2015 wayfinder connx

Wayfinder CONNX | Confidential * Copyright 2000 – update June. 2015

WayfinderCONNX | email: [email protected] Michelle Loughery ~ 250.558.8380 Stacey Phinnemore ~ 250.517.9717

Route Blue WAYFINDER CONNX Using community art and the Wayfinder artWORKS philosophy to engage youth and communities to learn transferable relevant life and employment skills while helping to build sustainable partnerships from within communities. ROUTE BLUE is a community and people connection bridge to the physical and digital story telling highway project network … the paths of the past to pave a road to the future. Why It Works! CONNECTIONS | SOCIAL LICENSE | PARTNERSHIPS | INCLUSION A connection movement in partnerships in high profile Community Cultural Art Story telling Projects with Reconciliation and Inclusiveness for all First Peoples.


Wayfinder is about connecting through community cultural art programs -‐people -‐-‐our sense of place and industries for social and economic growth. WAYFINDER CONNX -‐Finds a value proposition that connects First Nations Community needs with Government and Industry needs. The most prevalent challenges for government and industry in regards to providing skilled training and social license are finding relevant employment for people as they progress through skills -‐training/apprenticeships. Community Consultation -‐WayfinderCONNX |ARTWORKS project philosophy-‐ Relevant needs in terms of social and economic needs. Wayfinder then transfers those needs into a viable “commodity” that provides employment and “PAID” training in skills that are transferable to other industries. The underlying value proposition-‐ Wayfinder project enters the communities, has dialogue within the community and includes the communities from the ground up.

CONSULTATION +RELEVANCY+CONTINUITY EQUALS SKILLED Workforce and Social License

P6 plus (Public, Private, non-‐Profit, People, Project Partnership) Project Based Inclusion Paths are IMPERATIVE to INCLUSION and community social growth. Connected community paths are imperative to Economics and Tourism. Common Ground-‐ HIGHWAYS|ANCIENT TRAILS|PATH FORWARD-‐True reconciliation partnerships through:

Route BLUE -‐ BC Wide Highway Art and Living Culture Connections Project

A Wayfinding path forward for all cultures and

industries together as a Nation.


Minister John Rustad, Ministry of Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation Michelle Loughery, Wayfinder Visionary

Stacey Phinnemore, Route Blue CEO Wayfinder CONNX -‐ May 2015


Route Blue™

Innovative Strategies | Integrated Engagement Approach that is a groundbreaking initiative of skills and education in the form of “Wayfinder-‐ Arts and Skills of the Trades”.

It is a community art based, physical & tangible environmental, multicultural journey linking humanity and blending our vastly related heritage beyond borders in a trades training, multiple site highway community art story telling movement. Connecting /Routes /Trails/First Nations Territories as Communities/Logistics, Convergence Centre Hubs/Resource Workplace Hubs/ Conversational engagement within all nations communities -‐ Art Programs tie to First Nations sustainability through knowledge transfer in business and manufacturing development.

“The feel of the trades through Community Art inclusions.”

A heritage highway art trail of ancient wisdom and First People’s stories, framing First Nation’s traditional areas that will tie the United States to Canada through BC to Alaska -‐ training First Nations youth in skills training, business, art and creating new national content. An art-‐based initiative in a multi partnership social enterprises model that uses trend street / community art to attract youth to participate. A tourism legacy is left behind as a tool for Economic Growth.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

– Henry Ford

My people will sleep for one hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirit back.

-‐ Louis Riel


Wayfinder ... Take It to the Wall ART in the Community is the equalizer including organizers, funders and community partners. The art path provides a bridge between the youth and the very community they are trying to enter. The community art creates a sense of place for the youth and for the community …and a place for resource companies to support community. Wayfinder CONNX Digital home base support system that in a senior talent mentorship procurement model, engages industrial trades-‐arts talent workplace paths.

“You don’t get your social license by going to a government ministry and making an application or simply paying a fee… It requires far more than money to truly become part of the communities in which you operate.”

-‐ Pierre Lassonde, President of Newmont Mining Corporation

“To know is not enough, we must also understand from whence each of us comes”


Route Blue

• Regional segments will join up with a larger provincial trail • Ties to Route Blue’s extended partnerships with Aboriginal Tourism of British

Columbia (AtBC) & American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association (AIANTA) • On-‐line Digital Media platform Art Gallery and Multi Trail Tourism Product • Process turns to the People – it Asks, Invites and then Partners. • Sustainability path for communities & the First Nation’s education system as they

build those communities.

Wayfinder Impact! A high profile, award winning, international artist and art educator Michelle Loughery and signatory Wayfinder Mural projects have been in action for 25 years creating artification of trades into industrial art programs. The globalization is a collective that has taken this strategy and created what Wayfinder calls “the culturalism movement” with a retention based path to the labour market while leaving a tourism and social legacy. The wonderful offshoot of this innovation is the people retention and relationship building. Wayfinder is a community-‐based art, foundation life skills and trades experience program that helps at-‐risk youth aged 15-‐30 gain fundamental skills, trades and multi-‐media experiences in order to explore education, self-‐employment or obtain sustainable employment.

• Conversational engagement between Bands, Immigrants, youth, elders and society from within communities.

• Art program tied to Band sustainability through Business and Manufacturing. • High Success -‐ Engaged 5,000 + at-‐risk youth, 80% of whom are Aboriginal. • Infused over $50+ Million in Community-‐Based Art Infrastructure

The Wayfinder difference is …

• The Feel of the Trades through the Path of the Arts • Engagement where Life and Work are One

o Utilizing Art and Creativity to engage in Life and Work o Foundation Life Skills and Elder Engagement o Bridging to Trades, Education, Business and Manufacturing pat

Invitation to Partner

Route Blue is a direct investment and contribution into community, youth skill development and tourism infrastructure. We look forward to a meeting to discuss a sponsorship framework specific to:

• Route Blue Engagement Agreement | MOU and project agreement • Stakeholder participation in training site locations and art site selection

Working together in putting the right people in the right job

with the right skill and attitude.


Wayfinder CONNX: Is a team-‐based strategy of community engineering through strategic art trades based programing in a connection model. Mining community born and raised visionary Michelle Loughery brings forward the wisdom of true community passed onto her by her immigrant Canadian roots. Coal mining dust in her veins the sense of community placement through all nations communication was vital for survival in the building of resource towns. Those roots have formed a base for her structures artistically, socially and economically in the innovative community arts programing she developed and the charity she fostered with her amazing team to perpetuate her legacy.

The Wayfinder Team of Advisors brings strong thought leader project skills including: Aboriginal and non aboriginal youth and cultural skills learning through ‘the people’ strategies, with art based socioeconomics, partnership procurement, tourism, business, community and project innovation.

www.michelleloughery.org | www.artinaction.com

Wayfinder CONNX | Visual Communities 2013-‐2015 A company created to offer strategic community planning and resource bridging through multi –level art and music employment skills programing

Wayfinder-‐ Loughery Mural Artworks Foundation 2009-‐2014 Community Art and First Nations Youth Charity Education and Community Art Strategies with delivery in BC Education Toolkit | NVIT | Okanagan College | Skills BC Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame/Merritt Walk of Stars 2005 -‐2012 Created, designed and implemented a 40 Mural community art program that generated $8 million dollars in project development that compounded to become an immeasurable economic infrastructure. Awards

Won several awards for employment art programs including BC Achievement 2005/ Innovation Business Award 2006/ Okanagan Art Educator Award 2013 Nisika Multi-‐Cultural Reconciliation 2014 Nomination

Downtown Vernon BC Mural Project Created, designed and implemented a 30 Mural community art program that generated $6 million dollars in project development that compounded to become an immeasurable economic infrastructure.

Route 66 Mural City Created and designed a multi-‐ million dollar community art and tourism strategy that has created a 50 million dollar revitalization of an entire community.


WAYFINDER

is the space between …

Government, Resources and Communities,

Technology and Life,

Institutions and Life,

Community Creative Building and People,

Generations and People-talent and experience,

Culture.

In those spaces Connections are made, the clearing house of

pathways is Wayfinder,

and

Connections mean common ground and

inclusion.

We invite you to find your place in Route Blue!

250-558-8380 250-517-9717

SEE-ENGAGE-BELIEVE Trades skills through life, art and work creating a people landscape and a kaleidoscope of cultures.

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