Arts Award

Arts Award offers young people an inspiring arts journey. Each path can take a different direction – from fashion to film-making, from dance to design, from photography to poetry. Whichever route they choose to follow, young people are always in the driving seat.

Arts Award’s unique qualifications support young people to develop as artists and arts leaders. The programme develops their creativity, leadership and communication skills.

Open to anyone aged 7 to 25, Arts Award embraces all interests and backgrounds. Through working towards an award young people learn to work independently, helping them to prepare for further education and employment.

Through Arts Award at Discover, Explore, Bronze, Silver and Gold levels, young people can explore any art form. The award is a personal learning programme which develops and assesses both arts-related skills (arts knowledge and understanding) and transferable skills (creativity, communication, planning and review, teamwork and leadership). Young people collect their evidence in a “portfolio”, which can be produced in different formats: written, digital, audio, video, online, etc. Please see below some examples of portfolios

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Digital portfolios examples

Arts Award is managed by Trinity College London in association with Arts Council England working with 10 regional Bridge organisations.

 

Creative Junction also delivers Arts Award Bronze and Silver adviser training on behalf of Arts Award in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Milton Keynes (one-day course).

 

Upcoming training dates for 2012:

Arts Award Bronze & Silver adviser training courses:

  • Monday 10th September 2012 – Creative Junction, Stoke Road, Slough, Berkshire, SL2 5AY - Book your place here
  • Creative Junction also offers In house training courses, if your organisation wants to train a minimum of 6 staff and a maximum of 15. This is useful (and works out cheaper) for organisations who have their own training venue or local authorities/schools/arts organisations who want link up with others, or take the initiative for rolling out the award in a specific area. Cost: £63 per person plus trainer fees (£300 plus expenses).

The training covers how to deliver and assess the award and involves presentation, case studies, assessment tasks and discussion. Each trainee must successfully complete the training course before becoming an official adviser. Organisations with a trained adviser can register as an Arts Award centre (at no cost) and start running the award with young people.

Becoming an Arts Award centre is a great way to

  • Kick-start a new youth arts project
  • Use a clear framework for your existing work with young people
  • Enable young people to work towards a national qualification
  • Engage more young people in the arts and challenge them to develop their creativity and leadership skills

 

For more information about the courses at Creative Junction please contact Gloria Garcia, Arts Award trainer, at gloria.garcia@creativejunction.org.uk or visit www.artsaward.org.uk

To book courses or for more information about Arts Award please visit: www.artsaward.org.uk/training or contact Arts Award helpdesk on 0207 820 6178  enquiries@artsaward.org.uk

 

 

 

 

Creative Junction were also involved in the Pilot for Arts Award Discover and Explore levels aimed at 7 to 11 year olds. Read more here

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