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Creative Wellbeing at Home: Take some time out to ‘write the moment’

To mark Mental Health Awareness week, we some simple exercises from our first Creative Wellbeing at Home webinar

Learning Under Lockdown: Willow Nursery & Preston Manor

We spoke to two educational settings covering early years up to secondary age to find out more about their experiences of lockdown & their tips for other teachers

Creativity Quarantined

Creativity Quarantined is the podcast that explores the impact of Covid-19 on the creative and cultural industries

Keeping Creative at Home: How to get creative with sound

Musician and sound artist Lucy Claire shares a range of creative arts activities which use soundscapes and listening to engage and inspire

The Power of Starting

Create Jobs Alumna, Juliana knows the pressure to create and the potential to procrastinate but shares the techniques she used to get her latest podcast off the ground

Starting a new job in Lockdown: Crystal at Museum of London

We speak to Create Jobs Alumna, Crystal Mah-Wing on what it's been like starting her new role as Project Assistant at Museum of London during lockdown

The Technical Side of Podcasting

Digital Content Producer Trainee at London College of Fashion with our STEP programme, Will Asare gives the technical 101 on how to make your own podcast

Taking an ecological perspective to partnership working

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

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

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

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

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

Finding your Funding

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

Learning on Lockdown

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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