Discover Arts Award – latest community projects from the Everyman Theatre
The Everyman Theatre Education and Community team has been involved in running Arts Award for many years, from Discover through to Gold level. And most recently, they have taken Arts Award Discover to new audiences by integrating the awards into 2 creative community projects. The first of these was a collaboration between a local artist and a theatre company commissioned by The Everyman called “Displaced Child”.
Gloucestershire Libraries experience of Arts Award
Anne Careless from Tewkesbury Library recalls her Arts Award journey, and how the team delivered the Make-aways alongside Discover at Home.
Taking Arts Award online in Gloucestershire #LoveArtsAward
Through the chaos of last year we saw an opportunity. What if we could deliver Arts Award digitally and engage families creatively while they were at home? Wouldn’t that be a great resource for now but also long term, giving us the ability to reach young people who might not otherwise have access? We all agreed it was.
This is how we came together to collectively explore and test out new ways to deliver it.
Cam & Dursley Pop Up Creative Café takes part in Discover at Home Arts Award
Over the Summer, Churches Together in Cam & Dursley organised 5 weeks of Pop Up creative cafes to support communities during the Summer holiday after months of lockdown.
Meet Alice - the first child to pass her Discover at Home Arts Award!
Alice is the first child to pass the Discover at Home award as part of the CG network
To get started with her Discover at Home Art Award Alice joined an art session with visual artist, Debbie Kersley. Alice then chose to do the ‘Imagining Age’ creative challenge which was devised in partnership with Age UK Glos. The challenge involves finding out about an older person and their chosen lockdown object and then imagining what they might look like.
TwoCan even in lockdown!
TwoCan theatre have been working with arts awards for over 10 years and has supported hundreds of young people at all five arts awards levels. We caught up with Louise Partridge, one of TwoCans founders to find out how the group adjusted to life during lockdown and how they used arts award to recognise and celebrate the creative output of the group through ‘lockdown challenges’.
Georgia Wade: Me, Myself and Why #LoveArtsAward
Why I decided to do the Golds Arts Award, what I did, and how it helped me grow in confidence and creativity.