We are supporting two projects as part of extending innovative practice that sees arts and cultural organisations working within youth justice settings:

“I think this programme should continue and be available for other young people like me. It has really helped me and I have changed a lot since I started. I am really glad that I stayed on to do the Arts Award.”

LB (aged 17), RE/CREATIONS Silver Arts Award candidate and JHG Creative Trainee

CLICK HERE TO READ MORE, including the Hampshire Police and Crime Commissioner's thoughts.

If you missed it last month, click HERE to read our CEO Jane Bryant's piece on changing the lives of young offenders in Arts Professional magazine.

Through Partnership Investments, we are able to support strategic joint investment and commissioning and broker delivery of cultural programmes for children and young people.

To see our new Partnership Investments READ MORE...

To see our Story Map of previous Partnership Investments, CLICK HERE

Random Acts is Channel 4's short-form arts strand which showcases ‘bold expressions of creativity’ through short films covering art, dance, animation, music and opera,  ranging in duration from 90 seconds to 3 minutes. Arts Council England have invested in the programme since its launch in 2011.

The Arts Council plans to invest up to £3 million funding to fund five new Random Acts Network Centres over a 3 year period 2015-18 to nurture new 16-24 year old talent.

In line with this, Artswork carried out and commissioned research into film education and accessiblity in the South East. Download the report and its accompanying powerpoint presentation from our resources section.

image: Artsmark Wider Reach Andover - work by a pupil at Portway Juniors

See our post on the project here

It’s been a busy few months, with the students visiting Towner Gallery in April, the artists David Blandy & Seb Lee Delisle visiting schools in May, visits by web developer Andy Tyrell and photographer Phil Burrows to support student skills in June. In July, the project produced Tech Resort Teens (TRT), a creative computing club which ran on alternate weekends during June and July.

“We are now gearing up for the Private View on 19th September (please save the date), the exhibition and a couple of show and tell sessions during the Brighton Digital Festival: Talent Slam, Starr Hub event.”

- Donna Comerford, Educational Consultant for Connective Culture - 

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Our next free face-to-face training event will be on 14th October at our Southampton office from 1-5pm. Lorraine Cheshire is the trainer at this event.

The session helps you to gather approaches to using Artsmark as an audit tool, to engage with the language of the criteria as well as a handy hints on how to get your colleagues involved and on developing local arts partnerships. it’s a lively interactive session. Schools who have  attended this session find their Artsmark application much easier and also they link with local schools as well as tap into other programmes that Artswork support.

To book – you need to be an Artsmark Network member to attend.

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As a Bridge organisation, we support a network of education, community, arts and cultural sectors that come together to create greater strategic cultural opportunities for children and young people.

Following a call for submissions, several new organisations joined us as part of our Networks.

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Kent, Brighton and Hove, and East Sussex Arts Award forums have some dates for your diary. If you want to connect with other local Arts Award Advisers and share best practice then please visit here for more details.

Artsmark Conference, 23rd October 2014

Join us for this year's Artsmark Conference at the BFI, Southbank - for all Artsmark Network Members.

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Artsmark Conference Quiz
Q1: One of our workshops will explore a major European programme that has been running for over 20 years  and you can join in. So...What is ‘Le Cinéma, cent ans de jeunesse’?

Answer in next month's enews!

“@ArtsworkLtd: Artswork CEO stresses key role for arts/cultural orgs in enhancing cultural education in and out of schools" Go Jane!

— Marina Castledine (@mocasmarina) August 20, 2014

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Artswork's investment in the Reading Aiming Higher programme for disabled young people has enabled The Avenue Special School to work with Suzanne Stallard from Jelly on the Arts Award.

The young people took part in a series of art workshops including print making and developed art work which was shown in an exhibition in an empty shop at the Oracle in Reading at the end of term.

South East:

Creative Consultation with Young People                  
26th September 2014               
10 am - 4.15 pm                      
Lighthouse, Brighton               
£75 p/p
Book your place

Evaluating Youth Arts Projects                      
22nd October 2014                  
10 am - 4.15 pm                      
Artswork, Southampton                                   
£75 p/p
Book your place

London:

Child Protection & Safeguarding        
22nd September 2014  
10 am - 4.15 pm          
Platform, London                    
£110-£150, limited bursary places available
Book your place