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Cultural Connections for Education Settings
in North West England
The Culture Hub is a free-to-use online portal for teachers, childcare providers and other professionals working with children and young people. It aims to help you take on the Cultural Education Challenge and by connecting you with the expertise and variety on offer within our region's rich and vibrant arts, culture and heritage sectors.
The Cultural Education Challenge
The Cultural Education Challenge is a call-to-action. It asks all education settings and cultural organisations to work together more effectively, in order to offer a consistently high-quality arts education to all children.
The Culture Hub is brought to you by Curious Minds, a charity working to drive access to creative and cultural education, by creating the conditions where quality, collaboration can flourish.
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Schools, Colleges & Early Years Settings
Demonstrate your commitment to high quality arts and cultural education for all young people by signing-up to the Cultural Education Challenge. Your setting will be listed on our website as a Culture School and you can use the free online profile to track your Challenge journey, mark accomplishments and highlight meaningful partnerships by collecting virtual ‘badges’ and submitting reviews. There’s even a widget to display on your website.
Creative & Cultural Providers or Practitioners
Register to create a free online profile for your organisation or practice.
Make the most of your listing to share information, images, videos and resources that truly reflect how you work with schools and young people, as well as uploading your forthcoming events, offers and latest news. You can also link your work to relevant districts or Local Partnerships.
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Regional Culture in the North West
The Cultural Education Challenge asks all art and cultural providers, education and childcare settings and other local agencies to come together and work in partnership, to drive a joined-up local cultural education offer for children and young people.
In many areas of the North West, local partnerships have already been established, bringing together passionate and committed people from a wide range of organisations - across heritage and culture, education, youth sector, local government and the creative industries - whose local knowledge and professional expertise is helping to drive forward the cultural education agenda and improve opportunities for children and young people.
Even in areas of the North West which do not yet have a formally established partnership, there’s still plenty of great cultural education work happening that you can connect with.
See what's happening in your local area by navigating the maps below or visit the Local Partnerships page.
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What's happening now in the North West
Stories from the Mill – New Heritage Exhibition at Farfield Mill, Sedbergh.
Posted: 24/11/2023 by Farfield Mill
This autumn a new exhibition has opened at Farfield Mill. The displays across all four levels of the mill tell the story of the people who owned and worked at there during its heyday, and the processes involved in turning fleece into fabric.
Ethan's Journey
Posted: 19/10/2023 by Stockport
For the past six months, Stockport LCEP has been working with Ethan, a local young performer, using the Curious Minds Alternative Saturday Jobs model. In this blog, Ethan charts his journey and reflects on the experience he's gained.
Creative Careers – Is the talent pipeline broken? Can we fix it? Yes, we can!
Posted: 13/10/2023 by Preston City
Chair of Preston LCEP, Tony Rigg, blogs about the work ongoing in the city to boost the creative talent pipeline through careers events for young people in Year 9, about to take their GCSE options.
Supercharged!
Posted: 04/10/2023 by 2 Boards and a Passion Theatre Company
A 50-minute interactive play for primary schools Touring during Anti-Bullying Week 2023 Monday 13th - Friday 17th November
DOT-ART SCHOOLS HIGHLIGHTS THE KEY ROLE CREATIVITY WILL PLAY IN FUTURE JOBS
Posted: 02/10/2023 by dot-art Schools
Liverpool-based dot-art Schools are working in partnership with Edge Hill University to launch their 12th annual art competition to boost creativity in schools. dot-art Schools has been inspiring, celebrating and championing creativity since 2012.
We're ready for 2024!
Posted: 11/09/2023 by Goofus Theatre CIC
Our performances & workshops are all ready to come to your school and we can't wait to bring them. Following a great academic year in 2022/23 we have new shows ready to go and our popular Create & Animate workshop. Including a Christmas show!
Currently there are no briefs in this region
HERITAGE OPEN DAYS (second weekend)
Posted: 24/11/2023 by Farfield Mill
Dates: 11/09/2024 - 15/09/2024
Farfield Mill will be celebrating National Heritage Open Day weekends with stories from the past. Come along to the Mill and find out about the textile heritage of the Yorkshire Dales and Sedbergh.
HERITAGE OPEN DAYS (first weekend)
Posted: 24/11/2023 by Farfield Mill
Dates: 06/09/2024 - 08/09/2024
Farfield Mill is celebrating National Heritage Open Days with stories from the past. Come and find out about the textile heritage of the Yorkshire Dales and Sedbergh.
National Mills Open Weekend
Posted: 24/11/2023 by Farfield Mill
Dates: 11/05/2024 - 12/05/2024
We are proud to take part in the Open Mill Weekend organised by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB). Visit the Mill and discover more about how fleece is turn into handwoven cloth.
Carried by the Wind - A performance for your festive season in school.
Posted: 11/09/2023 by Goofus Theatre CIC
Dates: 11/09/2023 - 29/02/2024
A feather blowing in the wind, carried on and on, a strange dance, free and magical to who knows where... Through forests, oceans and the frozen north. For Early Years, KS1 & 2. Full day, up to 3 shows - £680 (up to 180 pupils)
Arion - Storytelling Performance, with makaton
Posted: 11/09/2023 by Goofus Theatre CIC
Dates: 11/09/2023 - 31/12/2025
Anything can happen on the way to the market! A re-telling of a Cheshire folktale this beautiful storytelling performances includes song, dance & adventure. Includes makaton signing throughout. Full day, 3 performances - £650 (up to 180 pupils)
There's A Memory Somewhere - performance & workshop. Connections can be found in the strangest of places.
Posted: 08/02/2023 by Goofus Theatre CIC
Dates: 01/01/2023 - 31/12/2025
A 25 minute non-verbal performance introducing the art form of puppeteering. Followed by our taster workshop exploring how to bring objects to life. 2 x 90 minute sessions across the day. Max of 60 pupils per session. £750 per day.
Cultural Learning Alliance
Curious Minds is an active member of the Cultural Learning Alliance. By signing-up to the Cultural Learning Alliance, either as an individual or organisation, you can help to champion the message that cultural learning can make a big difference to a child’s life experience and will receive the latest news and comment on cultural learning policy and practice.
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