CREATIVE ACADIANA | Making It Happen
MAKING IT HAPPEN | Design Intensive for Organized Cultural Participation with Hali Dardar
From a potluck to a festival, cultural activities don’t just happen – they take the time, passion, planning , and acumen of passionate individuals and groups. The fruits of this work are the traditions and events which we enjoy every year. Making it Happen is a 90-minute workshop to support cultural events in succeeding. This workshop is aimed to support people who have been organizing cultural activities for years, people whose ideas are yet to be created, and every creative in between. The workshop will discuss elements of organized cultural participation, a cycle of cultural participation and representation, and explore how applying these concepts can help in making these efforts more sustainable. Participants will connect with other cultural organizers, learn to articulate elements of organized cultural participation within their work, and apply organizing concepts within their own cultural and community efforts.
ABOUT HALI DARDAR
Hali Dardar is an interaction designer, project manager, and facilitator. She enjoys developing long-term, creative engagements to improve organizational processes and produce community-affirming change. From Louisiana, she is a tribal member of the United Houma Nation and co-founder of the Houma Language Project who holds a BA in Mass Communication from Louisiana State University and a MA in Arts, Culture, and Media from the University of Groningen. Current work includes elements of language revitalization, digital ceremony, community memory, and organized cultural participation. Examples of past relevant work include Language Reclamation Landscapes, grantee training sessions to support Indigenous language practitioners in collectively addressing challenges.
AcA is committed to making our programming as accessible as possible. This Creative Acadiana session will be in-person, streamed and recorded. If you require your accessibility needs addressed, please contact community@acadianacenterforthearts.org to discuss.
