Name: CREATIVE ACADIANA | Making it Happen: Design Intensive for Organized Cultural Participation
Start: 2024-10-08T22:30:00+00:00
End: 2024-10-09T00:00:00+00:00
Location: Acadiana Center for the Arts - Art House

Description

MAKING IT HAPPEN | Design Intensive for Organized Cultural Participation with Hali Dardar

From a potluck to a festival, cultural activities don’t just happen - they take the time, passion, planning , and acumen of passionate individuals and groups. The fruits of this work are the traditions and events which we enjoy every year. Making it Happen is a 90-minute workshop to support cultural events in succeeding. This workshop is aimed to support people who have been organizing cultural activities for years, people whose ideas are yet to be created, and every creative in between. The workshop will discuss elements of organized cultural participation, a cycle of cultural participation and representation, and explore how applying these concepts can help in making these efforts more sustainable. Participants will connect with other cultural organizers, learn to articulate elements of organized cultural participation within their work, and apply organizing concepts within their own cultural and community efforts.

ABOUT HALI DARDAR

Hali Dardar is an interaction designer, project manager, and facilitator. She enjoys developing long-term, creative engagements to improve organizational processes and produce community-affirming change. From Louisiana, she is a tribal member of the United Houma Nation and co-founder of the Houma Language Project who holds a BA in Mass Communication from Louisiana State University and a MA in Arts, Culture, and Media from the University of Groningen. Current work includes elements of language revitalization, digital ceremony, community memory, and organized cultural participation. Examples of past relevant work include Language Reclamation Landscapes, grantee training sessions to support Indigenous language practitioners in collectively addressing challenges.

AcA is committed to making our programming as accessible as possible. This Creative Acadiana session will be in-person, streamed and recorded. If you require your accessibility needs addressed, please contact community@acadianacenterforthearts.org to discuss.

Date & Time

Tue, Oct 8, 2024 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Venue Details

Acadiana Center for the Arts - Art House

101 West Vermilion Street
Lafayette, Louisiana 70501

Acadiana Center for the Arts

Our mission is fostering art and culture in Acadiana.

Founded in 1975, Acadiana Center for the Arts (“AcA”) is a community-supported nonprofit organization that fosters art and culture in Acadiana. Since its founding, AcA has developed as a major force, shaping the future of public education and community development in South Louisiana.

AcA supports the creation of new works of art, exhibits, festivals, performances, and public art across an eight-parish region that includes Acadia, Evangeline, Iberia, Lafayette, St. Landry, St. Martin, St. Mary, and Vermilion Parishes.

AcA aims to bring equitable access to the arts and supports fair compensation of artists. On average, AcA serves over 300,000 people annually and provides fair compensation to 2,700 artists.

In 2013, the AcA merged with the Performing Arts Society of Acadiana (“PASA”), whose mission was to educate, inspire, entertain, and culturally enrich the people of south Louisiana by providing local access to a diverse range of the performing arts. This merger supported the vision of both organizations and provided much-needed support to PASA’s programs. Founded in 1989, PASA served as a leading voice in the performing arts in South Louisiana for close to three decades.

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