Culture Division of the Government of Sāmoa

Sāmoa Ne’i Galo Festival Promotion & Recording
Communities to develop: Sāmoan High School students, teachers and their supporters

• Designed poster and web banners to promote this national dance and culture competition in a dynamic way -catching the energy and building excitement for its high school audience
• Photograph the performers from the stage to record and celebrate the event
• Process and archive stills and video to be used for future Ministry promotion and event marketing

Museum of Sāmoa

History Tour App
Community to develop: People interested in Sāmoa who won’t necessarily visit the Museum

• Applied and received funding
• Visited sites, interviewed stakeholders and compiled research into app text
• Sourced and prepared historical images
• Designed publicity posters, fliers and web graphics
• Held launch event with keynote address by the CEO of Sāmoa’s Ministry of Education, Sports and Culture

Sāmoa Voyaging Society

Website
Community to develop: People around the world interested in Pacific Voyaging and Samoa’s replica va’atele “Gaualofa”

• Brainstorm audience, message, content and structure
• Collect images and data from various crew members past and present, in Samoa and abroad
• Transfer ownership of the web address
• Ensure site is light enough to be accessible on the low internet ranges in Samoa and other Pacific Islands
• Launched in time to capitalise on global media attention and general interest sparked by Disney’s “Moana”

National Archives of Sāmoa

The U.N. International Archives Day Event in Samoa
Communities to develop: Sāmoan Government Workers, Reseachers, invited Sāmoan High School Students

• Sat in on eight hours of the selection review of scanned archival photographs, newspaper clippings and documents with the National Archives of Sāmoa staff generously explaining the significance of a wide range of historical events to me
• From their ideas, created nine posters highlighting significant topics in the archives
• Additionally developed five banners outlining the work of archivists in Sāmoa
• Installed these designs in the exhibition space
• Enjoyed photographing the event, its beautiful performances, and listening to the guests interacting with the exhibition
• Furthered celebration of their work by establishing a Facebook page and uploading captioned photo albums

National Centre for Museum Methodology, Mongolia

National Mentoring Project
Communities to develop: Education staff in Mongolian public museums & museum-to-school relationships

• Custom-designed mentorship & network building program involving 42 museum educators, over 100 school teachers and 700 primary school students
• Regional workshop training
• Online training
• Video training

National Museum of Mongolia

Project 1: Museum Children’s Book Program
Community to develop: Children & families

• Designed project branding, marketing and products
• Created and ran book donor campaign
• Social Media campaign
• Launch event
• Mobile library

Project 2: Museum Education Program
Community to develop: School students

• Researched and developed historical and cultural content
• Designed training materials
• Sourced and organised Felt Artist to lead demonstrations

Project 3: Open Education Room
Community to develop: Museum Visitors

• Assembled existing and designed further hands-on activities
• Recruited and managed volunteers
• Recorded project for reporting and social media

Warships & Marine Corps Museum

Project: Identity Graphics & Website
Community to build: Local & international visitors & naval history buffs

• Brand
• Website
• Social Media
• Business card
• Print advertisement for newspaper
• Poster

Bathtub Boat “Maker-Sailor” Community

Personal dream since hitchhiking on a yacht around the top of Australia
Community to seed: Arty & adventurous water-lovers, who like me don’t own their own yacht

• Found and adapted discarded bathtubs to be seaworthy
• Organised regular Bathboat Build-days in Sydney’s Inner West and Float-events on Sydney Harbour
• Laughed and laughed with old and many new friends!
• Improved our fibre-glassing and other building and design skills as well as our ability to float!

Australian Refugee Film Festival

Project: Film-making Community
Communities to develop: Former refugees living in Sydney

• Organised professional & community volunteers
• Established a training program
• Built and managed a private social network website
• One of our Community’s films won Best Short

Direction First Market Research Company

Staff Profiles & Team Building videos
Community to develop: Direction First Market Research Company team, and their relationship to their clients

• Photographed staff for their website and other workplace communications, with the brief: approachable + fun
• Filmed several team building events and compiled them into videos used on their website

An individual turning 50 years old

Project: Milestone Animation
Community to develop: Client’s personal friends & family

• Created a life-story celebration video 
  using photographs, song choices and narration of the “Birthday Girl”
• First played at her 50th Birthday party

Big Ballers!

Big Ball Soccer
Community to develop: My own! Of fun people open to a more outlandish way to get regular exercise

• Bought and managed equipment
• Consolidated and briefed all players on the Three Rules of Big Ball
• Marketed it by word-of-mouth and online with photos and a video
• Remembered every players’ special “Big Ball Name”
• Ran regularly over 18 months