No pressure....

Okay, I am in my fourth week here at The Arts Partnership and I'm starting to feel a little more comfortable. Not that I ever really felt uncomfortable, but at any rate I feel pretty good. That being said, Dayna has given me a project (a very big project) to organize. I am going to be the project coordinator for an event that TAP will be throwing in April. This is amazing opportunity for me to prove myself and show what I am capable of doing this kind of work.

This event is a first for TAP and the fact that I am the one in charge is a little scary but also very exciting. We have had a few really great meetings with another company that will serve as a consultant for this event. I also have some meetings set up for possible donors as well. This whole thing is really networking and getting the idea and myself out there talking about it and proving that it is a much needed service. I will go into a little more detail about what the event is and what the purpose for it is in a few weeks. I want things to be a bit more set in stone before I talk openly about it. For the time being, this will be my primary task while I am here at TAP. It is a lot of work and Dayna wants me to focus on this and make it  successful.

I have had opportunities to attend a few of TAP other events though which were very interesting and fun. The first was one of their monthly Lunch & Learns. It was at Trollwood Performing Arts School, which is one of the Primary Partners of TAP. The purpose of the lunch and learns is to promote Partners, so at this event not only did it promote TPAS but the speaker was also a Primary Partner. She is an artist, she discussed the kind of work that she does and then went on to explain the project that we were doing. That's right, I got to make art. What we did was look at a photo of Albert Einstein and we were urged to look at the photo upside down and try and see shapes. Then were were supposed to draw a portrait upside down. The idea here was that in doing these things after it was finished, you would be able to see a picture of Einstein. It really worked, most everybody did a great job and our pictures really did look the way they were supposed to look. It was a really fun evening.

I also got to attend the launch party for Artspulse, which is the online publication for TAP that basically gets the word out about upcoming events.This was also a great event because I was again, able to network and meet people that will may someday be looking to hire someone like me.

By far the best thing that has happened so far is the fact that Dayna, for only having known me for about a month, actually suggested me to one of her collegues at another non-profit as a new hire. We have been in contact but nothing is certain but the fact that she would go out on a limb for someone that she barely knows gives me great confidence that I am doing things right. Things really could not be going better!!