Making & Creating - Skills of the Future
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Making & Creating - The Skills of the Future
in association with Creative Lancashire.
“Our capacity to be creative is one of the defining qualities of humanity. I believe it provides our greatest hope. It’s why investing in it makes sense.”
Darren Henley, Creativity: Why It Matters (2018)
In his most recent publication, Creativity: Why It Matters, Darren Henley OBE, Chief Executive of Arts Council England, writes about the inextricable link between arts and science, and how creativity lies at the heart of human progress. Darren's proposition sets the context for our stellar panel to provide their own perspectives and expand on the themes discussed in our Why Creativity Matters roundtable (on Friday 14 June), to present their own, unique insights on the current state of creative and arts provision in schools, colleges, higher education and informal learning.
Creativity is increasingly important to our current and future generations’ ability to strive, survive and succeed in life and any profession - including those that we can't name or describe yet. The case for the vital role of creativity in the development of a young person’s skills for learning, for life and work, is robust.
However, despite this, creativity and the expressive arts disciplines are the victims of ever diminishing budgets in education, and their importance is marginalised in comparison to tech, sciences and traditional subjects.
This panel discussion, hosted by Rachel Cooper OBE (Imagination Lancashire), will highlight the new ideas and individuals who are responding to this crisis in often extraordinary ways, to determine a vision for STEAM and the future of creative learning. Guests include Andria Zafirakou - Global Teacher of the Year 2018.
Panel Participants:
- Alison Clark (Arts Council England)
- Andria Zafirakou (Artists in Residence)
- Daniel Charny (Fixpers /From Now On)
- Jason Stocks Young (JSY Leatherworks)
- Rachel Cooper (Imagination Lancaster University)
- Sarah Gregory (Creative Industries Federation)
This event is FREE to attend. We expect this event to be over-subscribed on the day, so please book your place in advance.
Organiser The National Festival of Making
Organiser of Making & Creating - Skills of the Future
‘A new kind of festival for a new age of making’, The National Festival of Making returns to the manufacturing heartland of Blackburn, Lancashire over Sat 15 – Sun 16 June 2019, promising two more exciting days of innovative art installations, workshops and markets throughout the town centre. The first ever National Festival of Making in 2017 welcomed 30,000 people of all ages to the heart of Lancashire to experience thrilling street performance, buy the best in handcrafted fashion, sample the finest food and drink and get hands-on with over 100 FREE and affordable making experiences in the company of master makers, with more of the same promised for the second festival this spring. We hope you can MAKE it!
