Blog

Highlights from our latest research on disadvantage and cultural engagement, and an overview of the Cultural Capital Conference on 17 March 2015.

A closer look at Young Londoners’ relationship with arts and culture.

Our Information Officer, Caterina Violi, presents some highlights and useful insights from the No Boundaries 2014 event.

This is the time of the year where often we look back at the last twelve months and draw the sums –when it comes to research, we can safely say it has been a busy and, above all, exciting year for A New Direction.

AND’s Caterina Violi, Claire Storey & John McMahon dropped by some of the London museums involved in Takeover Day this year, and were impressed by what the saw.

What cultural organisations need to know about the new education landscape.

The issue of valuing the impact of arts and culture is one of the most fascinating and perhaps most controversial subjects of debate that I have come across since starting my post here at A New Direction.

Passion and belief in their own creative venture were feelings that permeated all of the sessions and to which pupils responded incredibly well.

ArtWorks is a workforce development scheme that seeks to meet the needs of artists working in participatory settings such as in prisons, with young people in care, in schools, as part of public art projects, within mental health or wider community settings - at different stages in their careers.

In the wildly diverse and ever-flowing reality of London, it's clear that Feast calls for new generations to get to know and reflect on their own roots in a way that textbooks very rarely manage to do.

A month into my new role of Information Officer at A New Direction, it feels this may be the right time to reflect on a few weeks spent working my way through many reports, fact sheets, data tables and figures about the cultural and education sectors.