Lessons from the past
Deborah Bull explains what the cultural enquiry into arts policy and young people learnt by looking back over the last 60 years.
Deborah Bull explains what the cultural enquiry into arts policy and young people learnt by looking back over the last 60 years.
Failure to learn from the past means that new initiatives for engaging young people with the arts look “remarkably similar t…
Definitions of arts and culture may need to be reconsidered if youth engagement is to be properly understood, suggests report.
Lincolnshire’s network of arts venues has been a life-saver – as some venues may not have survived without it, accordi…
Eleanor Deem gives some guidance on managing young people in both volunteer and paid roles.
Eloise Malone tells how she has transformed a former bank in Plymouth into an art gallery and creative space for vulnerable young…
A recent conference explored the value of music-making with early years and key stage 1 children. Fraser Wilson and Emily Moss des…
Nicky Goulder tells how a project combining literacy, music and illustration has brought offenders closer to their young children.
Director of Half Moon Theatre for children and young people, Chris Elwell names those who have inspired him throughout his career.
There have been very few progression routes in the performing arts for young, disabled people who want to make a career in the art…
The cost of tuition is still a major barrier to children from lower socio-economic groups learning to play an instrument, report c…
Creating and producing family theatre has led Harper Ray to reconsider his audience and cast aside some misconceptions.
When Terry O’Donovan presented his latest musical show as a work in progress to five year olds they looked bored. Now it&rsq…
Visual arts activities for young people are more important than ever, since the decline in the teaching of arts subjects in school…
Patrick Spottiswoode outlines how the Globe Theatre in London is continuing a long tradition in adapting Shakespeare’s plays…
Peter Glanville is passionate that children’s theatre should be of the highest quality attracting the best actors and creati…
Mountview Academy of Arts is making a step-change in its recruitment of drama students to attract talent from a wider social and r…
Finding out what young offenders are good at and drawing it out of them can change their lives. Jane Bryant discusses Artswork&rsq…
Two members of a youth forum have been invited to sit on the board at The Dukes in Lancaster, and are now influencing important de…
The various ways in which successive governments have tried to provide access to the arts for children and young people is to be t…
£180m of Lottery funds will be used for the core funding of NPOs involved in touring or working with children and young peop…
Northern Trust’s employees are actively involved in a community partnership with the RPO, says Naomi Venn.
Cate Gordon describes how the Young Associate Scheme at Harrow Arts Centre offers a clearer career progression route for young peo…
The authors write “with passion and authority”, making this book relevant to a wider readership than the title suggest…