CURRENT PARTNERS AND PROJECTS
Festival Bridge’s mission is to radically improve the cultural education offer by creating, advising and facilitating partnerships and networks in the places in which we work.
We provide support, advice and guidance to inspire educators and practitioners, helping them to ensure children and young people’s creative and cultural experiences are the most valuable they can be.
Festival Bridge is part of Norfolk & Norwich Festival and one of ten national Bridge organisations working nationally with investment from Arts Council England and the Department for Education.
Find out more at nnfestival.org.uk or contact bridge@nnfestival.org.uk
Vivacity is an independent, not-for-profit organisation with charitable status. We manage many of Peterborough’s most popular culture and leisure facilities for both residents of the city and visitors to Peterborough.
Vivacity provides a myriad of opportunities for people to take part in cultural and leisure activities. Art, heritage, learning, sport and healthy living form the mainstay of our services, with the specific purpose to enrich and inspire lives in partnership with various organisations and stakeholders.
Find out more at vivacity.org.uk or contact enquiries@vivacity.org
UROCK Theatre Company, based in Peterborough, has worked in the East Midlands and East of England for 8 years, with young people both inside and outside education, and with creative learning providers. UROCK delivers innovative theatre practice, and has achieved a national profile through the success of its participation in the NT Connections programme, in which it has performed at the National Theatre twice in the past four years.
The ethos is centred on making exciting new work using improvisational skills, and merging movement with theatre. Over the past three years, new Educational Arts models have been developed, giving access to all ages and abilities. These initiatives have been supported by Norfolk School improvement Services [Viscount Nelson Education Network CIC] , The Active Learning Trust, Peterborough Music hub, and PHACE.
Find out more at urock.org.uk or contact diane.goldsmith@hotmail.com
The Peterborough Music Education Hub is dedicated to making an enjoyable and successful music education accessible to all young people.
The Hub offers opportunities for children and young people to learn a musical instrument , opportunities to play in ensembles and to perform, and access to large scale and high quality music experiences for pupils, working with professional musicians and venues. They also offer CPD to school staff, particularly in supporting schools to deliver music in the curriculum and provide access to large scale and high quality music experiences for pupils, working with professional musicians and venues.
Visit the Peterborough Music Hub website, or contact musichub@peterborough.gov.uk
Youth Inspired: a new programme looking at reinvigorating youth services in the city. PHACE enabled connections with cultural partners so the new provision would be offering young people quality opportunities on their doorstep.
Peterborough Cultural Board: PHACE represented the interests of children and young people and schools in discussions which are working towards a new Culture Strategy for the city from 2020.
Common Ground: a pilot programme looking at how young people engage with and interpret heritage. PHACE has been supporting the partners in this programme to test a Heritage Hack where young people will take over Flag Fen in the autumn.
Schools engagement strategy: PHACE worked in partnership to find the capacity to undertake a city-wide audit of schools looking to measure the level of their engagement in arts and cultural activities. This includes some face to face meetings and a survey and will result in data which will help us target out activities better in the future. The audit will be completed by summer 2019.
Culture connect: PHACE hosted a Market Place event for teachers and cultural professionals to ensure a live conversation with our stakeholders about arts and cultural opportunities in the city and about PHACE’s ambitions, Teachers had the opportunity to meet professionals and new activity will take place from those conversations benefitting young people in schools. Feedback suggested that we should run a Culture Connect event annually and so the next event is planned for March 2019. 34 people attended.