LASALLE X Arts-ED: Community Building

Arts-ED is a non-profit organisation based in Penang, Malaysia which specialises in innovative community-based arts and culture education in rural and urban communities. Established since 1999, the organization’s programmes focus on arts, culture and heritage, and utilises both creative and critical pedagogy such as cultural mapping, documentation, promotion and celebration of local culture by community participants. Artists, educators, and cultural workers have always been key team members in the implementation of Arts-ED’s various arts and cultural education programmes in the community. 

Arts-ED aims to engage LASALLE students to produce a strategy that can explore how the organisation can  leverage the existing programmes to create an environment in which collaborators find meaning in long-term partnerships. Focusing on a specific community-based arts education programme for youth, a new Strategy should be developed to effectively engage stakeholders, build capacity and retain artists, educators, and cultural workers as Arts-ED’s collaborators.

A Strategy Report (around 10 pages) with specific, practical recommendations in terms of programme design and structure to contribute to creating an environment conducive to meaningful collaboration to enable growth and development of partners.

The strategy should reflect on collaborators’ feedback and vision  of future education programmes. Through understanding the organizational context and resources and gathering data from stakeholders the report should offer meaningful recommendations for future community development and partnership building.