... and rest of the article at:
https://artsaccessadvocates.org.nz/yaniv-janson-making-art-to-activate-people
Taking Action! inspires inspire disabled people to build on their gifts [tinyurl.com/taking-action-unesco]
Showing posts with label UNESCO Taking Action. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UNESCO Taking Action. Show all posts
Arts Access Advocate!
What is an Arts Access Advocate?
... and rest of the article at:
https://artsaccessadvocates.org.nz/yaniv-janson-making-art-to-activate-people
... and rest of the article at:
https://artsaccessadvocates.org.nz/yaniv-janson-making-art-to-activate-people
Exhibition opening, ArtsPost Thursday 9 January at 5:30pm, Waikato Museum, Hamilton
Solo Exhibition opening - Please Do Touch
As spotted on the Science Learning Hub
https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/events/1228-please-do-touch
As spotted on the Science Learning Hub
https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/events/1228-please-do-touch
Wellington visit
Had a great time visiting Wellington recently: A visit to Te Papa Te Taiao exhibition which develops topics from the Sustainable Development goals - they have some absolutely awesome stations about creating change. It was really nice catching up with Donald James, Learning Innovation Specialist Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, who pitched the idea of involving a team of researchers to quantify the impact at Te Uku school. Finally, had some great conversation with Clare, Iona at the Arts Access Aotearoa office about developing networks to create new collaborations!
October Paris Exhibition Opening
At Memoire de l'Avenir, in collaboration with UNESCO MOST:
On https://www.ocirp.fr/prix-ocirp-handicap/actualites-du-prix/regards-dartistes-sur-notre-societe-22 one can access the media about me that was publicised after my Paris exhibitions (screenshot below):
Media from the exhibition:
Plastic free campaign in Raglan!
Visited Corrina at Orca Restaurant and Bar and Aaron at the Raglan Social Club who display the Please Do Touch artwork on cups donated by Raglan Coconut Yogurt!
Thank you everyone for your support! We can live without plastic bags!
Above: June-July activities
Exciting meeting with Carl Jackson from the YouthNet trust about possibilities to inspire young people in the Waikato. Carl works with vulnerable youth and has boundless energy for community development... More to come!!
Thank you everyone for your support! We can live without plastic bags!
Above: June-July activities
Exciting meeting with Carl Jackson from the YouthNet trust about possibilities to inspire young people in the Waikato. Carl works with vulnerable youth and has boundless energy for community development... More to come!!
Working on Sustainable Development Goals and aiming to go international with the Please Do Touch project
Had a great meeting as part of my Please Do Touch project with Hon. Minister Wagner and Danielle Ryan who agreed to test the concept for us. We want our audience experiencing art using different sensory channels
My aim: to lead a project for New Zealand to exhibit in New York, either at the United Nations or...
I am looking for partners to carry this project with!!!
Visual Arts - multi sensory interaction
It was great to open an exhibition where the audience could interact with the art in many ways - including touching it!
Visiting Arts Access Aotearoa
It was great to meet Richard Benge and Iona McNaughton! Arts Access Aotearoa does great work to help Artists with disabilities.
The ripple effects from exhibiting art about social and environmental issues
Ngaire talks about my work exhibited in her Auckland Newmarket gallery:
I want to engage people of different ages and abilities on my blog. Click on the "compose puzzle" grey button below to jumble up my plankton painting... can you reassemble it?
I want to engage people of different ages and abilities on my blog. Click on the "compose puzzle" grey button below to jumble up my plankton painting... can you reassemble it?
Human Rights Commission meeting
The highlight of the week was meeting with Shawn Moodie from the Human Rights Commission. It was great visiting the premises and meeting the team. We are looking at publishing a set of articles and resources that can be used by people with disabilities, advocates, teachers, businesses and other people interested in raising awareness about how people with disabilities can contribute to their communities.
The Human Rights Commission is very supportive to setting an example to demonstrate how people with disabilities can be proactive in changing attitudes about inclusion and integration!
Below is how the Yaniv Janson Project was started on the Human Rights Commission website: www.hrc.co.nz/yaniv-janson
Thank you Erin from the Human Rights Commission in Wellington!!! Erin is helping us with the Yaniv Janson Project page of the Human Rights Commission website!
I have been watching video interviews and speeches with John Crowley, UNESCO, MOST [http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/themes/most-programme/whos-who]
Here is his talk about the Ethical Implications of Technological Changes broadcasted at the WSIS forum I contributed to online: http://www.unesco.org/archives/multimedia/?pg=33&s=films_details&id=2520
The Human Rights Commission is very supportive to setting an example to demonstrate how people with disabilities can be proactive in changing attitudes about inclusion and integration!
Below is how the Yaniv Janson Project was started on the Human Rights Commission website: www.hrc.co.nz/yaniv-janson
I have been watching video interviews and speeches with John Crowley, UNESCO, MOST [http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/themes/most-programme/whos-who]
Here is his talk about the Ethical Implications of Technological Changes broadcasted at the WSIS forum I contributed to online: http://www.unesco.org/archives/multimedia/?pg=33&s=films_details&id=2520
Measuring impact
Finding out that KiaOra Magazine, the official Air New Zealand magazine wrote about my July 2016 exhibitions was a big surprise! The magazine is viewed by 400,000 people. Raising awareness is a must when it comes to our human and environmental ecosystems, and we are starting to talk about big numbers!
Following this, a group of us met at the Hamilton EnviroCentre to paint banners in preparation for the Earth March on Sunday 2 December. Stephanie Christie will promote the book and its message to the EnviroCentre audience!!!
Meeting with MSD Regional Disability Advisor
Glad to have met Vaughan Dodd at the ImagineBetter Auckland Assembly. Vaughan is visually impaired and could touch my painting "Deep Tunnel" to give me some feedback on how to make my paintings accessible for the blind and visually impaired.
Need to gather more support from my community! Get in touch if you are interested!!
Visit with the Enabling Good Lives Waikato Demonstration (Ministry of Social Development)
A conversation with Kelly Woolston and Nicolina Newcombe from Enabling Good Lives Waikato was very fruitful in uncovering new knowledge. One really good way to help some people with Aspergers' syndrome with their social skills is to facilitate the first meetings with a new person. It is important for people in social care to understand that with some people, it is enough to hand them a person's phone number and they will follow it up on their own. For some of us with Aspergers Syndrome, making initial contact is hard and part of our social phobia - so some facilitation to help with initial contact and getting to know someone will go further as we can pick up once we have met a person.
Mount Roskill Grammar School visit in Auckland
I enjoyed my visit to the Mount Roskill Grammar School, in Auckland. I spoke to Janice Whittaker-Hall, HOD MacLean Centre about the school's goals with disabled students and how they worked with each one to help them maximise their potential. One point to pay attention to is to keep focused on each student's gifts and capabilities, in spite of time and scheduling challenges.
Visiting the Learning Centre at Baradene College
What a great discussion with Jackie Wood, Learning Centre co-ordinator! We talked about a potential follow up meetings with a student and family and how the resource will be shared with teachers so that they can encourage students with disability to develop potential future interests for after they leave school.
More to come soon!
Auckland Art Gallery
Great meeting today at the Auckland Art Gallery E.H. McCormick Research Library and stoked that Changing the World - One Painting at a Time will now be available for people to use in their research. Loved the atmosphere at the library, the study mode and the space!
Meeting with movers and shakers
I was hugely impressed at meeting Chloe from France who is embarking on her Masters study in the Arts and is interested in my Taking Action work with teachers about raising expectations about children with disabilities! Come back soon to New Zealand Chloe and let's work together!
Getting ready for the week in Wellington and my new mentoring opportunity!
2015 Finalist Artistic Achievement Attitude Awards
Stoked to have been selected again as a finalist for the 2015 Attitude Awards to recognise Artistic Achievements!!! The Attitude Trust and Attitude Live people are so amazingly supportive that I was buzzing when we left both meetings with them in Auckland!
How can we maximise impact on disabled people's lives and reach as many people and families as possible to encourage them to pursue their dreams and fulfil their potential?! We need everyone and all abilities to stride together into our future - and keep a watchful eye on our social structure and environment!!
In the photo above one can understand the power of print in helping me communicate. Sometimes I find it challenging to talk about all my different activities in real time - so the pictures in the books help start power conversations... then the magic of human connection happens - rallying energy around common interests. I am so grateful that these books explain why I am passionate about how art can add to the social conversation.
I am looking forward to put to good use the time leading up to the Awards Ceremony (3 December in Auckland) to achieve more of my Taking Action! goals by working with movers and shakers in the disability sector!
How can we maximise impact on disabled people's lives and reach as many people and families as possible to encourage them to pursue their dreams and fulfil their potential?! We need everyone and all abilities to stride together into our future - and keep a watchful eye on our social structure and environment!!
In the photo above one can understand the power of print in helping me communicate. Sometimes I find it challenging to talk about all my different activities in real time - so the pictures in the books help start power conversations... then the magic of human connection happens - rallying energy around common interests. I am so grateful that these books explain why I am passionate about how art can add to the social conversation.
I am looking forward to put to good use the time leading up to the Awards Ceremony (3 December in Auckland) to achieve more of my Taking Action! goals by working with movers and shakers in the disability sector!
Meeting with Greenpeace
Really interesting meeting with Laura Hazle from Greenpeace Aotearoa where we talked about the importance of their supporters in disseminating their message wider. I am passionate about working with teachers because so much can happen in the classroom that has long term impact! Laura and I will be thinking about ways we can collaborate to help their activism.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)