Delivered by Art Matters
In 2023, we are supporting Art Matter’s “Listen To Your Art Beats” project through our Connecting People and Places Fund’s Collaborative Commissions 2023, co-funded by City of London as part of our Foundations Programme.
“Listen To Your Art Beats” will see six groups of young people empowered to design and deliver six different art workshops to their peers and members of the community.
These commissions will unlock further understanding on how creativity can be used to deliver arts, education, employment programming that provides creative learning opportunities, employment and leadership roles, training and fusion skills development.
They also share a commitment to developing equity in their project’s design and delivery, supporting underrepresented people’s ideas and visibility.
Small groups of young people from Newham primary schools, secondary schools and sixth form colleges will be invited to design, develop, and deliver a series of six creative workshops which they will deliver to an audience totalling approximately 120 people from groups, such as other young people, members of the Royal Docks community and parents or guardians, at the Art Matters exhibition at University of East London in July 2023. Workshops will also be filmed and shared online.
By planning and delivering practical art and design workshops the young people will build their creativity, confidence, and leadership skills.
The young people will be supported throughout by a dedicated project manager and a local creative practitioner who will act as a professional mentor. Their input will be to inspire and enable the young people to gain confidence, and strengthen their communication skills while generating, developing and implementing their own ideas.
We aim not only provide young people with the knowledge, skills and understanding to produce and deliver successful creative workshops, but also to give them a valuable experience that contributes to their understanding of arts, culture and potential careers in the creative sector. The student’s teachers will also be an invaluable support throughout the project and there are opportunities for us to reverse traditional learning models. Young people be learning from each other, the project manager and the professional mentor and their teachers will be able to see ideas and concepts through the lens of their students
Building creative skills for young people is as important as ever. We aim to give them the toolkit to conceptualise a learning experience that they will have the autonomy in planning and delivering while building on their artistic, research and communication skills. Within this project we will also be piloting an approach that integrates delivery of an Arts Award.
We will be looking for young people to take part in this project from our networks of schools and colleges but will be advertising for people to attend the creative workshops in July through our social media platforms.
For more information, see https://www.artmatterslondon.org/.