Manchester - Delivering Arts Workshops
05 February 2009
I’ve just come back from the bright lights of Manchester, where I was managing the latest in a series of training events that A+M is delivering there (the DART project ). We were at the lovely Chinese Arts Centre in the ‘northern quarter’ of the city centre and the course was ‘Delivering Arts Workshops ’, commissioned by A+M to help artists diversify and use their artistic practice to make a living. The course is very focussed and practical: it challenges artists to explore their own strengths and weaknesses in this area of work, takes them through structured steps in every aspect of running workshops, and gives them plenty of issues to think about! The trainer, Amanda Pearce-Burton of Formation Training , and I had worked hard beforehand to make sure it was relevant and tailored to participants’ needs. The 12 participants were a great bunch of mainly sole trader artists, most at an early stage in their careers, and from across various artforms. I noticed several of the textile/fashion people getting together to network and exchange information in the breaks. The course was a great success and was given top marks across the board by all participants. I think we all went home tired but happy at the end of a very good day.
Sheilagh Holmes , DART Project Co-ordinator
Comments
I love it! That is way cool man! The steps weren’t that complicated too, which is great.
By Pamela Took on 2009 05 23
Hey, ok, I get it, I guess - but does this really work?
By Roulette_Albert on 2009 07 19