20 questions to ask yourself
Inside your organisation
Inside your organisation
1. Thinking as broadly as you can, what assets does your organisation have to offer? How will you find out which of these has value?
2. What do you want out of your engagement? To be transparent, how could and should it benefit your institution?
3. What values and approaches are important and will affect who you want to work with and how?
4. Are you the right person/organisation to be doing this? What should your role be? This might be about convening or supporting others rather than leading.
5. Which creative communities might you be interested in supporting and why?
6. How will you involve everyone in your organisation so they can understand and support your commitment to Everyday Creativity?
About
About the everyday creatives in your community
7. Who can you talk to in order to find out more about grassroots activity in your area (local community or community of practice)? Start with your own staff, partners, local contacts; how could you signal your interest further afield?
8. How could you get more insight? Perhaps participating in activities yourselves?
9. What groups are there and what do they need? Are there any obvious gaps?
Planning
Planning and resourcing
10. How can you involve everyday creatives in designing services and activities in a mutually beneficial way?
11. What can you give back? Could you remunerate volunteers? Could you share other resources?
12. What barriers – time, money, materials, transport, childcare “no-one to go with”, “not sure where to start” – could you help to address?
13. Do you need to involve everyday creative partners and participants in decision-making ongoing? If so what model could work?
14. Who could you collaborate with? What benefits can you increase by working with other cultural/ local organisations and partners in your area?
Communicating
Communicating
15. Have you used plain language? Check for “insider” art speak, jargon, officialese and ambiguous terms.
16. What benefits and experiences are people looking for? They might be different from the ones you might be used to
Evaluating and developing
Evaluating and developing
17. How will you evaluate/learn from your work?
18. Can you do it WITH your everyday creative partners and participants?
19. How will you make changes along the way if needed?
20. How will you share?