QUESTION: What do you get if you cross 100 youth workers and a handful of artists?
February 26th, 2009 | Published in News, Uncategorized | 4 Comments
Want to know more … Read about Warwickshires’ County Youth (ARTS) Training day taking place on Sat 28th February 2009! - live blogging direct from the event !!
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Stomping out some rhythms in the Make Some Noise workshop
If you came to the conference we would love to hear from you… simply click on the title and add a comment
Also DONT FORGET you have been issued with a password so that you can access the back end of this site (via membership log on) where you will find resources from the day and contact details for all the artists involved as well as much more.
Your password was on your name sticker … but no worries if you’ve lost it simply contact clare mitchell info@wyan.org.uk and she can remind you what your password is ….
MORE photos to follow ….
February 26th, 2009 at 6:51 pm (#)
Hi
Its thursday night before the event and Im left with a load of memberships to WYAN site to set up … so make sure you use it by accessing the log in section and get behind the scenes !
There is also a pile of Junk aka “equipment for the samba workshop” builidnig up behind me as we speak - If your bin is missing blame Andrew!
March 4th, 2009 at 3:45 pm (#)
COMMENTS FROM THE ARTISTS
Hey Clare,
I really enjoyed the day as did the other lads
it was a really good opportunity to see how we would cope teaching adults and I felt we all did particularly well.
Overall I felt the first workshop was much better than the second one, however I was really impressed with everybody who took part and everyone was exceptionally supportive to all 4 of us
Thank you for the great opportunity
Jonny (Beingfrank youth )
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Hi Clare
Yes it seemed to go really well at my end! The main points that were picked up on in my session was the importance of valuing young people’s ideas and expression - and that these can manifest in a whole variety of ways. The work people produced was actually quite conceptual, and people recognised the importance of having objects and provocations to help inspire young people’s thinking. The material’s open ended qualities meant that people began to work quite abstract and had to think about visual ways of representing what they wanted to communicate. I observed groups sharing stories, ideas and opinions on their life experiences and discussed how this could transfer to the young people. One guy commented that with creative work - who you are is most important, and this echoed throughout the groups who shared some interesting ideas. It was discussed in reflection that at the heart of this way of working is enabling young people’s creativity and expressive voice, and that a range of unusual resources caters well for this.
One thing that was discussed was how centres can access materials, and I am going to look into publishing some prices for youth settings asap. If people do enquire it would be great for you to point them to http://www.weaverecycle.co.uk. And one other thing - if it’s not too much of a laborious task could you send me any snippets of evaluation that might be specifically relevant to weave - just if there’s anything you can remember seeing in the paperwork.
Thanks for inviting me to be involved - I’m glad the day was a success!
Emily Warner Transforming Trash
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Hi Clare,
Thanks for all your efforts for WYAN’s excellent Arts day. It’s always good from a networking perspective to have lots of youth workers in the same room and my workshops
lot of questions were written on the green labels
One primary message I wanted to get across was that youth workers need to move beyond questions of internet safety to pro-active engagement with online social networking by seeking out opportunities to use new technologies and to support young people to understand them.
Instead of placing restrictions on young people’s access to social network sites, or seeking to
control the activities young people can engage in on social network sites, we should look to the design of online social networking environments to ensure that they encourage their users to consider, rather than ignore, critical questions about what will happen to information and media they share.
Secondly, in terms of continuation of my workshops that I think we had roughly twenty interested;
Thanks again
Steve McGarvey
Youth and Families Development Manager
The GAP Community Centre
tel: 01926 494200
mob: 07886 493884
email: stevethegap@btconnect.com
March 4th, 2009 at 3:47 pm (#)
each workshop had a garden where we planted questions we couldnt answer at the time - if any one has any answers please do let us know !!!!
The responses in “the gardens” ( with links if appropriate)
• need publicity for WYAN – ( see this site! ha ha! No seriously we are working on this one and have an action plan developing for the next year including a promotional film (Dance Film) which will m=be aimed at promoting the arts to young people … WATCH THIS SPACE! – Clare
• funding - click on the tags it will take you to a funding ops list
• free tickets? See this
• more arts award info http://www.artsaward.org.uk
• Accreditations? Will seek out but am aware of Arts Award, Warwickshire Challenge, Duke of Edinburgh, asdan, Youth Acheivement Awards to name a few also the new creative apprenticeships schemes are worth a visit
• names and contact details for all workshops to be circulated see pdf sheet below
• How can we incorporate sound beams into studio session? Contact Mike Roberts 07855 544685
• How can we join weave? Emily says “One thing that was discussed was how centres can access materials, and I am going to look into publishing some prices for youth settings asap. If people do enquire it would be great for you to point them to http://www.weaverecycle.co.uk.” – she will let us know when she
• Can we have groups within groups on the ning site
• Any help to set up a club webpage that is password protected
• Guidance on outside club setting and new media - what should be done about contacting young people socially outside work?
• Can computers be set up that all other social networking sites except ning approved ones are blocked?
• Guidence/ policy developed to include usage on online sns to promote centres/projects
• guidance for use of photographic consent on sns concerns re social networking
• Need clear guidelines and advice about sns
• social networking would be a really good resource for clubs
• need guidance re use of MP3 and copyright laws
March 4th, 2009 at 3:47 pm (#)
The responses on evaluation forms
• Fabulous Art day well done
• very good
• better than expected
• want to get dance into groups it was inspiring
• good contacts
• I wanted to do more workshops
• things take you on a journey
• make workshop contact available on the day please
• we all need this inspiration to spread the art message
• It was very useful for youth clubs. It was more positive than any county youth day over the past 3 years!
• we can do this we can do this I learnt how to inspire young people It was interesting to learn the line drawing but I thought t would be more graffiti
• practical hands on for those with disabilities
• the workshops gave you a kick start t think outside the box and realise what you can achieve and what potential there is around you
• a wonderful day and an excellent oppotunity to meet up with other collegues from all over the county
• I enjoyed that you were pushed out of your comfort zone to participate and gain knowledge about yourself an skills that you had forgotten that you had
• dancing by stealth was out of this world FANTASTIC would love to give young people this opportunity
• How simple it is to deliver a dance workshop Fab ideas
• dance has never been so simple
• lovely warm up and team building ideas
• I found it interesting to look at recycled material
• I learnt ways of delivering youth work
• I aim to take this back to my programme plan
• new ideas new contacts
• Ho easy it is to implement the arts
• The workshops gave you a kick start to think outside the box and realise what you can achieve and what potential there is around you
• really good something to take away
• the dance workshop was brilliant, it got individuals involved in gentle way
• I learnt to keep it simple regarding your approach
• learnt to be relaxed about involving young people
• I learnt about parkour exercise and engaging young people
• It motivated me
• I leant that I can do youth work
• I need to set up a websites its so good to see what has been done
• word up was excellent easy to use in practice
• an insightful way of allowing young people to express them selves
• make some noise was inspirational and let us realise how we can use music
• I learn to how important arts are in youth work
• It was the best
• How exciting and fun I t can be to make music
• inspiring rhythm and rap
• I will encourage use of the wyan site and theatre etc
• I can translate this and pass on to young people
• I learned a lot
• I learned how social networking can be used positively in youth settings
• It was about giving it a go and learning how intimidating getting some one to join in can be
• I learnt how to jump right in and do something with a quick responses and positive result!
• I learnt to implement activates without a lot of fuss
• I will encourage young people to have a go at problem solving
• recollecting team work and creativity
• I learnt how to teach music without out having to read music!
• Id forgetting how much fun you can have!
• I really enjoyed using the instruments it would be great for young people
• I was reminded about the importance of making music rhyme and creativity is important an accessible to all
• a great way to explore hip hop with young people
• when working with young people who Mc its good to know a little more so that I can support them
• a really good event nice to see all the staff together
• I identify future workshop
• word up fab
• dancing lads were fab
• Social networking was good but I needed more time for a novice like me
• the word up workshop did not work for me but some of the activity s were ok about little actives I could use with young people
• informative and interactive
• both workshops were extremely goods and have inspired me to try them out at youth club
• inspirational and engaging
• It was useful to work with young men who need to be challenged about their feeling s in positive ways
• how to be creative in a positive way
• sound beam _ excellent
• lots of great new ideas to incorporate into my youth work delivery
• I found my workshop difficult to transfer to a youth work setting
• I learnt very little but it raised questions about viability
• I learnt about using art in youth and identity and engaging young g people
• I learnt what can be packed into a short work shop if well facilitated