02-karawatha-pitch-deck
Cipta × Karawatha Forest Discovery Centre — Partnership Pitch
Audience: Brisbane City Council Environmental Education team / Karawatha Forest Discovery Centre programs coordinator / venue manager. Format: 12 slides + 1 appendix. ~10 minute meeting OR PDF leave-behind. Strategic angle: Cipta does not position itself as an environmental program. We position as a cultural-engineering programs partner whose workshops use natural materials (palm, paper, bamboo, fibre, clay) — which gives Karawatha a culturally diverse strand alongside its existing nature-education programming. The forest is the setting and material story; the heritage object is the workshop output.
Slide 1 — Cover
Visual: Karawatha bushland photo + a child weaving a ketupat from palm fronds, side by side. Title: A heritage-materials partnership for Karawatha Forest Discovery Centre. Subtitle: Cultural engineering workshops that meet your visitors where the bush meets their stories. Footer: Cipta · ciptalabs.com · adamdawud@gmail.com · Brisbane, QLD
Slide 2 — Karawatha is a place of stories
Headline: 900 hectares. Hundreds of cultural narratives walking through every weekend. Body: Brisbane’s south is one of the most multicultural parts of QLD. Indonesian, Malaysian, Chinese, Indian, Pacific, African, Middle Eastern, and First Nations families visit Karawatha. The bushland is shared ground. Every visitor brings a different relationship to plants, fibres, water, and shelter.
Closer: We’d like to give some of those stories a hands-on shape.
Slide 3 — What Cipta is
Headline: Cultural engineering workshops, brought to your venue. Body: Cipta runs hands-on workshops where children build meaningful objects from their heritage — ketupat, lanterns, kites, batik patterns, instruments — and learn structure, circuits, geometry, and acoustics doing it. Three layers: Culture · Engineering · Creation.
Slide 4 — The fit with Karawatha
Headline: Heritage objects use natural materials. Karawatha is a natural-material classroom. Body (two-column matching):
| Cultural object | Natural material story |
|---|---|
| Ketupat (woven palm) | Palm fronds, weaving knowledge |
| Wau kite | Bamboo, paper, natural pigments |
| Lantern | Plant-based papers, natural dyes |
| Batik | Fibre, wax, plant dyes |
| Cultural instrument | Bamboo, gourd, hide, string |
Closer: Heritage materials, ancestral landscapes — same conversation.
Slide 5 — Three program shapes we’d offer
Headline: Pick one or all three. Body:
- School Excursion Add-On — schools booking Karawatha environmental programs add a 90-minute cultural-engineering workshop (e.g., wau kite or ketupat) on the same day. Cipta delivers, Karawatha hosts.
- School Holiday Programs — full-day public ticketed workshops at the Discovery Centre during QLD school holidays. Co-branded.
- Festival & Cultural Days — public events tied to Harmony Week, Eid, Diwali, Lunar New Year, NAIDOC. Drop-in activities + showcase pieces.
Slide 6 — A sample day at Karawatha
Headline: Wau Kite Workshop — Aerodynamics and Sky Stories, on country. Body:
- 9:30 — students arrive at the Discovery Centre, walk a short loop, observe wind in the canopy, gather natural offcuts (where appropriate and safe).
- 10:30 — workshop begins inside / under shelter. Cultural context. Engineering of lift, drag, centre of gravity. Build.
- 12:30 — fly the kites in an open clearing. Reflection circle.
- 13:00 — finish.
Visual: Photo of a child running with a wau kite over open ground.
Slide 7 — First Nations partnership commitment
Headline: We don’t deliver First Nations content alone. Body: Karawatha is on Yuggera and Yugambeh country. Any workshop that draws on Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander cultural objects, materials, or stories will only run in genuine partnership with First Nations educators in a leading or co-leading role. Cipta will defer to Karawatha’s existing First Nations relationships and never substitute for them.
Slide 8 — What we bring vs. what you provide
Headline: Light operational footprint. Body (two columns):
Cipta brings:
- All workshop materials (per-child kits + shared tools)
- Lesson plan + risk assessment
- Facilitator(s) — Blue Card holders
- Photography (with consent) for shared marketing
- Public Liability Insurance (AUD$20M)
Karawatha provides:
- Indoor/outdoor venue space
- Tables, seating, power
- Booking pipeline (existing schools and public visitors)
- Co-branding on shared listings
Slide 9 — Three commercial models — pick what fits BCC procurement
Headline: Flexible. We’re easy to work with. Body:
- Fee-for-service — Karawatha books Cipta to deliver a session, pays a flat workshop fee. Karawatha keeps any ticket revenue.
- Ticketed public events — co-listed events, revenue share (e.g., 70/30 in Cipta’s favour for delivery + materials, or as suits BCC).
- Annual residency / panel — Cipta becomes a listed cultural-programs partner for the BCC environmental venues network, called on across the calendar.
Pricing per workshop starts at AUD$25/student materials-included for school groups; public ticketed events priced per-event.
Slide 10 — Compliance
Headline: BCC-ready. Body:
- ABN registered, public liability insurance AUD$20M.
- All facilitators hold a current QLD Blue Card.
- Risk assessments per workshop, available on request.
- Child Safe Organisation policy aligned to QLD Family and Child Commission.
- Photo & media consent forms collected at every event.
- Materials sourced sustainably; waste returned with Cipta.
Slide 11 — Pilot proposal
Headline: Run one free pilot with us this term. Body:
- One free 2-hour cultural-engineering workshop at Karawatha, for up to 20 children.
- We co-design the workshop with you to fit a date in your existing calendar (e.g., school holiday program day).
- We document outcomes together — feedback survey, photos, headcount, dwell time.
- If it works, we draft a full-year program plan.
Slide 12 — Next step
Headline: A 30-minute meeting at Karawatha. Body: Walk the venue together. Pick a date. Pick a workshop. Run the pilot. CTA: adamdawud@gmail.com — available any weekday. Footer: ciptalabs.com
Appendix A — Suggested workshops by season
| Quarter | Cultural anchor | Workshop |
|---|---|---|
| Q1 (Jan–Mar) | Lunar New Year, Harmony Week | Lantern Circuits |
| Q2 (Apr–Jun) | Eid (varies), Refugee Week | Ketupat Geometry |
| Q3 (Jul–Sep) | NAIDOC (with FN partner) | Wau Kite Aerodynamics + ancestral sky stories |
| Q4 (Oct–Dec) | Diwali, Christmas, Hanukkah | Cultural Instrument Acoustics |
Production checklist
- Confirm Karawatha’s actual programs coordinator name + email — Brisbane City Council org chart or
karawathaforest@bcc.gov.austyle address. - Verify Yuggera / Yugambeh country attribution with BCC’s First Nations protocol officer before pitch.
- Replace stock photos with one real Cipta workshop photo (even from a backyard test).
- Have 2-page version ready for email; full deck for in-person meeting.
- Consider a parallel pitch to other BCC environmental centres (Boondall Wetlands, Downfall Creek Bushland Centre, Walkabout Creek Discovery Centre) — same template.