Evaluating Youth Arts Projects
APT/EYA
20th October 2010, 10 am- 4.15 pm, Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham
This one day course explores the benefits of meaningful evaluation of youth arts projects. Beginning by addressing preconceptions around evaluation (constructive exercise or chore?) the course will progress to examine methodologies, structured approaches and case studies using a series of collaborative exercises and tutor led presentations. Informative and practical this course will help you develop your own individual approach to creative evaluation and the confidence you need to engage with evaluating youth arts projects.
For full course information and to request a booking form, please contact the Artsplan Team direct.
Creative Facilitation
APT/CF
3rd November 2010, 10 am- 4.15 pm, Royal and Derngate, Northampton
This one-day course provides an introduction to a creative approach to group facilitation. It aims to encourage, develop and inspire those with responsibility to lead others through a facilitative process, be it for the purposes of team building, consultation, idea-generation or training. Throughout the day we will be using a number of different interactive exercises and games in order to illustrate content. We will also look at group dynamics, communication issues and different learning styles in order to explore how these might be of impact. This course seeks to stimulate your imagination and send you home with ideas and examples of how to develop a creative approach to group facilitation within your own context.
Using the Arts with Young People at Risk
APT/YPAR
24th November 2010, 10 am- 4.15 pm, Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham
This one day course explores what can be achieved when using the arts with vulnerable and disadvantaged young people. Starting with a detailed explanation of the benefits of youth arts this session will cover many of the practical issues involved in using the arts with young people at risk, including current CRB child protection legislation. Using a mixture of training techniques to help educate and inform, this course will take you all the way through project planning to project closure.
For full course information and to request a booking form, please contact the Artsplan Team direct.
Putting Young People at the Core of Youth Arts
PILOT COURSE – REDUCED FEE £75 PER PERSON
APT/YPC
2nd March 2010, 10 am- 4.15 pm, Royal and Derngate, Northampton
Putting young people at the core of youth arts is a one day course designed to demonstrate how young people can be empowered more effectively as decision makers at the core of youth arts. The course will examine the benefits of integrating young people’s voices into your organisation, both in terms of benefits for your organisation and for the young people involved. The course will include inspirational examples of young people who are working at the core of youth arts and a wide range of practical tips about how to involve young people more fully in your own work.
This one day course follows the journey of youth participation – exploring attitudes towards young people as decision makers and the routes that a young person can take from being a youth arts project participant to an active and informed decision maker in an arts organisation. We then move onto exploring your current practice before celebrating the range of structures available in the youth arts sector for putting young people at the core of an organisation. The day concludes with a reflection on your own practice and your aspirations for involving young people in your future work.
There are two Artsplan Training Centre’s for this region:
Lakeside Arts, Nottingham
Lakeside Arts Centre University Park Nottingham NG7 2RD
T: 0115 846 7777 W: www.lakesidearts.org.uk
Lakeside is the University of Nottingham’s unique public arts centre presenting an eclectic programme of music, dance, theatre, visual art and family events. Since adding the Civic Trust Award Winning D.H. Lawrence Pavilion to the existing portfolio of the Djanogly Art Gallery and Djanogly Recital Hall in autumn 2001, Lakeside has rapidly established itself as a hugely successful new multi-arts centre in the East Midlands attracting almost half a million visitors in the first 3 years.
Lakeside offers easy access to a year-round programme of high quality, diverse exhibitions, music, theatre, dance, comedy and literature performances, as well as the chance to participate in out-of-school workshop activities for children and young people, with additional facilities including two attractive Cafés and beautiful parkland.
Royal and Derngate, Northampton
Royal & Derngate
Guildhall Road Northampton NN1 1DP
T: 01604 626222 W: www.royalandderngate.co.uk
Described buy the Guardian as ‘the most exciting regional theatre of the decade’ and with more than 350,000 visitors per year, Royal & Derngate is the main venue for arts and entertainment in Northamptonshire. Recently the subject of a £15 million redevelopment project, the theatre offers two auditoria and Underground, a creativity centre that’s home to the Youth Theatre and a wide range of workshops and projects for the local community.
Royal & Derngate offers a diverse programme of work with everything from drama to dance, stand-up comedy to classical music, children’s shows to opera on its stages. Some of the biggest names and shows on tour can be found here, alongside a programme of widely acclaimed in-house produced work. The theatre also offers a diverse programme of Creative Projects that gives people the chance to get involved in performing, writing or to find out more about what goes on behind the scenes.
