BAPP Task 4b: Developing my own Special Interest Group (SIG)

The task 4b of the Module 1 of the BA (Hons) in Professional Practice at the Middlesex University consists of developing my own Special Interest Group (SIG) by identifying within the programme other students who have similar interests using different methods to search such as tag clouds, conversations, blogs…. It is important that I ensure that they are part of my professional community and that I maintain contact and that I communicate with them. Also I should be blogging around the questions that are emerging from the interaction with my SIG (s).

First, I would like to say, that I believe that to create your own Special Interest Group (SIG) is key in order to develop yourself as an artist. It will help you grow, not only in quantity, but also in quality and you will be able to achieve your goals and surpassed them. In my case, since I launched my first Solo Project last year, The Reborn Tour 2016, I started to understand how important is this, because I wasn´t only the dancer of it, I was also my own director & creator. I started to develop my own SIG without even knowing it, until I finish the project and I realised what I had created in such a short amount of time. 3 months after I started my second Solo Project, Fusion Tour 2017, where I decided to establish my SIG by creating the first Official Partnerships for my projects, as you can see in the photo below of the poster of this project that I published early this week.

Official Poster, of my second solo project Fusion Tour 2017

Now that I am immersed in the Module 2 of the BAPP at the Middlesex University, and we are asked to create our SIG in order to develop our final project in Module 3, it is really interesting how I will create a different one from the one that I have already establish to develop my Solo Projects, but that somehow they will be connected in the early future. Firstly, I have created the Google + Community How to develop your Creativity, (https://plus.google.com/communities/113750269749985206199), so I can connect with all the fellow students of the course that are interested in this topic as I am, and I can share with them all the information related with my research in this module as well as use their advices on it and their experience on creativity: How they are inspired, what resources they use to develop their work and much more

Screenshot of my Google + Community How to develop your Creativity

To end this task, I would like to say, that I would like to expand my Module 3 Project Special Interest Group (SIG) outside the university, and how interesting will be to develop this research at the end of the module with professionals of the arts, after I have the ethics approval from the Course Staff that we are required in Part 5 and also it would be really exciting to get together both of these SIGs in my following professional projects. And don´t forget to join my Google + Community, How to develop your Creativity, for updates on this exciting process!

Gonzalo