catalyst: applications for Train the Trainers – an Opportunity
We are looking for 2-3 people interested in taking part in a new Train the Trainers course starting in February 2020. Create Gloucestershire (CG) is offering this opportunity to meet additional need in our team for facilitators, trainers and coaches as we grow over the next 3 years. You don’t need to be a coach, trainer or facilitator to apply: we are more interested in finding people with a passion to bring about individual and creative change in Gloucestershire with an open and optimistic mind set.
My time as a Cultural Leadership Trainee at Gloucestershire Libraries
Aimee is currently on a creative leadership programme with Gloucester Culture Trust, working for Gloucestershire Libraries and for two days a week at Strike A Light. She helps engage with people through creative projects based in libraries across Gloucester.
We caught up with her 3 months into her traineeship…
The Creative Leadership Trainee Programme
In March 2019, Gloucester Culture Trust launched the Creative Leadership Trainee Programme. The aim: to nurture the future creative leaders of today.
The programme has created four full-time, year-long jobs within four of Gloucester’s creative organisations, all of which are fully funded by the Creative Entrepreneurs strand of the city’s Great Place project. This area of our work, which we call JOLT, is about creating opportunities and a supportive space which enables people to work and make a living in the creatives industries, right here in Gloucester.
Come and celebrate Tewkesbury with local creative people, artists and businesses
Are you interested in coming together to celebrate Tewkesbury as a fun, vibrant and creative place?
If so come along to Tewkesbury Library to meet other local creative people for cake, refreshments as well as inspiring conversation and new ideas.
Culture | Data | Learning: creative lab
Join Create Gloucestershire for this hands-on lab exploring where data and art meet.
Are you an artist interested in how data might shape your creations? Or do you work with data, and want to explore how to look at it in new ways? We want you to join us and get creative though team projects to discover, explore and represent data about the cultural education landscape in Gloucestershire.
Catch up with CG's Sector Support Manager for Arts on Prescription
We caught up with Carrie Creamer to find out more about her role as Project Manager for arts on prescription - working alongside arts organisations delivering programmes in Glos - as well as her own chance encounter in a hospital setting which delivered a moment of joy amongst the worry and waiting.
catalyst: a development programme for people in Gloucestershire who want to kickstart and sustain change
We are delighted to have been selected by Arts Council England to develop a leadership development programme to address specific issues around diversity in leadership - amongst 18 fabulous other projects nationwide. We will be posting more about our project in the coming weeks but in the meantime please take a look at the ace website to find out more about the programme.
https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/fund…/transforming-leadership Arts Council England
Culture | Data | Learning: creative lab
Join Create Gloucestershire for this hands-on lab exploring where data and art meet.
Are you an artist interested in how data might shape your creations? Or do you work with data, and want to explore how to look at it in new ways? We want you to join us and get creative though team projects to discover, explore and represent data about the cultural education landscape in Gloucestershire.
Arts & Health Creative Lab
This Arts & Health Creative Lab will explore Arts and Health and Arts on Prescription* with a focus on Gloucestershire’s delivery. We will share experiences from a number of different arts and health providers from the perspectives of practice and evidence.
Tewkesbury Pop Up
Are you interested in making Tewkesbury a more vibrant, fun and creative place? If so come along to Tewkesbury Library on Wednesday 23 October 1.30 – 3.30pm to meet other like-minded creatives for free cake, refreshments as well as conversation and new ideas.
Danielle: Why I volunteer (and why you should too!)
Danielle shares her experiences of volunteering at The Wilson.
Celebration Series Blog 7: Art of Libraries – My time as a Creative Catalyst
Matson came on board as one of the Art of Libraries test libraries in October 2017 but before I talk about the project, and my role as a Creative Catalyst, I just want to set the scene and talk a bit about Matson, just to give an understanding of the context in which we are working.
Celebration Series Blog 6: Interactive Storytelling across Gloucestershire Libraries
As part of the winter programme 2018/19 we had the absolute pleasure of not only bringing Interactive Storytelling sessions to libraries across Gloucestershire; but also working with library staff about they can develop their storytelling skills.
Celebration Series Blog 5: Can't Sit Still
Can’t Sit Still were delighted to bring our new show, Plink & Boo, to both Matson and Gloucester Libraries as a ‘test’ partnership between the Art of Libraries Programme, run by Create Gloucestershire with Gloucestershire Libraries Service, and the GL4/Strike A Light Festivals.
Data Nuggets: Schools in the South West
As CG explores the use of data to support arts engagement in schools, we will signpost a range of datasets you might find useful when planning new projects or longer-term strategies.
First up: school data.
Celebration Series Blog 4: Wanted. One intrepid Library Assistant
At the end of March last year, a rather unusual event took place in Dursley library; after the doors closed for the evening, the Dursley team, the creative catalyst and selected members of the Dursley community embarked on two hours of mindreading training!
Celebration Series Blog 3: Mindreading… in Dursley Library
At the end of March last year, a rather unusual event took place in Dursley library; after the doors closed for the evening, the Dursley team, the creative catalyst and selected members of the Dursley community embarked on two hours of mindreading training!
Celebration Series Blog 2: The Creative Mothers Programme
The Creative Mothers programme is an initiative between Art of Libraries and artist Lizzie Philps, supported by Procreate Projects and inspired by the Mother House Studio.
Celebration Series Blog 1: Follow Me into the Forest
Feral Productions tour Forest Libraries as part of Art of Libraries
In the first of our blogs leading up to the Art of Libraries Celebration and Learning event we would like to share the experience of Feral Productions when they tested out a new version of their production of Follow Me in Coleford and Lydney Library in the Forest of Dean.
A First Space to Create, Imagine and Play
Join us for a daylong event to listen, share, exchange insights and experiences around the potential of libraries as creative, playful spaces for children, young people and families to take their first steps into arts and culture in Gloucestershire.