Moodboard

I started from identifying some images that are relevant and represent the key words (which are presented at my company name post before and posted on the blog) of the company thinking  and collected them for presentation of the mood board exercise. 
 

TASK 3: Contacting organisations 2

Yesterday I found another organisation contact and finally managed to meet with him, following the direction of New Horizonts (another organisation).

I were at Age Concern, Kensigton & Chelsea and meet with Mr. Ben Long.

Even that he didnt have enough time, he promised that he will send me the 

answers via email. However I have described him what my reasearch is about and he liked the idea and told me that it works becouse they allready did something like that. 

He described me how hard is to manage the process becouse it is hard to find a place on a theatre for performance and it is very expensive to pay the professionals who will assist at workshops, for scenario.

They are doing it every year and it is called Acting up.

"Each year for three weeks during the summer, a group of school children from Holland Park School get together with members of Age Concern (Kensington and Chelsea) and spend three weeks together, writing and rehearsing with actors from Theatre ADAD to produce and star in their very own show."  

Source: Link

After that I have been looking from him for some new territories of my subject, and he promised me that he will write for them and answers to my email, which I am still waiting.


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I received a response from another organisation named Openage that gives support  and offers collaboration for my project. 

Further below see copy of their response via email:

"Hi Yll,

Just to let you know that I’m very interested in your proposal for some intergenerational work. So busy today so will try and get back to you tomorrow and answer your questions. If you could let me know days and state morning/afternoon that you might be free to work together then it would be helpful as we work on our programmes now, to print end of Nov.

Many thanks and I’ll send you the question answers tomorrow.

Best wishes,

Jemma Bicknell

Westbourne Hub Co-Manager"...       Date 07.11.11

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...and she was very supportive with her answers,...

"I think it’s a great idea, something that needs to happen more often given things like the London riots etc....We could find a venue and assist with and promote the group....We would need to get the space and time sorted before end of Nov as that’s when we print our new activity programmes for Jan..."  Date 08.11.11

I have replied to her via email explaining her at what stage my research is and hoping that they might give further support in that direction.

 

Contacting people - Interviews

As part of my primary research I have created 3 types of questionnaires with which I started to contact people of my focus groups and organisations - charities. To do that was not easy at all, because it was hard to find people who can collaborate with you while you are doing it on the streets. I have to mention that I was lucky if I got one from ten of them asked kindly to spare their time  for my research.

During the process I heard things like ...sorry, i have no time, ... don`t speak english, ...can`t speak at all, ... we have just a week here,  and all this leaded me to find places

where the elderly and the youngsters are seen often, like "Portobelo market" an antique market attractive place for people of different ages where usually I had chances to contact the elderly. Other people of my focus-group are youngsters which I tried to reach around schools or near the sport centers here at Kensington area.

Here you can see some of my interviewers that accepted to have a pic. for records as i promised them.There are diagrams formed after collecting quantitative and qualitative data that describe their opinions about some of the questions made to them about the project.

There are also some other questions at each group about their family & siblings, relationships with them, some opinions etc which I have saved for records.