Final thoughts on Cultural Engagement

Importantly, the deliverables were met. In terms of engaging arts organizations, the ones that were fully engaged and committed to the project did do very well.  However, clearly there needs to be more upfront planning and value proposition generated that the arts organizations can easily understand, grasp in their language and move forward with. 

In future, projects it would make more sense to concentrate on fewer larger projects than many smaller projects.  A budget of 5 to 10 thousand dollars would be more appropriate for any kind of future initiate. 

Working with MetroCode and PocketCINE was great as the principals in those organizations are smart, enthusiastic and committed to these projects. 

Lastly, I would also say, hats off to the network partners who worked very hard in developing the different projects, and also to the arts organizations that participated in these different projects, as they were very committed to understanding and seeing the project through.  What was very interesting was that initially with the huge amount of response, in the end there was only very few projects that actually were able to be completed.  This was largely due to the commitment and hard work put in  by these partners.