GRASSROOTS: Collaborators are community centres, schools, academies, youth and outreach centres. All these formal and or informal institutions have their specific needs and demographics. Direct collaborations with the educators help to create a database so as to increasing sharing of resources, skills, dialogues and outcomes based activations.
SMALL BUSINESSES: The initiative builds bridges of support between these grassroots organisations and the host venues and service providers. The bridges and job creation opportunities empower small businesses of diverse fields in the creative economy from intellectual property and stage performance to accommodation, transport, catering, sound and instrument hire, film, camera and marketing. And a growth plan.
INFLUENCERS: Genuine collaboration is experienced as a movement towards transformation. These individual cultural activists utilise their platforms as influencers performers and engagers to lead and share open and transparent communications and engagements. Well facilitated communications in close relation to community, service providers,
FUND-RAISING: Funding bodies including donors, churches, governments and development bodies complete the virtuous cycle. The application, submission and engagement processes with these bodies also help fashion the project into a long-term and mutually beneficial engagement for all involved, increasing the impact and reach exponentially, whilst introducing sustainable education and archive practices to ensure the future generations, those not yet born will have access to this profound German / SA legacy of co-operation and collaboration.
COMMUNICATIONS: Design, multi-media, multi-disciplined, participative approach to problem solving.
IN-KIND SUPPORT: INCLUDING (1) Venues, (2) Transport, (3) Accommodation, (4) Catering, (5) Conferencing, (6) Printing, (7) Heritage, (8) Tourism, (9) Archives, (10) Legacy, (11) Film, (12) Music Instruments, (13) Sound, (14) Lighting, (15) Camera, (16) Exhibition, (17) Education and (18) Community
NETWORK OF COMMUNITY CENTRES: Some of these organisations include centres of excellence Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre, Steve Biko Centre, Gompo Arts Centre and Nelson Mandela Museum. Music academies such as the Gauteng Academy of Music, CAFCA, Committed Artists for Cultural Advancement (CAFCA), Ezibeleni School for the Disabled in Gauteng and Artists in Schools Programme Eastern Cape, Amajika and uKusA in KwaZulu Natal.
NEW TECHNOLOGY: Interactive Purpose driven profiling for student, cultural practices and community centres is at the forefront of the engagement. A collection of unique creatives on a co-creative online platform provides: (1) community centres networks and databases; (2) accesses to learning resources; (3) opportunities for further study, (4) sharing of new works, (5) online profiles (6) platform for students to create and lead engagements; (7) access for all artists across mixed disciplines in the creative fields including fine art, poetry, photography, entrepreneurism and film; and (8) a celebration of music as the mother of all arts.
LEGACY & ARCHIVES: An archival approach provides for a combination of (1) New resource creation, (2) archiving, (3) back-up and (4) resource delivery. Resources including (1) general knowledge, (2) history and heritage narratives and timelines, (3) sheet music, scores and arrangements, (4) documentation, (5) audio-visual resources and (6) releases.