My partnership is pretty free and unstructured. Because the festival happens in the summer time, right now there is no time-specific goal besides helping out the coordinators for Vancouver Mural Festival as much as possible. Staring in October, I’ll be having weekly meetings with the team. In addition to Andrea (the Director of Operations of the Mural Festival), I’ll also be working closely with the festival’s Executive Assistant, Tom.

I’ll be doing some exploration on the behind the scenes of Vancouver Mural Festival. This will include working on fundraising and grant writing. I’m also really looking forward to sitting in on meetings and learning more about urban planning and BIAs and how they work with artists (Vancouver Mural Festival) to create beautiful spaces for city dwellers. Vancouver Mural Festival is really interested in urban planning and revitalization, so they’ll be having me sit in on city council meetings to see what is going on and being planned in the city of Vancouver.

I’ll hopefully be witnessing the process of mural creation. This would include seeing the painting of it, as well as the artist application process and planning behind it.

Basically, I’ll be helping out with day-to-day activities of Vancouver Mural Festival coordinators, and helping them plan for the next year.