{"id":11817,"date":"2013-01-18T05:33:56","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T10:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artbridgesblog.ca\/?p=11817"},"modified":"2013-01-18T05:33:56","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T10:33:56","slug":"todays-morning-coffee-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artbridges.ca\/fr\/todays-morning-coffee-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Morning Coffee: Collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I must admit: I am exhausted. What is it about January?<\/em> It’s the second week back to work after the holidays and everyone seems to be on a fast train\u2014so much to do, so many meetings and commitments! What happened to that\u00a0languorous\u00a0holiday feeling? It’s gone as quickly as specialty holiday lattes.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, here at ArtBridges, we’re at the proverbial and literal \u00ab\u00a0drawing board.\u00a0\u00bb We’re working on developing our new website and it\u2019s all about collaboration<\/i><\/b>.<\/i> With so many decisions to make and so many perspectives to be heard,\u00a0there’s bound to be some\u00a0creative<\/span>\u00a0head-butting. However, within all the intensity, some incredible ideas do come forth\u2014thanks to the professional input,\u00a0excellent\u00a0guidance and passionate enthusiasm from everyone involved.<\/p>\n

We have a great team and it’s growing. This past Monday, we started to work with Susan Ward, who is going to advise and collaborate on creating an ad and sponsorship presence on the website. On Tuesday, we started work with Dawn Comber, our web content writer. Dawn will be helping us with creating content that addresses both the user and search engine perspectives. And thank goodness for our most patient designer and web developer, Samuel Benisty and his group, who are trying to\u00a0synchronize\u00a0all the feedback our team is giving. \u00a0Lastly, we couldn’t do any of this collaborative work without the Ontario Trillium Foundation’s dear support.<\/p>\n

While I’m on the topic of the strengths and challenges of creative collaborations<\/i><\/b>\u2014I just pulled out a heavily dog-eared book on this subject by Twyla Tharp called\u00a0The Creative Habit: Life Lessons for Working Together<\/em> (Simon & Schuster, 2009, NY, NY). It was recommended to me by Shirley Hunt, who runs Focus on Nature, one of ArtBridges\/ToileDesArts’ community partners.<\/p>\n

If you’re in the middle of a collaborative<\/b> art project or endeavor which brings together a diverse group of professionals and\/or community members, I do recommend this book for some inspiration and ideas\u2014here are a couple of passages:<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/i>\u00ab\u00a0I define collaboration as people working together\u2014sometimes by choice, sometimes not. Sometimes we collaborate to\u00a0jumpstart\u00a0creativity; other times the focus is simply on getting things done. In each case, people in a good collaboration accomplish more than the group’s most talented members could\u00a0achieve\u00a0on their own<\/b>\u2026Like creativity, collaboration is a habit and one I encourage you to develop\u2026Collaboration may be a practice\u2014a way of working in harmony with others – but it begins with a point of view.\u00a0\u00bb (back cover)<\/i><\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0A great partnership is a lab where change happens everyday.\u00a0\u00bb<\/b> (p. 40)<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Have a good weekend!\u2014and if you have a unique story to share with the ArtBridges\/ToileDesArts community about a creative and collaborative community project that you’re working on, we’d love to hear from you, reach us at: info@artbridges.ca<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0–\u00a0Seanna Connell,\u00a0<\/em>Project Director<\/em><\/p>\n

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I must admit: I am exhausted. What is it about January? It’s the second week back to work after the holidays and everyone seems to be on a fast train\u2014so much to do, so many meetings and commitments! What happened to that\u00a0languorous\u00a0holiday feeling? It’s gone as quickly as specialty holiday<\/p>\n

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