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Taking an ecological perspective to partnership working

06-05-20
Senior Partnerships Manager, Corinne Bass, revisits our research exploring cultural learning ecologies and asks, can taking an ecological approach help partnerships' thinking during this tricky period?

Connecting schools with London's arts & cultural sector

05-05-20
At A New Direction, we've been working hard on updating and improving our LookUp platform

Keeping Creative at Home: How to turn your living room into a stage

05-05-20
Simon Batchelor and Paul Andrew, aka The Drama Geezers, share a variety of fun drama activities and games that families can play together at home

Keeping Creative at Home: How to research & make your own art project

27-04-20
Photographer & facilitator Jessica McDermott explores how research can be used to create an original art project and challenge perceptions of what art can be

10 Tips for Teachers: How to teach maths creatively

27-04-20
Looking for inspiration on how to set creative maths activities for your students? We share some useful resources & ideas

Finding your Funding

27-04-20
We’ve put together some of the top opportunities to fund new work, or just to keep the bills at bay.

Learning on Lockdown

27-04-20
Beth Kahn, Create Jobs' Relationship Manager, shares her tips on how to use lockdown as a time for learning and what free resources are available

Keeping Creative in Lockdown with Naana Orleans-Amissah

27-04-20
Brand strategist and creative mentor, Naana Orleans-Amissah, led a session on keeping creative in lockdown. Hear from Create Jobs Alumni, BritnyV on the answers she got from the workshop.

6 Golden Rules for Writing Accessible Museum Labels

24-04-20
Mohammed Rahman from UCL Culture, shares six tips on how to format good accessible museum labels, drawing on his first four months on placement as part of STEP

Learning Under Lockdown: Woodfield School

22-04-20
Art and DT Lead Deepa Vakaria shares her school’s experience of lockdown so far, and how they are trying to overcome the challenges of teaching and learning from home

Leonn Ward’s Perfectly Imperfect Collage

22-04-20
Create Jobs Alumni, Edem Wornoo, talks about director and photographer, Leonn Ward's talk at our the last Meet a Mentor session

Keeping Creative at Home: Creative collaboration from a distance

21-04-20
Artist, educator and creative producer Chloe Osborne, and creative learning specialist and teacher Maggie Delwiche have explored new ways to stay creatively connected in this uncertain time. A New Direction have compiled their top picks in a list of easily accessible activities for you to try out

How to design a curriculum – 5 tips for subject leads

20-04-20
Have you been tasked with curriculum planning for a particular subject area? Curriculum Lead Kerri Sellens offers her suggestions to get you started

How we linked pupil wellbeing and the arts

16-04-20
Lucy Stiles, Art Lead at Hatcham Temple Grove Free School, shares learning from our Artsmark Connects event focused on pupil wellbeing and creativity

Checking in with yourself

14-04-20
Create Jobs Alumni, Cristina Conde, shares the life skills she's learnt in order to focus on wellbeing and being well

Keeping Creative at Home: Five easy ways into poetry

14-04-20
Alice Watson & Helen Bowell from The Poetry Society share tips for getting young people into reading and writing poetry

Remote jobs and where to find them

07-04-20
We've got together some of our favourite job sites to help you find work to get you paid from anywhere in the world

Keeping Creative at Home: How to get moving with dance

06-04-20
Choreographer and artist Shermaine Slocombe offers this easy and fun way to create an original dance performance for the whole family using your home or garden and a few simple materials

Creating theatre in the youth justice system

03-04-20
Marie Vickers, Senior Project Leader at London Bubble Theatre Company, tells us how they're using Challenge London funding to conduct significant new research in the participatory arts sector

Keeping Creative at Home: How to transform your home into a museum

31-03-20
Arts researcher and practitioner Sarah B Davies outlines ideas for creating and displaying historically interesting artefacts all about you

Artsmark Case Study: Range of offer

25-03-20
Jane Werry, Director of Music at Hayes School, tells us how Artsmark has helped them develop the range of their arts offer available to students