tate liverpool - engaging the disengaged - notes of seminar, 26.07.11

8/4/2019 TATE Liverpool - Engaging the Disengaged - Notes of Seminar, 26.07.11

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What value could a regional agency add to your work with

children and young people?

Audit, information and advocacy:

y Audit identify hot spots, cold spots of engagement

y Acknowledge the scope and extent of need

y One stop info shop on whats available

y Coordination ensure that schools are not bombarded with info and offers

y Pull the while sector together national organisations, National PortfolioOrganisations, Arts Council project -funded clients, private and commercialsector, freelancers, community and voluntary sector. Map the entirety of thesector

y A thorough communication network

y Advocacy

y Have clear, succinct and comprehensive evidence of the impact of arts andculture available to draw upon and use for advocacy and to act in astrategic advocacy role

Profile raising:

y Raise awareness of [my organisations] commitmen t to cultural engagementforallchildren and young people... amongst children, young people, parents,carers, schools, local authorities, and the voluntary sector working withchildren and young people

y Promoting what we are all doing / achieving

y Profiling

Quality and excellence, CPD and networking:

y Case studies of good practice and how to replicate it

y Support training and development of a pool of freelance practitioners

y Helping to connect organisations doing similar work with a similar focus towork in partnership or disseminate good practice. Provide training

y Help develop and coordinate areas of specialism through partneringorganisations

y Opportunities. Progressiony A regional agency could (should) be the connection / glue between the

individual points, expand the dialogue and inform / lead future innovations ofworking practice

y Help with evaluation (which we often dont have time to do) and support indisseminating good practice

y Share effective practice and impacts on children

Coherence common practice, language and vision:

y Develop a new big idea

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y Develop an engagement strategy for schools

y Connecting the vision and strong networksy Inspirational leadership

y Join things up! Stop people reinventing the wheel / duplicating

y Coordinative support

y Bringing us all together to keep the conversations flowing (not burying ourheads in the sand!)

y Bring everything and everyone together arts and cultural sector, youngpeople and gatekeepers - into a single model

Offering a critical eye, inspiring change :

y Support with overall strategic programming in terms of fresh eyes lookingover

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Pressure (meaning challenge)y Go beyond the usual suspects

Children, young people and families:

y Work with families to break the cycle of deprivation

y Empower children and young people as the young, inspiring cultural leaders

Themed table discussions: What is our ideal future when it

comes to engaging the disengaged? What skills and

resources do we already have? How can we work togetherto achieve our goal?

How can we work together to achieve our ideal future?: Funders /stakeholders

We must do this...

y Connect up and share

y Connect really good artists with robust quality control

y Profile and celebrate what is already happening

y Find out the reason why we use culture. Why do we consume it what isthat thing?

y We need to ensure that arts and culture continues in schools to ensure abasic entitlement

y We need to focus on core aims and purpose. Dont be a bureaucracy butjustify your existence

Wed like to do this...

y Use and engage with young peoples networks already established(networks for and by young people)

y Offer more space for culture to take place


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y Evaluate using live evaluation methods, not dead reports so they can

be owned by young peopley Find out how to truly consult with young people

y Gain a proper overview of the region including the universal, targetedand special offers available

y Articulate the offer in a new way

y Make sure whatever we do provides room for everyone

Wouldnt it be great if...

y We could cut bureaucracy

y We had a generic pay scale which was affordable and still recognisedthe quality that professionals offer, taking into account skills, experienceand recommendations

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We could dissolve the amount of paperwork / tick boxes and agendasy We didnt have to always prove it

y We could go into communities at 11pm on a Saturday evening with a coolbloke with cool equipment

y We had the opportunity to try lots of things, as in lots of cultural forms

y Young people were making our decisions for us

How can we work together to achieve our ideal future?: Children and

young people

We must do this...

y Redefine culture

y Reframe the discoursey Empower young people to develop work

y Get our house in order

y Understand the gatekeepers the barriers the challenges

y Enable young people to make choices for themselves

y Ensure any offer is genuinely demand -led

y Really come up with the new idea or the new thing

y Offer choices based on demand

y Create a passport

y Have different offers universal, targeted and specialist

y Ensure there is room for everyone in this world that celebratesdistinctiveness

Wed like to do this...

y Create a new message

y Stop labelling audiences

y Become an agent for change a neutral body

y Establish more partnerships outside the sector including voluntary,community and charities

y See the sector catch-up with young people and our use of technologyand the digital world

Wouldnt it be great if...


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y In three years, young people le ad the cultural environment in the North West

and are a beacon of change and best practice to the country and the world

How can we work together to achieve our ideal future?: North West artsand cultural organisations

We must do this...

y Positively rather than negatively frame this work

y Build more opinion formers who ca n influence the press and provide analternative discourse

y Start with communitys interests (be ready to accept knitting and karaoke)

y Speak the language of the health sector, education sector and wider society,then...

y Build the confidence and ability of arts organisations to speak for themselvesthen...

y Link with people and agencies already out in the community establish long-term relationships built on trust then...

(Wed like to do this...)

y Source champions and ambassadors from within the community (parents,teachers, etc.) who can assert clearly why the arts matter

y Open our doors and make professional expertise and advice available ,founding relationships on mutual respect for each others needs (the needsof arts organisation and those of children, young people and gatekeepers)

(Over time) Wouldnt it be great if...y We built a network of empowered champions who can act as a conduit into

communities and generate new programmes

What should Curious Minds be thinking about or doing as a

bridge organisation? What challenges are we likely to face

and how can we overcome them?

y Establish and communicate a clear mission and associated objectives

y It shouldnt take money on the table to provoke action finance shouldntbe the sole motivation to engage

y Push the metaphor of a bridge as a meeting place for people to cometogether. Everyone should be aware of us and we should be the obviouspeople to call

y Bring people together to talk and connect

y Start small with quarterly meetings

y Develop mechanisms to listen to the needs of children and young peopleall the way through (e.g. 0 -25)

y Bring young people from across Lancashire and Merseyside together andspeak to them so we are clear on their needs


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y Acknowledge what young people are faced with at this moment i n time

volunteering (Big Society; National Citizen Service), new pressures suchas SATs in primary school

Acrostics and haikus

C reating

U nderstanding

R esourceful

I nspiringO riginal / Opportunity

U nlimited

S uccess

B uilding

R evolutionary

I deas

D eveloping

G reatness in

E veryone

B uilding

R elationships

I nclusive

D ialogue

G enuine

E ngagement


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N orth West

O r!

R eally

T remendous

H appening?

W ise and wonderful

E ducators

S ussed

T ogether!

S hare Knowledge

U niversal

P romote

P ut People First

O rganise

R adical Transformation

B rave

R evolution

I nspiring

D iverse

G lobal

E volution and excellence


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Bringing young people

A lot closer to the arts

To improve their lives

The Bamboo sings and bends

Ready for all weathers

Grows strong, proud and true

Shizzle my nizzle

And Buyaka sha home boy....

...We need to get young.

Sunshine today and

Big task in your way you must

Trust, connect always

The power of three

Who are we?

Child, keeper, creator a triangle

Makes us three and three power trebles


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Get on board the magical bus with us

No fuss

Grab a map seat for all

Choose the route, change the route, come with us

On the magical mystery tour bus

tate liverpool - engaging the disengaged - notes of seminar, 26.07.11

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