Proposed Projects

Most projects need to build a critical mass before they can get started. They need collaborative support in the way of funding, fresh ideas, and people.  These are projects that  can create some positive powerful change in our lives and communities - they just need some collaborators to make them happen.  Interested? 

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A Pocket full of Change

How many of us are searching for small changes we can make in our lives that will make a big difference to our lives and the communities around us? The art farm is all about helping us figure out what these changes are, how to make them and the differences they'll make. Enter: A Pocket full of Change  A major project that the art farm hopes to embark on starting in 2010 heading into 2011, A Pocket full of Change will be a pocket-sized Sunshine Coast based inventory of all the businesses and organizations that are offering us small but significant opportunites for change - and clear instructions on how to make them. If you're in the mood for change, stay tuned for the launch.  If you own or run a business or organization that offers just this, get in touch - you need to get the word out there, and we want to help!

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The Five Dollar home

Conceived and inspired by the difficulties facing many displaced populations around the world, "The Five Dollar Home" aims to engage local youth in a creative exercise that provides innovative solutions to short term housing crises, as well as closing the loop on the endless amount of building materials that end up in our landfill every day. Teens will be invited to participate in the "Five Dollar Home" project where each team of 4 is given $5 with which to purchase materials (and reclaim materials) to build a shelter for a family of 6 that is weather-proof and sleeps all 6, providing cooking and living space at the same time.

The art farm intends to promote the results of the project throug local media and through collaboration with other shelter-based organizations, such as Habitat for Humanity and the Good Earth Builders, as well as any government organization/ngo whose mandate is to eliminate homelessness and provide shelter to displaced populations around the world.

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The Lumber Wrap Project

The art farm has devised a simple elegant hands-on project to introduce the art farm concept to our wider community on the Sunshine Coast. We’re calling it the Lumber Wrap project.  Lumber wrap is a durable woven fabric used to ship exposed lumber across large distances. Because of its polyethelene coating, it is also unrecyclable and ends up in our landfills. Using only our hands, our heads and a little bit of thread, artfarmers have designed unique hand-sewen art bags that can be made using the lumber wrap.  We see it as the perfect expression of our core mandate: art + nature = change. We’re using our creative skill with fabric and thread (art) and our desire to divert the waste stream (nature) to build one elegant product that inspires (change).

The art farm needs a for-profit partner to launch Phase One of the Lumber Wrap Project. In order to mobilize our artfarmers – to assemble the team of people who will make these products with their own hands – we need a courageous like-minded business to take this leap along side us.

Interested? Check out more details HERE.

 

 

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The PLAYground Project

The PLAYground Project takes a unique arts-based approach to a traditional community-driven project. Langdale Elementary – a small school based on the Sunshine Coast has a school yard playground in desperate need of replacement. Since budgets are tight, it’s been left up to the local community to come together, form a committee, raise funds, and purchase a new one. The PLAYground Project, however, replaces this more traditional approach with an arts-based process so that the stages of designing the new Langdale Elementary School playground (the “PLAY”) and the playground itself (the “ground”) will leave the community with an artistic legacy far beyond what a purchased playground could ever provide.

As this is an involved process with multiple stages, The PLAYground Project is divided into three phases over three separate years: Explore, Design and Build. This application is for PHASE 1 of the project, which is explained in detail below. The following is a brief description of the three separate phases.

Phase 1 – EXPLORE: For Phase 1, the art farm will coordinate and facilitate four artist led workshops (in four disciplines), a production rehearsal and a year-end show at the Langdale Elementary School auditorium.

Phase 2 – DESIGN: For Phase 2, the art farm will coordinate and facilitate four artist-led creation workshops and a year-end out-door show on the Langdale Elementary schoolgrounds displaying the unique arts-based design elements that will be incorporated into the final playground structure.  

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