engage in diversity
engage is committed to promoting wider access and
opportunities within the gallery education sector through increasing the
diversity of both staff and audiences.
engage has developed a diversity definition and
diversity policies in consultation with the Board of Trustees, the advisory
Council and the Diversity Working Group as follows:
engage defines diversity broadly to include
cultural diversity, disability, age, socio-economic factors, gender and sexual
orientation.
engage recognises that cultural
diversity is largely self defined and may include ethnicity, nationality and
religion.
Click here for the Diversity resources area.
Policy Statements:
engage actively seeks to embrace diversity in all
aspects of its staffing, governance, operations and programmes and to make
reasonable adjustments to encourage greater diversity and wider access.
engage strives to promote greater diversity amongst
the membership and the wider sector through awareness raising, advice and
guidance, training and professional development and advocacy.
engage encourages its membership to define and
embed diversity within their own practice and to promote throughout their
organisations and the wider sector.
The vision for
engage's programme of work is:
To promote a workforce which is diverse, accessible, and professional
To include an understanding of diversity issues in art practice and in
employment issues
To ensure gallery educators are trained to embrace diversity in their own
practice
engage has been involved in number of initiatives
looking at diversity since 2003:
engage's diversity work prior to 2005 is as
follows:
Diversity and Citizenship conference Tate
Modern (162 participants)
Diversity and Citizenship seminars across England
(130 participants)
Whose Diversity conference 2003, Liverpool (194
participants)
Making Connections Diversity in Projects seminars
(75 participants) and Diverse Audiences (76 participants)
engage took part in the Creative Renewal Programme:
this involved research into the make-up of the sector, diversity schemes in the
museums and galleries sector and research into attitudes amongst school and
university students to careers in galleries. Also careers talks for art
students and gallery placements for school pupils were run aimed at broadening
the diversity of potential incomers to the sector.
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Development of an
online
careers resource aimed at young people.
1 day national conference
'Embedding
Diversity in Galleries' (98 participants) which includes 3 written
reports and information on the
engage website.
Diversity Strategy, Diversity Working Group and
Diversity Action Plan