'Woven' An Overview

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The central aim of Woven is for Melody to create a across art form diverse and socially inclusive theatre project.

To Kickstart the  development of Woven, funds are  urgently requested for  Melody to accumulate  specific creative fundimentals with the  Suppport of mentor support for  6 months with Mentor Nilgun ( Inclusive Arts Practitioner).

Woven theatre project has multiple outcomes and aims to recognise the unique permeability of personal identity/ individuality working hard to cast away stereotypes be it those who are participants, performers or audience's members, leaving them with an creative sense of strength and flow.

Once the funimental building blocks with Nilgun have been put inot play it may then be possible to work collaboratively, step by step with a fantastic inspiring and professional creative team of socially aware and creative experts such as:

• The theatrical performance workshops- as a mentee of Nilgun Guven who is not only long-standing in inclusive and participatory arts practice but who's work in artistic practice is experiential, experimental and enquiry based.  see  the main video above.

• Melody will also be leading movement workshops in which she will be mentored by the wonderful Choreographer Trudy Radburn. rudy has been a Contemporary Dance Artist for over 20 years, working with choreographers nationally and internationally. Her own work has toured to Asia, North America and Europe. Trudy is experienced in Teaching, Rehearsal Directing, Project Management, Consulting and Facilitating Dance Outcomes for a range of diverse contexts- including Theatre, Film, Festivals, Corporate Events and Site Specific Projects. 

• Storytelling and interviews - That shall be gathered individually by Melody from the Woven participants and then collaboratively with the extremely socially conscious Lisa Greenaway, who is well know around creative and social justice circles as a talented producer, sound artist, storyteller, DJ and broadcaster. Lisa will interlink story and vox pop interviews with music to create an inter-woven soundscape.

• Costume design by the amazing Space2b design studio St. Kilda. Space2b is known as a place where local designers and newly arrived migrant and refugee women can come together to acquire business and creative skills, build relationships and sell their work. They will be responsible for the design and creation of costumes.

Woven's integrity is in exploring and demonstrating the inter-woven, textured diversity of people within the City of Port Philip.

Woven  welcomes local community  and  aims to include all individuals such as those living at disadvantage, with disability, migrants & refugees, and  LGBTQIA communties. 

Melody envisages Woven to be a safe creative space for all who participate, to discover synchronicity  Secondly, for the participants to work together as a collective to be able to express thier unique invividualistic talents creativley and celebrate them!

The project has so far gained the support of City of Port Phillip Council, Arts Access Victoria, The Slow Art Collective , Space2b and community groups such as Voices Of The South Side, City Of Voices, Port Phillip Community Group, Roarhouse Melbourne, and members of RAG Theatre, RAW ( Resiliant Aspirting Women) Community Garden with more to come.

Support, Skills, Social Cohesion, Independence!

• Please keep  in mind  that credit card pledges are subject to a fee of  2.4% + 30c to the tageted overall amount for the project and not your account. 
• If the taget amount  isn't met in time , your pledge will be refunded/ minus any of  your pledged rewards.
• Additional postage costs may apply.
• Postage only within Australia.
• %5 of the targeted amount will be taken form the overall amount  if the campaign is sucessfull

Your pledge will assist  by  providing Melody with 1 on 1 mentored support with Nilgun Guven over 6 Months if the full target is met. Note*  The Target funding bieng reqested is only a kick starter for this purpous.

• If the tagret amount goes over it will be used  on funding other project objectives such as the ones mentioned in the prior provided descripion.

• Once the funimental building blocks with Nilgun have been put into play it may then be possible to work  hands on, collaboratively and step by step with a fantastic inspiring and professional creative team of  diverse socially aware and creative community participants and  experts.

Accepting, Understanding, Overcoming!

• Melody doesn't see her health issues as reason to give up on learning new skills and being of use in the community altogether.

• She aspires to create and  understand artistic and peromance concepts and practice through being metored and working collaborativley. 

• To be at liberty to  invite others from diverse backrounds to learning new skills and have a platform to share thier talents. 

• creating a free vibrant socially inclusive community theatre/arts project.  

•  Applying for additional funding for the other artistic developmental elements, through other avenues, oftern a competitive and lengthy process.