The newsletter for arts organisations working in criminal justice
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In this month's issue...
- National Alliance for Arts in Criminal Justice news
- Events and training
- Arts and criminal justice news
- Resources & publications
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National Alliance for Arts in Criminal Justice news
We want to hear about your training needs
The National Alliance for Arts in Criminal Justice (NAACJ) would like to hear about your training needs and expertise so we can tailor our professional development offer to you and help you develop your own training offer. We are now inviting our members and other individuals and organisations working within arts in criminal justice and across other associated sectors to take part in a survey to explore the current training needs and offers across the sector, with your responses being used to support the NAACJ to establish priorities. The survey will take between 5 and 15 minutes to complete. Thank you for your time in advance, your contribution and insight is invaluable to us. Click here to take the survey.
New blog: prison arts in Scotland
On 11th May, National Alliance for Arts in Criminal Justice Communications Officer Kate Davey travelled to Glasgow for the Scottish Prison Arts Network (SPAN): Skill Share Session and Glasgow Museums: Insight Cafe. Whilst in Glasgow for the events, she visited Citizens Theatre to see some examples of work happening in the prison theatre sector in Scotland. She says: "It was amazing to see what a thriving prison arts sector there is in Glasgow - and Scotland more widely. I think the similarities between SPAN and the NAACJ mean we can learn a lot from each other's work, in turn strengthening and supporting the sector UK-wide." Click here to read the blog.
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Events and training
Drama-based workshops for male ex-offenders and unemployed in Leeds
Starts 7th July 2016 | Leeds
Imagine Theatre is running drama based workshops over twelve months, aimed at male ex-offenders and unemployed. The focus of the Freedom Workshops is to improve communication and employability skills along with increasing self-belief and confidence. Those interested are invited to come along and have fun, learn new skills, meet people, and be introduced to organisations that can help with further training and employment. The workshops will take place on the first and third Thursday of every month, 6 - 9pm. Click here for more information.
Movie making and documentary in mental health
7th and 8th July 2016 | King's College London | £55 - £95
This interdisciplinary intensive summer school will introduce participants to the use of film in mental health. Topics will include the use of documentary as a tool in research, education and advocacy; community outreach and engagement using films; narrative and visual storytelling; artistic film-making in mental health; film for medical education; and psychoanalysis and cinema. There will be workshops, film screenings and materials from several projects that will be used by the faculty to illustrate the topics. The course is aimed at students, academics and service providers, service users, members of the voluntary sector, and other interested in using move and documentary in mental health research, education, promotion and advocacy. Click here for more information.
A new strategy for culture: boosting access to arts, heritage and culture
12th July 2016 | Central London | £150 - £295 + VAT
The Culture White Paper, the first strategy for arts and culture in more than 50 years, was published in March. It sets out the Government's ambitions for the cultural sectors. Headline actions include a new expectation that all publicly-funded arts organisations must increase access for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, reviews of museums, Arts Council England and the Heritage Lottery Fund and a new 'Great Place Scheme' to make culture a core part of local authority plans. Join Westminster Briefing at this event for an up-to-date brief on the new culture strategy. Delegates will have the opportunity to examine forthcoming reviews and how they will shape the cultural sectors, future finances and funding, measures to increase access and improving partnership working. Confirmed speakers include Ed Vaizey, Minister for Culture; Duncan Wilson, Chief Executive of Historic England; and Iain Watson, Chief Executive of Tyne & Wear Museums and Museum Associations Board Member. Click here for more information.
Safe Ground Open House
19th July 2016 | Battersea, London
As part of Safe Ground's 21st birthday celebrations, there will be an Open House at their Battersea offices to mark the charity's inauguration day. This will be an opportunity to drop in and learn more about the organisation's history; hear first hand accounts of the impact of Safe Ground's programmes from Alumni members and delivery staff; watch film screenings from their archives; visit the pop-up gallery space where Alumni art will be on display; and attend an object handling session. Click here for more information.
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Arts and criminal justice news
What will the impact of Brexit be on the sector?
On Thursday 23rd June, the UK voted to leave the European Union. During this period of uncertainty, Arts Council England's Chief Executive Darren Henley has said that ACE will "do everything we can to protect and promote the strength and dynamism of our sector." They will shortly be sending an email to their subscribers asking for their thoughts on what the impact of leaving the EU will be for them. Additionally, NCVO have published an initial analysis of the impact leaving the EU might have on the voluntary sector. If you're looking for information on the impact this will have on EU funding and partnerships within arts and culture, please visit Euclid's website by clicking here.
Want to support voluntary organisations working with offenders and their families? Clinks has four new vacancies
There are major changes happening in the Criminal Justice System at a local and national level offering both challenges and opportunities for the voluntary sector. As a result, Clinks are expanding their team to better support voluntary sector organisations across England and Wales at this critical time. Their current vacancies include: Communications Manager (full-time, London); Development Manager (full-time, North West of England); Membership Development Manager (30 hours over 4 days per week, London); and Training and Events Officer (full-time, London). Click here for more information on the vacancies.
Culture, Health and Wellbeing Conference 2017: now open for abstract submissions
Taking place in June 2017 in Bristol, the Culture, Health and Wellbeing International Conference is now open for abstract submissions. They particularly welcome abstracts that provoke new ways of researching, conceptualising and creating and that will encourage delegates to question assumptions and learn about different approaches to current issues and areas of practice. Current keynote speakers include Duncan Selbie, Chief Executive of Public Health England; Dr Nayreen Daruwalla, Society for Nutrition, Education & Health Action in Mumbai, India; and Lord Howarth of Newport CBE, UK Policy. The deadline for submissions of abstracts is 20th November 2016. Click here for more information.
Cardboard Citizens Free Forum Theatre Tour 2016
Cardboard Citizens are currently booking their 2016 Hostels and Prisons tour for their new play 'Cathy,' an emotive Forum Theatre show inspired by Ken Loach's drama 'Cathy Come Home.' The tour is fully subsidised and free of charge for all prisons within London and can sit within education and training courses. With 25 years' experience of performing in hostels and prisons, Cardboard Citizens employs actors who have experience of homelessness. The charity provides theatre workshops, information, advice and guidance and a safe space for people to express themselves and reintegrate into society. The tour will begin in October. To find out more, please contact Nick Gibson on 020 7377 8948 or nick@cardboardcitizens.org.uk.
British Council unveils global arts strategy for 2016 - 2021
The British Council - the UK's international organisation for educational opportunities and cultural relations - announced its global arts strategy in May. Developed in close consultation with the UK arts sector, it will support the organisation's ambition to increase the number of cultural connections between the UK and the world. A key element of the strategy will be the operation of the UK's new £30 million Cultural Protection Fund, in partnership with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Click here to read more.
Aesop Marketplace
Arts charity and social enterprise Aesop has launched its own Marketplace to connect health decision-makers with arts in health programmes. The organisation has selected 24 arts in health programmes for inclusion on the website. Tim Joss, Chief Executive of Aesop said: "Health decision-makers are busy people. Until the Marketplace's arrival, they had no easy way to connect with arts programmes that might be useful to them. We selected these 24 with the help of the NHS Alliance and London's Southbank Centre." Commissioners and health professionals are encouraged to post commissions and other opportunities for arts in health organisations on the site. Click here for more information.
Invitation to tender: research project UAL LCF
Making for Change is a project spearheaded by the Social Responsibility team at the University of the Arts London's (UAL) College of Fashion (LCF). The project brings together several delivery partners, including HMP Holloway, HMP Downview and Working Chance. Partnerships work together to set up and maintain a fashion manufacturing workshop with industry qualified trainers. Making for Change is seeking an independent evaluator or researcher to investigate and understand the positive impact, if any, that training and education in the skills of manufacturing for the fashion industry can have in the rehabilitation and transformation of women's lives within the prison system. The deadline for submissions is 8th July 2016. For more information, please email Sarah Gilani: s.gilani@fashion.arts.ac.uk.
Funding for creative projects in Wales
The Creative Wales Awards will provide grants of up to £20,000 to support an intensive period of open-ended learning and research around significant artistic propositions in Wales. The Awards are available to individual arts practitioners for creative development projects, including taking time away from usual commitments to concentrate on a specific project. Projects could involve the creation of new, experimental and innovative work that takes forward the art form and creative practice, and is intended to enable artists working in any creative discipline, or across disciplines, to enhance and refresh their skills, creativity and creative partnerships. The deadline for applications is 7th September. Click here for more information.
Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary 2016/17 now open for submissions
The annual Shape Arts Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary, set up in memory of sculptor Adam Reynolds to support mid-career disabled artists, is now open for submissions. This year's successful recipient will be awarded £7,000 and a three-month residency at Turner Contemporary, Margate, from February to April 2017. The bursary provides an opportunity for artists to develop their ideas and practice without pressure to deliver a particular outcome such as finished or exhibition-ready work. The residency will also include developing and delivering public-facing activities with Turner Contemporary and Shape Arts and showing work as part of the Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary Shortlist exhibition. The deadline for submissions is 12 noon, Monday 1st August 2016. Click here for more information.
Good Vibrations Trustee vacancy
National charity Good Vibrations are looking for new people to join their Board of Trustees. Good Vibrations supports people in challenging circumstances to develop life and work skills through communal music making. They are looking for people with particular experience of one (or more) of the following areas: business development; fundraising; strategy; financial management; law; experience of being a Good Vibrations participant; lived experience of challenging circumstances or complex needs. This is a voluntary governance role for which your travel expenses would be covered. Trustees are asked to commit to attending four meetings and one strategic development day a year. To find out more about good vibrations, please click here. For more information on the Trustee vacancies, please email katy@good-vibrations.org.uk.
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Resources & publications
Prisoners' Education Trust: Notes on Coates
Following the recent publication of Dame Sally Coates' review into education in prisons, 'Unlocking Potential,' Prisoners' Education Trust (PET) have put together some notes on what this might mean. All of Dame Sally's recommendations have, in principle, been accepted by the Government. But what does the promise to put education 'at the heart' of the prison system actually entail? With the help of Prisoner Learning Alliance members and other stakeholders, PET has examined some of the key aspects of the report, and asks if they really will work. Click here to read more.
The Art of Commissioning
The Art of Commissioning has been published by NCVO's Culture Commissioning project. The report documents the learning from two of their commissioning partner pilots: Kent County Council and Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group. Their work with these pilots shows how leaders and commissioners of public services can deliver achievable improvements to commissioning and procurement processes, to enable better engagement by the arts and cultural sector. Download the report here.
Change & challenge: the voluntary sector's role in Transforming Rehabilitation
Change & challenge is the second report in a series looking at the voluntary sector's role in Transforming Rehabilitation (TR). Clinks surveyed 151 voluntary sector organisations in mid-late 2015 to gain their views. As a result, Clinks has found six key findings and made seven recommendations that they will work to progress over the coming months. Clinks partnered with NCVO and Third Sector Research Centre to undertake in-depth research into the voluntary sector's experience of the changes to probation services brought about by the TR reforms. Click here to read the report.
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This newsletter is written monthly by Kate Davey.
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