Articles tagged as Arts Award

Blue Cabin has been named as a Trinity Champion Centre, recognising our successful delivery of Arts Award – a nationally-recognised accreditation which supports young people to experience the arts and gain new skills.

Sarah, who works at Nepacs, is part of the team delivering Creative Aid – a co-creation project with care-experienced young men in Deerbolt Prison, supporting the young men to be recognised as artists.

Creative Briefs founder, Jason Bowers, reflects on the transformative impact of the project the team delivered and tested during Artful Alliance - a national action research programme led by Blue Cabin.

Gateshead Virtual School head teacher, Adele Brown, shares her perspective on the impact of trauma informed, creative activities.

Nine care-experienced children and young people from Gateshead have achieved their Arts Award Explore qualification, after taking part in four days of creative activities alongside professional artists.

A series of creative activity days for care-experienced children and young people cared for by Newcastle upon Tyne City Council.

Blue Cabin is working with Gateshead Virtual School to deliver creative opportunities for care-experienced children and young people. 

Blue Cabin Associate Artist, Laura Degnan, gives an insight into how she worked with young people from Darlington to make a series of short films.

Four care-experienced young people from Darlington have achieved a national arts qualification after working with an artist to make a series of short films.

A group of care-experienced children in Redcar and Cleveland have worked with a professional artist to learn about the arts and achieve their Arts Award Discover accreditation.

Four virtual schools and four creative organisations have been selected to take part in a national action-research project, exploring how cultural and creative education can benefit care-experienced children and young people, and what organisations and staff need in order to deliver it safely and successfully.

Children who have been, or are in care, are vastly over-represented in the justice system: care leavers are estimated to represent between 24% (1) and 27% (2) of the adult prison population, despite being just 2% of the adult population.