Fun Palace
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The document discusses Fun Palace, an annual event held at libraries across Queensland, Australia that aims to engage the community in science and art activities. The 2015 Fun Palace at the State Library of Queensland had over 1300 participants and a $10,000 budget. For 2016, the event will focus on engaging families and children ages 8-12 through free activities and exploration. Community organizations and libraries across the state will participate. Grants were provided in 2015 and 2016 to help fund local Fun Palace events at libraries.
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Fun Palace
- 1. Fun Palace: Everyone an Artist, Everyone a Scientist Linda Barron Twitter @lindaxbarron @slqld @FunPalaces #funpalaces
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- 4. Fun Palace at State Library
- 5. 2015 Event key points • Over 1300 participants • Budget for event $10,000 • $3,000 marketing budget with $12,000 free media • 18 individual activities • Strong visitor engagement • Take away products for participants • No community run programming (that didn’t $$$$)
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- 15. 2016 • 1000-1500 participants • Focus on families in particular 8-12yr old • Participants to engage in a fun day of activities and exploration for free • Budget for event $10,000 including $3,000 for marketing • Take away products for participants • Community run programming • Other organisations across the state participate
- 16. 2016 We want our Fun Palace to focus on public engagement and community partnerships around the theme of the global event Fun Palace, with a particular focus on Science and Art
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- 22. 2015 Grants • Provided funding for 7 libraries to run a Fun Palace • Grants between $2,000 - $8,000 • Provided marketing collateral to use • Gave guidance with programming and marketing of event
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- 26. 2016 Grants • 30 mystery boxes to the value of $1,000 • Ideas of how to use the contents of box • Guidance with programming and marketing of event • Marketing collateral
- 32. Do • Use your existing connections • Starting talking about next year now • Apply for grants or funding • Use the Fun Palace UK resources • Use resources developed by SLQ
- 33. More Information Email linda.barron@slq.qld.gov.au or signatureprogram@slq.qld.gov.au Websites Public Libraries Connect http://plconnect.slq.qld.gov.au Fun Palaces UK http://funpalaces.co.uk/
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Editor's Notes
- Thanks for the introduction I work with the Community Engagement team at SLQ made up of the Visitor Experience and Signature Programs teams. The signature program team is responsible for the programming and project management of Fun Palace Today I'm going to run through what we did at State Library in 2015, what's coming up at this year's Fun Palace how we supported public libraries in 2015 and what we are doing in 2016. A quick look at an international collaboration and some information about how you could get involved. I will also let you know some of the good things that happened and what we would like to improve on.
- So what is a Fun Palace? Fun Palaces are free, welcoming events combining arts and sciences, made for and with local people. They originated in the UK from an idea conceived in the 1960s
- The Fun Palaces campaign is an ongoing movement for culture at the heart of the community, it is about community engagement and creating a sense of community. They can be held anywhere at libraries, museums, town halls, theatres, swimming pools or your own back yard. You can make them are as large or small you want. They are always held in the first weekend in October.
- Parkes were the first library in Australia to run a Fun Palace in 2014 State Library got on board in 2015
- Over 1300 participants came along on the day and were family groups. I thought we were being ambitious setting 1000 as a target and had many people letting me know that we wouldn't reach the target We did have the advantage of a new children’s park being opened at South Bank parklands which people came from. Even in Queensland people left to go home and watch the AFL grandfinal. But we got a resurgence for the end science show. We had $10,000 to spend on the event with just under a 1/3 going towards staff salaries and overtime for the day, just under 1/3 on marketing costs and the remainder towards paying for programming and sundries like t-shirts The $3,000 marketing budget was spent on an online ‘what’s on’ in Brisbane site Must Do Brisbane, Radio advertising, printed fliers and Facebook advertising. Our visitor exit surveys that we do across the year indicate that our visitors main way of finding out what’s going on in through Facebook and print media. We were pleased to receive $12,000 free media with an approximate reach of 200K Volunteers helped us out on the day with support for activities, program, information and directional queries and getting consent forms. Edge and Signature Program led with programming contributions from Collection Preservation and Literacy and Young Peoples’ Services. 18 individual activities were conducted. I'll show some of the key events The focus of fun palace is to be a community created event, unfortunately even with a lot of contacts made we didn't get community run programming like we anticipated which we intended to improve on for 2016.
- One of our popular activities was making your own periscope. An SLQ design activity. This met our goal of families working together to make a product to take-away. This activity was not suitable for younger children due to the hot glue gun meaning sometimes children had to watch while carer did the work. Some resourceful kids used their periscope to watch the Science show at the end so they could see over the crowd.
- Kids Circus climbing as building blocks, (SLQ Fun Palace 2015) Vulcana kids circus ran workshops where children’s participated in circus activities A popular activity for all ages with demand outweighing capacity meaning disappointment for some young people.
- Families getting busy with paper crafting, (SLQ Fun Palace, 2015). Participants could also participate in building a MegaVirus. Design by our in-house scientist from the Edge Dr Peter Musk the mega virus was crafted from paper, and was grown throughout the day. The program was largely focussed toward providing free, simple, drop-in activities across the day and it was easy for all ages to participate in. with parts of the virus being for different ages to make
- The virus grew throughout the day
- Mother and Sons explore the anatomy of a book with SLQ Conservator, Rachel. The team from the conservation lab did an activity where participants would make their own Lab Journal to take home. There was so much interest in this activity that they ran out of supplies, were exhausted and had to pack up early and go home to recover. It did take a fair bit on convincing to get them back this year ☺
- Aviator Mick Byrne (Edge) with Air Gliders The Edge team ran several activities in their space including Air Surfing with Walkalong Gliders. Again another activity that kids could do with their parents and then got to take their gliders home.
- Giant scrabbled was very popular with families and our regular library visitors.
- Of course what would a day about science and art be without coding and robotics. There were a variety of activities across the day with several organisations showcasing their products, activities and services to participants. Some of these were done at no costs to SLQ
- The day ended with a science show by Science Steve and was a fantastic way to finalise the day. We can share any of the SLQ designed activity resources
- We are again undertaking a Fun Palace for 2016. This year we anticipate it will be just as busy so we will take our learnings from last year and ensure we have a few more staff and a dedicated information booth to help with directional and information queries Our Creative in Residence Matt Finch and our event coordinator Emma Constance have been networking with library teams and universities to encourage state-wide participation. We hope have over 35 Fun Palaces around Queensland
- This year we spent more time looking for community partnerships
- This year the conservation team is running a book binding activity and our Edge team is doing a workshop on how to use household products to create science experiments The Signature program team. Is conducting an art project around interpreting your family history
- This year you can help design a robot or bridge with engineer and book author, Andrew King (from Engibear). We have partnered up with. Book author Andrew King from Engibear fame, he is running workshops on bridge building and robot design. SLQ has supported Andrew with his book and workshops so he is doing this free of charge.
- South East Queensland water is also running workshop for us this year
- (Street Science stage show) The day will end with a stage performance from Street Science.
- In both 2015 and 2016 we provided grants for public libraries to run a Fun Palace
- Via expression of interest we offered grants to libraries to run a Fun Palace at their library
- Bubbles at Gold Coast Library Fun Palace 2015 Bubbles at Gold Coast Fun Palace
- Australian Bush Buddies at Scenic Rim Fun Palace Scenic Rim offered the Bush Buddies experience
- This year we wanted to give more libraries the opportunity to participate We decided to provide inspiration by providing a mystery box of art and science goodies
- Not only is the kit designed to be used for Fun Palace we wanted the majority of items to be able to be used again - a more sustainable model.
- The kit includes books that could be used for inspiration, added to the collection or used as prizes on the day We can't wait to hear how the mystery boxes get used
- We also have an activity on the main Fun Palaces web page
- The online comic maker was developed by crew members from the Edge For those of you who are good with code, the code for this comic maker is available on GITHUB and we are happy to share, you could make your own characters
- So are your keen? The criteria is – run on 1st weekend in October, art and science and community focused.
- For programming make connection with people that can help you Your local science teacher Community organisations Think outside the square even a baker making bread is science related Do your staff have a secret talent that they could turn into an activity or show other people Apply for grants – for Queenslanders there’s some Advance Queensland funding at the moment. Also if you are regional think of destination grants from your tourism authority
- If you want to know more or want access to resources get in touch Or if you want to share your great ideas please get in touch