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January 2007 - Billie Paea
My start of the New Year with the Vodafone NZ Foundation has been pretty full on with exciting changes within the given trust I am working for.
Preparation work
This month we had heavy spring cleaning to do inside and out which created more space for the various projects within the trust (Crosspower Ministries Trust). I had the fun job of sweeping and weeding, to get facility up to scratch. Inside however, we shifted the main Crosspower offices to a new facility which made room for my new office. Hehe, a lot more room than what I’m use to. I’m over the moon. Thanks to Vodafone I purchased a new Video Camera. Yeah yeah hehe, to take footage of Dziah’s progress, events, and programmes. I’m having a lot of fun getting use to the new camera. Filing all my old resources and dance database, pretty much all the resources accumulated over the years, was just as “fun”.
Planning and Networking
Planning for the year ahead has been a challenging and exciting season! I have begun designing, with my humble team, our development, mentoring and leadership programmes. We aim to have all these programmes established in the next 2 terms. We already have 20 students in our (currently running) dance development programme and are still designing and preparing for our mentoring and leadership programmes. I have also begun networking with various charitable, community, and corporate organizations who want to partner with us for our events (Desire to Dream Programme/Showcase) and programmes we will deliver. I am now apart of the newly established Hiphop Dance Committee SDNZ (Street Dance New Zealand) who will run the NZ Hiphop Championships. Here I have the opportunity to be apart of a new era for NZ in the dance arena.
Dziah Dance Studio
With all the strategic work we still had to complete our new dance studio which had to be opened at the beginning of Feb. We were flat out in preparation, sanding and preparing for the paint job. We organised artists who were friends of ours to do the artwork which they did an amazing job to create a visual excitement to the studio atmosphere. We had our Dziah Studio Grand Opening Feb 10th holding free workshops to promote our new space and the top tutors we provide. Pictures of our studio will show how much space we now have to cater for large number of dancers unlike our previous only catering for 20 dancers per class. We can now fit between 60-100 a class! 250-300 came to participate throughout the whole day!
Our main objective in the next month is to bring more youth into our studio after school as we have not only public classes but after school jams, very youth friendly. Our aim to build relationships with the youth coincides with Crosspower’s motto, “Breaking down walls and Building Bridges.” Yeah, I think I have plenty of more work to do for the next 6months!
Catch you up on the next update!
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