Program
Situation-Based Training
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Circus Performer
Circus Teacher
Stilt Performer
Fire Performer
Dancer
Visual Artist
Photographer
Sculptor
Musician
Producer
Stage Manager
Sound Engineer
Lighting designer
Media and Promotion
Operations Assistant
And so so much more!
Our ‘Situation-Based Training’ (SBT) creates the ecology from which we build the foundations of a Gascoyne Arts and Entertainment Industry. Career pathways are grandfathered into our organisational capacity underpinning industry vibrancy, regional liveability and individual wellbeing.
Creality’s professional development cycle runs for generations. We engage our team as children, spirit them into art and give them focus and purpose as teens by linking them to as many creative tribes as possible - tech, performer, stage manager, rigger, artist, producer… We also engage our team as adults via volunteer programs, free arts workshops as well as ‘career empowering’ local people.
Versatile interdisciplinary art projects are then customised in response to local initiatives and supported within a pioneering framework that utilises situation-based training for residents; creative and professional developments for local artists; cross-cultural collaborations between community members, artists and stakeholders; as well as internships and mentorships for all ages – all with festival creation outcomes.
Mentors are resourced specifically to support individuals to reach their full potential. Genuine confidence is developed by creating safe places to fail (which are the real foundations of success). Outcomes of these professional developments are genuine career pathways and actual jobs, placing local and international artists on the same platforms, giving recognition to, and enabling local communities to value local artists.
Functioning as a catchment to SBT is Creality’s annual program of community engagement projects called CRE8. CRE8/SBT can be delineated into four steps:
CRE8: When funding permits, the annual program runs year-round across the region. These are general community-enrichment activities formatted as weekly workshops and clinics - all free and accessible to attend. These include Faerial Circus, Pundarah Dance and Blood Beats.
Workshops and activities at each festival and event engage hundreds of people and promote recruitment opportunities. From these, the Creality team identify new talent; promotes CRE8 workshops
Mentorships – which fast track talented individuals into the industry, onto the stage and into the arts community, locally, nationally and internationally.
Situation-Based Training (SBT) career paths Gascoyne people into the festival and arts industries, many of whom become paid Creality team members and regional assets.
Situation Based Training
Tristan (first image) and Shizari (second image)
The Process
On average the SBT program is a three to four-year cycle (occasionally two years are conflated). We are only limited by our funding.
Year One - Casts a net into the Gascoyne communities by way of annual free workshops, clinics and activities. Past examples include - Architects of Spectacle - giant puppetry making/animation; Cross Fire Tableaux, an intra-regional fire sculpture; stilt walking workshops; circus and aerial. It is here that Creality identifies talent, builds trust and recruits volunteer team members.
Year Two - The new team members then transition into the second year of creative and professional development and training. They undergo a ‘skills vs aspirational skills audit’. While they are learning they are not paid, but their expenses are covered, and they receive a stipend.
Year Three - Contract level 1 pays team members at intern rates. A combination of trainee and crew responsibly.
Year Four - Contract level 2 - a higher level of pay. Trainees transition into cross-cultural collaborations between community members, artists and stakeholders. While all contract level 2 trainees are multi-skilled, GiM identifies whether they are primarily a producer, a performer or a technical crew. The organisation casts and resources year four trainees as needed. High-level guest artists are brought into the region to mentor Contract Levels 1 and 2.
Pathways into the Gascoyne Arts Industries
as provided by Creality
‘The Quick Dip’
Supporting local Talent ‘The Quick Dip’ literal talent scouting and supporting local talent. The Creality Producer/team identifies local talent and supports them to develop the concept for a new act.
‘Concept to Actuation’
Local people are fast-tracked onto festival stages and toured in the Creality - Gascoyne Travelling Arts Festival program. This enables them to share the stage and be mentored by seasoned artists. Examples include singers, songwriters and fire performers. As well as being provided with artistic guidance, they are inducted into industry safety culture, public liability insurances and supported to get ABN registration and basic sole trader business responsibility.
Musical Incubator
Participants get to work with high-level music producers, community artists and elite musicians from the realms of contemporary, classical and world music. They develop their skills, acts and networks.
Local group support
GiM actively supports community groups and builds membership and partnerships e.g. Carnarvon Community Choir, Shark Bay Arts Council, etc.
Mentorships
Intensive specialised mentorships in independent producing, sound engineering, stage management, lighting and production as well as one-on-one mentorships for artists both metro and regionally-based. Participants are supported with resources and linked into in-kind venue brokerage, protocols and procedure documents and operate under the umbrella of Creality. They then receive intensive professional development with the industry’s best practitioners. Seeding a culture of excellence in this way is key to Creality’s work.
Career Empowerment for artists and people in arts and culture
Creality employs local artists and programs them on stage alongside international acts, thus facilitating the gaining of new perspective and recognition from their community members. They then get more contracts/gigs outside of GiM’s festivals, year-round. Please register with us and we hope to work with you soon!