Day Of The Dead

...more photos from initial brainstorm meeting

1. Online research including Arts Council funding

2. 1st Spider Map: Day of the Dead - thoughts/ideas/recognisable features

3. 2nd Spider map: traditions similar to Day of the Dead festivities

4. 3rd Spider map: ideas of of how to involve "the kids" in the exhibition

Idea about funding/advertising

I had an idea of how we could gain money to fund the exhibition as well as applying for funding. We could sell Sugar Skull making kits leading up to the exhibition with all profits funding the exhibition. The Sugar Skull would attract customers through it being a strong image in popular culture at the moment. The kit would contain a mould for making a sugar skull, a bag of sugar, a recipe to make the skull, information on the Day Of The Dead, information on the exhibition (thus advertising the exhibition) and an invite, inviting customers to bring a sugar skull they have made to be part of the exhibition. Because the exhibition isnt actualy going to occur, we would just need to produce an example of the information about the Day Of The Dead and of the exhibition which would be similar to the factsheets we already planned on producing. Also we could use the vacume former to create a mold and then use it, like we said before to create examples of sugar skulls and we need to write up the recipe & draw up design ideas for packaging. I also thought we could email local shops asking if they would stock the product if it existed & why/why not?

What do you all think of the idea? Please comment below.

Friday 11th 2011

10am - 2pm

-Will arrived at 10:30am due to maintence problems in his accomodation.

-Helanie left at 1:30pm due to collecting kids.

Work done:

Organised ourselves and our work.
Collected together the research we had all done into the Day Of The Dead and turned it into a series of spider diagrams.
Looked at the key elements of the Day Of The Dead that we are each interested in.
Researched funding and filled out funding application forms - this is to be continued at home by Siobhan and Charlie.
Researched into health and safety.
Talked about group work days such as sugar skull mask making and baking/sugar skull making.
Wrote a To Do list so we know what we need to do.
We agreed to research an artist and writer each to link our work to.
Talked about interveiwing various people.
We looked into working with schools and talked about theoretical projects for schools if the the exhibition was actualy going to happen like children creating clay tiles with sugar skulls on them. We also talked about projects we could actualy do, such as sending school surveys for their pupils to fill in and giving talks to pupils about the Day Of The Dead.