ArtsLink brochure
You can download the Artslink 2007/08 brochure here, just click on the icon on the bottom of this page to download the document.

 

 

Useful resource sheets for participatory artists
Here you'll find downloadable information sheets on funding, contracts, CRB checks, insurance, health and safety and much more, click on the document you would like to download at the bottom of the page.
If you would like to see more information sheets please email info@artslinknetwork.org.uk

 

 

Arts Council England  
Visit www.artscouncil.org.uk and click on my region to access the East Midlands section of the website.
Find information about funding, resources sheets, publications, project work and newsletters.

 

Creative Partnerships  
Creative Partnerships is the Government’s flagship creativity programme for schools and young people, managed by Arts Council England and funded by the DfES and DCMS.
It aims to develop:

• the creativity of young people, raising their aspirations and achievements
• the skills of teachers and their ability to work with creative practitioners
• schools' approaches to culture, creativity and partnership working; and
• the skills, capacity and sustainability of the creative industries

Creative Partnerships focuses on the most deprived communities in England.

The programme achieves its aims by nurturing the creativity of learners and educators, and developing creative approaches to teaching all aspects of the curriculum.

Creative Partnerships enables head teachers to realise their personal vision for a school, freeing them up to innovate and succeed. It encourages an approach designed around the needs of the individual school with learning tailored to the needs and aspirations of each child.

Creative Partnerships enables schools to work with creative practitioners to develop a broad, balanced and relevant curriculum. It does so by supporting a range of creative practitioners to work in partnership with schools in long term sustained relationships.

For more information about Creative Partnerships visit their website www.creative-partnerships.com. The website contains news and information on projects, current vacancies and you can also sign up to their e-bulletin.

 

The Artists Information Company  
Stimulating and supporting contemporary visual arts practice. Exposing the diversity and complexity of artists' practice, they provide an inspiring critical space to research, analyse and debate contexts for practice now and in the future.
Visit www.a-n.co.uk for job opportunities, artist resources, artist profiles, publications and much more!

 

The Cultural and Creative Ambassadors Project for Schools  
The scheme:
Asks schools to nominate one teacher to become their cultural and creative Ambassador.

Asks these Ambassadors to disseminate information from cultural partners throughout their school, ensuring their school don’t miss out.

Supports the nominated Ambassador by sending them information from cultural partners to share with their schools community.

Works on behalf of Ambassadors to find facilitate cultural opportunities for their school.

The Cultural and Creative Ambassadors Project helps the right information get to the right person at the right time to boost creativity across Leicester City and Leicestershire Schools. For more information please visit www.leicester.gov.uk/cca.

 

The East Midlands Participatory Arts Forum  
Resource website for participatory artists
EMPAF is an ongoing and collective production of community and media organisations and practicing artists in Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Rutland. The Forum is supported by Arts Council England, East Midlands.
The website www.empaf.com is a valuable resource and links to the development of ideas, practice and communication to support community and participatory arts both regionally and internationally.

The Forum exists to discuss and debate issues of importance to the community arts sector in the region and provide a positive partnership between forum members and the Arts Council regional office. We usually meet as a whole three to four times a year and in smaller planning groups in between.

Visit EMPAF to find out about latest news, information, resources and projects taking place within participatory artists and organisations.

 

Arts in Education Co-ordinator for Leicestershire
This post is based within the Children and Young Peoples Service of the County Council and is situated at Knighton Fields Centre for Arts in Education. It has three priority areas; encouraging and supporting schools with their Artsmark applications; increasing the numbers of young people achieving Arts Awards and co-ordinating the Creative Partnerships programme across the county.  The development of all these initiatives impact upon training and employability of artists within education and beyond. It also connects strongly with the creative industries and with the sustainability of arts and cultural venues in developing new audiences across localities. Contact Rachael Phelps, Arts in Education Co-ordinator, Email: rphelps@leics.gov.uk or Tel: 0116 270 0850.