South East Bridge News Update
February 2016

Welcome to the latest edition of the South East Bridge enews.

This month, we have the latest information on our upcoming conference, to be held in London later this year. We also have dates for upcoming briefings for arts and cultural organisations in the South East - see below for details on how to book your place today. As well as this, we are seeking responses from Festival, Carnival and Mela organisations to bid for up to £3500 to help embed the delivery of Arts Award across the region. If you are interested in applying, please follow the links below to find out more. 

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 personal and 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

Lemn Sissay announced as keynote speaker for Artswork Conference 2016: Better Together | 29th June | London

We are pleased to announce poet, broadcaster and playwright Lemn Sissay MBE as the first keynote speaker for the 2016 Artswork Conference - Better Together.

More speakers will be announced over the coming months. Our lineup of speakers share a commitment to improving the lives of children and young people, and many have already sparked change or influenced policy. Come and hear their stories, share your own, and inspire new solutions.

The 2016 Artswork Conference will bring together leaders from education, schools and arts and culture to explore the ways we can achieve more together as we work to enrich and enhance children and young people's lives, education & well-being. Alongside our inspiring speakers, the day will be packed with active and engaging workshops, innovative ideas, and thought-provoking case studies. We look forward to you joining us for a day of debate and sharing.

Book your place before 31 March 2016 and pay just £50 – saving more than 25% on the standard ticket price...

Partnership Investment: The Children & the Arts Start Programme

Artswork is pleased to be working in partnership with Children & the Arts to enable more schools to benefit from getting involved with exciting arts and culture. Through this partnership investment, we are supporting additional arts and cultural venues to take part in the Start programme across the South East.

The Children & the Arts Start Programme, now in its tenth year, has reached over 134,000 young people in the UK since beginning in 2006. Through Start, Children and the Arts provides funding and support to arts venues for three years, empowering them to create long lasting and sustainable partnerships with local schools, particularly those in areas of deprivation, through a tailored arts engagement programme, venue visits, teacher CPD and in-school workshops.

Find out more here...

CASE STUDY ARCHIVE | Achieving 'A Sense of Place' in Folkestone

"Our Folkestone based project, ‘A Sense of Place’, was set up with the aim of: establishing and maintaining collaborative working between Folkestone schools and the Folkestone arts community; enabling some of the children within the participating schools to achieve an Arts Award where previously there had not been access to this; for the participating schools to be signed up as Arts Award Centres; enabling participating schools to gain Artsmark; to produce Folkestone based cross-curricular Units of Study based on local arts, cultural provision and local geography in order to provide high quality pupil engagement; to develop an Arts and Cultural Policy for Folkestone schools and arts organisations; to consider how the project would be disseminated and further developed as CPD for teachers and practitioners."

(Michelle Charlton-Taylor, Shepway Teaching School)

Read more...

Download the case study here...

Artist and Primary Schools chosen for MK Gallery's new outdoor learning programme

Heading up the exciting initiative will be artist James Aldridge, a Wiltshire-based visual artist whose practice combines sensory interaction - such as walking, collecting and making - with research into ecology and history. Selected by MK Gallery from an open call for artists, James has experience of heritage, arts and environmental organisations, and has worked with people ranging from pre-school children through to doctoral students.

Ian Fraser, Assistant Head Teacher at Holne Chase Primary School said: "We are really looking forward to taking part in the project, especially for how it will help our children to appreciate seasonal changes in the natural environment around them, and for the skills that they will learn from an artist.  This will be a springboard for more outdoor learning opportunities throughout Holne Chase, both this year and in the future."

Find out more...

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_artswork_Some of the work produced today by the 15-18 Group! #youthvoice #youthadvocacy

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IN OTHER NEWS...
Upcoming Training Courses
& Events

Building Commissioning Relationships

Oxford

Monday 7th March 2016

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Navigating the Changing Educational Landscape

Henley-on-Thames

Monday 11th April 2016

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Youth Arts Project Management (6-day accredited)

London

Wednesday 20th April - Wednesday 15th June 2016

Book your place

 

Child Protection and Safeguarding in the Arts

Manchester

Thursday 16th June

Book your place

 

Find details on all our upcoming training courses and events here

Investment opportunity for Festivals, Carnivals and Melas to deliver an embed Arts Award

We are seeking responses from Festival, Carnival and Mela organisations to bid for up to £3500 to extend and embed the delivery of Discover Arts Award in the SE region. We are also open to bids being led by cultural organisations with a proven and ongoing commitment to working in partnership with Festivals, Carnivals or Melas. 

Find out more here...

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Upcoming briefing events for arts and cultural organisations in the South East

With a number of new programmes being launched, we would like to invite you to an Arts and Cultural Briefing so that we can best equip you to support children and young people within your area.

The Arts and Cultural Briefings will cover the following topics:

  • Arts Council England's Cultural Education Challenge
  • The new Artsmark programme
  • Arts Council England's Quality Principles
  • Connecting with Culture
  • Arts Award update
  • Cultural Education Partnerships
  • Artsplan training courses

Find out more and book your free place here...

ACE Capital Grants allocated to visual arts organisations in the South East

Visual arts organisations including Spike Island in Bristol, Aspex in Portsmouth, Pallant House Gallery in Chichester and Towner Trust, which runs Towner Gallery in Eastbourne, are among 39 organisations to benefit in the latest round of Arts Council England’s small capital grants awards totalling £10.8 million.

Ranging from £100,000 – £500,000, the grants enable organisations to make improvements to buildings and equipment, to become more sustainable businesses, and to progress innovative digital strategies.

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Artswork present workshop at 5th Annual Joint Practice Development Day for Music & Cultural Education in Brighton and Hove

The event was opened by Professor Julian Crampton, Chair of the Our Future City Strategic Advisory Board. Keynote speakers included Laura Gander-Howe, Director, Children, Young People and Learning, Arts Council England, and Marc Jaffrey OBE, who led a session exploring two key themes of the Our Future City Programme; Digital well-being, and Creativity.

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Cultural Education Data Portal launched

The Cultural Education Data Portal aims to bring together and provide easy access to a wide variety of data sources relating to children and young people, demographics, arts, culture and education.

The data portal can be used by researchers, policy makers, and arts and cultural organisations to help support evidence-based planning at a local level, paint a picture of strengths, weaknesses and opportunities for a high quality cultural offer, or simply to gather data and evidence to support funding bids.

Find out more...

English National Youth Arts Network enews

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