Albert-Eden Local Board Meeting Held on 20/04/2021
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2020/2021 Albert Eden Local Grant Round Two LG2101-212 Jessica Fenton Under the umbrella of Action Education Legal status: Activity focus: Arts and culture Conflicts of interest: N/A Project: JAFA Poetry Slam Location: Cityside Baptist Church, 8 Mount Eden Road Summary: JAFA Poetry Slams provides high quality community focused poetry events for all ages in Auckland central. The JAFA Poetry Slam is Auckland's only regular poetry slam, providing a safe space for a diverse range of writers and audiences to share their stories and participate in the entertainment. A typical night includes an open mic for any community members to read, a featured professional poet, and an open competitive poetry slam of up to 10 poets judged by 5 volunteer members of the audience. Expertise: Our organisation is run and managed by 5 professional performance poets who have decades of experience and awards between them, both nationally and internationally. We have been successfully running JAFA Poetry events since 2015 across Tāmaki Makaurau before finding our long-term home in Mount Eden in 2018. Our organisers also host, organise, perform, teach and facilitate across a wide range of arts events spaces locally, including Auckland Fringe, WORD The Frontline, University of Auckland, AUT, Basement Theatre, MIT, Going West Writers Festival, Auckland Readers and Writers Festival, and Auckland Pride. Dates: 01/05/2021 - 01/12/2021 Rain dates: - People reached: 600 % of participants from Local Board 70 % Promotion: We would acknowledge the local board's contribution in social media events and postings, including a logo on posters, in our monthly newsletter, and vocally at each event. Community benefits Identified community outcomes: The JAFA Poetry Slam is a community organisation, run by five staff who host monthly events accessible to all ages at a non-bar, smoke free venue. Our aim is to provide our audience and participants with a safe, nurturing community where voices, stories and identities can be shared and celebrated. Through our open mics, poetry slams, professional featured poets, and writing workshops, writers and performers across a wide range of skill levels develop and hone their craft. The winners of our Auckland Regional Slam win the opportunity to represent Auckland at the National Poetry Slam: where they elevate their craft, network with other writers, and have the opportunity to gain national recognition. Audience members at slams are encouraged to vocally participate and respond to the work being performed, either as a judge of the poetry or by cheering or booing to sway the judges scores. This actively fosters a sense of camaraderie, collaboration and community where everyone is participating in the liveliness of the event. Alignment with local board priorities: • We are able to come together to support each other, and to celebrate our diversity. The JAFA Poetry Slam is a local Albert-Eden event that takes place monthly in Mount Eden and provides a safe space for diverse range of writers and performers from across Auckland to share their work on our open mic and in our poetry slam with their community. This is an uncensored event but hate speech is not tolerated. These events are open to all ages, with an open mic that is open to everyone and a slam competition that is 18+. This age restriction is in place as we want to provide a space for youth poets to grow as adult poets and it is an age requirement for the New Zealand National Poetry Slam, which is an annual competition we send representatives to. Many of our writer’s stories speak to their identities, cultures, mental health, sexual orientation, spirituality, and whakakapapa. Social issues and personal expression are explored at our monthly events and all of these subjects come together in the slam to be shared, acknowledged, and celebrated by the community. We have a range of ages represented at our events and host both individual and team competitions, providing participants the opportunity to work and collaborate together. We have built this community in Mt Eden over the course of 3 years, when we found a home for this event at Cityside Baptist Church in 2018. Collaborating organisation/individual Role Ken Arkind (he/him) is an American National Poetry Host, Organiser, Event Manager Slam Champion, Tedx Speaker and Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam Champion who has performed his work in 49 States, 6 countries and at over 200 colleges and universities. He works for Action Education, organising and hosting WORD The Frontline, New Zealand's only youth poetry slam. Carrie Rudzinski (she/her) is a poet and published Organiser, Admin, Event Manager author who has performed her work over the past 16 years in six countries and almost all 50 of the United States. Ranked 4th in the world at the 2014 Women of the World Poetry Slam, she has published five books and been featured in Bustle, The Huffington Post and Teen Vogue. She taught creative writing and performing arts at Manukau Institute of Technology for four years and recently performed at Tedx Christchurch. Jessie Fenton (she/her) is a New Zealand National Host, Organiser, Event Manager, Photography Poetry Slam runner-up twice over, Poetry Idol winner, and Word: the Front Line coach. She has previously been published in "Starling" and Otago University's "Manifesto." She recently competed in the Canadian National Poetry Slam in 2018 and is the 2019 Auckland Regional Slam Champion. 1 Eric Soakai (him/they) is the 2019 New Zealand Poetry Host, Organiser, Social Media Slam National Champion and attended the 2020 Indigenous Artist Residency in Canada. A fixture in the Auckland poetry scene, he is a Word The Front Line coach and has represented Auckland at the National Poetry Slam twice. Dan Goodwin (they/them) is a Scottish-Pākeha Host, Organiser, Admin performance poet, actor and writer. In 2016, they completed their Masters of Text and Performance at RADA in the UK before returning to Aotearoa. Their solo show Breathe toured the UK after winning the Harold and Jean Brooks award, before also touring Aotearoa as a remounted ensemble work. Their performance poetry has been published by RE: Attitude, RNZ and TVNZ. In 2021 they performed at the Auckland Pride Gala, and the arts festival ‘Welcome to Nowhere’. Action Education Umbrella Organisation, Mentorship Jack Daniels DJ Demographics Māori outcomes: • This event aims to support and promote the voices of Maori and gives a platform for them to share their diverse stories and viewpoints, bridging understanding and uplifting the aspirations of the Maori performers who are involved. Throughout our planning through to the execution of the event we hold Maori values such as aroha, manaaki and whakawahanaungatanga closely. We acknowledge that Maori need culturally safe spaces to express themselves and this is what we plan to do. Accessible to people with Yes - Our venue is wheelchair accessible and the seating is easily adjusted disabilities to accommodate wheelchairs, strollers, and people with varying needs of assistance. The microphone is adjustable for height; readers are welcome to stand or sit if they need assistance; and the microphone is moveable if someone was unable to come up to the front of the room to read their work. Target ethnic groups: All/everyone Healthy environment • Promote smoke-free messages, Include waste minimisation (zero approach: waste) messages Smoke-free messages fit easily into our Kaupapa as we host our events in an all-ages space with no alcohol present. In our promotional material on social media, we will include the messaging that this is a hate-speech free, alcohol-free, and smoke-free event. Additionally, our host talks about the safe environment of the night and would say “While we are an uncensored event, we like to keep our mic hate-speech free, alcohol and smoke free so everyone can feel welcome." We will also promote a healthy environment by encouraging participants to bring re-usable drink bottles to fill up with tap water at our event and re-usable coffee/travel mugs to partake in our tea offering. 2 Percentage of males targeted Percentage of females targeted All - not targeted male/female % % 100% 0-5 years < 15 years 15-24 years 25-44 years 45-64 years >65 years All ages % % 40% 60% % % % Financial information Amount requested: $4457.00 Requesting grant for: We are requesting funding specifically for the running costs of the event with our venue hire, marketing, refreshments, printing costs, admin materials needed for the events, COVID safety materials needed for the events, specific performance/facilitation fees for our featured poets and workshop facilitator, as well as half of our wage fees for our key event roles (host, house manager, etc). If part funded, how would you make up the difference: We would endeavour to find other sources of funding through personal, local, crowdsourced fundraising, however if we weren't able to reach the costs then we would not be able to offer this event as planned to our community. Cost of participation: General admission is $10, Concession admission is $5 Total expenditure Total income Other grants Applicant contribution approved $9,057.00 $3,750.00 $2,450.00 $0.00 Expenditure item Amount Amount requested from Local Board Venue hire (x7 events) $1,207.00 $1,207.00 Marketing (x7 events) $350.00 $350.00 Featured Poets (x4 events) $600.00 $600.00 Writing Workshop Facilitator (x1 event) $200.00 $200.00 Hand Sanitiser $10.00 $10.00 Sanitation Wipes $10.00 $10.00 Spare Masks $10.00 $10.00 Notebook/Paper $10.00 $10.00