Our focus for the day: 

• Introduction to ArTELIER

• Working together, Enabling communication and Active listening.

• How do we work together as a collective?  How does listening and collaboration inform our work with children and young people?

• Introduction to Launceston project – Skills for Kids Cafes. 

On your arrival you will be greeted with a creative encounter to welcome and embrace the beginnings of our ArTELIER connection together! We’ll be creating a name badge with expressive individualism (in true ArTLELIER style!) and we’d love you to bring along a significant something to embed into the layers of your name badge that captures and expresses in someway the essence of you. 

10.00 – 11.30 : Gathering, Welcomes, Introductions, Acknowledgements, and Coffee.  

Overview of ArTELIER

Presentation via video – Dr Anna Alomes, Human Rights Philosopher, Communicator and Wanderer on Global Pathways

Anna’s career began in the art world and progressed through the past two decades into the field of Human Rights, Communication & Inclusion and Mindfulness.  Her mid-career PhD work took place in post-apartheid South Africa with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission alongside Archbishop Desmond Tutu and in the Himalaya with the Tibetan Government in Exile alongside the Dalai Lama. She recently returned to Tasmania from Zurich Switzerland working with the US based Mind and Life Institute (a cluster of neuroscientists, philosophers, educationalists and sociologists) working on projects that included President Obama’s Human Brain Project.  Anna has done a 5 year stint in academia along the way and published a range of books and journal articles. She is currently working with the City of Hobart at the Town Hall where the connection to ArTELIER was made. 

11.30 – 12.30: Introduction to Skills for Kids café  

Northern Tasmania is the home to a unique pilot program that is created from the ground up and is about teaching children sustainability while cultivating meaningful cultural and social communities.  This "sustainable skills cafe" concept provides  an inviting space where anyone in the community could be involved.  A café will be running on Friday morning concurrently in the venue.  ArTELIER artists can observe and participate from 11.30 to 12 and then discuss the concept with the organisers. 

12.30 - 1.15: ArTELIER discussion (including communication processes, projects, structure)

1.15:   Lunch – PLEASE BRING SOMETHING TO SHARE