Tuesday, 10 November 2015

ACSM Week 3.1 Different Departments in NAC

Agenda 
- Read Strategic direction 2
- Grants


Purpose of ACSM module 
- Grants Application
- Proposal for funds

Why are we using the ACSR?
When you write a proposal to the funder, you don't just talk about how wonderful your project is going to be, how it will benefit the group of people you are going to work with.  You must identify what larger need does your project feed into the country. This is the document for the entire countries plan!

NAC - Strategic direction 2
"Build capabilities and achieve excellence"
- What is capability?
- Who is a capability that they are investing in?
- What kind of excellent do they want to achieve?


Activity
Class will be divided into 4 different department (Staffs from NAC)
- Sector Development (pg 60 - 73)
1) Develop sector: not just people but also the space. Looks at talents that are more in performing art
Eg. Build new theatre, requires sector development's consult. --> How big will it be? How much money should be invested? 
(Types of people sector development funds)
- Arts & Youth (below 35) (pg 74 - 83)
1) Focus on arts programme for the youth. 
Eg. They will fund the project because the intended beneficiary is the youths. 
Eg. AEP (Arts Enrichment Programme) which is target at school who want to start a new type of arts programme.
-Arts & Community (pg 74 - 83)
1) Outside of schools. Work with Youth as a community.  You can work the elderly, working adult, children as a community. The programmes you sponsor could be for youth, elderly or anyone.  But there must be a clear distinction why you are sponsoring a programme for the Youth. (Needs to justify why they are the new audience for strategic direction 1) You have to meet some kind of national need. 
- Capability Development (pg 84 - end doc)
1) It looks more at education. 
Eg. NAC scholarship after Diploma.
Eg. Geese theatre in London is known for their Prison-Theatre programme. They hold training twice a year. Your payback to Singapore is that you are gong to start a Prison-Theatre programme in the prison They might sponsor you. 
Eg. Residency programme where you can in countries months - 1 year not to study but to be under the tutelage of an Arts company (theatre company). 

(*Apply for scholarship or proposal)
NAC scholarship for Degree programmes is very popular 
CDAC scholarship, work with the community using the arts.  Able to articulate clearly what their plans are after their studies and how they will contribute back to the (Chinese) community.
(Why should they invest in you?) Come back and serve the country with what you have learnt. 
Eg. Organise platform to share in public forum (NCSS)
>> KHOO FOUNDATION, LEE FOUNDATION, LIEN FOUNDATION, NGEE ANN KONG SI!
 (NAC Overseas studies up to $100,000)

1) Find out what your department does
2) How does your department envision the ACSR strategic direction 2?
3) Why does your department need the money?
The goal of this 4 departments is to ...  (taken from the ACSR)
-  Cultural institutions companies and offering (different types of programmes)
- Invest in talents, support professional aspirations
- Work with partners to achieve new heights.


Grant Homework (Presentation)

2) Who is the target recipients of this grant?
- What kind of projects?
Performing, Visual, Literary or Multi-Disciplinary art-forms:
  • Performances, exhibitions
  • Art form publications
  • Music EPs
  • Process-driven / co-creative projects with members of the public (projects supported have an emphasis on engaging the community through collaborative art-making to express the community's unique identity)
  • Conferences / festivals
3) What is the necessary document you need to have?
- Are there documents you need to prepare?
email submission
4) What does the applicant need to do?
Please complete your Self-Evaluation Report and submit it within 2 months of project completion, along with other supporting documents.
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- Do you need to attend an interview?
- Do you need to do a presentation?
- Do you have to show them clips of your work?

** Apply for Matchbox fund by NAC.
How to write your proposal ...
1) Why your project is worth the funding?
2) Why the target participants are worth the finding?
3) What need in the country will your project meet?

- What does "new audience", "galvanising a national movement"  mean?
You have to come up with your own response to it.

ACSM Evaluation CA10
1) Project Design
- Notes you have come up with
- Reason why you have design it this way
2) Execution of project
- What happened in the project
3) Feedback
- Surveys
- Interviews
- (Data collection methods)
Eg. Week 16 ITI Practical, you are also collecting data
*Take photos of rehearsals in progress, set ...  do QC select what is needed for journal, research documentation and evaluation. 
(Research methods->  You have to justify why these are the best methods. Why did you use those methods?)


Visiting AG homes
- Photos
(Research documentations - how does it fit into your ITI script design)
(ITI Journal - reflect and think about visiting the community means to you.)
(ACSM Evaluation - tells funder your process of creating this project)
- Notes
(Research documentations - how does it fit into your ITI script design)
(ITI Journal - reflect and think about visiting the community means to you.)
(ACSM Evaluation - tells funder your process of creating this project)

Note!
IDEA turkey (Once every 4 years)