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The Art of Persuasion: campaigning to keep arts, culture and creativity alive
The next Arts Learning Consortium Networked Learning Event takes place on Thursday 19th January 2012, 12:15-4pm, at a North West venue TBC.
Lizzie Crump from the renowned Cultural Learning Alliance (CLA) is joining us to give an update on national policy and practice. She will also be sharing some of the CLA’s tips for success when it comes to advocacy of the arts and culture in the fight to keep cultural learning central to the lives of children and young people.
This pertinent and timely theme will generate lots of useful ideas both at an individual and an organisational level during this current cultural cold climate. It will also help to shape your new-look ALC and its new campaigning role across the North West.
Also included is a useful link to the Cultural Learning Alliance for background reading, including the brilliant resource ImagineNation: A Case for Cultural Learning.
You can book either via the online booking form here or by calling 0161 237 9590 before Thursday 12th January.
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ALC members are entitled to 2 free places at this event.
New special rate for students is £10
Non-members £50.
For more information please contact Aziza Mills T: 0161 237 9590 or E: Aziza.mills@capeuk.org
www.artslearningconsortium.org.uk
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This Saturday just a small step away from our CapeUK Leeds office will be the Quarry Hill FREE festival. The market will be held 10am – 6pm on St Peters Square.
Quarry Hill Festival is a day of free performances, workshops, classes and behind-the-scenes insights from some of Leeds’ leading cultural organisations all based on and around the Quarry Hill area of the city.
With a range of activities including Stage Fighting, Dance, Acting and Costume Design Workshops, plus Live Music, Live Theatre, the artsmix* Arts Market and a range of food and drink available, there really is something for everyone making Quarry Hill Festival a great day out!
Click here for more information and to see a full timetable of events
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Twitter hashtag #QHFest
Join BBC Yorkshire, The Dance Studio Leeds, First Floor, Leeds College of Music, Northern Ballet, Phoenix Dance Theatre, Red Ladder Theatre Co, SAA-UK, The Wardrobe, West Yorkshire Playhouse and Yorkshire Dance as they take you on a journey behind-the-scenes for one day only.
Date: 22/06/2011 – Press Release / Photo Call
Over 400 professionals, from across the regions, with an investment in arts and creativity in education will descend on Wentworth Castle Gardens next week to focus on the future of the arts, culture and creative learning during these difficult times. Fears that government funding reductions and policy changes could mean that creative learning is side-lined make this a particularly timely event.
Flourish is CapeUK’s one day festival of teaching and learning. It will offer a space for arts and education professionals to experience, discover and be inspired by the impact of arts, culture and creativity on children and young people’s lives. Delegates can choose to attend either Tuesday 28 or Wednesday 29 June at Wentworth Castle Gardens.
Growing out of practice in schools from across the region and beyond, Flourish will celebrate achievements and explore how we can ensure the values and power of creativity remain at the heart of the curriculum in these times of change. We will be showcasing the innovative and inspiring work that has taken place over the past four years within The Creative Partnerships project which has been managed and delivered across West and South Yorkshire by CapeUK. Workshops will be led by teachers, school leaders and practitioners from the region. Keynote contributions will be made by internationally renowned authors Michael Rosen (28th) and Anne Fine (29th).
Pat Cochrane, Chief Executive, CapeUK: “At a time when the education sector is facing significant change, we are confident that the practice which schools and external partners have been developing provides excellent models for sustainable change and continued development.
“There is so much evidence that if you engage children in creative learning, arts and culture it boosts their sense of self-belief, their confidence, their ability to make decisions and to deal with difficult ideas.
“The aim of Flourish is to identify future opportunities and networks, whilst continuing to build on existing strengths, partnerships and investment – together we can all ensure that arts, culture and creativity remain a central part of learning.”
CapeUK is a strong, enterprising and creative organisation which has been supporting children and young people to experience and create within the arts for over 12 years – with a national and international reach, rooted in outstanding practice on the ground in Yorkshire and the North West. From 2012 CapeUK, in partnership with Hull College Group (HCUK), will become the bridging organisation supporting the Arts Council England’s ambitions in Yorkshire and the Humber for the arts and children and young people.
Workshops will cover; creative collaborations, taking time to reflect, discovering digital age, identifying exciting spaces for learning, exploring creative approaches to subject teaching and learning, learning how to engage families…
More details – please click here
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Editor’s Note:
You are invited to send a reporter/photographer to Wentworth Castle. To arrange a convenient time please contact Jo Jessop, Communications Manager on 0845 450 3700 or 07891831712
For further information about this press release please contact Jo Jessop. Tel: 0845 450 3700 email: jo.jessop@capeuk.org
A subsidised training opportunity for providers of arts and cultural activities for children and young people in Leeds
The importance of being able to demonstrate the impact of your work – the difference it makes to children and young people’s lives – is increasing. However some methods of measuring impact run counter to the very processes and interactions that we are seeking to promote through the arts. Keeping the young person at the centre of our thinking we will explore, interrogate and trial a range of approaches to integrating the process of demonstrating impact within arts activities.
Getting in the Frame
This document provides an independent guide to the main quality marks and frameworks currently in use for accreditation of cultural provision for children and young people in Leeds. It has been researched by CapeUK on behalf of the Find Your Talent programme with a focus on participatory and educational youth arts work delivered locally. However, much of what is collected here is also relevant nationally and appropriate to other settings.
Getting in the Frame
This document provides an independent guide to the main quality marks and frameworks currently in use for accreditation of cultural provision for children and young people in Leeds. It has been researched by CapeUK on behalf of the Find Your Talent programme with a focus on participatory and educational youth arts work delivered locally. However, much of what is collected here is also relevant nationally and appropriate to other settings.
Poet, writer and broadcaster, Ian McMillan, better known as the ‘Bard of Barnsley’, will front a major regional arts conference. The event, entitled ‘Creating the Future’ looks at the role the arts have to play in 21st century education and learning and aims to attract delegates from the education, youth, community and cultural sectors across Yorkshire. The conference has been initiated by ArtForms, Education Leeds, an organisation which supports schools to provide high quality learning opportunities in and through the arts. Funding for the event has come from Arts Council England in Yorkshire.
Clare Price, Head of Arts Development at ArtForms in Leeds, said: “The aim of the event is to look at how we can ensure children and young people continue to access the highest quality arts provision wherever they live and learn. We hope the conference will offer a day of lively debate, reflection and solution building.”
Ian is one of the inspirational keynote speakers and workshop leaders who will be delivering ‘Creating the Future’. Maggie Atkinson, the Children’s Commissioner for England, and Pat Cochrane, Director of CapeUK, will also give keynote presentations.
Pat Cochrane says "There is so much evidence that if you engage children in arts and culture it boosts their sense of self belief, their confidence, their ability to make decisions and to deal with difficult ideas. There is a danger that a polarisation is being created with a focus on raising standards and regarding arts and culture as softer subjects.”
CapeUK will also host a stall in ‘The Store’ which will be a market place of over 50 arts organisations and individual artists showcasing some of the best arts provision in the region.
Cluny Macpherson, the Regional Director of the Arts Council in Yorkshire, said: “The arts have a vital role to play in nurturing the skills and capacities required for a modern workforce. They are also great fun. This conference will enhance our understanding of how we can tap into and develop children’s natural creativity – so that their lives will be enriched and many can emerge as the artists and audience members of the future.”
For further information contact Helen Taylor at ArtForms, Leeds on 0113 230 4074, email helen.taylor@educationleeds.co.uk or go to www.artformsleeds.co.uk
Click here to read Yorkshire Post article about the conference
‘Arts Explorers’ is an action research programme – primarily looking at ways of encouraging families with primary school aged children to get involved in arts and cultural activities. The programme is funded by Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE) and managed nationally by CapeUK. Please click here to view the Arts Explorer National Report.
Arts Explorers in Kirklees – An exploration of the cultural ecology of a single neighbourhood
Four pathfinders have been commissioned to provide additional evidence about ‘what works’ in the engagement of primary school aged children and their families. The Birkby pathfinder is being delivered at a local level by CapeUK and Kirklees Council’s Children and Young People Service.
Birkby lies just outside the centre of Huddersfield in Kirklees. They explored whether families’ uptake of arts/cultural activity can be increased by providing low risk ‘first steps’ at natural meetings places within the community, such as shops, playgroups and the health centre? Please click here to read more about the activities and findings of the Birkby pathfinder.
Over 60 people attended the Northern Big Link Up Event held in Leeds yesterday (23/11/2010).
CapeUK invited cultural, creative and educational leaders from across the region and beyond to the Northern Big Link Up Event, which was one of the Cultural Learning Alliance (CLA) ambitious platform of events to highlight the importance of all children and young people having meaningful access to culture in this difficult economic climate.
Madeleine Irwin, CapeUK; “This was an invaluable opportunity to bring together cultural, creative and educational leaders from across the region. Throughout this event we continually added our questions, thoughts and voice to the national debate. Our Link Up event highlighted the importance of collaborating and having a collective ‘northern’ voice to demonstrate, celebrate and debate the importance of cultural learning.”
Attendees met in the afternoon to discuss the three Big Questions; What barriers do you see to the delivery of cultural learning? What new kinds of partnerships and online support are needed to take cultural learning forward? What one key idea for the future delivery of cultural learning would you like to share with other professionals?
We then linked to the live video of Ed Vaizey, Minster for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries who was at the British Museum, he defended the government’s position on arts in schools and said they believed in allowing schools more local autonomy.
Professionals that attended the event ranged from large arts organisations to individual arts practitioners and specialist schools. The northern delegates were particularly keen to ensure that the Government recognises that cultural excellence can take place in a community centre or a school as well as a national theatre.
There is a strong track record of high quality participative cultural and creative learning in the North – which collectively we want to ensure is not diminished, by the end of the event we had a shared commitment to explore practical ways of making this happen and demonstrate the wider societal impact of this work most effectively.
Photo Caption: CapeUK staff were gathering a collective northern voice – thoughts, questions, comments to send via chat rooms and twitter to feed into the national event at the British Museum.
Twitter hashtag #culturelearning
Creative Spaces explores the ways in which young children experience the space of the museum or gallery and the effect this has on their learning.
The Creative Spaces research programme was initiated by the North West (NW) Museum Hub, a partnership between six major museums and galleries in the North West. The Hub has been created as part of the Renaissance in the Regions programme of investment by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport. The funding has been allocated to transform regional museums with a particular emphasis on attracting larger and more diverse audiences.
CapeUK, an educational trust that explores the relationship between creativity and learning, was contracted to undertake the programme; the management role was taken by the NW Director, Rosie Marcus. CapeUK’s activity includes action research, project delivery and consultancy in formal and informal educational settings – often bringing together academics and educational practitioners. In this research programme, the academic lead was taken by Dr. Catherine Burke of the School of Education, University of Leeds.
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