Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Centre A + Belkin Art Gallery 2024 Art & Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon (ID: 22382544)
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Dianehywong
- Organization
Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
- If you are a group or organization leader, board member, president, executive director, or staff member at any Wikimedia group, affiliate, or Wikimedia Foundation, you are required to self-identify and present all roles. (required)
N/A
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Main Proposal[edit]
- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Centre A + Belkin Art Gallery 2024 Art & Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2024-02-01 - 2024-04-30
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Canada
- 5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)
Art+Feminism
- 6. What is the change you are trying to bring? What are the main challenges or problems you are trying to solve? Describe this change or challenges, as well as main approaches to achieve it. (required)
For Centre A and the Helen and Morris Belkin Art Gallery (hereafter referred to as Belkin Gallery)’s 2024 iteration of the Art and Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, we will be once again focusing on working in collaboration to highlight stories and spaces that too often go unacknowledged in the art world. Through our collaborative and individual events, we hope to encourage our audience to not only create and edit Wikipedia articles about women, LGBTQ2S+, gender non-binary, people of colour, Black and Indigenous artists, curators, but also organizations and feminist and activist art movements. Through this project, we will focus on feminism through an intersectional lens that acknowledges the multiplicity and nuance of lived experiences across race, class, privilege, disability, and sexuality. In recognition of our 25th anniversary at Centre A, the 2024 edition of the Wikipedia Edit-a-thon will place an emphasis on creating new pages and updating existing pages for BIPOC and feminist focused artist-run centers and grassroots organizations in Canada.
As a leading public art gallery that focuses on the ongoing production of contemporary Asian and Asian diasporic artists, we feel that it is vital to uplift similar organizations who are countering western patriarchal perspectives in the arts sphere and creating platforms for underrepresented art movements and voices in the process. Through our series of workshops in collaboration with the Belkin Gallery, we hope to not only amplify the visibility and engagement with BIPOC focused arts organizations in open-source knowledge platforms—but also teach participants about the histories of underrepresented groups in Canada who have mobilized counter and personal archives as alternative sources of knowledge in response to the under or mis-representation of marginalized voices in arts organizations. This will be achieved by providing training through two “How-To” workshops at the Belkin Gallery. Participants who would like to further engage with the project can attend Centre A’s “Art and Feminism Reading Group” and “Counter-Archiving Talk” for open and critical discourses surrounding the existence of BIPOC perspectives and spaces in the arts sphere.
- 7. What are the planned activities? (required) Please provide a list of main activities. You can also add a link to the public page for your project where details about your project can be found. Alternatively, you can upload a timeline document. When the activities include partnerships, include details about your partners and planned partnerships.
Timeline:
Early-mid February - Belkin Art Gallery: Wikipedia How-to get started Workshop & Citation Workshop
This year we will again be partnering with Belkin Gallery to ensure the effectiveness of our strategies. To motivate diverse communities to become knowledge producers, we will be equipping them with necessary research and editing skills. Belkin will be hosting two prep sessions led by Sara Ellis, art librarian at the University of British Columbia, focused on introducing new editors to Wikipedia’s tools and citations protocol. Belkin Gallery has successfully hosted similar workshops since 2017 to prepare participants for creating and editing entries. The two in-person workshops will provide accessible tips and training for researchers, artists, cultural workers, and community members.
By equipping participants with the skills to overcome exclusionary barriers, we hope this workshop will empower community members to contribute effectively to Wikipedia and its goal of open access to information, as well as Art and Feminism’s mission to close information gaps.
Late February - Belkin Art Gallery: Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
The Belkin Art Gallery will be hosting the first of our in-person Wikipedia Edit-a-thons to bring forth stories that too often go unacknowledged in the art world. In this event, we invite participants to join us and bring their individual devices to create and edit Wikipedia pages about women, LGBTQ2S+, gender non-binary, people of colour, Black and Indigenous artists, curators, and organizations, as well as feminist and activist art movements. The Wikipedia Edit-a-thons create a safe space for participants to ask more experienced editors questions and learn through hands-on editing in an inclusive environment.
March 9, 2023 - Centre A: Counter-Archiving Talk
Centre A will be kicking off 2024’s events with a talk that revolves around the history and practice of counter-archiving in Canada. This virtual talk will introduce a history of how specific underrepresented groups have utilized archiving, and often personal archiving, strategies as alternative networks of care and documentation. The talk will be led by May Chew (TBC) who is currently an Assistant Professor at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema and the Department of Art History at Concordia University. Chew’s research practice engages with how interactive and embodied technologies in various arts and cultural spaces across Canada participate in the facilitation and material construction of national and cultural belonging. She also currently collaborates on the research projects Archive/Counter-Archive and Worlding Public Cultures. This is a chance for participants to gain knowledge and ask questions through a thoughtful presentation and subsequent discussion as we reflect on alternative methods of knowledge preservation, memory, and networks of care.
March 16, 2023 - Art + Feminism Reading Group
Centre A will also be hosting a Reading Group to share and reflect on texts that engage with critical discourses around community organizing and the mis or under-representation of marginalized voices in the arts sphere. As they move through the themes and discourses found in the various texts, participants will follow a list of questions provided by the project manager about the existence of artist-run centers and grass-roots organizations and their contribution to filling gaps in the often western patriarchal perspectives that permeate the Canadian landscape. The participants will then have the opportunity to share their thoughts with one another. We have previously hosted Reading Groups as part of our various exhibitions and have found them to be thoughtful and enjoyable events. We expect this year’s event to be equally successful in encouraging productive dialogue surrounding the critical role of BIPOC and feminist led artist-run centers and organizations.
March 23, 2023 - Centre A 2024 Art and Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
In the second of our Wikipedia Edit-a-thon sessions, Centre A invites participants to join us in-person and to bring along their own personal devices to edit and create Wikipedia pages. For the 2024 iteration, Centre A encourages participants to focus on pages about BIPOC and feminist led artist-run centers and organizations in recognition of our 25th anniversary as the only public art gallery in Canada dedicated to uplifting contemporary Asian and Asian diasporic perspectives in the arts. The Wikipedia Edit-a-thons create a safe space for participants to ask more experienced editors questions and learn through hands-on editing in an inclusive environment.
- 8. Describe your team. Please provide their roles, Wikimedia Usernames and other details. (required) Include more details of the team, including their roles, usernames, Wikimedia group, and whether they are salaried, volunteers, consultants/contractors, etc. Team members involved in the grant application need to be aware of their involvement in the project.
User: Cgmilne (Program Manager; Contractor) User: Dianehywong (Program Supervisor, Salaried) User: Ellie Chung (Program Supervisor; Salaried) User: Coco Zhou (Program Assistance; Contractor) User: FriDaInformation (Collaborator, Belkin Art Gallery)
- 9. Who are the target participants and from which community? How will you engage participants before and during the activities? How will you follow up with participants after the activities? (required)
For our 2024 Art & Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, we will engage with a wider number of communities that we are building upon from our 2022 and 2023 activities. Centre A will be partnering with the Belkin Gallery again to further engage with the UBC arts community. As a gallery situated in historic Vancouver’s Chinatown, we also strive to encourage participants from various galleries in our neighborhood. For this year’s edition, we will be sharing our events to different grassroots organizations in the Chinatown community such as Yarrow, Youth Collaborate for Chinatown, the Vancouver Black Library, and many more, to encourage cross-cultural and inter-generational conversations. This way we are able to help Vancouver’s diverse communities to develop media literacy to bridge knowledge gaps with open source media platforms.
In order to follow-up with participants, we will be sending emails after the events with a follow-up questionnaire to gauge participant satisfaction and see if we can improve upon anything for similar events in the future. For certain events, specifically the Reading Group, we will also be in contact with participants prior to the event to ask for any texts that they might be interested in engaging with during the event. Throughout the duration of the event, participants are continually asked to share their thoughts and reflections on the chosen readings as well as the nature of the conversations taking place. The list of readings will then be posted on the Centre A website so that people are able to continue engaging with the various reading materials. Additionally, in order to further our engagement with Vancouver’s diverse artist-run centers and organizations located in historic Chinatown, Centre A will continue to support a variety of initiatives and programs, including an intergenerational zine project in collaboration with Yarrow, Gallery Gachet, and the Hatch Gallery.
- 10. Does your project involve work with children or youth? (required)
Yes
- 10.1. Please provide a link to your Youth Safety Policy. (required) If the proposal indicates direct contact with children or youth, you are required to outline compliance with international and local laws for working with children and youth, and provide a youth safety policy aligned with these laws. Read more here.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/10vTte0lOVfbsXKmZYSVGLjv8rxkYRK9m/view?usp=sharing
- 11. How did you discuss the idea of your project with your community members and/or any relevant groups? Please describe steps taken and provide links to any on-wiki community discussion(s) about the proposal. (required) You need to inform the community and/or group, discuss the project with them, and involve them in planning this proposal. You also need to align the activities with other projects happening in the planned area of implementation to ensure collaboration within the community.
We have worked in collaboration with the Belkin Art Gallery for our 2022 and 2023 edition of Art & Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. For the 2024 iteration, we have discussed with Naomi Sawada, the Manager of Public Program and are working collaboratively with her and Belkin Gallery on creating programming around this year’s theme and ensuring that there is no overlap. While Belkin facilitates the two “How To” workshops and their own Edit-a-thon, Centre A will create additional programming that will engage our shared audience with our own resources and research materials. These programs are different every year based on the theme that we chose to explore and is meant to be a method to engage the audience through different methodologies. Once we have compiled a list of organizations that we would like to update or create new Wikipedia pages for, we will also be reaching out to them to gather any additional resources or research materials that we can include during the Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. We will also be actively engaging with different fine arts student groups at UBC such as the Visual Art Student Association and Art History Student Association to encourage participation from the Art History, Visual Art, and Theory Department at UBC. We will also be reaching out to students from post-secondary institutions in the Greater Vancouver area such as Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Simon Fraser University, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Langara College, and many more.
- 12. Does your proposal aim to work to bridge any of the content knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Cultural background, ethnicity, religion, racial
- 13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)
Culture, heritage or GLAM
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Identify Topics for Impact
Learning and metrics[edit]
- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
Engage with more diverse communities in Vancouver / enable cross-cultural solidarity through the sharing of stories.
- 1. How can Centre A better support and uplift diverse perspectives and communities in Vancouver?
- 2. What has prevented or limited this cross-cultural exchange in the past? To what extent has / can Art and Feminism events help build solidarity?
This year, community members are motivated to produce open-access research around BIPOC and feminist focused artist-run centers and grass-roots organizations in “Canada.”
- 1. How are these organizations supporting and uplifting underrepresented voices in the arts sphere? How can Wikipedia contribute to this movement to fill informational and institutional gaps?
- 2. To what extent have our previous workshops and edit-a-thons removed barriers for communities to access and contribute knowledge on Wikipedia?
- 3. How are our communities engaging with alternative methods of documentation and knowledge transference?
- 1. Desired Outcome:
Engage with more diverse communities in Vancouver / enable cross-cultural solidarity through the sharing of stories Learning Questions: i. How can Centre A better support and uplift diverse perspectives and communities in Vancouver? ii.What has prevented or limited this cross-cultural exchange in the past? To what extent has / can Art and Feminism events help build solidarity?
- 2. Desired Outcome:
This year, community members are motivated to produce open-access research around BIPOC and feminist focused artist-run centers and grass-roots organizations in Canada. Learning Questions: i. How are these organizations supporting and uplifting underrepresented voices in the arts sphere? How can Wikipedia contribute to this movement to fill informational and institutional gaps? ii. To what extent have our previous workshops and edit-a-thons removed barriers for communities to access and contribute knowledge on Wikipedia? iii. How are our communities engaging with alternative methods of documentation and knowledge transference?
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 50 | |
| Number of editors | 20 | |
| Number of organizers | 6 |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 60 |
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| Wikifunctions or Abtsract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
N/A
- 19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)
Yes
| Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| New content contributions | N/A | 20 |
| New editors trained | N/A | 10 |
| Wikipedia Pages Updated | N/A | 60 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 20. What tools would you use to measure each metrics? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support. (required)
All of the targets with the exception of participants will be counted and tracked through Centre A’s event dashboard. The target metric for the participants for the entire project will be measured through physical counting in addition to the dashboard.
Financial proposal[edit]
- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
- 22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)
6327 CAD
- 22.2. Convert the amount requested into USD using the Oanda converter. This is done only to help you assess the USD equivalent of the requested amount. Your request should be between 500 - 5,000 USD.
4986.59 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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