Cultural Sector Masterclasses are a series of workshops for creative learning professionals that explore current topics affecting children and young people programmes.
A New Direction is partnering with sector leaders to bring you exciting and relevant CPD to help you reflect on your programmes for children and young people, and strengthen your creative practice. Each session will provide space for you to test new tools and share insights with peers.
Sowing the seeds: if we are looking for systematic change in how arts and creativity is taught and valued in school, can we start at the beginning of a teacher’s career?
This Masterclass will give us a chance to reflect on the role and value of cultural organisations supporting creative subject teacher training and explore how we can work more effectively together.
During this event hear from speakers: Holly Burton (Senior Producer, Formal Learning at Young V&A), Laura Warner (Learning & Engagement Manager at Sadler’s Wells) and Mollie Howells (Learning Curator: Children and Young People at Towner Eastbourne) along with their research partners including Alice Hellard (Lecturer, Design Education; Programme Lead: PGCE Design & Technology; Design Department, Goldsmiths, University of London) and Julie Howard (Senior Lecturer: PGCE Secondary Art and Design, School of Education, University of Brighton).
They will share their recent research conducted through A New Direction’s Space for Change programme into what exists already in initial teacher training and what current teachers, lecturers, course leaders, trainees and PGCE students want and need support with.
You will hear insights from educators and ideas about what we can do next – working together to provide creative careers advice, cross-curricular support, and confidence building in the arts.
This Masterclass will cover:
● Current challenges in Early Career Teacher and PGCE training.
● How cultural organisations can better understand the needs and support Early Career Teachers.
● How to build strong and lasting partnerships
This event may be particularly relevant for anyone who:
● Wants to hear what teachers, schools, trainees and PGCE course leaders need in support from cultural organisations.
● Is an artist or cultural organisation working with schools and teachers in the next academic year.
● Is a creative professional looking to establish relationships with schools and teachers.
This free CPD is a part of A New Direction's Cultural Sector Masterclass series for creative learning professionals to reflect upon and strengthen your practice. This session is only available online and won't be recorded.
Hosted by Stella Barnes (Arts Consultant, Researcher, Participatory Artist and Theatre Maker), you will hear from artist Nic Golightly who works in collaboration with Blue Cabin. Nic will discuss her experience working in direct delivery with care experienced children and young people, and what ethical participation looks like in practice for a creative facilitator.
Lung Theatre will discuss how they use ethical participation in the communities they work with to make hidden voices heard, including in their current production at Southwark Playhouse: The Children's Inquiry.
The Care Experienced Movement (C.I.C) will share their insights about what ethical participation means in terms of creating inclusive spaces for participants and facilitators. CXM are Care Experienced Activists: “We come from all walks of life, with differing experiences of the system. We all want to use our diverse lived experience of the care system to not only create and push for positive policy change, but to create a platform and support network for our community”.
This Masterclass will give us a chance to reflect on:
This event may be particularly relevant for anyone who:
This free CPD is a part of A New Direction's Cultural Sector Masterclass series for creative learning professionals to reflect upon and strengthen your practice. This session is only available online and won't be recorded.
Join this masterclass workshop with creative facilitators and teachers who have worked on programmes for Barbican, Young Vic and AND's Primary Arts.
During this event host Rachel Dickinson (teacher and arts practitioner) will talk to speakers Melanie Anouf (Learning Producer, Young Vic) with Sheryl Malcolm (Theatre Practitioner) and Jordana Golbourn (INNOVATE Project Associate) who worked on Young Vic’s INNOVATE Project, Emily Williams (Education Manager, Barbican), and Ross Hunter (Programme Officer, A New Direction) along with a teacher from A New Direction’s Primary Arts programme.
Reflecting upon their recent projects: the Young Vic’s INNOVATE programme (2021-2023) and Barbican’s Creative Curriculum (2021-2023), where there was an attempt to use creativity across all curriculum and subject areas as a catalyst for change; and A New Direction’s Primary Arts Programme with particular focus on the Cultural Education Leadership Programme for teachers.
What works when artists go into schools to deliver sessions alongside teachers? What magic happens in the triangle between artist facilitators, teachers and pupils in the classroom? How can they positively affect lasting relationships between pupils and learning, pupils and teachers, and teachers and teaching? If programmes are time-bound, how can we ensure the learning from them lasts?
This Masterclass will give us a chance to reflect on:
This event may be particularly relevant for anyone who is interested in:
This free CPD is a part of A New Direction's Cultural Sector Masterclass series for creative learning professionals to reflect upon and strengthen your practice. This session is only available online and won't be recorded.
What previous Cultural Sector Masterclass participants are saying about the workshops:
"Thank you for these sessions, so important to foster the opportunity to reflect on working in these areas."
"Inspiring, informative and heart-warming!"
"Thank you for some really pertinent reminders of why we do this work and also of new angles to learn about."
Do you work with young people within an arts and culture setting and want to share your work with our sector colleagues in one of our Masterclasses? Do you have an idea about what topic you would like a Masterclass workshop to focus on? We would love to hear about it!
