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Staying ahead of the Curve at Slough’s Arts Award Leadership Network event

On the 15th of March, many different organisations gathered together in the relatively new complex at the Curve, Slough for another Arts Award

18th Apr 2018

Schools get creative to STEAM-clean Eastbourne Beach

Just before the Easter break, 150 students from six secondary schools in Eastbourne headed to their local beach to spend the day working with

18th Apr 2018

Tate drops ticket prices for young people and seeks trustee to represent 16-25s

Tate is to appoint its first trustee to represent the interests of people aged 16-25. The idea is to bring the next generation into the highest level

18th Apr 2018

Children’s Commissioner calls for more arts in children’s lives

Growing up North, a new report from the Children’s Commissioner published on 26 March, looks at the experiences of children in the North of

18th Apr 2018

MK Gallery’s Mind the Gap exhibition

In 2017, MK’s Cultural Education Partnership, the Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and MK Council Public Health, jointly commissioned Artis and

17th Apr 2018

Kent’s Cultural Education Partnership explores integrating communities through the arts

Dr Jonathan Barnes and Alex Ntung explore how activities such as dance, drama and art can help migrant children regain confidence and trust and lead

17th Apr 2018

Nesta’s Pauling Tambling on the importance of diversity in the workplace

"Arts and cultural organisations need to think about workforce issues if they are to stay relevant. This is an obvious point. We focus on what’s on

22nd Mar 2018

Prior’s Court School celebrate World Autism Awareness Week by releasing song

To celebrate this year's World Autism Awareness Week, one of our Artsmark schools, Prior's Court, shared a new song - Let Me Shine. All of the young

22nd Mar 2018

Linking Creativity to Wellbeing: Take the Great British Creativity Test!

Singing in the shower or painting a picture makes you feel good, right? Scientists want to better understand just why getting creative

21st Mar 2018

SAHWing into STEAM with the SE Arts Award Leadership Network

Earlier this month, the John Hansard Gallery hosted an Arts Award Leadership Network event in its new gallery space in Southampton city centre (as

20th Mar 2018

Working Together with Prevent

We have designed our new ‘Working Together with Prevent’ course to take the fear out of the Prevent agenda, and help you begin to apply it to

14th Mar 2018

Lisa gives us an insight into her apprenticeship experience with Aspex Gallery #NAW2018 #WorksForMe

As part of our National Apprenticeship Week 2018 celebrations we asked Lisa what makes an apprenticeship work for her, and to share some thoughts on

9th Mar 2018

Tes and Artsmark launch ‘teaching with creativity’ hub

A creative education helps increase pupils’ confidence, knowledge and communication skills, thus improving attainment in all subjects. The Artsmark

7th Mar 2018

Earlyarts publish pocket guide on creative teaching

"What a brilliant resource, every teacher should read this. My work is in workforce education within the arts and cultural sectors and I think that

7th Mar 2018

Our Future City: in conversation with Katie Dale-Everett Dance

In October 2017, Our Future City collaborated with South East Dance and Artswork to run the #BeCollective event: Our Digital

7th Mar 2018

Our ‘Artswork Essentials Package’ of professional development training explained…

This year we've launched the 'Artswork Essentials Package' to prepare arts and culture professionals for anything, when working with children and

5th Mar 2018

Upcoming Artsmark Development Days across the South East

Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Portsmouth 15/05/18 - Mayflower Theatre 25/06/18 - Portsmouth Guildhall Surrey, East &West Sussex, Brighton

3rd Mar 2018

Youth Arts Project Management
6 day course, Southampton
*Special Discount* for South East organisations

“Insightful, in-depth and inspirational. A very enjoyable and informative course” (Lisa Simmons, previous course participant) Designed for

28th Feb 2018

Artswork, Jelly, Reading Libraries and The Museum of English Rural Life help children in Reading work towards Arts Awards

Since September 2017, Jelly artists have been working with Year 4 children at Oxford Road Community Primary School and Redlands Primary School to

27th Feb 2018

Quay Arts share results from Isle of Wight cultural provision survey

"We had a great response to our online survey: 692 young people took part. It's already proving a useful tool to help inform and guide the sorts of

27th Feb 2018