UK Youth toolkit developing the arts in your youth setting.

[Janet Dowling]

Hi Folks

Just bringing your attention to this toolkit- available as a free down load until the end of March.

It may be useful for those running young storyteller projects - as a national initiative to link into.


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Funded by the Gulbenkain Foundation, UK Youth are pleased to launch their challenges toolkit for developing the arts in your youth setting.

Written by Caroline Ash, Artswork Academy Development Manager, the toolkit is bursting with practical ideas, session plans and recording sheets to help you get started in the arts.

The toolkit covers the key arts themes of:

Craft
Creative Writing
Dance
Drama
Fashion
Film
Journalism
Music
Photography
Poetry
Visual Art

In addition it offers some starting points for addressing additional cross-arts themes with your young people, such as:

Personal Experiences
Diversity and Inclusion
Emotions and Feelings
Heroes and Heroines
Where I Live

The toolkit will be available as a FREE download for a limited period of time (until Wednesday 31st March 2010).

Please go to http://www.ukyouth.org/whatwedo/Program ... aatoolkits to download the ArtSmart toolkit.

Other interested groups, or YAA groups wanting to access copies from April 2010 can order a CD Rom version of the publication direct from Sara Kirk at yaa.materials@ukyouth.org


Regards

Charmaine Simpson
Education and Training Administrative Officer
Tel: 0845 862 0432
Email: yaa@ukyouth.org


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[Janet Dowling]

Sorry- forgot to add the title of the toolkit! Doh!!

ArtSmart
- A Toolkit for accrediting an Arts Based approach through the Youth Achievement Awards