The start of my leadership journey I had been developing my leadership skills for several years: Attending conferences, gathering professional development informally in different ways and exploring options for further study. As Artistic Director and CEO of Mercurial Dance, I have a leadership role. I founded the company and a parallel charity and have been…
Linden Dance Company has a huge amount to thank Arts Connect for, for the help and support it has provided in building the company and developing us as both artists and leaders. The initial Thrive Bursary opportunity inspired us to form our 8-year collaboration into an actual company and concrete our aspirations for the dance…
Hello there! I’m Grace, and I work for Open Theatre Company as a Creative Enabler, and I participated in Arts Connect’s ‘Creative Digital Leadership Programme’ in 2021. We work nonverbally, which inspired me to create a nonverbal project during the programme. I had always been interested in the idea of making our online content more…
Mercurial Dance have a track record of creating dance theatre and innovating in digital. Our work is immersive, site-specific and interactive, and we seek to have a direct connection with our audiences. We create relevant, inclusive work that develops local cultural communities through ambitious performance, education programs & participatory projects. Over the last two years,…
As part of the Inspired by British Art Show 9 Arts Connect Partner Schools Programme, we developed a series of professional artistic development placements for University of Wolverhampton students, Hannah Rollason was one of these Student Artists and here is her story: British Art Show 9 in Wolverhampton British Art Show 9 is a touring…
Art at the Heart CIC believes that every young person has the right to benefit from a arts rich education. We combat inequality through creative education, so embedding the Arts Award into our services was a natural choice. Our art courses are grounded in 30 years of arts education experience. Led by Directors and Art…
As you are well aware we have faced unprecedented challenges this year and at the heart of all of this there has obviously been a concern for everyone but more so the children who have lived through these unique times, missing out on valuable education and the interaction with fellow pupils and friends. Teachers have…
We take a look back at how the JQTH project, along with three local artists and makers, engaged with 100 local students during lockdown, and what we learnt in the process. ‘Spotlight on a Street’ is a bi-annual week-long celebration of the heritage of a chosen street within the JQTH area. For the May 2020…
Discover has been a great way to engage young people over lockdown. The first thing it gets young people to do is identify art forms around them. Initially the young people I worked with online found this difficult – “I’m stuck in my house – where can I find art, apart from a couple of…
As a childminder I always use creativity to help the children that I work with to learn, grow and have fun. I found out about Arts Award Discover at Home through Twinkl and Children’s Art Week and thought it was a great idea. The Discover at Home programme appealed to me as it was online…
