Year

Theatre from the inside out

12-11-14
Alice King-Farlow, Director of Learning at the National Theatre, talks about the new opportunities for schools at the heart of the world’s busiest theatre.

Do we do the right thing?

10-11-14
AND's Claire Storey reflects on an evening at the theatre with Service Children's Education

Partnerships for place and people

10-11-14
Bridget McKenzie, co-ordinator of WHS Maritime Greenwich Learning Partnership, reflects on how joined up cultural work with schools can cultivate dispositions for placemaking and stewardship.

Share your dreams and future aspirations

10-11-14
CSSG and A New Direction are inviting schools in the UK to encourage girls to write letters about their own dreams and future ambitions and in this way contribute to a significant body of work being created in India around the central theme of aspiration.

Artsmark is changing

07-11-14
Arts Council England is currently updating Artsmark so that it can be as effective as possible in helping to achieve the ambition of ensuring all children and young people have access to high quality arts and culture.

Young children seeing less theatre than ever before

07-11-14
A new government report reveals that young children are seeing less theatre now than they were six years ago.

What can clay skills teach you?

04-11-14
A decline of hand and craft skills’ development is believed to be affecting capacities in a range of fields from literacy, to design, to surgery.

BBC Proms Inspire Scheme

31-10-14
Booking is now open for the 2014-2015 Inspire season. If you’re a budding young composer of any musical genre this might be of your interest. 

Parliament Week on its way!

30-10-14
A programme of events and activities that connect people across the UK with Parliament and democracy. Parliament Week will take place from 14 - 20 November 2014.

Exploring Arts Management 

28-10-14
Fresh from a studying at the National Summer School for Arts Fundraising and Leadership, Steph (Guest Blogger) and Jill reflect on management practice in the arts.

Culture & Place-making 

27-10-14
6 approaches to Cultural Education & 6 approaches to influencing regeneration.

Dreaming in Beta

21-10-14
Steve Woodward introduces #ANDtogether – a prototype website to help London schools find information, discover opportunities and source arts & cultural organisations to work with.

The Rainbow Collective 

17-10-14
The aim of The Collective is to build a dynamic strategic partnership to improve the cultural offer to preschool children in Lewisham; and a vital part of this is to support those working in early years.

Great opportunities for young people to involve in arts & culture

17-10-14
This week we came across a wide range of opportunities and events aimed at involving young people in the world of arts in culture in London.

The IntoFilm Festival unleashes the power of film education in London

17-10-14
How can young people access the local industry talent? And more importantly, why should they choose to spend their time watching a film over and above the dozens of other forms of entertainment available to them. What does film have to offer?

Place-making: Two key factors for the role of arts

15-10-14
Two key findings were highlighted at the Performing Places conference: the importance of schools and geographic mobility for young people.

Creative Islington launches a new Education Portal

14-10-14
Kate Kelly, Development Director at Creative Islington, talks about a new partnership to address a need for better information and communication across Islington’s arts and education sectors.

Support dance in the curriculum

13-10-14
Jan De Schynkel, Relationship Manager Dance at Arts Council England, encourages schools to support dance in the curriculum through the PE and Sports premium funding.

Building Connected Cultures

13-10-14
Pippa Joiner from Richmond upon Thames Arts Service shares her thoughts on their Connecting Culture project to date and the benefits and challenges of building relationships with ‘virtual heads’ in their work with Children Looked After. 

A worldwide project that aims to challenge stereotypes of young women

13-10-14
A project that aims to examine young women’s future aspirations and thereby educating children in India and around the world on gender stereotypes and inequality issues.

Work experience could be better for students

10-10-14
Research by Birkbeck, University of London, underpins new guidance on how the arts and creative industries can make the most of student work placements.