Please find below and attached information on the Gallery 37 summer youth arts training programme which is looking for creative partner organisations to support the delivery of the project in 2016.
Gallery 37 Foundation
Creative Partner
organisations call for Expressions of Interest:
Deadline 17th August
2015
The Gallery 37 Foundation is
calling for expressions of interest from potential creative partner
organisations for the youth arts training summer 2016 programme of delivery.
1. Background
The Gallery 37 Foundation is a
not-for-profit company limited by guarantee and a registered charity, with a
mission focusing on enabling disadvantaged young people in Birmingham to fulfil
their creative potential through engagement with the arts. Gallery 37 was
initiated by Birmingham City Council (BCC) and has a fourteen year track record
of success. Its activities are coordinated through the Culture Commissioning
team at Birmingham City Council.
The Gallery 37 summer programme
was delivered in Birmingham from 1998 until 2012 with over 50 partner
organisations involved in its development and delivery. The programme has
supported over two and a half thousand unemployed young people in Birmingham
into further education and employment. In recent years the Gallery 37
Foundation has in recent years focused on commissioning targeted programmes of
work to support the creative engagement of looked after young people and young
carers.
2. Gallery 37 2016
The Gallery 37 Summer Programme
2016 will be an accredited, creative youth training project which targets NEET
young people aged 16 – 25 years from Birmingham. Its aim is to re-engage and
inspire young people through the arts, providing an understanding of the
opportunities that exist for creative and cultural engagement as well as the
potential pathways through education and training and into creative careers.
We would like to hear from arts
organisations, across all art forms, with an interest in helping us to deliver
this large scale, high profile programme of activity for four weeks during
August 2016, across a range of central Birmingham locations.
The Gallery 37 summer programme
will be delivered and promoted as part of Creative Future 2016, Birmingham’s
Year of Arts and Young People. It will support the Creative Future model of
engagement, providing opportunities for young people to occupy the roles of
audience members, participants, creators and leaders and enable the deepening
and broadening of cultural experience, both within and beyond the duration of
the programme. It is also intended to serve as a very visible platform for the
creativity of young people in the city, inspiring audiences with ambitious,
high quality artistic outcomes to be shared in public spaces through
exhibition, performance and multi-media channels.
Gallery
37 2016 will be developed and delivered in partnership with a steering group of
young people and with arts organisations large and small in order to support
the progression of participants, introduce them to new approaches to creativity
and to connect them to the wider cultural life of the city.
Creative & Employability
Skills Training
The programme will provide the
opportunity for young people to engage in creative skill development, working
with professional artists and arts organisations and at the same time develop
employability skills and an understanding of employment opportunities within
the creative sector.
Young people will work in art
form specific groups, five days a week for four weeks, responding to a creative
brief established at the outset of the programme. The programme will culminate
in a weekend of public sharing of the participants work across the city,
supported by a public programme of drop in, family, creative workshops
delivered by emerging practitioners with the support of young trainees.
The young peoples’ creative
skills and understanding will be developed within the Arts Award qualification
framework which will sit alongside a structured, accredited programme of wider
employability skills training. An individual learning plan will be developed
with each participant to support their ability to make considered choices with
regard to training and cultural engagement both during and beyond the
programme.
Recruitment
Working in close partnership
with a network of recruitment partners, including the Birmingham Careers
Service, the programme will support young people not in education, employment
or training and prioritise those facing barriers to participation, including
young people with disabilities, those from a Local Authority care background
and young carers. Dedicated support workers will be employed by the programme
to provide additional assistance for participants. A training allowance will be
paid to all participants and travel passes issued to remove barriers to
engagement and ensure the widest possible cohort of young people.
Opportunities Week
An important element of the
Gallery 37 Summer Programme will be Opportunities Week which will offer
participants the chance to find out more about the training and employment
opportunities open to them as well as ways of continuing their engagement with
the arts and cultural life of the city. Opportunities week will be delivered in
partnership with a range of agencies and organisations offering support
services, information, training, apprenticeships, creative engagement and/or
employment opportunities to unemployed young people.
It will also provide a platform
for other individuals and youth led-organisations, including Gallery 37 alumni,
to share information and ideas about cultural engagement and their own
progression pathways. Opportunities Week will be a vital way by which we help
to ensure that those engaging with the programme have the contacts, information
and inspiration they need to identify clear goals and make progress beyond the
programme.
CPD for Emerging
Practitioners
The Gallery 37 summer school
programme will not only support disadvantaged young people but will also
incorporate a programme of accredited training for emerging artists
wishing
to develop their participatory arts practice. These ‘Shadow Artists’ will
support the lead artists employed by our partner organisations, in the delivery
of the programme, whilst at the same time working towards a qualification for
Creative & Cultural Practitioners working with Young People. The Shadow
Artists programme is an important means of building capacity within the sector
and the multi-tiered structure helps to support young people’s progression
pathways in future years.
Artists training
An artist’s training week will
take place immediately prior to delivery of the training programme for young
people. The artist’s training week will be designed to equip all artists, both
‘Shadows’ and ‘Leads’ involved in delivery of the programme with key
information and knowledge about the content of the Gallery 37 programme and
effective ways of working with young people from a wide range of backgrounds.
Public Profile
The Gallery 37 Summer Programme
2016 will play an important role in promoting a positive image of young people
within the city. By basing delivery in the city centre cultural venues and
holding a high profile showcase and day of public family workshops, it delivers
a message both to Birmingham residents as a whole and to the young people
participating that we value their contribution to the life of the city.
3. Creative Partner
Requirements
Gallery 37 is looking for
partner organisations to develop and deliver the creative content of the summer
programme. Working in one or more art form area it is intended that each
creative partner organisation will lead activity with a group of 20 young
people for four weeks, Monday to Friday, throughout August.
Each artistic team would be
expected to deliver high quality creative content whilst supporting young
people to work towards an Arts Award qualification. Arts Award Advisor training
will be delivered during Artists Training Week to ensure that all Artists
(including Shadow Artists) have a thorough understanding of the Arts Award
framework. In addition a dedicated Arts Award Co-ordinator will be employed by
the Gallery 37 programme to provide support for all project groups.
Although not all funding for
the programme has yet been confirmed we are seeking to raise approximately
£15,000 for each artform project and anticipate a total of five projects across
the programme. This budget will cover artistic, material and venue costs (for
the delivery of activity) and days spent in support of development and planning
of the programme. We welcome expressions of interest from those wishing to
deliver joint, cross artform projects with more than one organisation.
We are seeking partner arts organisations that can demonstrate:
A track record of delivering innovative and ambitious creative work to a high
standard with young people from a wide range of backgrounds
An open approach to partnership and a commitment to innovative, collaborative
ways of working with young people and other organisations, including training
agencies and creative industry employers
Capacity to support the development and planning process from December 2015
through to creative activity in August 2015 and evaluation following completion
of the delivery phase
Skilled artistic staff and facilitators with experience of working with the
target age range and young people from challenging circumstances
An understanding of how engagement in culture can support young peoples’
wellbeing
Up to date policies and procedures and a clear understanding of and commitment
to the protection and safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults,
diversity, equal opportunities and health and safety
A commitment to professional
development of staff and artists
Timeline
October 2015 Recruitment of
project manager
October 2015 – July 2016
Development of partnerships & action planning
Jan – Aug 2016 Establishment
of and planning with Gallery 37 Youth Board
June & July 2016
Targeted recruitment of young people
May – June 2016 Recruitment
of shadow artists
July 2016 Delivery of
Gallery 37 training week for Lead Artists and emerging practitioners
Aug 2016 Delivery of Gallery
37 participatory programme
Aug 2016 Final Showcase
weekend and delivery of public workshops
Sept/Oct 2016 Moderation of
accreditation
August - September 2016
Monitoring and evaluation
Creative Partners expressions of interest must include:
Organisation name, address, telephone and email details
Name and role of main contact
A brief description of the main activities of your organisation (250 words max)
Brief description of experience of working with target groups (250 words max)
Brief description of how you
meet the creative partner requirements (500 words max)
For any informal enquiries
please contact the Culture Commissioning Service on 0121 303 2434
Please submit your expression of interest in writing by 5pm on
Monday 17th August to:
Arts.Team@birmingham.gov.uk
