The ‘Transported’ CP&P lead consortium are travelling to Blackpool to attend a Peer Learning Event with the other 6 successful regions. It’s going to be a great opportunity to find out about the other projects as well as areas where we can all work together:
Creative people and places: peer learning event
Programme
15th – 16th Oct 2012, Winter Gardens Blackpool
Aims
- Inspiration and reflection– ensuring great art happens and raising ambitions, inspiring communities to take ownership
- Information exchange – regarding evaluation, data collection and audience trends, commissioning artists etc.
- Networking – consortia to meet each other, join up and learn from each other; establish the national peer support programme
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Monday 15th Oct
10:30 -11 Arrival and registration
11 – 11:40 Introductions
11:45-12:45 Keynote: John McGrath, National Theatre of Wales
12:45-13:45 Lunch
13:45-15:00 Places presentations (up to 7 mins each)
15:00-15:15 Break
15:15 – 16:45 Community engagement and arts practice
Edward Andersson from Involve on methods of participatory decision making. Tom Andrews from People United on the successes and challenges of running community-focused arts initiatives that can bring about social change. Matt Adams from Blas Theory will talk about the company’s innovative digital participation projects
16:45 Break and discussions in places as below
16:45-17:15 How does it apply to us?
Discussion in each consortium – main points applicable to local context; feedback to the group
17:15 – 17:30 Closing
19:00 Dinner
20:30 Evening activity: visit to Blackpool Tower
Tuesday 16th Oct
9:30 -10:00 Arrival
10:00- 11:15 Roundtable discussions across places (two sessions per group)
- Designing your arts programme and commissioning artists
- Community engagement
- Sustainability including income generation
- Evaluation and working with universities
11:15-12:15 Understanding your audience
Anne Torreggiani and Helen Ball from The Audience Agency about current audience trends and how the Agency can support the places
12:15-12:30 Break
12:30-13:30 Evaluation
Arts Council & consultant Scott Dickinson will lead a discussion on the evaluation plans for the whole programme and the involvement required from the places
13:30-14:15 Lunch
14:15-15:45 Interactive communications workshop
With Louise Wylie, Arts Council’s Media Relations Director
15:45-16:15 Peer-learning programme
Planning for delivery, outlining possible areas to explore and agreeing next steps:
- Research / data collection
- Excellence in arts
- Excellence in community engagement
- Sustainability
- Working in partnerships and across sectors
- Communications and documentation
16:15-16:30 Reflections, next steps, closing
16:30 End