toured many of these artists around China. Kirsten has also worked for the Chamber Music Society of Detroit for nine years, first as Development Director then as Development Consultant. She has held previous roles at UNESCO in Turin, Italy, and at Streetwise Opera, Arts & Business and PwC in London, Munich and Paris. Kirsten is our guest speaker at the Breakfast event on 28 April kirsten@orchestrawellington.co.nz www.orchestrawellington.co.nz

Stephen joined Creative New Zealand in 1990 and was appointed Chief Executive in 2008. He has been involved in the strategic and business planning of Creative New Zealand for several years and has worked closely with many of this country’s leading arts organisations. Creative New Zealand’s job is to work with the arts community to develop our culture and help the wider community appreciate and support its development.

“As a young nation at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean our arts help to illustrate our lives with new layers of meaning and fresh perspectives. There are clear social, cultural, economic and educational benefits for supporting the arts and these need to be made.”

Stephen.wainwright@creativenz.govt.nz http://www.creativenz.govt.nz/

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Hon Nikki Wagner Christchurch Central MP

Jacqui Moyes Arts In Corrections Advisor, Arts Access Aotearoa

Christchurch Central MP, Hon Nicky Wagner, is Minister of Customs, Minister for Disability Issues, Associate Minister supporting Greater Christchurch Regeneration, and Associate Minister of Conservation.

nicky.wagner@parliament.govt.nz https://nickywagner.national.org.nz/

Jacqui is responsible for delivering an Arts in Corrections advisory service to the Department of Corrections and the wider community. Previous roles include Censor for the Office of Film and Literature, family and child mentoring service for social services, and independent events co-ordinator. She has a history in community theatre. After completing a BA degree from Victoria University of Wellington, majoring in education and gender studies, Jacqui worked as a contractor delivering arts programming in Corrections facilities

jacqui.moyes@artsaccess.org.nz http://artsaccess.org.nz/

Fraser Carson Director Flightdec

Fraser is the creator of the Flightdec Communities concept and is a founding partner. His passions centre on innovation as an enabler, and openness and connectivity as pathways to transform communities. Flightdec describes itself as “bringing together internet technology with tried and tested marketing and communications”. The main areas of work are in community building and capacity building, especially through the use of new media technologies.

fraser@flightdec.com http://flightdec.com/Fraser+Carson

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Iona McNaughton Communications Manager, Arts Access Aotearoa

Iona was a newspaper reporter and editor for 15 years. She is also a published children’s writer. She worked at Creative New Zealand from 1997 to 2004. In that time, she project managed most of their publications, as well as writing and editing them. These included a quarterly arts magazine, the annual report and strategic plans, several research reports, and a guide to marketing the arts. Iona project managed, co-wrote and edited two editions (2009 and 2014) of Arts For All, Arts Access Aotearoa’s guide to providing access the arts to disabled people.

iona.mcnaughton@artsaccess.org.nz http://artsaccess.org.nz/

Lize Immelman Freelance communications specialist

Lize is a journalist, video editor and communications specialist. Lize worked for Arts Access Aotearoa in 2015 for six months as communications specialist while Iona was on leave. Having completed a BA degree in film editing, she has been a video editor and producer for the past ten years working on a variety of projects, including documentaries, television and news in South Africa and New Zealand. She recently completed a Diploma in Journalism at Whitireia New Zealand.

Karen Boyes Chief Executive Spectrum Education

Winner of the NZ Educator of the Year 2014 and NZ Speaker of the Year 2013 awards, Karen is known for her engaging, entertaining and practical presentations. An expert in effective teaching and learning, study skills, motivation and positive thinking, Karen has a passion to make a difference. Karen will not only educate you. Her presentations will also inspire and motivate you to go beyond your current limitations and to be more effective in whatever you do in life.

www.karentuiboyes.com info@spectrumeducation.com