1. Challen Wilson – Arts Practice & Survival
Value Proposition
‘Kia mau koe ki ngā kupu o ōu tupuna’
• Introduction of presentation
• Creativity
• Family
• Business
• Q&A
2. Introduction
when eyes, looked into the sky scene: the world.
situating cents, with the spider’s maximum eight.
sensing through the rivulet of trees. opening.
eye with the sky,
ear with the rumble.
tongue with peter,
nose with coconut.
fingers on the wheel,
instincts open.
crinkles and snowflakes,
crown and chin confident and harmonious: navigation.
i am my value proposition.
3. Creativity
• My current ‘internal’ arts project for Lotus
Productions:
– Winter
• My current ‘external’ arts project for Lotus
Productions:
– Whiti Album Tour 2010 – 2011 (and beyond…)
• Love what you do or get out of the league: value
proposition. What does this mean to you?
4. Family
• This is one of my top reasons to do what I do.
• This is one of my top reasons to support those
around me.
• This is the one word that can turn the
thoughts of some thing so harsh in
relationship into something bearable.
• This is the a reason to value me as I am my
value proposition, I am my survival.
5. Business
• Lotus Productions Ltd
What ever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power
and magic in it. Goethe
– Building craft – Whakapapa of building my craft outside of
the established learning institutions
– Building business – learning the ways of the business mind.
‘Business never sleeps’.
– Supporting growth – ‘Te Puawaitanga’ Collective supports
one another to live viably and sustainably off our arts practices
– Future Aspirations – Papakainga, aged, children, story &
outmoding
6. WHAKAPAPA O TE MAHI KI A LOTUS
PRODUCTIONS LIMITED
Current Projects
• Whiti Tour 2010-2011
• Co-Producer & Assitant Director of short film No Title (completion October 2010)
• Actor for European Tour of NZ Theatre works (completion November 2010)
• New Zealand writer/producer collaboration The Adventures in the Night Time children’s book series
(ongoing collaboration)
• Profiling, management and maintenance of actor portfolio (ongoing collaboration)
• Winter – Playwright and Producer (ongoing project)
• Karetao & Puppetry Research (ongoing project)
• Actor for Otago School of Medicine (actor/facilitator for medical students assessments – ongoing
collaboration)
• Voice work for educational resources (ongoing casual employment)
• The Taniwha and the Lollipop – Children’s Puppet Show, Children’s Pop Up Book & Short Film
(forecasted future project)
2010
• Filmmaker and Coordinator for the VUW Samoan Student Association 21 Year Celebration
• Alaskan – Maori International Indigenous Playwrights Collaboration with theatre piece Winter:
Alaska – Writing and Forecasting (including writing an article about Alaskan journey in Tu Mai
magazine as part of the profiling campaign)
7. WHAKAPAPA ANO
2009
• Artist to Trade on Honour installation art piece –
donated to an art auction and bought by Chris
Tennet
• Karetao & Puppetry Research
• Alaskan – Maori International Indigenous
Playwrights Collaboration with theatre piece
Winter: New Zealand – Directing, production and
showing of excerpts
• Producer Kehua short film New Zealand premier
8. WHAKAPAPA ANO
2008
• Production Assistant International Festival of the Arts
Show and Tell Theatre works submission
• Front of House Management of theatre piece Familiar
Strangers in Wellington Fringe Festival (nominated for
a Chapman Tripp Award – Most Original Production)
• Karetao & Puppetry Research
• Alaskan – Maori International Indigenous Playwrights
Collaboration with theatre piece Winter: New Zealand
– Writing and Arts Practice
• Art Department Management for Wellington Music
Festival – Summer Set
9. WHAKAPAPA ANO
2007
• Event Coordinator of International Indigenous Youth
Conference (Directly responsible for: Catering, Travel,
Project Team management, Co-facilitated Finance
management)
• Archive retrieval for television production company
• National Producer – NZ Touring International
Indigenous Film Festival
• Karetao & Puppetry Research
• Alaskan – Maori International Indigenous Playwrights
Collaboration with theatre piece Winter: Alaska –
Writing and Arts Practice
10. WHAKAPAPA ANO
2006
• Actor voice work for radio advertising
• Writing, Producing & Directing of theatre piece Te Tapa
Toru (Premier at BATS Theatre, Wellington Fringe Festival)
• Producer of V48 Hour Film competition short film entry –
Tyrique Don’t Believe in Monsters (inclusion on the 2006
DVD ‘Best of the Rest’)
• Karetao & Puppetry Research
• Creation, Facilitation and Impletion of Youth at Risk Theatre
Program
• Co-Producer National Contemporary Maori Theatre Hui for
Taki Rua Productions
11. WHAKAPAPA ANO
2005
• Actor voice work for radio advertising
• Concepts, Producer & Director of music video
Positive Criticism (including securing bands
first recording, entering music video into a
music video competition, organizing bands
first Wellington show)
• Hinemoa and the Maori Resistance Radio
Drama
13. Questions & Answers
• Me – You
– Who am I?
• My – Your Arts Practice & Survival
– Why do I do art? Who is it for?
• Me – you, my – your arts practice & survival and
Magdalena Aotearoa
– When aligning yourself with a collective what do you hope
to gain from such a collaboration?
14. For further information
• Contact:
Challen Wilson – Com[p]any Director
Lotus Productions Limited
lotusproltd@gmail.com
Performative Story-telling that Travels.
Facilitation in story & creators of story.
Come and see me after the session because I will surely have a business card.
Talk about Winter – 2007 Alaska start – Writing & Arts Practice, 2008 New Zealand 2nd – Writing & Arts Practice, 2009 New Zealand 3rd – Directing & Arts Practice, 2010 Alaska 4th – Writing & Forecasting, Now: waiting for response to application to workshop in Canada in Jan 2011
Talk about Whiti Tour – Who, What, Where, When, Why, How and beyond…
Talk about myself as a mother
Talk about adopting the family philosophy to working collaborations
At this point I’d like us all to turn to our neighbour look, give and receive and then touch one another with a hug or a handsake. Just this morning my house mate, Rosaleen Moxey said to be every morning you’ve been up cooking kai – another form of what I consider ‘whanau’ sharing, just so that I can share in the sense of taste with my comrades.
Talk about conflict in working collaborations
Talk about value proposition – an arts practice with integrity & a business practice with integrity combined = in some ways value proposition
What I am doing for, through and with Lotus Productions as a business entity. Because business is fun, when you know how it works. Money is fun when you know how it works. Anything you decide is fun is fun cause you said so.
The point is to highlight the work load from 2004 – Current through embracing myself as my value proposition
We all have different motivations, lets embrace them with all of our being. For me its about building a stable financial entity through dedicating myself to my craft so that my family can benefit from those rewards. As artists and practitioners I’m sure some of you may share this motivation and some of you will be driven by something else just as valid. What ever it is I suggest harnessing and appreciating that which is your value proposition so that maybe you if not anyone else will value who you are. Self love.
