Directed and shot by young people across the South East. Written and perfomed by Chukie, Spoken Word Artist.

A free event for local authority schools, academies, Our Future City and SoundCity partners, as well as anyone working in music/cultural education in Brighton and Hove.

The day will look at:

• The importance of creativity
• Ways to engage children and young people in education
• Artsmark
• Arts Award
• The success of Cultural Education Partnership, Our Future City and sharing best practice

"This is the second year that we have been invited to contribute to the Joint Practice Development Day. It’s a fantastic opportunity for Teachers, Senior School Leaders, and Cultural Education Practitioners to share practice and learn of key developments in cultural education. Following the morning session, Artswork is delighted to be leading sessions in the afternoon on Artsmark and Arts Award."

(Richard Beales, Strategic Manager, Artswork)

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We are very excited to announce that The Blagrave Trust will award Artswork £25,000 a year for the next three years, to support our new Creative Skills employability programme, working with young people leaving care. This new partnership will see collaboration between Artswork, Portsmouth City Council Children’s Services and Portsmouth Virtual School, and will focus on championing the education of young people under Local Authority care, in order to improve their life chances as they prepare to leave care.

A series of 15-week creative learning projects will equip care-leavers with the confidence and experience needed to take the next steps into employment or further training. Young people will engage in work placements and develop social, communicative, team, and employability skills, whilst gaining nationally recognised qualifications.

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Children from seven Southampton primary schools began an exciting new 3 year arts project working with Nuffield Southampton Theatres and leading education charity, Children & the Arts. Just under 400 children have visited the Nuffield Theatre so far for a performance of Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox.

“As a flagship producing theatre, NST has the ability to not only offer children an opportunity to explore great quality arts but also life-enhancing skills and experiences. We are really pleased to be supporting NST to enhance their offer to children and teachers. We look forward to learning and sharing the impact for all involved over the next three years.” (Jane Bryant, CEO, Artswork)

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Inspire Music (Paul Hamlyn Foundation) has launched its new portal, featuring a case study of an Artswork-invested Early Years programme, Pantomimus, described as an example of ‘good practice’.

The PANTOMIMUS project was created as an Early Years scheme, to contribute significantly to the improvement of access to music activity for children aged 0-5.

The aim of the project was to address key themes that had emerged from the Earlyarts case studies, as well as add more music to cultural activities, of which most had previously been predominantly other arts disciplines.

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Regram from @department4doingnothing's recent day at Tate Modern as part of an Artswork co-invested programme, Re-observing Juvenile Delinquency.

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“It’s rare that an educational academic is celebrated by all ‘sides’ in the educational debate, that’s both the traditionalist and progressive camps because if you listen to and believe either, there’s no middle ground and agreeing is rarely on the curriculum in their echo chambers.”

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Get a head-start on your professional development this year and book a place on one of our training courses - designed specifically for arts and cultural professionals working with children and young people.

Our 2017 courses cover a wide-range of topics, including behaviour management, project evaluation and the use of emerging digital technologies in learning projects. As well as these, our in-depth Child Protection & Safeguarding course takes place in six cities across the country, to provide you with essential information and updates on child protection legislation.

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

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Awards for Young Musicians (AYM), an organisation helping young people from low-income backgrounds to progress musically, has been awarded funding for the second phase of its Furthering Talent programme. National charity Youth Music has invested in Furthering Talent for the next two years, enabling AYM to help many more children as well as providing professional development opportunities for music teachers.

As part of the work, Awards for Young Musicians are partnering with Artswork-supported Brighton & Hove Music Education Hub to help the young people achieve their Bronze Arts Awards.

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We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Dovers Green Primary, Lady Joanna Thornhill Endowed Primary, Lindfield Primary Academy, Priors Court Primary and Sidlesham Primary School on their being awarded Artsmark.

This is a fantastic achievement and we are really pleased to have been able to support them on this journey. We are working with these schools, who are eager to share their specialist knowledge to support the wider education network.

We are delighted with their enthusiasm as sharing best practice is a key element of Artsmark’s success. We are currently developing an Artsmark resource suite to support schools.

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Thanks to funding from the Arts Award Access Fund, five schools and youth organisations from the Isle of Wight who took part in the New Carnival Company’s annual Mardi Gras Parade gained 109 new Awards at Discover (89) & Explore (20) levels this summer.

Working to the Mardi Gras 2016 theme of ‘Shakespeare 400 – a celebration of the Bard’s life and work’, the groups used this as a platform to discover the arts in a wider context through heritage, fashion, theatre skills, carnival, costume design and make, dance and performance.

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Reading Hack are looking for six groups of young people aged 13-24 to come up with a project or idea that will encourage other young people to read more.

The deadline for ideas is Monday 20th February 2017.

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Join STEM Sussex, Artswork and Towner Gallery at a workshop inspired by the exhibition A Certain Kind of Light. Consider the science behind light in new ways, design sculptures, and much more. 

• Interactive sessions with ideas to take back to the classroom
• Exclusive after-hours access to the exhibitions for teachers
• Time to network and share ideas with others
• Free refreshments available

Free to attend but booking is essential. *Suitable for Secondary phase*

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Creating Digital Change

Manchester

Thursday 16th February 2017

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Behaviour Management and Youth Arts

York

Thursday 2nd March 2017

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Raising Funds for your School - an introduction to budgeting and bid writing for arts and cultural projects

Milton Keynes

Thursday 9th March 2017

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Facilitation Skills

London

Wednesday 15th March 2017

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Find details on all our upcoming training courses and events here