The newsletter for arts organisations working in criminal justice.
In this month's issue...
- National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance news
- Arts in criminal justice news and publications
- Events and training
- Resources and opportunities
NCJAA Manager vacancy (one year maternity cover)
This is a fabulous opportunity to join our team as manager of the National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance (NCJAA) [£39,772 (full time equivalent), part time (30 hours per week), remote with travel to meetings]. As an Arts Alliance, we represent a network of over 900 individuals and organisations that deliver creative interventions to support people in prison, on probation and in the community, with impressive results. We support this transformative work by providing a network and a voice to promote access to arts and culture for people in the criminal justice system. Applications close 9am, Friday 29 July. Learn more and apply here
Clinks State of the sector survey
The 2022 State of the sector survey closing date has been extended to Monday 1 August. This is a chance for individuals and organisations working in the arts in criminal justice to tell us about the challenges your organisation has faced over the last year, and to help us influence key decision makers on your behalf and ensure that our support meets your needs. The survey asks about your organisation’s criminal justice work including the clients you support, commissioning and referrals, staffing, and volunteers. The NCJAA has helped shape the survey to encourage and provide opportunity for individuals and organisations in the arts and criminal justice sector to make their voices heard. Please have numbers ready from the 2021-2022 financial year. The survey takes around 20-25 minutes to complete. Respond before Monday 1 August. Do not miss your chance to be heard. Click here to respond to the State of the sector survey 2022
Free Writing development training
Throughout 2022/23 | online | free
The NCJAA is excited to unveil its latest training programme for individuals and organisations delivering arts-based services and projects in the criminal justice system. Working in partnership with the Royal Literary Fund, a programme of free, two-part workshops will be held throughout 2022/23 to teach vital writing development skills for reports, case studies, and funding applications. Registration is now open for the second and third workshops which take place in Autumn and Winter 2022. In September, the second set of our two-part training workshops will help you to consider how to structure case studies. You will learn what key elements to include, how to adapt tone and style for different audiences such as stakeholders or the broader community, as well as self-editing and proofreading. Click here for more information and to book
Clinks training: Navigating the criminal justice system workshop
13 September | online | £50 members/£75 non-members
Are you new to working or volunteering in the criminal justice system? Do you have volunteers or staff members who want to increase their understanding of the criminal justice system? Join us at this three-hour workshop for voluntary sector staff and volunteers in which we aim to increase awareness of, and provide the opportunity to, explore and discuss how the criminal justice system is organised, the complexities within it, and how it works. Find out more and book here
Power and change: leadership, lived experience and coproduction
NCJAA Manager, Janette Kilner, and Clinks Business Manager, Joni Emery, have contributed to a blog as part of the Arts and Social Outcomes Network, which has been published by the Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance. The blog hears from organisations and projects leading the way in leadership by lived experience, who focus on socially engaged creative and cultural work, and describes where these organisations and projects are at in sharing power, changing power dynamics and collaborative working. Read the blog here
BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour interview with Lady Unchained
NCJAA Advisory Board member and poet, Lady Unchained, featured on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s hour on 13 July. In the interview she describes her debut poetry book: Behind Bars: On punishment, prison and release, and advocates passionately for change. The book documents how Lady Unchained's identity was irreversibly changed during her sentencing, time in prison and release. Listen back via BBC sounds
New Shakespeare Playhouse targets underserved communities and audiences
Previous Anne Peaker guest speaker and Creative Director of Rise Up CIC, Ashleigh Nugent, speaks passionately about access to the arts, reflecting on his involvement in the North West’s Shakespeare North Playhouse. Catch up on his interview on Radio 4
Performing Recovery: A Recovery-Arts Network Launch and Knowledge Exchange
8 September | London | free
First meeting of a national network of leading recovery artists and organisations, a University of West London Knowledge Exchange event. This Knowledge Exchange launches a new recovery-arts network that can be utilised to assist the effective application of recovery-arts across community wellbeing services. Find out more and register via Eventbrite
Production: Clean Break - ‘Favour’
24 June – 6 August | London | from £12
Written by Ambreen Razia, and Directed by Róisín McBrinn and Sophie Dillon Moniram, ‘Favour’ is a touching and hopeful family drama that tackles duty, addiction and the battle of putting yourself back together. Find out more and book a ticket
Exhibition: Koestler Arts at The Supreme Court
open until October 2022 | The Supreme Court, London | free
Koestler Arts return to the Supreme Court this summer for a public display of artwork by under-18s within the criminal justice system. The exhibition showcases and celebrates artwork submitted to the Koestler Awards by its youngest entrants inside one of the UK’s most iconic legal settings. The Supreme Court hears cases of the highest importance that can affect the whole population and is the final court of appeal in the UK. For more information click here
Civil death, civic dignity: exploring dis/enfranchisement through art – Unlock
Dr Bethany Schmidt, in partnership with Unlock, has recently launched a new project; Civic Dignity, which aims to explore and raise awareness of the experience of disenfranchisement (or ‘civil death’) through creative and narrative expression. You can contribute to a series of engagement activities, which includes a website where art, writings, and other creative expressions will be posted. Read more about Civic Dignity here
'Freedom Open Call Photography Exhibition, National Justice Museum
The National Justice Museum has launched an open call for black and white photography around the theme of ‘Freedom’. The submissions will be displayed in an exhibition at the National Justice Museum from November 2022, curated to explore the notion of freedom from multiple perspectives. Find out how to be involved
The Stalybridge Community Grant Funding
maximum £500 available | application deadline 1 October
Stalybridge has been awarded the status of Greater Manchester Town of Culture in 2022. It provides an opportunity to highlight and celebrate the unique culture of towns across Greater Manchester, as well as to raise local ambitions for cultural provision and more. A new community grant fund has been developed to support activities and events being created for Stalybridge by community groups and individuals. You can apply for up to £500 from now until 1 October 2022. Grant information available online
Vacancies
Arts Alliance Manager (1 year maternity cover) - National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance
Learning & Engagement Manager (Adults) - Synergy Theatre Project
Operations Assistants - Clean Break
Trustee - Emergency Exit Arts
Take a creative break
Coming up on 19 August is World Photo Day, a day to connect and communicate via photography around the world and highlight social causes. Whether you use your phone or camera, why not set yourself a photo challenge to capture something inspiring?
Want to include something in the next newsletter?
The next NCJAA monthly newsletter will be sent on Thursday 25 August. If you have any news, opportunities or events relating to art organisations or projects within the criminal justice system that you would like included, please email artsalliance@clinks.org by Monday 15 August 2022.
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