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VarolArte

Country: Peru

Organization: Via Lactea Cultural Association

Hecho con Recursos Propios/ Made with proper resources

3) Strategy Summary:
The following is an art and communication project based on the design and diffusion of a publicity campaign social responsibility Ideals of Being, with a force of positive ideas such as personal identity and self-esteem, natural resources and environmental surroundings, solidarity, honesty and respect, spreading it in the youth.

Originality: the design of the campaign constructed by the same receptors in applying codes and language of each proper city and place; in the circulation of the low cost publicity campaign by the way of serigraph; inclusion of regional authorities as partners and finally, being a project with massive participation becomes an attractive product for the media, on a local, regional and national diffusion.

4) How the Strategy Works:

  • Campaign Construction. Through medium of universities, inviting the students and publicity agents to form part of the team ValorArte, that will determine the values to define and create the campaign Ideals of being.

  • Signing the agreement. With the Ministry of Education in order to give it an official character and to co-ordinate with the regional and local education authorities with the objective of inviting them to promote the practices the competitions and functions, in relation to education and culture that the recent promulgated de-centralizing law grant.

  • Educational Program. About Values, Publicity, Design and Communication, for the Workshop Seminars directed at teachers and students of Fine Arts, Communication Science and Teachers of primary and secondary in state centers of education, in each of the cities taking part in the project.

  • Define the geographical sectors. It will be carried out in part by the cultural homogeneity, that are in some way in tune with Arts and Sciences, Education and Communication in these 13 cities. In the first circuit we have considered, Arequipa-Puno-Cusco. Second Trujillo-Cajamarca- Chiclayo -Piura. Third Huancayo-Huaraz. Fourth Pucallpa- Iquitos. Fifth Ica-Ayacucho.

  • Verifying the work of the organization. Previously, the pre-production team will travel to each zone to install the intrigue campaign, organize a press conference, logistics, verify the municipal permission and dates of group talks and workshops with educational authorities and directors of high schools and university teachers involved.

  • Travel. The ValorArte Caravan consists of a bus conditioned with material and equipment for the job, 6 publicists, 6 educators, a serigraph technician, field producer, photographer, cameraman, an assistant and a chauffeur.

  • Organization Team. The team will carry out a press conference with all of the local media, and then divide in groups to install the 12 workshops directed at the students of the Fine Arts and Communication Sciences, within the first and second day of the weekly program. Here symbols and language of the campaign will be defined, printed and reproduced by the serigraph technician and 24 volunteers chosen by the groups.

    The flyers will be posted in spaces within the public view such as education centers and institutions involved in the project. It will be used as material to work during the workshops and group talks.

    The volunteers will work with the ValorArte team dictating 96 group talks in the 10 to 12 national high schools selected in the third and fourth day. In the evening, a workshop will be carried out for teachers of fine Arts and Communication Sciences and the schools chosen. They will receive a certificate of participation.

  • Mass event realization. On the fifth day, an open workshop will be realized in a public space, with tables, posters and serigraphic impressions that the assistants and visitors can print and take with them with the symbols from the campaign and use the phrases and symbols to create there own proper flyer. It will include also local musicians that will be in tune with the campaign.

  • Contest to carry out the campaign. The ValorArte team, with participation from the cultural representatives of each city, will give three tasks to the 20 pre-selected, the ones that win symbolically in the inauguration of the ValorArte Workshop.

  • Cultural Leaders Designation. Team Production will chose 5 cultural leaders and will install in each city an Art and Communication ValorArte Workshop, they will oversee continuity of the project through medium of positioning of campaigns and reinforcement of the task.

  • Workshops Inauguration. The sixth day the 5 cultural leaders will be named and will inaugurate the ValorArte Workshop with the participation of the authorities and the local press. Afterwards the installation of the winning posters will be inaugurated in a public space, and finally, install the campaign within the local population.

  • Workshops Supervision. They five will receives the task of conducting the ValorArte Workshops and the given activities. These will be visited and monitored on a regular basis, in order to carry out the intention of the campaign.

  • Team Work Evaluation. The seventh day the caravan team will depart towards the next city within the circuit, where they will apply the same chronogram. Finishing the circuit, during a three days stay in the last city, they will finalize by carrying out a reunion of evaluation.

  • Itinerant Art Exhibition. V a L ctea will organize an itinerant art exhibition around the country, showing the selected works throughout the travels of the caravan and the registered graphics of the experience.

  • Publication of ours experience. V a L ctea will publish an informative document about the ValorArte project so that the idea can be applied to other organizations.

    A reference draft for the body and design of the Ideals Of Being campaign

    5) Key Strategy Elements:

    ii. Generating Financial and Nonfinancial Resources:
    Via Lactea has the goal of obtaining an economic base from foundations, private businesses and organisms of the state to finance the salary of the production team and the logistic of the caravan. The workshops will have self- financing functions by way of creating and selling products with designs from the campaign. Also they can offer to replicate through group talks in private high schools, and designing social responsibility campaigns to businesses and organisms of the state and opening a subscription system of benefactor members. The workshops will produce a magazine, a radio and TV program, within the local media. These will sell publicity spaces. These services should cover the cost of materials and a salary for the cultural leaders.

    iv. Engaging and Managing Volunteers:
    The project will have two types of volunteers. In the design and participation of the campaign and caravan (23 people), and those in charge of the function of the ValorArte workshops in each city (65 leaders). The volunteers are important in our strategy, giving it extensive character and decentralizing the project. ValorArte will encourage the involvement of volunteers welcoming capacitation and motivation, awareness and retribucion from there peers, with support through communication, interconnection and a constant redefining of goals.

    v. Developing Information and Spreading the Message:
    The investigation will help us define the group of values and work the design of the campaign. The team works permits us to enrich the work of investigation and define the language and codes of each proper city. The campaign base serves to obtain 13 decentralized campaigns created by its proper citizens. The message is spread by medium of campaigns positioned in public spaces and via existing forms of communication in the media. Will be developed a press campaign that includes press conferences and carrying out of spreading the message by way of national and local mediums of communication. The cultural leaders will produce a radio and TV programs and a magazine with the specific intention of spreading the message. We will have a web page.

    A reference draft for the body and design of the Ideals Of Being campaign

    6) Increasing Self-sufficiency and Social Impact:
    The project seeks the involvement of institutions and people of each city that receives the project of ValorArte.

    The utilization of the serigraph postings of the campaign permits the population to identify with the product, that it is an ample element used for the diffusion within the popular festivals of Peru.

    The activities permit us to position ourselves as an institution promoting culture, communication, development and construction of respect for our citizens.

    The direct expected impact in each city, within the caravan stay:
    3,840 student in the 5th year of secondary, 200 students of the Fine Arts and Communication Sciences, 60 Education and Career teachers related to these professions, 100 teachers of primary and secondary schools and 1,500 people participating during the open workshops; totaling a direct impact of 5,700 people. At the end of two years the work of the caravan will have impacted directly a total of 74,100 people and indirectly a total of 1,224,842 hab

    8) Organization Mission and Vision:
    We have the mission of identify, promote, and spread the message of the cultural values to raise strengthen integration and respect on our culture diversity. Our final objective is to form a national system of cultural leaders that give the project continuity to form a generation with solid values.

    Looking Forward to the Next Three Years:
    The Valorarte workshops are producing sourvenirs, a magazine, a radial and a TV program in local media, covering the costs and replicating the campaign. The cultural leaders will generate its own cultural space, involving local youth in activities.

    After the campaign we will develop a workshop or seminar program with the support of the cultural leaders in each city about development and communication. Finally, we will initiate the caravan travel and campaign in Lima, the capital city.

    Contact Information:
    Veronica Sienz  Porras
    Executive Manager
    Via Lactea Cultural Association
    Calle 31-252- Urb. Corpac- San Isidro- Lima
    Peru
    Tel: 226-2703 - 97670277
    Email: vialactea40@yahoo.com



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