FESTIVAL BRIDGE
The Cultural Education Leaders Conference
Wednesday 8 November 2017
PEOPLE PLACE POTENTIAL
WELCOME Welcome to our 2017 conference: PEOPLE. PLACE. POTENTIAL. A conference for Cultural Education leaders from across Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Peterborough and Suffolk. I’m delighted that we are in West Suffolk for this event. This is part of the region that is often overlooked in terms of the cultural offer, however, not only does this area have some excellent cultural sector led offers for children and young people it is also home to education settings who are amongst the region’s leaders in valuing and providing a rich and diverse cultural education offer. Because of this, the area is moving fast in developing a new Local Cultural Education Partnership entitled the Heart of East Anglia. It’s is an exciting, bold partnership that I am sure you’ll hear more from in the coming months. Our proposition for today’s conference is a simple one: that our region is rich with potential that can be realised through
collaborating together to create ways of working that are imbued with a strong sense and understanding of place. A simple statement that hides a multitude of challenges. Today we seek to work with you to explore both the potential and challenges within the region and, crucially, to find ways forward. Throughout the day there will be opportunity for conversations with each other and the Festival Bridge team and through the final session an opportunity to work up new ideas. As a Bridge we intend to learn from you today, to adapt and to take forward the ideas and challenges raised. I’m looking forward to continuing working with you through this conference and beyond.
Michael Corley Head of Festival Bridge
Join in the conversation: #PeoplePlacePotential
10.00
Welcome & Intros
Michael Corley Festival Bridge
10.15
PEOPLE Everyday Creativity
Jo Hunter 64 Million Artists
10.30
PLACE Cultural Capital, Place making & Partnership
Dr Robert Loe Relational Schools
10.45
POTENTIAL Collective Impact
Flynn Lebus FSG
11.00
WHAT IS……? FILM PROJECT …?
11.20
BREAK
11.45 - 12.45
MORNING WORKSHOPS
1: RURAL AND COASTAL Local Cultural Education Partnerships: Overcoming the challenges and creating success
Cambridgeshire ACRE
2: RELATIONAL SCHOOLS: Doing well by doing art
Relational Schools & Suffolk Artlink
3: Sustaining momentum in COLLECTIVE IMPACT
FSG
4: Dealing in aspiration: SKILLS PATHWAYS for 21st century jobs
Festival Bridge & NEACO
5: HERITAGE: Hacking the Paston 600
Festival Bridge
12.45
LUNCH
13.30 - 14.30
AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS
6: Buttons: All the same and all different – Thinking about arts and culture for EARLY YEARS
Aycorn East
7: How you can work with Artsmark and CALSAs to support the Cultural Education in your locality
Festival Bridge
8: Future Views: What the NEXT GENERATION think
Flow Associates
9: Early intervention MENTAL HEALTH support
Arts & Minds
10: Igniting the spark: ENGAGING WITH YOUNG PEOPLE on a genuine level
ART31
14.30
BREAK
14.50
Releasing the Potential
LCEPs
15.50
Plenary
Michael Corley
16.00
CLOSE
PEOPLE
key speaker
Jo Hunter, Co-Founder of 64 Million Artists Jo Hunter is the Co-Founder and CEO of 64 Million Artists, which aims to unlock human potential through creativity. They have worked with Arts Council England, King’s College London, the BBC, Hull City of Culture and many others to embed cultures of creativity in workplaces, schools, homes and with individuals. She was a Clore Leadership Fellow and a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar. She was formerly Head of Strategic Development at Battersea Arts Centre and has held senior positions in organisations such as Sing Up, Youth Music, Julie’s Bicycle and Harbourfront Centre,
Toronto. She passionately believes that everyone is creative, and that when people are supported to access this in themselves, extraordinary things can happen. 64millionartists.com @64M_Artists
PLACE
Dr Robert Loe, Director of Relational Schools organisation. Having founded Relational Schools Project in 2014, Robert researches, writes and speaks on the importance of fostering positive relationships between key stakeholders in schools. relationalschools.org.uk @RSchoolsProject
key speaker
Dr Robert Loe is the Directer of the Relational Schools Foundation. A former Assistant Principal at Thurston Community College in Suffolk, he has been working in education for over eighteen years with a range of leadership roles in schools throughout Essex and Cambridgeshire. Having studied English and Education at Cambridge in 2001, and going on to complete his doctorate in educational research 2015, his areas of specialism include schooling and exclusion, the family and community dimensions of social exclusion and school improvement and education structures and
POTENTIAL
key speaker
Flynn Lebus, Associate Director of FSG Flynn is an Associate Director in FSG’s Geneva office and has been with the firm since November 2013. She has almost a decade of experience advising foundations, international development actors, companies, and governmental bodies on strategic philanthropy, collective impact (partnership and collaboration), shared value, and corporate social responsibility, across multiple topics, including healthcare, early childhood education, education and youth, entrepreneurship, and agriculture. Flynn is a named contributor to the HBR article, “The Ecosystems of Shared Value,” and co-authored a paper on the potential for collective
impact in the UK with Mark Kramer, “Collective Impact: A New Twist On An Old English Art”. Flynn has also delivered a Master Class and keynote speech on the topic of collective impact in Nottingham, UK, last November. She is currently organizing a research project into the opportunity for Collective Impact in the European context, building on a European delegation workshop (with representatives from U.K., France, Denmark, Spain, and Germany) she delivered at the Collective Impact Convening in Boston, USA, (May 2017). fsg.org @FSGtweets
Organisation: Cambridgeshire ACRE Facilitator: Kirsten Bennett Those living and working in rural and coastal areas face a very specific set of issues compared with those living and working in more urban towns and cities. This workshop draws upon the findings of a recent report commissioned in 2017 by Festival Bridge, ‘A Review of the Rural and Coastal Cultural Education Landscape’. The session will be interactive with attendees exploring the challenges for those leading LCEPs in rural and coastal areas. There will also be time to share experiences and to think about the opportunities that exist for making LCEPs succeed in the future. Kirsten has a range of experience gained working for and with Public and Third Sector Organisations over the last 20 years. She has been Chief Executive of Cambridgeshire ACRE, the Rural Community Council for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough since 2001. Her background is in Rural Development and Policy, as well as Countryside Management. Kirsten has recently completed a specially commissioned review of rural and
coastal Local Cultural Education Partnerships and also has direct experience of a rural LCEP, being the Chair of the Young Fenland Cultural Consortium since the beginning of this year. USEFUL LINKS AND RESOURCES: • cambsacre.org.uk • Reviewing the Rural and Coastal Cultural Education Landscapennfestival.org.uk/festival-bridge/ resource/rural-and-coastal 2: RELATIONAL SCHOOLS: Doing well by doing art Organisations: Relational Schools Foundation and Suffolk Artlink Facilitators: Dr Robert Loe, Alex Casey and Sophie Fox School improvement and school effectiveness research consistently shows that parental engagement is one of the key factors in promoting student achievement. Schools that improve and sustain improvement, engage the community and build strong links with parents. Where schools build positive relationships with parents and work actively to embrace racial, religious, and ethnic and language differences, evidence of sustained school improvement can be found (Goodall and Vorhaus, 2010). Believing that families can, and do, play a vital role in a child’s
MORNING WORKSHOPS 11.45AM-12.45PM
1: RURAL AND COASTAL Local Cultural Education Partnerships: Overcoming the challenges and creating success
MORNING WORKSHOPS 11.45AM-12.45PM
education, this session draws heavily on the excellent work of the Artsbase project which was designed to forge strong links between school and home and to improve pupil learning and increase engagement in culture. To achieve this, the project aimed to improve parental engagement; raise aspirations, confidence and selfesteem of children and their carers; and increase and improve arts activity within schools. Hear from the project lead and experience some of the activities!
impact in the UK with Mark Kramer, “Collective Impact: A New Twist On An Old English Art”. Flynn has also delivered Master Classes and keynote speeches on the topic of Collective Impact worldwide.
USEFUL LINKS AND RESOURCES: • relationalschools.org.uk
4: Dealing in aspiration: SKILLS PATHWAYS for 21st century jobs
3: Sustaining momentum in COLLECTIVE IMPACT
Organisation: Festival Bridge and NEACO Facilitators: Stephanie Peachey and Rebecca Avery
Organisation: FSG, Social Impact Advisers Facilitator: Flynn Lebus Collective impact is an approach to cross-sector and multi-system collaboration that yields great results when tackling complex social challenges. In this workshop, we will be exploring together the success factors for maintaining momentum over the multi-year timeline required for driving this social change. Flynn is a named contributor to the HBR article, “The Ecosystems of Shared Value,” and co-authored a paper on the potential for collective
USEFUL LINKS AND RESOURCES: • fsg.org • Guide to Evaluating Collective Impact- fsg.org/publications/guideevaluating-collective-impact • Channeling Change: Making Collective Impact Work- fsg.org/ publications/channeling-change
What do we mean by social mobility and a lack of aspiration? How can we broaden the horizons of young people and make the creative industries viable career options? This workshop will explore these questions and talk about the importance of collaboration in finding solutions. NEACO is a cross county project with collaboration at its heart which deals directly with young people’s aspirations for further and higher education. Stephanie is Festival Bridge’s Senior
5: HERITAGE: Hacking the Paston 600 Organisation: Festival Bridge Facilitator: Joff Whitten Using a shared consensus workshop model we will aim to devise some interesting and exciting ways to use the Paston 600 letter collection, with the intention of making the history and incredible detail from these remarkable letters available to a non-specialist audience, especially for young people. We will not be using the content of the letters as much as we will be using the form. By the end of this session we will aim to have three models of activity and events to celebrate this collection. This approach of hacking into heritage collections and artefacts is something we are developing in partnership with the National Trust and the Wildlife Trusts in our region to unlock and open up some of the amazing cultural highlights on our doorstep to more people of all ages, but keeping children and
young people at the heart of the experience. Joff is Senior Manager for Norfolk and Suffolk and the Festival Bridge’s lead for Museums, Libraries and Heritage. Joff is a member of the East of England Heritage Lottery Fund’s Committee. USEFUL LINKS AND RESOURCES: • pastonheritage.co.uk
MORNING WORKSHOPS 11.45AM-12.45PM
Manager for Cambridgeshire & Peterborough. She also leads on the Creating the Future project; a framework looking at promoting the skills and knowledge needed to drive the creative industries, making the case for the creative skill-set in the 21st century workplace.
AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS
1.30PM-2.30PM
6: Buttons: All the same and all different – Thinking about arts and culture for EARLY YEARS Organisation: Aycorn East Facilitators: Dr Jessica Pitt, Charlotte Arculus and Joy Haynes This practical session explores a creative process with the learner at the centre, with activities that consider the elements of practice that could be applied to early years as well as any age group of participants. This workshop presents the idea of co-constructed creative practice using a simple item as a starting point for a process where the ideas of the individual are central. Working in small groups there will be the opportunity to create something new. The session will also explore non-verbal communication and improvisation as pedagogical tools. This experiential workshop will include opportunities to reflect on the process and to discuss the meaning of arts-based learning for young children. The workshop will include music, movement, writing and drawing. Findings and recommendations from the mapping of early years arts activity in the Festival Bridge region will also be presented. Dr. Jessica Pitt is a music researcher and education consultant in the field of early childhood. She is a trustee of
MERYC-England (Music Educators and Researchers of Young Children) and leads the MA in early years music at CREC (Centre for Research in Early Childhood). She has wide experience of research and evaluation in the field of music psychology, arts-based education and wellbeing. Charlotte Arculus M.A.Ed. is the Creative Director of Magic Adventure and has led the Music and Arts practice at the Priory Children’s center for the past 9 years. She has presented a range creative work, practice and research in the U.K. and Europe. Charlotte is a co- founder of the Arts and Young Children Regional Network (AYCORN) East. USEFUL LINKS AND RESOURCES: • AYCORN East Early Years Mapping Report- nnfestival.org.uk/festivalbridge/resource/early-years • Early Years: Supporting Best Practice in Creative Early Years Provision (resource available in delegate pack) • SALTmusic 7: How you can work with Artsmark and CALSAs to support the Cultural Education in your locality Organisation Festival Bridge Facilitators: Beverly Jones, Abi Marrison and Naomi D’Cunha The Cultural & Arts Leaders in
Abi Marrison & Naomi D’Cunha
USEFUL LINKS AND RESOURCES: • nnfestival.org.uk/calsa 8: Future Views: What the NEXT GENERATION think Organisation: Flow Associates Facilitators: Susanne Buck & Bridget McKenzie Young people today will grow up in an ever more uncertain world. How can we anticipate the possibilities and challenges of the future in planning cultural and creative learning, and involve young people in the process? In this workshop, Flow Associates will draw on a range of research, including the Future Views programme, around how best to engage with young people and cultural learning providers in imagining the future. Participants will gain insights into the drivers for change that cultural providers and young people face, and learn to apply the techniques for consultation that have been tested in Future Views workshops across the region. Participants will discuss ideas for acting on insights from consultation and futurescanning, and embedding it in future planning.
1.30PM-2.30PM
Beverly Jones is Education Associate for Festival Bridge. Beverly has used her experience as a Headteacher and Education adviser to support Festival Bridge, Cultural Partnerships and Lead Schools and academies. She has worked as a Secondary Head, Director of a Multi-Academy Trust, Primary School Governor and leader for Government change programmes.
are Festival Bridge Education Managers appointed a year ago to support the engagement of leaders, managers and teachers in schools and academies across the Festival Bridge area.
AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS
Schools and Academies (CALSA) programme has been developed by Festival Bridge to ensure that a rich arts and cultural education is accessible to all children and young people across our region. Our CALSAs are confident education leaders who are passionate about creativity, they enable and encourage other teachers with their arts and culture provision. Participants in this workshop will gain an insight into the work of teachers across the area who have been identified as leaders in the delivery of arts and culture. Looking at how Artsmark and Arts Award can provide a framework for schools and academies to improve their offer to children and young people. Arts professionals who become teachers are often the hidden talent who help overcome barriers and improve the outcomes through their classroom practice and partnership work.
1.30PM-2.30PM
Flow Associates are cultural consultants whose goal is to help organisations thrive, supporting them and their communities to learn, create, connect and flourish. Inspired by the theory of ‘flow’, they ensure that people have the right balance of challenge and support to be optimally engaged. Their research and policy work helps shape dialogues and programmes in areas of cultural learning, sustainable futures and digital strategy.
AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS
The Future Views research programme is a co-investment between ROH Bridge, Festival Bridge and Artswork. USEFUL LINKS AND RESOURCES: • flowassociates.com • futureviewstoolkit.com 9: Early intervention MENTAL HEALTH support Organisation: Arts and Minds Facilitator: Gavin Clayton Join Arts and Minds for a workshop in response to their latest piece of research around Arts on Prescription - looking at advocacy, Early Arts intervention and partnership working between cultural organisations and mental health professionals, all to provoke thinking for best practice.
Arts and Minds is the leading arts and mental health charity with a national reputation for contributing to the evidence base and policy developments around non clinical interventions for medical conditions. They deliver robustly evidenced projects of national significance that deliver positive interventions for people of all ages who live with mental health problems. USEFUL LINKS AND RESOURCES: • Arts and Minds Report - Early intervention mental health supportnnfestival.org.uk/festival-bridge/ resource/arts-and-minds • artsandminds.org.uk 10: Igniting the spark: ENGAGING WITH YOUNG PEOPLE on a genuine level Organisation: ART31 Facilitators: Lucy Edkins and Jess Baker Do you remember the first time you were introduced to the arts? One of ART31’s key aims is to develop relationships between arts organisations and young people, whilst leading young people to take control and get involved in making decisions. Join ART31, as we talk about our journey and how we engage with young people through the arts on a genuine level explained by young people themselves.
USEFUL LINKS AND RESOURCES: • art31.co.uk
AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS 1.30PM-2.30PM
Lucy is a freelance prop, costume and mould maker based in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. She has been a member of the ART31 Youth Board for a year. Lucy is passionate about enabling fellow young people to experience opportunities in the arts as well as having the chance to get their voice heard. Jess began her arts marketing career in 2015 as a Marketing Apprentice for Gulbenkian, working with young people to rebrand ART31 and market events created and delivered by the group. Upon completion of her apprenticeship, Jess took on the role of ART31 Communications Assistant and worked with young people to develop ART31.co.uk, a site she now moderates and updates. The website promotes creative events and opportunities for young people in Kent, as well as giving them a voice through writing articles on the online platform.
WHAT IS………?
artsmark
We set out to explore what arts, culture, leadership and creativity means to young people in our region. Looking at the conference themes of People, Place and Potential, we have put together a short film featuring children and young people’s voices and interpretations. The questions we asked them were:
Artsmark award provides a clear framework for schools to plan, develop and evaluate arts, culture and creativity. The Artsmark Partnership Programme is a new Arts Council England endorsed network of organisations who are devoted to bringing great arts and cultural opportunities to children and young people. They will support Artsmark registered schools and other educational establishments on their journey to embed arts and culture across the curriculum. If you’re a school or arts organisation and want to find out more please contact us, or visit artsmark.org.uk.
• I think arts and culture is… • The last arts or cultural place I visited was… • I think leadership means… • The last time I felt like a leader was… • If I could have any creative job it would be… • The most creative thing I’ve ever done is… • When I think of art and culture where I live, I think of…
arts award
• The most inspiring person I know is…
This range of unique qualifications supports anyone aged up to 25 to grow as artists and arts leaders, inspiring them to connect with, experience and take part in the wider arts world. Festival Bridge supports the delivery of Arts Award both within and outside of educational settings. Contact us to find out more, or visit artsaward.org.uk.
You can view the films online • nnfestival.org.uk
64 million artists We’re inviting everyone in Britain to do something new and celebrate their creativity, to be proud of their passion, and show their flair. 64 Million Artists is about having a go, not about being an expert! DO: Do something different. Take 20 minutes a day, an hour a week, or half a day a month to try something new. THINK: Think about it. What did it feel like? Was it easy or difficult? Take some time to consider your experience. SHARE: Share it. With us. With your friends. With whoever you like. You don’t have to share what you’ve done, just share how you felt doing it.
TODAYS CHALLENGE
Today we are inviting you to think about the 5 ways to wellbeing – how we can get active, connect, give, learn and take notice. For this challenge we are going to concentrate on the last way – to take notice, to slow down and see the world around us… Go for a walk and see how many red things you can spot (you can do this indoors if the weather is bad or you are unable to get out). A red letter box? A red wrapper on the floor? A red car? Take notice and
take note of anything red you see. You could even take pictures and create a collage with them. Create a digital collage with phone apps such as Mixagram & Collageable. IF YOU HAVE A BIT MORE TIME… Go on different walks themed by colour. You’ve done a red walk, now how about yellow? Blue? Compare how easy or hard each colour is to find. THINK: How many red things did you find? Did you notice anything different about your walk? How do you feel now? SHARE: Share how many red things you saw, a few pictures or a picture collage. You can do this on our website dothinkshare. com and/or on your social media channels such as Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. You can tag #TheGenerationGames and share with us on: T: @64M_Artists F: https://www.facebook. com/64millionartists/ I: https://www.instagram. com/64millionartists/
Festival Bridge
We want to ensure children and young people across Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Peterborough and Suffolk feel that arts and culture belong to them. We do this by using the investment we have secured from Arts Council England and the Department for Education to radically enhance the cultural education offer across our region. We also support the development of Artsmark and Arts Award in our region. At Festival Bridge we believe that a cultural education is a vital ingredient in the lives of all children and young people. We know that by participating in a rich and varied cultural education, children and young people develop the creative, communication, leadership and collaborative skills seen as crucial by employers, both within the fastest growing sector in our economy, the Creative Industries, but also beyond this to all work places and throughout our lives.
Contact us: bridge@nnfestival.org.uk 01603 878285 T @NNFBridge F @NNFestivalBridge nnfestival.org.uk/festival-bridge All details correct at time of going to print (unless otherwise) Photo credit Š JMA Photography