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Youth Arts Transforms Lives Artswork National Campaign 2011 Youth Arts Transforms Lives - FACT! ‘‘Youth Arts refers to young people taking part in creative, cultural, or expressive activity outside of formal education’’ Sir Ken Robinson – foreword to ‘Taking it Seriously – youth arts in the real world Front cover image provided by UK Rock Challenge, Photograph © Nick Scott Photography 01 CONTENTS CONTENTS Introduction 03 About the Authors & Acknowledgements 04 Executive Summary 05 Campaign Endorsements 07 Interesting Statistics 09 Evidence: 10 Keynote Article: Social Cohesion/ Inclusion 10 Case Studies: Social Cohesion/ Inclusion 11 Keynote Article: Arts as a Tool for Engagement 16 Case Studies: Arts as a Tool for Engagement 17 Keynote Article: Youth Crime 25 Case Studies: Youth Crime 26 Keynote Article: Emotional Development 32 Case Studies: Emotional Development 33 Keynote Article: Health and Wellbeing 35 Case Studies: Health and Wellbeing 37 Keynote Article: Economic Impact 43 Case Study: Economic Impact 44 Keynote Article: Access to the Arts 53 Case Studies: Access to the Arts 54 Keynote Article: Overall Skill Development 63 Case Studies: Overall Skill Development 64 Keynote Article: Educational Development 69 Case Studies: Educational Development 70 Keynote Article: Aspiration and Attainment 75 Case Studies: Aspiration and Attainment 76 Keynote Article: Career Development 82 Case Studies: Career Development 83 Keynote Article: Artistic Excellence and Innovation 88 Case Studies: Artistic Excellence and Innovation 89 Regional Youth Arts Champions 95 Campaign Resources 102 Youth Arts Resources 103 Artswork National Campaign 2011 02 INTRODUCTION Fire Dancers Photograph © Emergency Exit Art's Street Arts Academy INTRODUCTION This resource provides evidence to demonstrate how youth arts can transform young people's lives and enable new generations to progress positively as young citizens influencing the society we live in. The evidence has been collated throughout a year- long campaign which began in June 2010. 03 ABOUT THE AUTHORS ABOUT THE AUTHORS - ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The National Campaign Youth Arts Transforms Lives – FACT has been driven by Artswork through ENYAN- the English National Youth Arts Network (www.enyan.co.uk). ENYAN is a FREE membership body led by Artswork, designed to unite the diverse youth arts sector and raise the profile of youth arts across England and the UK. Artswork 23 Basepoint Artswork is a national youth arts development agency, Anderson Road whose mission is to place the arts at the heart of work Southampton with, for and by children and young people- particularly SO14 5FE those deemed to be at risk- and to champion, lead and facilitate high quality work led by artists and arts T: 023 80682 535 organisations including the development of young arts W: www.artswork.org.uk and creative practitioners and leaders. ENYAN is one E: [email protected] of Artswork’s key strategic programmes. Registered Charity No. 800143 Jay-Michelle Mendivil is the Artswork Company Limited by Guarantee Programme Manager for ENYAN and Registered in England No. 2150619 has led this campaign*, supported by a wider team of dedicated Artswork staff. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Artswork would like to thank ENYAN members, the • Understanding Social Pedagogy ENYAN National Steering Group and all ENYAN • Martin Bright, Founder of New Deal of the Mind Regional Advisory Panels of youth arts specialists for • Jo Verrent, Director, ADA inc their contributions. • Paul Collard, Chief Executive of arts education charity Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE) We would like to give special thanks to Sir Ken • Sally Clements, Arts Development Project Robinson, Patron of Artswork, who has given this Manager, Positive Futures campaign resource a special endorsement. • Bridget Edwards, Director, Southwark Arts Forum • Lesley Wood, Freelance Practitioner We would also like to thank all other sector • Catherine Rose, Acting Director of Arts Inform, professionals and bodies who have provided and freelance arts and education consultant, writer endorsements, keynote articles and acted as leading and conductor advocates for the campaign: • Jane Bryant, Chief Executive, Artswork • Yen Yau, Project Manager, Second Light and Chair • Cultural Learning Alliance of ENYAN • Diana Walton, Head of Arts Award Development, • Rick Hall, Director of Programmes for Ignite! and Arts Council England Chair of Artswork • Jessica Hope, Senior PR Advisor at Creative & Cultural Skills Artswork would like to thank all of the Future Jobs • John Holden, Demos Associate Fund employees at Artswork who worked throughout • Helen Chambers, Independent Consultant and 2010 supporting the development of this resource. Associate of the Centre for * All of the case studies featured within this resource have been produced by the organisations responsible for delivering the projects. Artswork holds no intellectual or copyright entitlement over the text or images provided. Artswork National Campaign 2011 04 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Youth Arts! There is no turning back once you have experienced it and witnessed the impact that the arts can make on a young person's life. The message from the sector is clear: Youth Arts is the most important and powerful tool we And the publication of this new resource is very timely. have to help young people transform themselves and The Department for Education (DfE) and the the world around them. Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) commissioned a major review of music education. You are about to access a resource which demonstrates Undertaken by Darren Henley, Managing Director of - through exceptional case studies and evidence - the Classic FM, the Music Education review has been transformational power of the arts to make positive well-received; it includes 36 recommendations to changes to the lives of young people. This document Government to ensure that high-quality music illustrates the real impact of participation in the arts education is made available to all children and strongly and culture with, for and by young people. It also recommends that music should continue as a highlights a resilient, forward-thinking, innovative statutory part of the curriculum. A subsequent DCMS sector, reflective of the creative experiences and review of Cultural Education has followed and flexibility it offers young people. Furthermore, leading Artswork will ensure that this resource informs this national and international arts, creative and cultural and trusts that the evidence available from this figures have provided endorsing statements and campaign will be invaluable to the outcomes of that exemplary articles focusing on ways in which review. engagement in the arts and culture results in real and definable outcomes for young people .The case studies This resource also arrives at a time when Arts Council drawn together in this publication demonstrate the England is not only poised to take on a broader cultural highest quality of Youth Arts practice and include awe- agenda but has also allocated £10.5 million of Lottery inspiring accounts from young people themselves who funding per year (for 3 years starting April 2012), to recount their own personal experiences and learning support a group of 'Bridge' delivery organisations journeys from participation in the arts. which will play a strategic role and be its main partners in 'joining up' the arts, education and community Demand to create this campaign and related resource fields. Artswork has been named as one of these - 'Youth Arts Transforms Lives' - came from the sector. organisations to deliver the 'bridging' role in the South Artswork was alerted by the 6000 members of its East region and while recognising the huge challenge English National Youth Arts Network (ENYAN) -artists, ahead, is also excited about a national approach to creative practitioners, young creatives, youth workers the development of children and young people's and arts, cultural and youth organisations - who called engagement with the arts both in and out of schools. for a national campaign of epic proportion (Youth Arts Transforms Lives: FACT) that would open eyes, create These developments tell us that there will be major new gateways, explore diverse funding avenues and changes ahead in the way that arts and culture are secure wider recognition for Youth Arts. The call came being invested in and prioritised by the Government as a direct result both of the prevalent economic and other major stakeholders. In embarking on any situation that is challenging everyone involved in new ways of working therefore, we need to be clearer services for young people, but also of the fundamental than ever before about the value of Youth Arts. 'Youth belief that access to the highest quality of arts and Arts Transforms Lives' will not only act as a very culture is and should be an absolute entitlement for useful reminder to all who are experienced Youth Arts all young people. practitioners, but will, most importantly, act as a stimulus and advocacy document to inform policy and “The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your decision makers at national, regional and local levels eyes” (Goethe) - is very relevant here and Artswork's - as well as those working directly with young people role throughout the campaign year has been to gather - about the role, impact, benefits and outcomes of evidence, to prove the case for the vital place of the high quality arts practice. This Resource arts in the lives of young people. demonstrates