Join Arts Connect for a one hour session to find out more about the Artsmark and Arts Award programmes available for your schools. About this Event You are invited to grab a cup of tea, sit back and listen whilst Helen and Becky talk through the facts and practicalities of what it would take to…
DetailsWest Midlands Culture Response Unit (WMCRU) is organising the Midsummer Festival, a free one-day festival celebrating arts and culture in the West Midlands on Saturday 20th June. Featuring a collection of many West Midlands theatre, dance, music, artists and venues Midsummer Festival will mark the Summer Solstice with a wide range of live, archived and…
DetailsWe are part of a national initiative that will gift 25,000 vulnerable children and young people with a pack of art materials delivered to their homes. The packs will give them the means to be creative during the challenging times that Covid-19 has brought and ensures that children from deprived communities do not miss out…
DetailsRefugee Week is Coming – Activities for Children & Young People Refugee Week 2020 kicks off on 15 June, and children and young people everywhere are invited to take part, at school or at home. The festival is happening virtually for the first time this year and the theme is ‘Imagine’, which is an invitation…
DetailsThis is a hugely challenging time for schools and both the Artsmark Team and the Arts Connect Team want you to know that we are here to help you if you need it. In early April the Artsmark Team at Arts Council England closed the programme to new registrations owing to the uncertainty of the…
DetailsTwo months that have felt like a life-time! It’s hard to think back across all that has happened since the ‘lock down week’; it was my last visit to a school on Wednesday 18th March. At the same time all our school and arts and cultural partners were working with us to quickly cancel activity…
DetailsWe are all living through unprecedented times that have had a huge impact on all elements of our lives. But in this time of uncertainty I am very lucky to be working in a sector that has shown enormous strength and resolve. There have been so many examples of people rising to the challenge of…
DetailsOne of main things that this unprecedented situation has taught me is the power of partnerships, the desire that there is across the arts, cultural and education sector for people to meet, connect, share and ultimately recover together. As the Local Cultural Education Partnerships (LCEPs) Manager I am very fortunate that I get to work…
DetailsDuring the first adrenaline driven weeks of lockdown (remember them?) I sought out podcasts as a distraction from the news cycle and the immediate pressures of re-organising the way we worked and lived. I was only a year late but I was utterly gripped by ‘13 Minutes to the Moon’ about the Apollo 11 mission,…
Details#DanceConnect an online collaborative project between dance professionals, young people and a digital artist, from across the West Midlands. Arts Connect and DanceXchange, are pleased to announce an audacious new project #DanceConnect, bringing together a digital artist, dance professionals and young people, from across the West Midlands, in a dynamic collaboration to explore creative research…
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