Food for thought
To mark Eating Disorders Awareness Week, Sarah Pickthall and Maria Pattinson explain how they use art, food and conversation to he…
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Worth getting out of bed for
Transforming cold and clinical spaces in Sheffield’s children’s hospital into micro-museums and galleries is alle…
My Gurus
As he prepares to open a new arts and learning centre, Leon Patel reflects on those that have helped and inspired him since the mo…
Research backs up the value of music-making to young people
A round-up of “compelling evidence” for the benefits of music education has been published with the aim of providing t…
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.
Enquiry sheds light on “engagement gap”
Failure to learn from the past means that new initiatives for engaging young people with the arts look “remarkably similar t…
Survey reveals barriers to youth arts participation
Definitions of arts and culture may need to be reconsidered if youth engagement is to be properly understood, suggests report.
Collaborate or die!
Lincolnshire’s network of arts venues has been a life-saver – as some venues may not have survived without it, accordi…
Young people, good practice and the law
Eleanor Deem gives some guidance on managing young people in both volunteer and paid roles.
A safe space
Eloise Malone tells how she has transformed a former bank in Plymouth into an art gallery and creative space for vulnerable young…
Listen, play and learn
A recent conference explored the value of music-making with early years and key stage 1 children. Fraser Wilson and Emily Moss des…
Good parenting from prison
Nicky Goulder tells how a project combining literacy, music and illustration has brought offenders closer to their young children.
My Gurus
Director of Half Moon Theatre for children and young people, Chris Elwell names those who have inspired him throughout his career.
From participant to professional
There have been very few progression routes in the performing arts for young, disabled people who want to make a career in the art…
Music education is thriving among the better off
The cost of tuition is still a major barrier to children from lower socio-economic groups learning to play an instrument, report c…
Who is family theatre for?
Creating and producing family theatre has led Harper Ray to reconsider his audience and cast aside some misconceptions.
Small children rocking out!
When Terry O’Donovan presented his latest musical show as a work in progress to five year olds they looked bored. Now it&rsq…
Access to the visual arts
Visual arts activities for young people are more important than ever, since the decline in the teaching of arts subjects in school…
Shakespeare to suit
Patrick Spottiswoode outlines how the Globe Theatre in London is continuing a long tradition in adapting Shakespeare’s plays…
Passion, ambition and vision
Peter Glanville is passionate that children’s theatre should be of the highest quality attracting the best actors and creati…
A wider pool of talent
Mountview Academy of Arts is making a step-change in its recruitment of drama students to attract talent from a wider social and r…
Changing young lives
Finding out what young offenders are good at and drawing it out of them can change their lives. Jane Bryant discusses Artswork&rsq…
Starting young
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…
Enquiry to investigate arts access for young people
The various ways in which successive governments have tried to provide access to the arts for children and young people is to be t…
