Spark! A Youth Culture Revolution
We are delighted to share with you that Chelmsford’s Local Cultural Education Partnership (LCEP) is now called Spark! A Youth Culture Revolution.
This name was branded by our founding youth forum members.
Get involved in Concrete Canvas Classroom – A new competition for Chelmsford schools
We are very excited to be working with Chelmsford For You to launch their first schools’ competition for the Concrete Canvas Festival taking place in May.
The competition, Concrete Canvas Classroom, is inspired by the Fourth Plinth Schools Award. It invites all schools to take part in a local creative and cultural event giving children and young people an opportunity to interact with the festival.
We are pleased to announce that one primary and one secondary submission will have the chance to paint on either side of the Openreach cabinet in the city centre. Entries will be judged by the artist Scotty Brave from Brave Arts:
"I am thrilled to be judging this competition and I'm very much looking forward to potentially discovering future street artists in the process.
I've always believed that young people should be given opportunities to take part in street art. This is a wonderful way to fast-track young artists confidence in their ability to contribute to the growing Concrete Canvas art trail."
Watch this video to see some of the amazing works of street art from last year.
A sign up page is coming soon. If you're interested, please contact rachana.vaja@chelmsford.gov.uk for more information.
Come along to the next Spark! Breakfast Morning at Chelmsford Theatre Café
Join us in April for the next Spark! Breakfast Morning. This networking event is designed to give teachers and youth workers a chance to meet cultural experience providers and organisations.
"From personal experience it's quite easy for an industry to become siloed and a bit of an echo chamber. What I enjoy about the breakfast mornings is that I get to speak to people from an
assortment of industries, ones that I likely wouldn't have the chance to interact with normally, sharing experiences and finding ways that we can potentially collaborate and help each other."
AJ Scrutton (CEO Dlala Studios)
“The breakfast networking events have been a great way to find out about other organisations also working to support children and young people in Chelmsford and other communities in Essex. My colleague and I love attending these as we see them as a great way to collaborate and meet like-minded people who share the same aims as us at Kids Inspire, which is to make a difference to children and young people's lives.”
Jane and Romany - Kids Inspires Community Engagement Team
Are you from a primary school in Chelmsford? Take part in 'The Book Project'
Essex Book Festival are delighted to announce The Book Project as a new part of this year’s programme, thanks to funding from Essex County Council’s Arts and Cultural Fund. The Book Project is a multi-faceted project to mark their 25th Edition.
Artist/Writer/Illustrator Michael Young will be leading workshops in 8 primary schools across the county to create a giant concertina book, which will be exhibited at Cressing Temple Barns on 23 June as part of the festival's Midsummer Madness Day.
Navigate: A Creative Careers Resource
Are you a teacher, parent or careers lead? Navigate is a new digital package of short films and resources exploring a diverse range of careers and routes into the creative industries. Suitable for a careers programme in schools and colleges for students aged 13-18 years old, Navigate explores the rapidly expanding creative industry and investigates a variety of careers that exist within it.
Your students will have the opportunity to encounter professionals, learn about their pathway into the industry including higher education, training and work experience, and try practical tasks connected to a variety of creative roles.
Hear Jemma Mcdonnell from the Paperbirds Theatre Company talking more about this project: Navigate - The Paper Birds - Ignite (ignitechelmsford.org.uk)
The Chelmsford Science and Engineering Society (CSES) bursary gift to Chelmsford County High School (CCHS) for girls
CSES delivers and supports STEM education in schools, promotes relevant careers, and provides a social and professional network for its members.
As part of their on-going commitment to STEM education, the Society recently made a donation, by way of a bursary, to Chelmsford County High School (CCHS) for girls for the purchase of Electronic components and Microbit microcontrollers to enable students to engage and experiment with technology and engineering which will be important to them in their future careers and lives.
CSES is a registered charity working to advance public engagement in science, engineering and technology throughout Essex.
National Saturday Club X Essex Book Festival
Essex Book Festival is thrilled to announce the launch of their new Writing and Talking National Saturday Club, taking place every Saturday 10am-1pm from March to July in partnership with and hosted by Anglia Ruskin University in Chelmsford.
It is a fantastic artist-led project for young people aged 13-16 years living in the Chelmsford area, involving everything from zine-making, blogging, podcasting, and writing workshops, fiction, non-fiction and spoken.
It also includes two trips to London: a backstage visit to the Royal Opera House, and to attend the national exhibition of work at Somerset House, which will be showing work from National Saturday Clubs across the UK.
Here is Ros Green from Essex Book Festival sharing more insights: National Saturday Club - Talking & Writing - Ignite (ignitechelmsford.org.uk)
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