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Cultivate is Enable Leisure and Culture’s arts education programme working with primary and secondary schools to inspire, involve and educate young people about the creative opportunities in Wandsworth, including creative careers and future skills. A Guide for Young People THE CULTIVATE PROGRAMME STARTED IN 2015 AND SINCE ITS INCEPTION HAS andsworth is full of exciting creative opportunities for people of all ages and WORKED WITH OVER 2,600 YOUNG PEOPLE Picture caption abilities and we are thrilled to showcase a info to go here wide range of these here in this booklet. please. Above, It commissions and delivers a range Visit new places, take part in workshops or take blah blah blah. of creative projects including Cultivate your creative journey to the next level through

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series in which creative practitioners, – there is something for everyone! freelancers or representatives of creative So if you are wondering how to get started, use businesses visit schools to deliver hands this guide to find out more about the organisations on inspiration sessions for students. that spark your interest and use the map to find what’s nearby. Then track your creative journey through Wandsworth and plan your next steps with FOR MORE CULTIVATE.LONDON the handy notes pages at the back of the booklet. INFO We are delighted that Wandsworth’s vibrant VISIT @CULTIVATE_LDN cultural landscape is being embraced by young people, setting the foundation for a future generation of creatives.

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True or False ? YOU HAVE TO BE ARTISTIC TO WORK IN THE CREATIVE SECTOR Inside Job: True False STAGE MANAGER There are many skills and A stage manager has overall roles that the creative industry Your Future responsibility for the smooth running needs. Employment in the UK of a theatre production, managing creative economy: Did You Know? rehearsals, actors, technicians, props 1 IN 6 JOBS IN LONDON ARE and costume fittings, and liaising with front-of-house staff and the director. IN THE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES 0.9 MILLION Non-creative support jobs APPRENTICESHIPS of a creative team as well as within the creative ADVERTISING Interested An apprenticeship contributing to your local industries VIDEO GAMES gives you hands-on community. Whilst unpaid, creative economy ARCHITECTURE in a Creative experience, a salary and volunteering can look TV & the opportunity to train great on your CV and will RADIO Career while you work. After help you gather valuable 1 ART successfully completing skills which can be used to MILLION Creative jobs

What are Here are some great your apprenticeship, you’ll take the next step towards creative industries CRAFTS ways to get started: have gained the confidence your future career. within the the Creative creative SOFTWARE and skills needed to industries Industries DESIGN WORK EXPERIENCE progress in your chosen FURTHER STUDY Try your hand at a creative career. Apprenticeships Wandsworth is home job and get to know the are available across a to many colleges and PUBLISHING FASHION skills involved before variety of organisations universities where you can 1 deciding your next steps. in the creative sector. study creative subjects. MILLION PERFORMING FILM Many of the creative If you are interested in creative jobs ARTS MUSIC organisations in this guide VOLUNTEERING finding out more speak to outside the offer work experience Volunteering is a fantastic your school careers advisor creative placements – contact way to gain experience and who can point you in the industries them to find out more. see what it’s like to be part right direction. quick guide 2.9= MILLION total jobs in the creative economy Read throught the directory section of this guide and Keep track of your creative Look out for the icon to find out SOURCE: DCMS NOV 2017 XX XX

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you’re into e.g. if you’re a film geek look for the icon. XXXXX you achieve your goals. XXXXX you to gain valuable industry experience. 4 CREATIVE WANDSWORTH CREATIVE WANDSWORTH 5 r Directo y Baked Bean Company the 2 108 Battersea High Street, SW11 3HP bakedbeancompany.com 020 8944 0024 Our guide to what’s happening near you... Baked Bean runs a wide range of theatre, drama and arts projects and groups for young people and adults with learning disabilities to help build confidence and skills, and promote social inclusion. Their youth group, for young people aged 12–19, LOOK FOR THESE ICONS TO FIND THE offers drama and dance classes (participants can ACTIVITIES THAT YOU WANT TO DO KEY do drama, dance, or both!). Their youth service WHAT ARE WHICH AGE WHAT’S work towards performances in local theatres, YOU INTO... RANGE IS ON OFFER... such as Wimbledon Theatre and the TARA arts centre. They also organise clubs during the school AGES Combined arts IT FOR – Visit us break, which are aimed specifically at young 11 18 All school ages Dance Volunteering, people. Adult classes (18+) run during the week. ALL work or training Inside Job: "The worst Film AGES opportunities CURATOR enemy to creativity Music 11 to 18 One off A curator’s job is to workshops is self doubt." Theatre years-old create spaces for - or events AGES things to happen. SYLVIA PLATH Visual Arts – Supports 11 18 Curators have or runs Radio or to find the best 16–18 Arts Award podcasts bbodance years-old space for ideas Ongoing Ensign House, Battersea Reach, Juniper Drive, Craft to be expressed 4 AGES courses SW18 1TA bbo.dance 020 8748 1241 16–18 or clubs and work with lots of different bbodance is an international awarding organisation people to bring that provides opportunities to dance in a ideas together, supportive, nurturing & friendly environment. Wheelchair Accessible Hearing artists, audiences, Their nationwide network of qualified teachers accessible toilet loop ALL musicians, writers AGES offers Ofqual-recognised classes for all students or anyone who has over age 3 in Ballet, Modern, Jazz, Tap, Musical an interesting idea. Theatre, and Contemporary. For 16–19 year-olds Battersea Arts Centre they offer a Level 3 Extended Diploma in Dance in ALL AGES 3 Lavender Hill, SW11 5TN partnership with South Thames College. This course ARTLACUNA bac.org.uk 020 7223 2223 is an official feeder for vocational training at London 1 48 Falcon Road, SW11 2LR Battersea Arts Centre (BAC) has something Studio Centre, and can also lead to bbodance artlacuna.org 07845 328125 for all the family, including an imaginative indoor teacher training or university courses. ArtLacuna is an artist’s meeting place, run by play-space for under 5s and free creative artists, which brings together local creative people activities during monthly Family Saturdays. BAC ALL across disciplines to share their work and ideas. also runs The Time Keeper’s Club – a series of AGES They provide studio and exhibition space, visiting workshops supporting the primary curriculum and resident artists, exhibitions, and hold workshops, programmes for people aged 12–29 who want to screenings and talks to help younger people access be creative and learn new skills. Their Homegrown the visual arts. Located in an old coroner’s office Company offers the chance to work with near Clapham Junction, it accommodates artist professional directors and artists; young signers studios, a residency and research programme, as musicians and rappers can be part of an exciting well as project and exhibition space. They also collective through the Beatbox Academy. Young make all their research freely available online to people can also join the Young Producers scheme make their work accessible to all. and gain experience of producing original events.

6 CREATIVE WANDSWORTH CREATIVE WANDSWORTH 7 or direct y the G64 Theatre for Blackshaw Young People 7 Putney Arts Theatre, Ravenna Rd, SW15 6AW Theatre Company g64.org.uk 020 8788 6935 blackshawonline.com G64 Theatre is an inclusive young people’s Blackshaw are a theatre company who offer theatre company in Putney. They run weekly workshops and work experience opportunities drama and musical theatre classes for ages 4–19, for young people, giving the chance to work with holiday projects, professional masterclasses friendly, creative professionals who have developed AGES and opportunities to be involved in performance, 11–18 AGES a theatre company from scratch. By taking part, directing, technical and backstage theatre. 11–18 young people can develop experience of producing, During the summer holidays they also run stage management, technical skills, playwriting, theatre making residential trips and have taken radio production, directing and performance shows to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. All National Opera Studio alongside learning about the realities of building your YOUR NOTES classes and workshops take place on the stage 9 2 Chapel Yard, Wandsworth High Street, own theatre company and staging your own work. I want to find out more about... at Putney Arts Theatre, and they offer a free SW18 4HZ nationaloperastudio.org.uk They also host a regular arts podcast, broadcast on taster session. They can offer assisted places 020 8874 8811 Wandsworth Radio and available online. and extra support in classes and shows. The National Opera Studio is the UK’s leading opera training organisation. Every year, the Studio collaborates with a local school to put on ALL AGES a large free performance as part of Wandsworth Arts Fringe. It also provides a range of work experience opportunities for those interested in THERE'S MORE SPACE FOR YOUR IDEAS ON PAGE 16 working in the arts, and offers discounted tickets for students and under-16s to other NOS events taking place around London. The National Opera ENABLE ARTS Studio also hosts free lunchtime concerts every 6 Staff Yard, Battersea Park, SW11 4NJ month in Wandsworth featuring Young Artists of enablelc.org/arts-about/ the National Opera Studio, which are open to all. The Enable Arts team animates the borough throughout the year with exciting cultural ALL AGES programmes such as Wandsworth Arts Fringe and Wandsworth Artists’ Open House. Chocolate Films ALL All their projects are creative, community Lightbox Theatre AGES 5 G7 Battersea Studios 1, 80 Silverthorne Road, focussed and invite Wandsworth residents of SW8 3HE chocolatefilmsworkshops.co.uk all ages to get involved, either as passionate 8 c/o Katherine Low Settlement, 108 Battersea 020 7793 4287 participants or enthralled audiences. High St, SW11 3HP lightboxtheatre.co.uk Chocolate Films is an award-winning digital media 07966 613367 production and workshops social enterprise. They Lightbox Theatre is a critically acclaimed theatre ALL offer hands-on creative digital media workshops AGES company that discovers untold or overlooked for all ages, including GoPro skills, documentary stories to create exciting new shows, often staged making, fiction film, stop motion animation, in unconventional spaces, produced for and by plus many more. This can all be done using their local people. Lightbox’s engagement programme professional filmmaking equipment, or all on your offers creative drama workshops for young people phone so that students can continue to make films in school holidays and opportunities for emerging long after the workshop has finished. They also artists to gain experience working in professional offer AQA Unit Award Scheme and Bronze and theatre by shadowing their creative and backstage Silver Arts Award to help young people progress teams. Free or subsidised tickets to their shows are to the next level of their learning or career. available for young people living in SW11.

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Oily Cart "You can't 10 Smallwood School Annexe, Smallwood Road, Inside Job: use up SW17 0TW oilycart.org.uk 020 8672 6329 CHOREOGRAPHER Oily Cart create innovative, multi-sensory and Choreographers work with Directors, creativity. interactive productions for babies and young Producers, Designers and other children, and for young people with profound and The more you members of the production team multiple learning disabilities, an autism spectrum to plan, create and bring to life the use, the more condition, or who are deafblind. Their productions dance or movement. They design tour throughout London, so young people working you have." sequences of steps and movements, at different levels of Arts Award can experience MAYA ANGELOU usually accompanied by music, for and review an Oily Cart show. They offer work dancers and other artists to perform. experience opportunities for young people aged 16+ at their Tooting base, a chance to join the ALL production team in the workshops to learn about set AGES and costume construction in the run up to a show. Pump House Gallery PUTNEY SCHOOL ALL 12 Battersea Park, SW11 4NJ AGES pumphousegallery.org.uk 020 8871 7572 Pump House Gallery provides a welcoming space OF ART and DESIGN to see, experience and participate in contemporary 13 Oxford Road, SW15 2LQ art. They deliver exciting exhibitions and artistic enablelc.org/psad 020 8788 9145 activities that challenge expectations and encourage Putney School of Art and Design has six studios all visitors to engage with contemporary art. Their specifically for painting, printmaking, drawing, InHouse projects run alongside each exhibition and ceramics & digital photography and offers over include fortnightly family workshops. Open to all 100 courses each term. They offer life drawing and ages, these sessions are led by an artist and present portfolio building to help with GCSE, A Level and fun, thought-provoking and creative ways Foundation courses. They run a range of half term for people to explore the exhibition. and summer school intensive courses such as ‘Make ALL 1 in 6 your Own Comic’, ‘Fashion Photography’ and ‘Art AGES 45 characters and Design for Young People’. They also offer work R.O.C.K.S experience and volunteering for young people age London 14–17, and each year they employ an apprentice in International Arts Ltd jobs are in business administration and digital marketing. 14 Alton Activity Centre, Ellisfield Drive, Omnibus Theatre a creative SW15 4DR 07492 501791 11 1 Clapham Common Northside, SW4 0QW After-School R.O.C.K.S! and Camp R.O.C.K.S! are omnibus-clapham.org 020 7498 4699 creative arts and play programmes that connect AGES Omnibus Theatre is a home of storytelling – a small 11–18 children to the arts and the arts to life. They provide place to encounter big ideas. Omnibus Theatre a safe place to create, explore, and invent new offers practical opportunities for young people to ways of doing things for children in Roehampton develop creativity, confidence and teamwork. aged 4+, run by professional artist-educators. These include Saturday morning drama for 5–16 There are also volunteer opportunities for Camp year olds (bursaries available), Summer Workshops Buddies, where young people serve as role models for under 11s, and drama workshops in local on their programmes throughout the year. They primary schools. Omnibus also offer theatre for are looking for young people aged 11+ who are under 11s, internships for university students, and energetic, have experience with creative arts, and have usher volunteering opportunities for the 18+. ALL the outdoors who are willing to try new things. AGES

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10 CREATIVE WANDSWORTH CREATIVE WANDSWORTH 11 or direct y the Royal College of Art Tara Theatre AGES 1 Hester Road, SW11 4AN rca.ac.uk Tara Arts, 356 Garratt Lane, Earlsfield, 11–18 16 19 The Royal College of Art (RCA) runs an annual SW18 4ES tara-arts.com 0208 3334457 programme of Studio Days, which gives young Tara Theatre is a multicultural, multi-purpose venue people the chance to make powerful connections in Earlsfield. Their modern and fully-equipped between their own creative experiences and the venue is home to a world of stories, from the work happening in RCA studios. Each Studio Day classic to the new. Tara is committed to enabling is an opportunity for a school group to engage formal and informal education: they offer special with an RCA practitioner and visit their working AGES rates to school groups, along with education packs, environments. The RCA also run a programme of 16–18 post-show talks, workshops and other resources to summer schools and Saturday workshops for 16+ help make Tara Theatre as accessible as possible. young people. Young artists are also encouraged to Spectacle There are also various volunteering opportunities visit the annual RCA graduate Show, which is 18 Unit 25, 99–109 Lavender Hill, SW11 5QL available, from ushering shows to spreading open to all, where they can speak to the spectacle.co.uk 020 7223 6677 the word in the local area, and they offer work 10.5 artists and designers behind the work. Spectacle is an independent production company experience and internship placements. who produce high quality, award-winning million TV documentaries, short films and powerful campaigning videos with a special focus on social the amount Creative AGES industries are worth justice and urbanism. They run short and affordable 11–18 an hour in The UK training courses in video and documentary making Royal Academy from their Lavender Hill workshop. Spectacle also SOURCE: DCMS NOV 2017 supports young creatives through its 20 day work of Dance experience programme to get hands-on practice 15 36 Battersea Square, SW11 3RA in documentary production. Spectacle’s former rad.org.uk 020 7326 8000 interns have often built on this experience to The Royal Academy of Dance is one of the world’s kickstart successful careers in the media industry. most influential dance education and examining organisations. The prestigious Dance School offers extra-curricular dance classes, for fun and fitness or

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