Friday 16th April 2010 – Rose Bruford College, Sidcup
For further information contact: Samantha Kay ext. 2629 or outreach@bruford.ac.uk A PDF booking form can also be downloaded here: CCF10-booking form If you would like a different version of the booking form please get in touch.
The Changing Curriculum Forum is a one-day small-scale conference, about the relationship between further education, industry and specialist performing arts HE, particularly regarding widening participation. 2010 will be the second event: the first is reported at http://tinyurl.com/ccf09
Rose Bruford College is committed to making drama training, both performing and design/technical, available to young people across the UK. As a member of UKADIA’s National Arts Learning Network project; and Creative Way network for Thames Gateway, the College is committed to working with partners to increase the diversity of drama school entry: whether by region, ethnicity, class or income. The Performance Passport project started as a series of regional workshops, opening up a London Drama school to FE colleges in regional centres, who all agreed to allow their campuses to be used for regional auditions and interviews. By extension, these workshops are available to partners in our local region, and have since been offered to Young Peoples Theatre projects.
We realised some time ago that the national picture is complex, and fast-changing. In 2009, thanks to a project grant from NALN, we inaugurated the Forum, as a way of exchanging information and opinion with fellow professionals in the FE sector; and researching, with our partners, issues surrounding progression and retention in performance subjects. Following enthusiastic comments from partners last year, we decided that the Forum had to continue: as a valuable CPD event for FE and HE staff; as a networking opportunity; and as joint research and development. With the National Skills Academy’s establishment of its network of Founder Colleges, the need for information sharing is highly relevant.
The event is designed to create stimuli and opportunities for discussion. There will be three ‘dialogue’ sessions: on emerging artists in the Community; on barriers to engagement; and on the developments across sectors. Break out groups are designed to bring different people together in informal settings.
The Forum takes place towards the end of the College’s research symposium, The Come Together Festival: Tradition Innovation and Change where forum attendees will get a chance to meet industry professionals, tutors, and students as emerging artists.
The theme for this year is about employability in the performing arts:
- What skills are needed by both technicians and performers to equip them to be employed, and to make employment, in the next ten years?
- How can we best hook up the networks, and put the pieces together better for young people?
- How do we demonstrate employment possibilities?
- How to make the 14 – 19 creative diploma real?
With the establishment of the National Skills Academy’s Founder Colleges, we have decided to open out the event to other colleagues as a contribution to Continuing Professional Development, and shared research into widening participation in creative industries at a cost of £85pp.
This year we have a great line-up of key note speakers including:
- Paul Kleiman, Deputy Director at PALATINE; Robert West, Education Manager at NSA
- Gill Chadbon, Community Projects Manager at Hillview School; Janet Wallace, Community Arts Manager with ABC Arts; Georgia Munnion and Lori Hopkins, Coruscate Theatre
- Judy Kenney, Programme Manager for Creative Way; Jackie McManus, Head of Widening Participation Programmes at UAL
Key Note Speaker Biographies
- Paul Kleiman – Deputy Director, PALATINE (HE subject centre for Dance Drama and Music). Paul has been part of the partnership developing the 14-19 Creative Diploma, and advised on the curriculum for the National Skills Academy. He has been researching non-traditional progression routes, including HE in FE. As a former designer, he has a strong interest in technical theatre.
- Robert West, Education Manager for National Skills Academy for Creative and Cultural Skills – has been key to the development of technical training links and the 20 founder colleges. Formerly with Arts Council England, Rob was instrumental in looking at regional producing, and has extensive experience in TiE and community theatre.
- Gill Chadbon is Community Projects Manager for Hillview School, Tonbridge; and has been developing innovative ways of fulfilling the industry engagement requirements of the 14-19 Creative Media Diploma.
- Janet Wallace is Community Arts Manager with ABC Arts, a community participation company working in Nottinghamshire. She is responsible for generating arts involvement within the community, and manages the Emerging Artists in Residence scheme.
- Georgia Munnion and Lori Hopkins, who form Coruscate Theatre, are recent graduates from the BA European Theatre Arts programme, who have been working since January in a partnership with The Brunts School, Mansfield.
- Judy Kenney is Programme Manager for Creative Way, the Lifelong Learning Network for Creative Industries in Thames Gateway, with the remit of Art Design & Technical Theatre. For the last three years she has been exploring the expectations of students, and their problems with progression routes in the backstage disciplines.
- Jackie McManus is Head of Widening Participation Programmes at the University of the Arts London. For the National Arts Learning Network she has recently completed and presented “Art for a Few – exclusion and misrepresentation in Art and Design HE admissions”; a report on progression issues in the Art School sector.
Programme*
9.30 – 10.00 Registration & coffee
10.00 – 10.15 Welcome – Julian Bryant, Director of Community Outreach, Rose Bruford College
10.15 – 11.15 Forum Session 1: Emerging artists in the community – new models? With Georgia Munnion, Lori Hopkins, Janet Wallace & Gill Chadbon
11.15 Tea/Coffee
11.45 – 12.45 Discussion groups – Comparing Practice
Group 1: Promoting technical careers
Group 2: Global local – looking at the different needs of industry & learners
Group 3: The problem of information, advice and guidance
12.45 – 1.45 Lunch/Networking
1.45- 2.45 Forum Session 2: Barriers to progression with Jackie McManus & Judy Kenney
2.45 – 3.45 Discussion groups – Comparing Practice
Group 1: Supporting the transition
Group 2: Study, reflection and discourse for practical people
Group 3: Practical assessment models
3.45 – 4.15 Tea/Coffee
4.15 – 5.15 Session 3: Ladders and bridges – development of FE/HE progression routes with Robert West & Paul Kleiman
5.15 – 6.00 Conclusions/ Recommendations
Evening: You are warmly invited to take part in the evening events from the College Symposium
*Subject to Change