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HAH! Its all coming up Milhouse. I just this moment had kind of an epiphany about what I'm going to do for my program at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Its beautiful.
This was my proposal: I wanted to create a 'handbook' of sorts that would help the gallery's existing Youth Council plan and present a series of large-scale events for teenagers. This would involve creating a 'sample' event based on the gallery's current exhibit of modern art called "Sculpture as Time."
The problem with the proposal: Even when I submitted it, I realized that this was an overly-complicated/confusing program. Its like I was trying to create a program within a program - I was trying to create a program that would help the youth council create a program. The concept was just too convoluted.
Up till now, my backup plan was to completely change my program from the original proposal - this potentially could have lost me a lot of marks, but quality of the program would have been better. Based on a birthday party scavenger hunt that Meaghan was telling me about, I wanted to create a bookable program that would involve a scavenger hunt for teens. So, that idea basically slaps my original proposal in the face - its not a large scale event, its not based on a specific exhibit, it doesn't really require any participation from the Youth Council, and my target audience wasn't going to be teenagers- it was going to be undergraduate students. But I really liked the idea because 1) it could be really fun/interactive, and 2) it is a perfect way to familiarize new visitors with the gallery. That is supposed to be the entire purpose of my event: to bring in new audiences, and to hopefully inspire them to come back.
Tonight though, with a belly full of turkey and carrot cake, I was browsing random blogs on how to create fun scavenger hunts for adults, and I came across the phrased "Themed scavenger hunt" and basically that combination of words illuminated how I can combine my proposal with my new idea, and have it be awesome.
New plan: I am going to have a one-time event where lots of people can come to participate in a scavenger hunt themed on the "Sculpture as Time" exhibit. Ahhhhh.....its like finishing a jigsaw puzzle. Everything....works now - its still a large scale event, that can conceivably utilize the Youth Council (as judges), it ties into a current exhibit - yet it still has all the fun and educational qualities of the scavenger hunt. I don't know why I hadn't thought of that in the first place. It will be a photo-scavenger hunt, where the participants don't just have to collect/locate things - they have to go places, do things, and take pictures of it as evidence.
I still have tons of work to do before my presentation of Wednesday, but Im really relieved now.
This was my proposal: I wanted to create a 'handbook' of sorts that would help the gallery's existing Youth Council plan and present a series of large-scale events for teenagers. This would involve creating a 'sample' event based on the gallery's current exhibit of modern art called "Sculpture as Time."
The problem with the proposal: Even when I submitted it, I realized that this was an overly-complicated/confusing program. Its like I was trying to create a program within a program - I was trying to create a program that would help the youth council create a program. The concept was just too convoluted.
Up till now, my backup plan was to completely change my program from the original proposal - this potentially could have lost me a lot of marks, but quality of the program would have been better. Based on a birthday party scavenger hunt that Meaghan was telling me about, I wanted to create a bookable program that would involve a scavenger hunt for teens. So, that idea basically slaps my original proposal in the face - its not a large scale event, its not based on a specific exhibit, it doesn't really require any participation from the Youth Council, and my target audience wasn't going to be teenagers- it was going to be undergraduate students. But I really liked the idea because 1) it could be really fun/interactive, and 2) it is a perfect way to familiarize new visitors with the gallery. That is supposed to be the entire purpose of my event: to bring in new audiences, and to hopefully inspire them to come back.
Tonight though, with a belly full of turkey and carrot cake, I was browsing random blogs on how to create fun scavenger hunts for adults, and I came across the phrased "Themed scavenger hunt" and basically that combination of words illuminated how I can combine my proposal with my new idea, and have it be awesome.
New plan: I am going to have a one-time event where lots of people can come to participate in a scavenger hunt themed on the "Sculpture as Time" exhibit. Ahhhhh.....its like finishing a jigsaw puzzle. Everything....works now - its still a large scale event, that can conceivably utilize the Youth Council (as judges), it ties into a current exhibit - yet it still has all the fun and educational qualities of the scavenger hunt. I don't know why I hadn't thought of that in the first place. It will be a photo-scavenger hunt, where the participants don't just have to collect/locate things - they have to go places, do things, and take pictures of it as evidence.
I still have tons of work to do before my presentation of Wednesday, but Im really relieved now.