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Vision
Our vision is to ignite and celebrate your creativity and skills as an artist.
Creality will feed your creative soul, give you platforms to develop new works and new creative collaborations while experiencing an ancient and remote region of Western Australia.
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Opportunities
Opportunities include fostering new creative partnerships, lifelong friendships and to collaborate with artists from other genres.
You may learn new skill sets while on tour, or develop entirely new acts. We have toured many artists and groups who ended the six weeks Gascoyne Travelling Arts Festival with entirely new acts, new musical sets, and new professional partnerships.
Music and filming may be done to support you to have new digital assets which capture your performances or new creative works while on tour.
You may collaborate with either touring or local artists.
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Expectations
Gascoyne in May Inc trading as Creality expectations:
Your well being:
Nothing is more important than your well being and your relationships with those you love. Therefore we ask you to keep us posted sooner than later if you need time to rest, or time to attend to your relationships while on contract with us. We will adapt your scope of work to accommodate your needs.
Creality has a family-friendly policy - meaning we will do our best to accommodate your children, family and partners on tour. This may mean we redirect some of your professional fees to cover extra childcare and accommodation (but only when budgets are tight!).
Smile Compass and your Scope of Work:
Creality has found that we get the best out of our artists and team when they LOVE what they are doing. We work on 70% Smiles and 30% grunt. If in your scope of work you have been asked to do something that makes you frown - please let the Executive Producer know! We will review your project deliverables to ones that make you smile.
That said, to make cool shit happen, like really cool shit, it can be a hassle. Early morning film shoots, weather events, long days and late-night bump-outs. That's what we do. Our team is multiskilled and everyone pitches in to make brilliant stuff into a reality. If you’re part of our team, be part of our team. We promise you will feel great once things are packed down and you have lifelong memories of adventures with your festival family.
We aim for 100% smiles with grunt… Because we are audacious, fierce and fun!
Code of Conduct:
Creality has written and verbal workplace policies which deal with a variety of matters concerning how the workplace operates, procedures to be followed and expectations in relation to particular aspects of the business. You must comply with all of Creality workplace policies, procedures and codes of conduct.
You must also comply with all applicable policies, procedures and codes of conduct of the venues at which you are required to work as though they were workplace policies of Creality directly.
At the beginning of your contract, there will be a face to face induction which will cover - expectations, safety and protocols and procedures while on tour or in contact with us. If you have any confusion or questions, please contact one of the core team members, or the Executive Producer directly.
There will be a weekly face to face meeting about our next festival where we can outline risks which need to be mitigated and the procedures to do so. It is at these meetings that we ask you to address any concerns or make suggestions on how we can better deliver festivals, events, film and workshops.
You must raise any concerns immediately if the risk is imminent. Our safety motto is ‘There is no ‘maybe’, it must be 100% safe or it's not happening’. Please raise concerns with production or producers. If it's clearly unsafe ‘Stop the Job’ and address the issue.
You are required to be familiar with the content of all such policies, and to comply with their terms at all times. Any failure to do so may result in disciplinary action. If you are uncertain of where these policies are located or what obligations they impose, you have an express obligation to raise this with your Tour Manager, Stage Manager or Executive Producer.
You may request written clarification of any conflicts or disputes. Both Creality and yourself may request a third party to act as a mediator in the event of a conflict.
You must at all times conduct yourself in good manners when on tour with Creality. You must not undertake any criminal activity. If you are found to do so your contract will be terminated immediately.
You must not drive at night (unless it is an emergency).
Your safety and well being is Creality’s highest priority.
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Accommodation
As a touring artist/crew of the Gascoyne Travelling Arts Festival we ask you to be adaptable! Your accommodation will change from location to location and will range from shared houses, where you will have your own or shared room, to camping.
Accommodation and location will be changed only once per week.
Monday is a Rest Day - so there is time for you to do washing, plan sightseeing, catch up or read a book in bed all day!
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Food
All of your accommodation will have a full kitchen.
Kitchen Trailer: In addition to this is our ‘Street Beats’ Pop Up Kitchen Trailer.
This will be set up at each location as the Team Hub/meeting point/centre for Child Care/ and catering.
Cafes and Restaurants are in all towns excluding Mt Augustus Tourist Park.
Denham 2 x IGA Supermarkets
Carnarvon has the best Woolworths on the planet and Carnarvon has cafes and restaurants
Junction Tourist Park has very basic groceries, long life milk, etc
Junction Tourist Park has a great restaurant* Crew catering to be confirmed!
Mt Augustus Tourist park has no restaurant* Crew catering confirmed!
Exmouth 2 x IGA Supermarkets and lots of great cafes and restaurants
Coral Bay 1 x Super Market, cafes and restaurants
A large grocery shop in Carnarvon before heading out to Junction/Mt Augustus Tourist Park.
Breakfast and dinner will be catered at Mt Augustus tourist Park, but you will need to park for lunch.
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Travel
Tuesday is always a travel day (with the odd exception for mobilising from Mt Augustus tourist park), or in the event of an emergency.
The Tuesday Travel day is a full day to pack up, travel and resettle into next week's accommodation. It can often be a ‘big day’. On average we will travel 350km per leg of the tour.
There are 9 legs of our tour
Muster in Denham, Shark Bay from your point of travel.
Denham to Carnarvon 330km
Carnarvon to Gascoyne Junction 170km
Gascoyne Junction to Mt Augustus Tourist Park 350km (5 hour drive)
Mt Augustus Tourist Park to Carnarvon 490km (7 hours)
Carnarvon to Exmouth 370km
Exmouth to Coral Bay 160km
Coral Bay to Carnarvon 238km
Carnarvon to home
We recommend
You pack a thermos and your favourite way to make coffee or tea. Make a thermos before you depart. There are no cafes on many legs of the tour, or they are over 200km apart.
You pack a 1-litre water bottle
Pack snacks
Good polarised sunglasses
Driving gloves for sun protection if you are the driver
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Driving your own Vehicle
If you are driving YOUR Vehicle on tour
Check tyres (including the spare)
Check your jack and know how to change a tyre
Buy some tyre worms (google it)
Do not rely on phone range for navigation, so download all maps onto your phone. Better yet, buy a good old map!
Know the fuel range of your vehicle and use your odometer
be careful of how much you pack on your roof rack; a heavy load on top increases the chances of a roll-over
store water in small containers instead of one large tank; check all water containers for leaks; most towns have water but, at some places, you may not be able to get drinking water
bring matches or a lighter
pack a fire extinguisher
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What to Pack
Packing for any adventure is an art! Packing for an outback, coastal festival adventure is…a challenge. We suggest you pack your bag and zip it up. Then open it and take half of the things out!
Favourite clothes which can be worn in layers.
Comfortable clothes for long drives
Clothes for days on the beach
One fabulous outfit
A warm versatile jacket
Swimsuit
Scarf which can be used as shade and warmth
A great hat with a fly net
Travel towel
Travel cup and thermos - as there are no cafes for over 200km at a time
1 Litre water bottle
Mobile phone charger
Yoga mat if you're into that
Flip Flops
A pair of hiking boots/trainers/or closed shoes.
Small torch
Travel cutlery
Download audiobooks and podcasts
Your props, costumes, etc
And most importantly your sense of adventure!
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Outback Driving Notes
The Gascoyne is the size of the UK and is a giant paddock! It’s all pastoral stations and National parks… wide open spaces and the home to many animals!
There is often wildlife on the roads at all times of the day and night.
Creality has a company policy not to drive at night unless it is an emergency.
Have the person in the passenger seat look out for wildlife while you travel.
If you see wildlife:
Brake, don’t swerve.
Stay on the road - if at all possible.
If you see one animal - be alert for others. They often travel in packs! It can be the second kangaroo that hits you, not the first.
Don't swerve for birds
Goats are smart and don't run onto the roads unless they are kids
Emu’s are crazy
Kangaroos are kamikaze and can't jump backwards, (except for the one on the Australian Coat of Arms).
Where there’s cow poo, there are cows! Cows are the trees of the Gascoyne. If you hit one, it could kill you. And that’s NOT your story.
If at night, you see little shiny lights hovering in the middle of the road - that's a COW. Slow down!
If you're tired, pull over, rest, sleep, or do a handstand. One minute of being upside down is roughly the equivalent of ten minutes of sleep. It's all about oxygenating the brain. True!
Micro-naps while driving can kill you or someone else. Please pull over into a roadside parking bay and sleep.
If you do hit an animal
Stop. Look. If it's dead, pull it to the side of the road (but only if it's safe to do so). If it’s really injured, run it over properly. Yes, this is horrific but it's what we do in the outback. A dead animal in the middle of the road is a hazard to other vehicles and animals, specifically Wedge Tail eagles which feast on road kill and inexperienced drivers speeding like demons who overcorrect their steering to avoid road kill.
Other drivers
Always look in your rear view mirror if swerving onto the other side of the road or doing an emergency stop. You'd be amazed how many times there’s suddenly another car overtaking you when you haven't seen one for days!
Wave at drivers when you pass them! It's rude not to, and it's the outback way of saying, ‘I'm awake at the wheel’, and ‘I will check on you if you’re broken down’. It's just what we do in the Gascoyne!
If you do see someone that has broken down. Slow down. Wind your window down just part of the way. Lock your doors, pull up alongside their car, suss them out. 99% of the time it's a good person in a shit situation. Check they have help on the way. If they do, ask if they have water and snacks. If they don’t share what you can. If they don’t have help on the way note where they are, and get a message to someone as soon as you’re in phone range.
If you don't feel safe doing this - DON'T!
Always trust your gut!
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Phone & Wifi
Mobile Phone Range/Internet
Denham Telstra & Optus
Carnarvon Telstra & Optus
Gascoyne Junction 3G Telstra only
The Gascoyne Junction Visitors centre has limited wifi access but has wifi.
Mt Augustus Tourist Park - 4G Optus only
Burringurrah Remote Community School has no mobile cover
Exmouth Telstra & Optus
Coral Bay Telstra & Optus
While not in these towns there is no phone range.
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Emergency Contact
Creality will have a satellite phone for off-road travel and the entire tour. You will be able to use this phone number as an emergency contact.
Phone Recommendations:
If you have an Optus phone, invest in a prepaid Telstra Wifi dongle. You can run your Optus phone on the Telstra network via wifi. Telstra 4GX WiFi Plus Modem MF910Y (or similar).
Artist
Registration
Form
Please fill this form out once for each artist
Babysitting Enrolment & Indemnity Form
Please fill this form out once per child
In the case of multiple children:
Our apologies in advance. Due to technical limitations
you have to submit parent details every time.