Artswork: South East Bridge enews
September 2016: The Back to School Issue

Editorial

Welcome to the latest edition of the South East Bridge enews. In this issue, we are highlighting the fantastic work taking place in schools and other education settings across the region, as well as showcasing Artsmark's new advocacy film, Bringing Arts and Cultural Education to Life. For enabling and achieving a successful cultural education outside of the perimeters of the traditional 'school house', we have a handful of useful Arts Award resources for Libraries, as well as updates on projects that focused on work with youth justice settings. We are also sharing a couple of interesting blogs and debates on the topic of education; we hope they give you much pause for thought. 

As always, our resources are available to download absolutely free of charge - simply register on the Artswork site for full access. If you tick the box to register as an ENYAN member as part of this, you will also be granted access to discounted rates on a selection of our upcoming professional development courses. 

Thanks for subscribing and sharing the journey with us, as we endeavour to increase arts and cultural opportunities for children and young people across the South East region. 

Jane Bryant
Chief Executive
Artswork

Artsmark share new film: Bringing Arts and Cultural Education to Life in Your School

Artsmark enriches children and young people’s learning by helping schools to deliver high-quality art and cultural education and the film helps brings to life the stories of schools who’ve chosen to champion Artsmark.

Watch it here...

Share your Future Views - join the conversation today!

Royal Opera House Bridge, Artswork and Festival Bridge are working together with Local Cultural Education Partnerships (LCEPs) across the South East to commission a series of discussions exploring how emerging technologies, organisational behaviours and critical trends might shape cultural learning in a local context.

Future Views is a forward-looking research project, with a series of discussions and tools to help imagine the next generation of cultural learning up to 2036. Throughout October we will be conducting a national conversation with online discussions and speculative design workshops for groups of young people and experts. Join the conversation using this blog, #FutureViews on Twitter, this Facebook group or click on the links below.

Click here to join the conversation

Find out more...

"I Am Here" - an exhibition and performance of work produced by young people attending Hampshire Cultural Trust's Summer Art College

In July, young people in the region performed poetry and hosted an exhibition, as part of Hampshire Cultural Trust's Summer Arts College. The work is one of the eighteen programmes being supported through an exciting new relationship between Artswork and the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, which sees a co-investment in arts and youth justice. 

Read more...

Arts Award resources for Libraries

Artswork has been investing in libraries to work in partnership with local artists and arts and cultural organisations and deliver Arts Award. Many libraries have already signed up to be Arts Award Supporters. Free downloadable resources of the work already carried out by several libraries across the region can be found on our website.

Simply sign up for a free account and download to your heart’s content!

Find out more here...

RECENT PROJECTS: Making Space, Glenwood Schools & Hampshire Youth Offending Services

Making Space in Havant have been working with Glenwood School and Hampshire Youth Offending Services on contemporary craft and design work. The work has focused on engaging or re-engaging those with severe, profound or multiple learning difficulties and those with Behavioural, Emotional, and Social difficulties.

Find out more...

SCHOOL SPOTLIGHT | Highfield School hosts Stepping Stones children in weekly mentoring programme

Last term, Highfield School partnered up with Stepping Stones, as part of its weekly Keys programme. Stepping Stones is a school that makes provision for children who have acquired processing delays due to acute or chronic medical conditions, hemiplegia or mild cerebral palsy, those whose mental and/or emotional health is at risk due to direct or indirect trauma, and those whose mild autism creates learning needs.

Read more here...

Are you an Artsmark school in the South East with your own arts and cultural story to share? Contact us to spread the good news!

National Portfolio Organisations: apply for Arts Council England's 2018-22 Funding Programme

The application process to become a National Portfolio Organisation for the 2018-2022 funding period will begin in October 2016.

Before you can apply, you need to register on Arts Council England's new portal, Grantium. We suggest you register in advance, so you can begin work on your application as soon as the portal opens in October.

Find out more here...

Photo of the Month

To celebrate the centenary of Roald Dahl's birth, we asked young people to draw a scene from their favourite Dahl story.

Drawn by Josiah, Age 12 #RoaldDahl100

Find us on Instagram here...

Journeys Festival International | Portsmouth | 10-22 October 2016

This October, Artswork are supporting #JourneysFest Portsmouth: twelve days of extraordinary events that celebrate the artistic talent and incredible stories of refugee artists. Come and explore the diverse programme of artistic activity, happening citywide.

Find out more...

IN OTHER NEWS...
Upcoming Artsplan Training Courses & Events

Child Protection and Safeguarding in the Arts and Cultural Sectors

Gateshead

Wednesday 5th October 2016

Book your place

 

Mentoring the Next Creative Generation

Manchester

Thursday 6th October 2016

Book your place

 

Mentoring the Next Creative Generation

Norwich

Thursday 20th October 2016

Book your place

 

Creative Consultation with Young People

Bristol

Thursday 10th November 2016

Book your place

 

Creating Digital Change

London

Wednesday 16th November 2016

Book your place

 

Mentoring the Next Creative Generation

Margate

Wednesday 16th November 2016

Book your place

 

Funding Your Youth Arts Project

Southampton

Thursday 24th November 2016

Book your place

 

Creating Digital Change

Manchester

Thursday 16th February 2017

Book your place

 

Find details on all our upcoming training courses and events here

Job Vacancies at Artswork

School Liaison Manager – Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire & Milton Keynes (part-time)

To work in the Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Milton Keynes sub-region – with hot-desking facilities (tbc)

Closes: Fri 14th October

Find out more...

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Artsmark Officer

To work in our Southampton Office

Closes: Weds 19th October

Find out more...

Tweet of the Month

Back in the office & starting the day off right with a reminder of why we do what we do, courtesy of @BobandRoberta pic.twitter.com/OjHD4JN4hG

— Artswork (@ArtsworkLtd) August 30, 2016

STEAM TeachMeet - STEM + ARTS = STEAM | Thursday 6th October | Southampton | 4-5pm

Calling all Arts Teachers, STEM Teachers, Arts and Cultural Practitioners, STEM Ambassadors and anybody else with an interest!

Come and join us for our second STEAM Teach Meet. This is a great opportunity to find out more about STEAM – adding the Arts to STEM. Pair up with an Arts or STEM colleague from your school or another school to share ideas and expertise and explore the possibilities of STEAM projects for your school.

Find out more here...

Book your place here...

Free Into Film event | Raising Literacy Attainment through Film

20th October | Oxford

A session introducing a range of new and exciting activities, including working with Foley sound effects to develop descriptive writing skills, analysing mise-en-scene to improve students inference and deduction skills and working with the language of camera shots as a basis for extending writing. 

Find out more...

GCSE results should be a 'wake up call to Government', say Bacc for the Future camp

Young people in England sat 44,000 fewer GCSEs in arts subjects this year, new figures have confirmed. The 7.7% drop on 2015 is significantly higher than the 0.4% overall fall in the number of GCSEs taken.

Deborah Annetts, Chief Executive of the Incorporated Society of Musicians and founder of the Bacc for the Future campaign, said the figures should be “a wake-up call to Government that the new EBacc is already having an adverse impact”.

Read more...

BLOG | The next step for museum funding

John Orna-Ornstein, Arts Council England's Director of Museums, blogs about how we’re changing the way we invest in museums, and why this is a great opportunity for art and culture.

Read it here...

VACANCY | Researcher for Portsmouth's Cultural Education Partnership

Deadline: Thursday 6th October

Find out more here...

Kick Arts Autumn 2016 Programme Launches

Kick Arts are currently recruiting and contacting schools for a November 2016 start and would love to hear from you.

Find out more in their new brochure...

COMING SOON | Into Film Festival 2016

"The Into Film Festival is the world's largest free film and education event for young people. The Festival offers more than 3,000 cinema screenings of 165+ films, all selected with educators in mind. Special guest speakers from the film industry and beyond join select events across the nations, aiming to inspire new generations. Free, cross-subject, curricula-linked resources are available to support learning and engage young people through the magic of cinema."

This year's festival will run from the 9th - 25th November.

Find out more here...

MK Young Filmmaker of the Year 2016: Win £500 to fund your next creative project!

This year’s competition follows the success of MK Young Artist hosted by MK Gallery in 2015.  MK Young Filmmaker of the Year 2016 is open to all schools, groups, home educators, children and young people aged 4-19 in Milton Keynes. 

Find out more...

Upcoming Arts Award adviser training

We have a number of Arts Award adviser training dates across the South East. Follow the link below to find your nearest:

See here for more details...

OPINION | “The real benefit of studying the arts is that it offers students a unique opportunity to explore their identity and multiple perspectives…”

“The economic argument for arts education has failed – we need a new approach”, says Hannah Day, Course Team Leader of Arts and Culture at Ludlow College.

Read her blog here...

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