Originate

Originate is a structured, professional development mentorship and training program for emerging community arts / Community Cultural Development (CCD) practitioners with a background or demonstrated interest in multimedia and digital arts. Since 2005, ICE has been delivering this program for groups from targeted communities who are underrepresented in this sector, and who have identified a desire to increase their capacity to run and manage their own community arts and cultural projects.

Originate 2007

Originate 2007 provided professional development mentorship and training opportunities for Asian-Australian community arts / community cultural development practitioners.

Originate 2006

Originate 2006 had a focus on emerging artists and community cultural development practitioners from Indigenous backgrounds and Pacific communities.

With support from the Australia Council and Arts NSW, Originate 2006 has provided 15 strong and enthusiastic participants with a structured program of practical skills development and mentorship.

Originate 2006 involved an active group of emerging artists, who completed their skills development in December 2006.

Originate 2006 Podcasts

Developing sound and radio skills was a big focus for Originate 2006 participants. As part of the program, they learnt a wide range of skills – from interview techniques to sound recording and editing – and put together sound pieces about their experiences.

Listen to the Originate Podcasts Now!

http://www.ice.org.au/icecast/podcast.xml

(You need a podcast player such as iTunes [free] to listen to this.)

You can also manually download the individual interviews here as MP3 files:

• Radio Interview by Teveka, Isabel and Jonnie
• Radio Interview by Wayne and Flynn
• Radio Interview by Sharon, Laurrissa, Philippe

Originate 2005

In 2005, 25 Western Sydney-based multimedia and digital artists from refugee, migrant and non-English-speaking backgrounds completed the ORIGINATE: multicultural + mentorship + multimedia Program.

This program was the pilot Originate program – developed in response to needs articulated by artists, participants and community leaders from small and emerging communities who had been involved in previous ICE arts projects.

“Originate was developed in specific response to the needs articulated by the communities we were working with in 2003-04,” says ICE Director Lena Nahlous.

“We were doing a lot of projects with small and emerging communities, and there was a great interest among the emerging artists and community leaders who wanted the skills to share a new way of working within their communities,” she says. “Originate was a pilot program with incredible outcomes. ICE has already begun to engage some of the artists and graduates of this program on other projects, and see them develop and implement their projects as well. We’ve been really impressed and amazed by some of the outcomes of this projects. I think that there are many more results that will develop as these diverse creative people get things happening in their own communities,” she said.

ICE has continued working with Originate participants, continuing to mentor a number of participants to implement their own projects.

Originate Participants (left to right): Rodrigo Fernandez, Whoody Cameron, Birtan Mohammed, Nicholas George-Cocker, Isabel Gill, Thelma Thomas, Bernard Amour Makeny, Emmanuel Johnson, Juan-Carlos Martinez, Susan Chamma, Min Kyaw, Mary Mamour, Aghnar Niazi, Anita Barar, Aguel Deng, Alia Hassan, Theodore Jalloh, Hekmat Hozilah, Frederick Tommy, Troy Ruttley, Bernadette Compton

Not pictured: Selma Erzin, Fida Haq, Ali Kadhim, Ibrahim Yongai

For more information about Originate, email Mouna Zaylah or call on (02) 9897 5744.

 

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