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Welcome to this month's edition of the English National Youth Arts Network newsletter.
We hope that the articles below are of relevance to you and your interest in ensuring access to arts and culture for children and young people right across the country. Just a reminder - if you register as a member (for free), you can submit your own content for the website and future issues of this newsletter. Your membership also gives you discounted rates on a selection of our conferences and training courses. Don't forget to check the website for more news articles and features every week.
Thank you for subscribing and we'll see you next month.
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National dance bodies join forces to tackle inactivity
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A strategic collaboration between One Dance UK and People Dancing will focus first on encouraging primary schools to spend more on high quality dance.
The collaborators intend to lobby Government to show dance is an effective way of getting people more active, improving mental health and reducing social isolation. An initial focus will be on encouraging primary schools to spend more on high quality dance.
Andrew Hurst, Chief Executive of One Dance UK, said: “This important initiative builds upon One Dance UK’s advocacy programme, and we look forward to making a stronger case for dance, and to strengthening partnerships with public health, social care and education.”
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Should museums have a personality? asks The Wellcome Collection's Russell Dornan
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"In a medium where tone and voice are key, what does it mean to funnel a museum’s online presence through a unique filter: ourselves?
Museums, once seen as stuffy and elite institutions, exclusive, imperious and didactic, have generally become more and more inclusive, accessible and dynamic; places where humanity’s tangible and intangible heritage can be explored by all. I posit that a large part of this transformation (or personality overhaul, if you will) is thanks to how digital technology has opened up the cultural sector beyond the walls of our institutions. Museums and their audiences can have a more direct, personal and informal relationship with each other thanks to social media."
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Sadler's Wells on changing approaches to data collection and sharing
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After updating its approach to data collection and sharing, Sadler’s Wells noticed a surge in email sign-ups for its visiting companies. Sebastian Cheswright Cater and Matt Kirby tell the story.
As an industry, we are all still in the early stages of developing best practice, but we have worked closely with our associate artists and companies, and National Portfolio Organisations (NPOs), to support them as they develop their own data protection systems and policies.
Before we began, we had two primary concerns about data protection regulations:
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Obtaining clear and actionable consent from ticket bookers for their data to be responsibly shared.
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Ensuring that any subsequent data transfer was tracked and secure, and clearly showed the demarcation point between ourselves and the company we are sharing data with, so that it’s clear where our legal responsibilities end and the touring company’s begins.
Read more here...
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Give a book for World Book Night
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World Book Night is a national celebration of reading and books which takes place on 23 April every year. Books are given out across the UK with a focus on reaching those who don’t regularly read, and are gifted through organisations including prisons, libraries, colleges, hospitals, care homes and homeless shelters, as well as by passionate individuals who give out their own books within their communities.
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Cost cutting tips for arts organisations from Cause4's Michelle Wright
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"Cost reduction should not be about cutting services or staff, but about sustaining them. However, having a full-time cost-management specialist on the books is a luxury few can afford. The responsibility to improve efficiency usually falls to staff who are already overloaded with more than enough duties.
With little time and short-term goals, this often leads to superficial exercises. Adopting an approach to work with just the cheapest suppliers may seem logical, but it fails to consider a wide variety of additional factors contributing to the overall situation such as supplier loyalty, quality and convenience."
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DfE launches website ahead of tax-free childcare launch
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The government's tax-free childcare scheme will officially get under way on 28 April, with parents able to pre-register through a new website dedicated to childcare entitlements, the Department for Education has announced.
From next month parents of children under the age of two will be able to access the tax-free childcare scheme, whereby the government tops up £2 for every £8 parents pay into it. By the end of the year the scheme will be available to all eligible parents of children under the age of 12, or under 17 if disabled.
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Creative Collisions: working with young people to improve social mobility
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Since 2012 young people from disadvantaged backgrounds have become less likely to succeed at school, this correlates with falling investment in youth services across the country. What should the youth sector be doing to close the gap? Creative Collisions looks at the social mobility challenge, sharing impact data and presenting different approaches being tried in the youth sector to address the problem, from targeted interventions to open access programmes.
Find out more here...
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Upcoming Artsplan Training Courses...
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Child Protection & Safeguarding in the Arts & Cultural Sector
Norwich
Thursday 20th April 2017
Book your place
Child Protection & Safeguarding in the Arts & Cultural Sector
Brighton
Thursday 4th May 2017
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Developing Participation: Producing Work With, For and By Young People
Gateshead
Wednesday 24th May 2017
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Child Protection Policy Writing
London
Thursday 8th June 2017
Book your place
Behaviour Management and Youth Arts
Peterborough
Friday 9th June 2017
Book your place
Navigating the Changing Educational Landscape
Southampton
Wednesday 14th June 2017
Book your place
Diversity and Equality in Youth Arts and Culture - Great Art for Everyone
Manchester
Wednesday 28th June 2017
Book your place
Mentoring the Next Creative Generation
Bristol
Thursday 6th July
Book your place
See our full list of courses here
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Getting teenagers singing: St Peter's School music club
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Traditionally, when children move from primary to secondary school there is a decline in interest in extra-curricular arts activities. But Harvey Goodman, Head of Music at St Peter’s School in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, has succeeded in attracting 60 pupils aged 11 to 17 to come every week to a two-hour long after-school music club.
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BLOG | Francesca Moseley on working as a Producer in the Dance industry
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"I’ve been working in the dance industry for nearly 11 years now. After completing my degree in Dance and Culture at the University of Surrey, I applied for a lot of entry-level jobs, and was successful with my second interview at The Place. I spent five years working in its theatre and artist development department, soaking up the opportunity to work with so many different artists and learning how to nurture their ideas from the initial stages of development right through to pulling the creation together on stage."
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Music education is now only for the white and wealthy, argues the Guardian's Charlotte G Gill
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Music lessons have become increasingly hard to access in schools. To enable more children to learn, we must stop teaching in such an academic way, says Charlotte C. Gill.
"This is a great shame, as research has shown the huge benefits that music brings to children’s happiness and learning. Interestingly, the government does care about psychological development in schools, and recently announced plans to trial mental health training for pupils, but it has not dawned on politicians that this, and more, can be achieved through the arts."
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New initiative offers emerging artists support through corporate mentoring and exhibitions
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A new scheme has been launched that aims to help emerging artists by offering corporate support and expertise.
newplatform.art expands on a model first used by the Clyde & Co Art Awards, facilitated by the international law firm Clyde & Co.
Over the last five years the group has supported over 200 emerging artists, and are now scaling up activities to a national and international level.
Companies that take part in newplatform.art will be offered support in selecting final-year graduating artists from one or more partner art school. Selected artists will then be invited to show work in their corporate offices for one year.
Find out more...
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