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Today I set a game plan with Shakthi on how we’re going to tackle the next 6 weeks in the Pilbara.  I’ll need to:

• develop/find/improve on some curriculum for ‘object-based storytelling’
• develop/find/improve on curriculum to introduce the ‘craft’ of working with audio and photography
• develop online social network strategy for cultural leaders in the Pilbara

For the first week, we’re going to go to Marble Bar (population? 194) to do an ad-hoc community media class – completely open-ended, depending on who shows up an what they’d like to learn.  Could be storytelling, filming video, even djing if that’s what they want;)  Should be fun.  Main purpose is to introduce ourselves to the folks in Marble Bar to as well as connect them to the community media network we’re in the process of building.

Second week, we begin 5 weeks of work in Newman, culminating in a community festival.  One of our partners on the ground has already secured Thai dancers (WTF, in a rural mining colony in the middle of nowhere???), MCs and a space for the festival.

All this is of course, quite rough.  It’ll most likely evolve once we get out there.  In the meantime, please enjoy this lovely video of the CW office loft in Sydney.  In it, I give a nice tour of the CW art/office loft.  It’s truly one of the nicest spaces I’ve ever worked (and will hopefully play in soon!).

Lately I’ve decided to ask everyone who comes to CuriousWorks to wear a silly hat on the way out. If they consent, of course.

The justifications for this are too numerous to mention here.

The inaugural hatters are:

Guan (friend from school)
Kate (colleague when at Shopfront, now in the US)
Tom (colleague when he was doing Vibewire, now in the US)
Cecilia (design student at UTS, interviewed me on behalf of CuriousWorks for an assignment)

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