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Blog from Martin Phillips
The Arts Connect Blog Martin Phillips, Local Heritage Education Manager, Telford & Wrekin writes here about the Historic England Heritage Schools Programme 2015 has been a highly productive year...
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Fluffing the Feathers
Jemima Waltho, Arts Connect’s Operations manager, reflects on the first few months of our activity. I’m not known for my grace and poise, preferring a gambol to a gavotte, but in this case I feel it’s...
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Guest blog from Richard Hayhow, Director, Open Theatre Company
Richard Hayhow introduces the Is That All There Is? conference, promoting a fresh look at work with young people with learning disabilities. Richard Hayhow and Open theatre work with young people with...
View ArticleGuest Blogpost – How Coventry’s Positive Youth Foundation has forged a...
How Coventry’s Positive Youth Foundation has forged a special relationship with the Royal Shakespeare Company Guest blogpost by Susie Murphy, The Positive Youth Foundation The Positive Youth...
View ArticleLatest Arts Award Grants Announced
We are delighted to announce the most recent recipients of Arts Award funding in the West Midlands. Ledbury Poetry Festival £500 ‘Discover in a Day’ as part of the Poetry Out Loud festival for schools...
View ArticleBlog: Arts and Culture Leadership: Shifting our gaze to Learning and...
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” Alice Walker, American Novelist and Activist. This is the first in a series of blogs exploring the creation and...
View ArticleBlog Part 2: Arts and Culture Leadership: Targeting Learning and Engagement...
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” Amelia Earhart, Aviator. First female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic. This is the second in a series of blogs...
View ArticleBlog Part 3: Arts and Culture Leadership: Running the Programme
This is the third in a series of blogs exploring the creation and development of our Leadership programme for learning and engagement professionals in the Arts and Cultural sector. Read the 4th blog...
View ArticleBlog Part 4: Arts and Culture Leadership: Leadership, Debate and Diversity
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” Henry Ford This is the fourth in a series of blogs exploring the creation and...
View ArticleBlog Part 5: Arts and Culture Leadership: Going Forward
“I was impressed by the energy and enthusiasm that I saw at Arts Connect’s session at the Midlands Arts Centre. I was also struck by the anger and frustration that some people expressed at the current...
View ArticleGuest Blog from Andy Watson, CEO for Geese Theatre Company
Andy Watson blogs for us about the Geese Theatre Company and their innovative approach to CPD and INSET for educational professionals working with Looked After Children. An audience of 80 teaching...
View ArticleEmerge Festival Spalding: Artists Blog
Before Christmas, The Priory and Youth Takeover groups met for the first time at South Holland Centre, and teamed up to create a makeshift sensory world using a plethora of materials, sounds and...
View ArticleEmerge Festival Walsall: Artists Blog
It’s certainly been a busy start to the year with both the Lab at Ormiston Shelfield Academy and Walsall Arboretum/Deaf People’s centre working incredibly hard on short pieces for our EMERGE festival....
View ArticleEmerge Festival Tamworth: Artists Blog
Things are well underway in Tamworth as we edge closer and closer to festival day. All our LAB groups have decided on what they will be showing and are now working hard to get scripts written,...
View ArticleEmerge Festival Corby: Artists Blog
So, it is that time of the project where festival planning is well underway. Exciting times indeed. However, it goes without saying that there are a million and one questions floating around. Will...
View ArticleCultural Learning Evidence Champions are GO!
The RSA is working with Arts Council Bridge Organisations to champion the role of evidence and evaluation in improving the quality and impact of arts and cultural education. The Evidence Champions...
View ArticleBlog 1: Arts Award with Ormiston Academies Trust – Liberty Chain
OAT Liberty Chain – Arts and British Citizenship In response to the ongoing national depletion of arts based learning and engagement experiences within schools, Ormiston Academies Trust (a Multi...
View ArticleBlog 2: Arts Award with Ormiston Academies Trust – Liberty Chain
Braving the waters “To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously”...
View ArticleBlog 3: Arts Award with Ormiston Academies Trust – Liberty Chain
The Importance of Being an Expert We are now entering the last few phases of the OAT Liberty Chain project, the pupils have been on their trips, are developing their portfolios for Arts Awards and most...
View ArticleBlog RSA Academies: Should all schools be art schools? Yes.
‘All schools should be art schools’ said Bob and Roberta Smith. We rather like this idea. It is our ambition is to bring contemporary art to schools in the RSA Family of Academies to support young...
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