Area group programme
engage has 'Area Representatives' across the UK to
help members, as well as part-time Coordinators in Wales and Scotland. In
addition, our 'Freelance Reps' can offer advice and support to our freelance
members. These are listed below. Please contact your local
Rep for advice or to find out what's going on locally. Area programmes,
including newsletters, training and networking events are run on a voluntary
basis, and depend on local interest and resources.
Recent reports from area meetings can be downloaded below.
Area group news
Arts and Business Scotland gets funding boost
The Scottish Government is providing an additional £50,000 of funding for the Arts and Business Scotland New Arts Sponsorship grants scheme to be used for the remainder of this financial year 2009/10. Grants have already been awarded to 31 new business and arts partnerships, and the grant scheme has generated £583,283 in total for the arts in Scotland. New Arts Sponsorship Grants aim to:
* increase the number of businesses sponsoring the arts in Scotland
* encourage cultural organisations to approach businesses that have not sponsored the arts before, or have not sponsored for at least 3 years
* encourage non-Scottish based companies to sponsor arts activities in Scotland
To read the full guidelines on the scheme and how to apply go to
http://www.artsandbusiness.org.uk/Scotland/Arts-services/New%20Arts%20Sponsorship.aspx
Climate Change and the Visual Arts- presentations and MP3s now online
A curatorial development and networking event organised by engage and VAGA in August 2009, Climate Change and the Visual Arts offered a range of perspectives on the environmental impact of presenting contemporary visual art, from curatorial practice, gallery education, exhibition making and artist practice and allowed space to discuss whether concerns over climate change affect the sector's working practices. You can download some presentations and MP3s from the day at
http://www.engage.org/scotland/vaga.aspx
engage London Area Group Meeting, Monday 29 March 2010
Visual Roots: Engaging hard-to-reach young people through work-related learning
Monday 29 March 2010
Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham, TW1 3DJ
2pm-5.30pm
Visual Roots is an engage initiative offering visual arts venues the opportunity to develop accredited placements for vulnerable and hard-to-reach young people. This seminar will present case studies from the Photographer's Gallery, artsdepot and Orleans House Gallery and young people that took part in the programme will share their experiences. The seminar is aimed at youth leaders, educators, particularly those working in alternative education provision, artists and others working in a gallery or museum context.
This is an engage event but also open to non-engage members. An agenda will follow shortly.
To book a place please email Ali Bennett, Arts Education Manager at Orleans House Gallery a.bennett@richmond.gov.uk
engage South East Area Group meeting
Visual Roots Programme: Lessons & Legacy
Date: Friday 26 March
Venue: John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
Time: 12.30 – 4.30pm, with lunch from 12noon
11am – 12pm: Introduction to Action Learning Sets
Visual Roots is an engage programme that offers visual arts venues the opportunity to develop accredited placements for vulnerable and hard to reach young people. See http://www.engage.org/visualroots/index.aspx for details.
As part of the dissemination of Phase 1 of the project, join us for a stimulating session drawing on case studies from John Hansard Gallery and 198 Gallery, London. We will be exploring ‘work related learning’ and the opportunities and implications it presents, in particular the legacy for both host and participant.
Action Learning:
For those of you interested in what an Action Learning Set can bring to your practise we are offering a taster session during the morning, where we will discuss the possibly of members forming their own set. More information about Action Learning sets can be found at: http://culturalleadership.atticmedia.com/Article.aspa?NodeId=0&PageId=533
RSVP: Fiona Heathcote, Modern Art Oxford
fiona.heathcote@modernartoxford.org.uk
Tel: 01865 813827/ 01865 722733
For directions to the venue and information on exhibitions please look at the gallery website, www.hansardgallery.org.uk
Outline schedule:
11:00 Introduction to Action Learning Sets (Optional)
With Polly Gifford, Head of Education, De La Warr Pavilion
12:00 Lunch (Provided)
12:30 Welcome and introduction – SE Reps
12:45 What does ‘work related learning’ mean to you?
Small group discussion
13.00 Presentation from Joel Papps, freelance artist and Visual Roots Coordinator for John Hansard Gallery
14:30 Presentation from 198 Gallery, Hackney, from a staff member and young person involved in their Visual Roots programme.
15:30 Discussion and analysis of issues raised
engage South West Area Group - Visual Roots Dissemination event
2-6pm Thursday 11 March 2010
Venue: Arnolfini Bristol
Since New Labour came to power in 1997 there has been a flurry of government funding for vulnerable and hard to reach young people and the arts (Creative Partnerships, Arts Award and so on). In recent years arts institutions in the UK have been funded to set up youth projects. We propose taking time to reflect on these initiatives in order question government agendas and the impact these youth initiatives have on the institutions hosting them.
The discussion will be illustrated by presentations from:
Young Arnolfini Artists Collective
Tate St Ives enquire project exploring delivering the Creative and Media diploma
Plymouth Arts Centre’s YPAC will discuss their involvement with the programme.
Frances Bossom will discuss Arnolfini’s work experience model of good practice.
Refreshments will be provided.
The event is free but booking advisable, to book please contact helen.davies@arnolfini.org.uk
engage North West Area Group Meeting
Thursday 25 March 2010, 4-6pm, informal networking from 6pm onwards
Cornerhouse, 70 Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 5NH
Work-based learning for young people – Visual Roots and Creative Apprenticeships
Visual Roots is an engage initiative offering visual arts venues the opportunity to develop accredited work placements for vulnerable and hard-to-reach young people. This area group meeting will provide an overview of the Visual Roots programme and present a case study from Cornerhouse, Manchester.
Another new initiative of work-based learning are Creative Apprenticeships, a mix of on the job and off job training where young people have the opportunity to acquire skills and knowledge and attain qualifications while doing so. A brief overview of Creative Apprenticeships combined with a case study from Tate Liverpool will give an insight into the theory and practice of this learning path.
A Visual Roots volunteer at Cornerhouse and apprentices at Tate Liverpool will share their experiences of taking part in work-based learning programmes.
This is an engage event but also open to non-engage members. The Visual Roots pogramme and Creative Apprenticeships scheme would be of interest to youth leaders, educators, careers officers, artists and others working in a gallery or museum context.
Agenda:
4-4.15 Registration and refreshments
4.15 – 4.30 Visual Roots: An Overview – Lilli Brodner-Francis, Visual Roots Programme Assistant and engage NW Area Representative
4.30 – 4.50 Visual Roots at Cornerhouse – Marisa Draper, Young People’s Programme Manager, Cornerhouse and Bisham Dass, Visual Roots volunteer, Cornerhouse
4.50 – 5.00 Questions and answers
5.00 – 5.10 Creative Apprenticeships: An Overview – Michelle Freeman, Programme Manager, Community, Young Tate & Public Programmes, Tate Liverpool
5.10 – 5.25 Creative Apprenticeships at Tate Liverpool – Michelle Freeman, Programme Manager, Community, Young Tate & Public Programmes; Ryan Roach, Community Arts Management apprentice, Tate Liverpool and Edward Allport-Bryson, Cultural and Heritage Venue Management apprentice, Tate Liverpool.
5.25 – 5.45 Questions and answers
5.45 – 6.00 – Identifying opportunities for work related learning in your organisation
6.00 onwards – Cornerhouse Café – refreshments, snacks and informal networking
To book a place, please email Lilli Brodner-Francis, engage NW Area Representative on lillibrodner@gmail.com
engage Yorkshire Area Group Meeting
Visual Roots: Engaging hard-to-reach young people through work-related learning
Thursday 18 March 2010
Henry Moore Institute, 74 The Headrow, Leeds, LS1 3AA
1.00pm-3.00pm
Visual Roots is an engage initiative offering visual arts venues the opportunity to develop accredited placements for vulnerable and hard-to-reach young people. This Area Group meeting will provide an overview of the initiative, focusing on Cornerhouse, Manchester as a case study.
This is an engage event but also open to non-engage members. The Visual Roots programme would be of interest to youth leaders, educators, careers officers and others working in a gallery or museum context.
Agenda:
12.15-12.45pm -Lunch (provided in the Tiled Hall, Leeds Art Gallery)
1.00-1.30pm -engage information exchange
1.30-2.00pm -Visual Roots: An Overview- Lilli Brodner-Francis, Visual Roots Programme Assistant
2.00-2.30pm -Visual Roots: Cornerhouse Case Study- Marisa Draper, Young People's Programme Manager, Cornerhouse
2.30-2.45pm -Questions and discussion
2.45-3.00pm -engage AOB
To book a place please email Kathryn Welford, Yorkshire engage Area Representative at Kathryn.Welford@gmail.com
Area group reports
North-West
engage North West Area Group meeting April 2008
Yorkshire
engage Yorkshire meeting March 2007
West Midlands
Working With Young People - engage West Midlands Area Group meeting 14 May 2008
West Midlands
engage West Midlands meeting September 2007
West Midlands
engage West Midlands meeting May 2007
South-West
engage South West Meeting July 2008
South-East
Who comes to the table? - engage South East Area Group meeting May 2008
London
The good, the bad, the solution...? engage London Area Group meeting May 2008
Area reps
The engage Area Reps are:
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Scotland - Katie Bruce, Glasgow Museums Resource Centre
Scotland - Scott Byrne, Moray Art Centre
Scotland - Joanna Mawdsley, National Galleries of Scotland
Wales - Eleri Wyn Evans, National Museums & Galleries of Wales
Wales - Honor Pedican, Wrexham Arts Centre
Northern - Marie Neeson, Middlesbrough Museums and Galleries
Northern - Iain Wheeldon, ICCHS
North-West - Lilli Brodner
North-West - Michelle Freeman, Tate Liverpool
Yorkshire - Ian Read, Scarborough Museums Trust
Yorkshire - Kathryn Welford
West Midlands - James Cangiano, Ikon Gallery
West Midlands - Dr. Chris Lee
West Midlands - Trevelyan Wright
East Midlands - Helen Ackroyd, Rufford Craft Centre
East Midlands - Kate Travers, Renaissance East Midlands
East Midlands - Amber Walls, Rufford Craft Centre
East - Sarah Campbell, Kettle's Yard
East - Nick Neal, King's Lynn Art Centre
East - Miss Karen Thomas
South-West - Helen Davies, Arnolfini
South-West - Georgina Kennedy, Tate St Ives
South-West - Caroline Mawdsley, Plymouth Arts Centre
South-West - Hannah Reeves, Spacex Gallery
South-East - Polly Gifford, De La Warr Pavilion
South-East - Fiona Heathcote, Modern Art Oxford
South-East - Natalie Walton, Milton Keynes Gallery
South-East - Lynn Weddle
London - Alexandra Bennett, Orleans House Gallery
London - Lee McCulley, PM Gallery & House
London - Rachel Moss, National Portrait Gallery
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