#ARTCONNECTS19
2019 was an amazing year for us.
On Jan 1st we gave ourselves 30 days to co-create an #ARTCONNECTS19 Festival Week of Creative Schools, Work and Lives.
It was further inspired by a talk we were invited to by the then Culture Minister, Jeremy Wright, in Coventry in which he launched the National Festival of Creativity in 2022.
After he told us how he had co-funded and collaborated projects across government departments we launched our #PARTron19 programme and printed several hundred peopel’s names in two pages that The Guardian newspaper gave us.
We had no idea what it would look like and be like, but by the end of the month we had held a launch week with an event in Parliament, independent local events across the UK and a weekend of events in London.
We then decided to take it across the country by extending across the year with events in school communities, festivals and carnivals in England, Scotland and Wales and a podcast.
Sadly we didn’t get to Northern Ireland and did get an invitation at the Community Activist Camp we were invited to attend at Eden Project at the end of the year.
To celebrate the Twelve Days of (Creative) Christmas we kicked off a’Three Greatest Gifts’ Tour at a Eden Project Community Activist Camp and wrapped it up singing Stormzxy’s anthem ‘Blinded by Your Grace’ with a School Community in Bradford.
See the film below.
You can read about it all here or see our #MOMENTS19 Tweets here
We’re looking ahead now.
To a new decade, 2020
#COLLABORATE20
We’re reaching out of education’s echo chambers and connecting with business and society.
Look out for #COLLABORATE20 #COLLABORATEforCREATIVITY and the #ARTofCOMMUNITY
We’re looking for sponsors for visits to school communities across the country and also to help us put three of our Pop-Up Day Trucks on the road across the country.
Will you join us? Be part of it, with your art, whatever it is?
Click here to find out more and how it was inspired by people like Richard Gerver, Nishma Rob and Nile Rodgers
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Whatever you do, don’t miss the film below.