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Welcome to Creating Change’s first conference: Creating Links! Inside this pack you will find a schedule for the day, blurbs for the events and the attending associate members contact details. • Registration is from 10 – 10:45am • Lunch is from 1 – 1:45pm • Tea and Coﬀee will be available throughout the day

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Seminar and Workshop Sessions: Morning (11:35am – 12:25pm) Afternoon (3:05 – 3:55pm) During these session times, 5 simultaneous workshops will be going on throughout the building. Attendees were asked to fill out a booking form to express their workshop/seminar preference. Everyone who completed this form has now been allocated a place. If you have not yet stated a preference please check the signup lists at the Welcome Desk or in the cafe and let the staﬀ at the Welcome Desk know what your preferences are. If you cannot remember what you booked yourself onto please look for your name on the signup sheets or ask an assistant at the Welcome Desk.

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n 10.45 – 11am Introduction The introduction will be given by the Creating Links Chair of the conference, Jocelyn Cunningham, Director of Arts and Society UK.

n 11 – 11:10am Dance Ice Breaker This creative activity will be facilitated by Helen Linsell, Artistic Director, Dance United Yorkshire and a Dance United Yorkshire participant.

n 11:10 – 11:15am Personal Experiences of Being a Participant Shinade Haughton started at Ovalhouse as a teenager on one of our drama programmes and progressed through a series of projects, eventually becoming a Young Associate, assisting on other young people’s projects. In 2010, her presentation to the Co-operative Foundation helped Ovalhouse successfully win £750,000 of funding. This year she completed a BA hons. in Drama, Applied Theatre and Education at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. This speech will be delivered by Shinade Haughton, a former Participant at Ovalhouse.

n 11:15 – 11:30am Local Authority Perspective on Working with Vulnerable Children and Young People and Partnerships with the Arts Sector Richmond Arts Service will discuss their Connecting Culture project, which sees Children’s services and cultural organisations working together across four boroughs to provide cultural opportunities for Children Looked After. Richmond Arts Service has worked with Children Looked After for many years and developed a unique model to ensure this vulnerable group has access to cultural opportunities.

Children and young people who are looked after by their local authority, rather than their parents, are some of the most vulnerable groups in our society. Their attainment has been of great concern at both a national and local level and more support and resources are needed to help raise their achievement and wellbeing. Connecting Culture explores how cultural provision can be extended to Children Looked After who are placed out of borough to enable them to access culture locally. During this presentation they will discuss the process of building relationships with Children’s services and cultural organisations, the importance in developing a shared language and the role that advocacy might play in eﬀecting change. Our ultimate vision is that Cultural providers will be able to share in the responsibility of ‘corporate parenting’ for Children Looked After. We hope they will offer sustained engagement for this vulnerable group; giving access to cultural opportunities and the chance to develop their creativity and participate fully in a rich cultural life. This speech will be delivered by Pippa Joiner, Arts & Heritage Development Coordinator at Richmond Arts Service, Kate Kennedy, Youth Programmes Coordinator at Richmond Arts Service, and Charlotte Tupper, Culture 4 Keeps Coordinator at Achieving for Children.

n 11:35am – 12:25pm 5 Simultaneous workshops Admission by signup. Pick from the following workshops: A. THROW – Giant Frisbee Making Workshop B. Dance United Yorkshire Workshop C. Narrative Change Theory Seminar D. Control vs. Autonomy Seminar E. Ethics Seminar

A. THROW – Giant Frisbee Making Workshop Supersmashers is a creative arts and play project for up to 200 looked-after children aged 7-12 living in Southwark. Delivered over a two-year period, starting in September 2012, the project brings together two interlinking strands: weekly after-school sessions for a group of up to 12 children; and family days every school holiday for up to 60 children at each event. This workshop will introduce the Supersmashers’ programme and explain our approach to the sessions with the children. We will discuss how this session came out of the children’s interest in throwing things and inspired a half-term of sessions based on projectiles e.g. one boy’s interest in making balls and targets.

A number of the children struggle to focus on sitting down activities for too long: we have an outside space that we break out into. The Frisbees worked across the spaces: inside as a making space and outside as a throwing space. In groups of 2 or 3 we will invite you to make your own giant Frisbee, based on what you think will make the best object to throw. Then, making the short jaunt to Kennington Park, we will experience throwing our projectiles. Finally, we will wrap up with closing thoughts and discuss the theoretical principles behind Supersmashers. This workshop will be facilitated by Heather Kay, Schools' and Community Coordinator, South London Gallery.

B. Dance United Yorkshire Workshop This workshop will look at how Dance United Yorkshire delivers high quality contemporary dance projects working with vulnerable, disengaged and disadvantaged young people in community settings. The main focus is the relationship between pro-active dance-based strategies that can be embedded into a dance methodology and responsive non-dance strategies that, together, can resolve challenging behaviour, resistance and non-engagement with participant groups. The workshop will include some practical exercises, discussion-based tasks, film evidence and the opportunity to meet a Dance United Yorkshire graduate. This workshop will be facilitated by Helen Linsell, Artistic Director of Dance United Yorkshire and a Dance United Yorkshire participant.

C. Narrative Change Theory Seminar We know that participation in creative activity changes lives. But how and why does this happen? Helix Arts has developed a hypothesis that the opportunity to make art enables people to explore, reflect on and share the narratives they use to define themselves and their understanding of the world. This means that people are able to develop an element of control of the narrative construction process - disrupting labels that may have been put upon them, and creating and sharing alternative narratives about themselves and their worlds. Helix Arts and Northumbria University are working together to create an action research programme which tests this hypothesis. The seminar will explore the hypothesis in greater detail, and share our action research approach to testing it. This will include the application of biographic-narrative interviews with participants taking part in participatory arts activity. Questions the research will ask include: What changes in narratives that participants use to construct their sense of self has arts intervention enabled?

What changes in identity in people’s thinking about themselves can be inferred from the analysis of the art work they have made? The seminar will aim to share an approach to measuring impact, where outcomes come from the individuals’ own story rather than imposed by another. It oﬀers a person-centred approach to measuring the diﬀerence we make and a richness to the evidence-base about how and in what ways we do it. This seminar will be facilitated by Samantha Jones, Head of Programme at Helix Arts and Charlotte Bilby, Faculty Director of Research Ethics Department: Social Sciences and Languages, Northumbria University.

D. Control vs. Autonomy Seminar Brighton Dome and Festival’s Miss Represented project began in autumn 2011 with series of three month projects before being awarded funding for a two year programme. Working with the same young people for an extended period of time has been a crucial aim of the project as a whole. We recognise the value of being able to engage with, and invest in, a small group of the most at risk young women in a long term and meaningful way and how that can lead to transformative and healing results. We operate as an arts collective, using the arts as a vehicle for self expression and a means to investigate relevant themes and topics. We aim to inspire socially excluded young women and stimulate aspirations by facilitating a meaningful, reflective process in which young women can explore issues, feel empowered, build their resilience and have their voices heard. Miss Represented creates a safe environment in order to deliver tailor-made projects resulting in exhibitions, events or performances of high artistic quality. We employ an applied arts multi-disciplinary approach ensuring flexibility and choice; art-forms include photography, drama, dance, fashion, music, film and visual arts. Join the core Miss Represented team and project partner Sussex University in exploring approaches, both practical and creative, that lead to meaningful engagement and true ownership for the young people involved. In this seminar, you will hear more about the project and how the question of control vs autonomy has become central to the development of the Miss Represented ethos and model of practice. There will an opportunity to informally unpick the different elements that make up that model, take part in basic exercises we use and hear from Sussex University about their findings and the project in relation to a variety of psychological theories, including self-determination. This seminar will be facilitated by Rebecca Fidler, Creative Learning Manager at Brighton Dome and Festival, with Gemma Kauﬀman, Lead Visual Artist, Miss Represented, Jo Bates , Social Worker and Senior Support Worker, Miss Represented, and Dr. Fidelma Hanrahan, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Psychology at Sussex University.

E. Ethics Seminar With growing inequality and injustice in UK society and the abundance of unethical role models in positions of power and influence, it is an interesting time to reflect on how participatory arts practice might respond. The seminar will combine theatre practice and discussion to explore what we might mean by ethical participatory arts. There will be an opportunity to explore questions such as: What is the relationship between injustice, inequality and exclusion? How are young people influenced by ethics or the lack of ethics around them? Can arts project oﬀer alternative structures that respond to the challenges of inequality and injustice that young people experience? How can practitioners support ethical creative group work with young people? Is participatory arts practice ethical by definition? What is the impact on facilitators and participants of planning, delivering and evaluating arts practice through an ethical lens? This seminar will be facilitated by Stella Barnes, Director of Participation,Ovalhouse and Dr. Bill McDonnell, University of Sheﬃeld.

n 12:30 – 12:45pm Youth Work Perspectives on Working with Young People at Risk A brief overview of youth policy; from the 1960’s Albermarle report to the current Government paper ‘Aiming High for Young People - Three Years on’. There will be a particular focus on the 2002 paper ‘Transforming Youth Work’ and its implications for youth work and “at risk young people”. The speech will consider the defining characteristics of youth work and the impact of policy change on delivery, highlighting key areas of youth work practice, including learning, personal and social education, focusing on young people, voluntary participation and relationships, informality and integrity. Mike will consider definitions of “at risk young people” and the implications this has on practice; Are all young people at risk? Are there hard to reach young people or hard to access services? Who decides what risk is? How do we measure prevention? The speech will also feature examples of arts delivery in a youth work and partnership

contexts; from engagement to excellence, skate ramps in arts galleries, designing Youth Clubs in Minecraft, DIY venues and Youth Arts Festivals. Considering what should happen next, Mike will talk about involving young people in what a modern youth centre with strong and inclusive arts delivery looks like, eﬀective networks, partnership, and the targeting of services. This speech will be delivered by Mike Roe, Chief Executive Officer, Brighton Youth Centre.

n 12:45 – 1pm Underemployment and Précarité: the New Condition of Youth? Youth unemployment in Europe presents a severe challenge to youth workers, policy makers and politicians. Nevertheless, a singular focus on the problem of unemployment – for instance, as one that can be solved simply by ’tackling the problem of NEET’, moving young people into jobs or by up-skilling young workers – can distract attention from the wider problem of underemployment. Examples, taken from the UK, are given in respect of the ’churning’ labour market careers of disadvantaged working-class youth and in relation to the underemployment of university graduates. These patterns may be indicative of a profound generational crisis and contributory towards the formation of a new Precariat class. This speech will be delivered by Robert MacDonald, Professor of Sociology and Deputy Director of the Social Futures Institute at Teesside University.

n 1:45 – 2pm ‘Barriers’ Focus Activity This creative activity will be facilitated by Stella Barnes, Director of Participation, Ovalhouse.

n 2 - 2:15pm Future Spaces – Impact of the Arts on Creative Young People and Supporting this using Social Pedagogy Creativity is one of the good things of life, alongside love, friendship and fun. It opens up space for things to happen that have never happened before. Because arts practitioners are in touch with their own creativity, they can recognise and welcome it in children. Unfortunately, some children are, too often, excluded from creative activities, and amongst them are looked after children – in spite of evidence that they can benefit from it.

In 2008, the Arts Council England and Creative Partnerships funded Helen Chambers to examine how creativity could be embedded in the lives of looked after children. This and other National Children’s Bureau work, led to developing the Artist Pedagogue Learning Framework (Chambers and Petrie, 2009) as a resource for practitioners, especially those working with disadvantaged children. The presentation will briefly describe this work, including more recent projects on Arts Awards for looked-after children and how to include and support their carers. This speech will be delivered by Helen Chambers, Project Manager, National Children’s Bureau (NCB) and Professor Pat Petrie, Director of the Centre for Understanding Social Pedagogy, Institute of Education.

n 2:15 – 2:30pm Keeping Children and Young People at the Centre of Social Policy: the Relationship between Academic Research and Participatory Arts at Kids Company Jane Caldwell is The Director of Public Engagement (previously Creative Director) at Kids Company. Kids Company supports 36,000 vulnerable children, young people and families in London, Bristol and Liverpool and has a pioneering programme of neuroscientific and academic research which informs our front line work and campaigns. Kids Company has developed a unique and widely acclaimed multi-arts programme to reach and assist vulnerable children and young people which is used intensively in research. In 2012 Kids Company received an award from the Royal Society of Public Health (RSPH) 'in recognition for innovative and outstanding contributions to the field of arts and health practice with children and young people'. This speech will be delivered by Jane Caldwell, Director of Public Engagement, Kids Company.

n 2:30 – 2:45pm Plenary The plenary will be given by the Creating Change Chair, Jocelyn Cunningham, Director, Arts and Society UK.

n 15.05 – 15.55pm 5 Simultaneous workshops Admission by signup. Pick from the following workshops: A. AESOP 2 Seminar B. Concept/Remix Seminar C. ACT NOW Seminar D. Arts, Culture, Equity: Partnerships for Young People E. Creative Learning with Vulnerable Children Workshop

A. AESOP 2 Seminar Aesop 2 is a planning and reflection tool for arts organisations and their social partners. It has been designed to help artistic and social partners to develop a dialogue and work well together. The arts organisation can be anything from a sole trader to a national company. The social partner can be engaged with any issue such as community development, education, health, criminal justice or audience development. It can be, for example, a single school, large charity, a town or whole government department. Within the next fortnight, AESOP’s planning and reflection tool for linking artistic quality and social impact will be ready. This has been developed with a Working Group chaired by Professor Evelyn Welch, Vice Principal of King’s College London, and involving, amongst others, Toby Lowe (Helix Arts) and Richard Russell (Director of Policy and Research at Arts Council England). Tim will introduce the tool – why it’s needed, how it has been developed, the key concepts and what it consists of and then ask seminar participants to have a go at completing it. Participants will then share reflections. This seminar will be facilitated by Tim Joss, Chief Executive, AESOP - Arts enterprise with a social purpose.

B. Concept/Remix Seminar The Core at Corby Cube team will introduce the vision, aims, structure, creative process and outcomes of their successful Youth Music funded Concept/Remix programme. The programme engages young people in challenging circumstances across Northamptonshire. The seminar will explore the project's development, refinement and expansion between 2011 and 2014, discussing impact, successes, challenges and potential ways forward through further innovations. It will include a short documentary, listening posts and space for delegate questions and discussion. This seminar will be facilitated by Lisa Byrne, Creative Projects Manager, The Core at Corby Cube and Chris Sudworth, Creative Director, The Core at Corby Cube.

C. ACT NOW Seminar We will offer a brief introduction to Cardboard Citizens and how the ACT NOW programme fits within our work. Forum Theatre is a central part of what we do at Cardboard Citizens and within ACT NOW, so we will also offer a brief introduction to how this works and why. ACT NOW will be explained with a brief history and its current project models. The 2 models that we’ll refer to are: ACT NOW Intensive - a chance to make a piece of Forum Theatre and tour to other youth projects. This is designed to allow participants an opportunity to achieve Bronze/Silver Arts Award. Creative Exchange - a chance to collaborate with another youth theatre group and/or individual inspirational artists. We will describe the ways in which we recruit and levels of support offered to young people, as well as how progression routes are offered both internally and externally. We will finish by offering an insight into our latest project; A Matter of Mind, on which 5 ACT NOW graduates were employed on professional actor contracts to rehearse and perform on a tour of local schools. We’ll offer a brief introduction to the themes of the piece: neuroscience and the adolescent brain, and how the practice of Mindfulness might help young people cope with experiences of mental/emotional disorder. Included will be reference to the challenge of offering employment to young people! Tony will show a short demonstration of the piece from the project’s documentary DVD. This seminar will be facilitated by Tony McBride, Director of Projects,Cardboard Citizens.

D. Arts, Culture, Equity: Partnerships for Young People How do young people engage with arts and cultural opportunities? What are the barriers to engagement? And what ways can arts organisations and the youth sector come together to improve outcomes for young people? Holly Donagh from A New Direction will set the scene for young people’s cultural engagement, and talk about their partnership with London Youth, delivering arts and cultural opportunities for the most disadvantaged and vulnerable young people. This session will look at the particular barriers which prevent children and young people from economically disadvantaged backgrounds taking part in the arts and culture and explore practical ways of providing more and better arts and cultural opportunities for young people. Pat Cochrane from Cape UK will give an overview of the emerging research findings from the two year Strong Voices programme. Strong Voices was a DfE supported programme which ran in five areas across the country and explored diﬀerent ways that arts and heritage organisations could work with young people facing significant barriers to engagement. Strong Voices brings together the expertise and provision from some of the best arts and cultural organisations in the country to make strong connections and partnerships with youth and education settings in the regions, giving them a stronger voice for the future.

The research programme has taken an action research approach with different areas focussing on different aspects of engagement. The workshop will provide an overview of relevant research and participants will have a chance to debate what these findings and emerging strategies might mean in the context of their work. This seminar will be facilitated by Holly Donagh, Partnerships Director, A New Direction, Anthony Ruck, Programme Associate (Young People), A New Directio, and Pat Cochrane, founding Chief Executive, Cape UK.

E. Creative Learning with Vulnerable Children Workshop Taking Ovalhouse’s arts practice with vulnerable children as a starting point, this workshop is chiefly concerned with two questions; How can we open up creative spaces where dialogue can happen between adult artists and children? How can children use their imaginations to re-frame their learning experience? It offers a practical exploration and reflection on the subtle and complex factors that are at play during a drama workshop for vulnerable children or young people. What are the multi-layered processes that contribute to honest and open creative exchange, which enable children and young people to value their contribution and begin to look at themselves and the world through a more constructive frame? A constructive frame means “having positive expectations, not of what may happen to you, but of what you can do” (Edward de Bono). We will look at how the dialogue and consultation with the children begins before the first workshop and examine why a layering of ritual into imaginative risk-taking has proved successful for Ovalhouse. The premise is that the drama workshops grow towards what a ‘self-organising’, rather than centrally organized system as they respond directly to the voices and experiences of the participants. These children will have many different needs and initially the children may be fearful, angry, defensive or numb. As they contribute to a process, take ownership of it and see the effectiveness and value of their contributions, they can gradually start to alter their perceptions and hold a more positive view of themselves. This new positive sense of self, (or enhanced self-esteem) can then be built on for not only more sophisticated communication, but also handling conflict skills and developing empathy in children who have been so traumatized and wounded that often their empathy for anyone else is limited. This workshop will be facilitated by Angela Ekaette Michaels with support from Amari Harris, both Theatre Practitioners at Ovalhouse.

n 4 – 4:15pm Words and Rhythm Energiser or Ice-Breaker This creative activity will be facilitated by Samira Arhin-Accquah, The Core at Corby Cube.

n 4:15 – 4:30pm ‘Why Music?’ Exploring the psycho-social benefits of inclusive music making for children experiencing additional challenges This presents a review of recent research from across the academic and third sectors exploring the impact of participatory music-making for children and young people experiencing additional challenges. These challenges range from socio-economic deprivation, educational exclusion, physical disability, special educational needs, behavioural difficulties and social isolation. Many studies on the wider (i.e. non-musical) effects of music education have focused on mainstream and formal settings. More recently there has been increasing investment in participatory music-making by state and third sector agencies and a broad ‘inclusion’ agenda has been adopted by many music education providers. This has encompassed many learning styles and contexts across a wide range of music, and significantly expanded the corresponding research and evidence base. This includes some discussion of key concepts such as intrinsic motivation and emotional literacy, often overlooked as ‘soft’ outcomes in policy arenas, but arguably essential components of young people’s development and particularly supported through inclusive musical opportunities. This talk will be delivered by Dr. Douglas Lonie Research and Evaluation Manager at the National Foundation for Youth Music.

n 4:30 – 4:45pm Closing Thoughts The closing thoughts will be given by the Creating Links Chair of the conference, Jocelyn Cunningham, Director of Arts and Society UK.

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Lara Stavrinou (Future Stages Network Coordinator) lara.stavrinou@ovalhouse.com Storm Patterson (Future Stages Conference Coordinator) storm.patterson@ovalhouse.com

We would like to give a special mention to all Ovalhouse staďŹ&#x20AC; that have helped us make this conference a success. In particular, to our technical manager Paul O'Shaughnessy and the technical assistant, and our operations manager Alex Clarke and his front of house team. We also give a big thank you to our student placements Arosha Dissanayake and Sarah Covatti and to all our student scribes.

We would also like to thank all our speakers, workshop and seminar leaders!

Our core members: