Here is some news about an amazing event going on this year - the Latitude festival! I wanted to share this with you because I learnt about it by email and thought some of you might like to attend what is an incredible opportunity for young people. Here's all the info you need!
Latitude Festival has teamed up with YA author CJ Daugherty
in order to give young people the chance to achieve a nationally
recognised Arts Award qualification, as part of their role as the first
festival to become an
Arts Award supporter organisation.
As winner of Best Family Festival 2012 and with its huge range of
arts on offer, as well as dedicated areas for both Children and Teens,
Latitude is the perfect place for teens and young people to access the
arts and use their festival experience to
receive their Arts Award qualification, awarded by Trinity College London in association with
Arts Council England.
The internationally bestselling YA author CJ Daugherty, author of the popular
Night School series, will be talking about the career of a YA author, reading an exclusive extract from her new novel
Fracture (due to be published by Atom in August) and running a
story writing workshop, as well as doing one on one interviews with Arts
Award participants. In addition, Arts Awards participants will also
have the chance to meet two other professional
authors Dawn O'Porter who will be talking about her new book Paper Aeroplanes, and horror writer
Alexander Gordon Smith, author of the popular Furnace series.
THURSDAY 18TH JULY – SUNDAY 21ST JULY 2013
HENHAM PARK, SOUTHWOLD, SUFFOLK
Latitude is proud to become the
first UK festival to become an Arts Award Supporter organisation.
Arts Award is a unique set of arts qualifications for young people, awarded by
Trinity College London in association with Arts Council England.
Arts Award gets young people taking part in arts
activities, reviewing arts events, researching artists, and sharing
their skills.
Arts Award’s ambition is to support any
young person to deepen their engagement with the arts and to build
creativity and leadership skills. Latitude will provide young people
with access to the spectrum of arts showcased at the festival, to help
them achieve their Arts Award qualification.
As winner of
Best Family Festival 2012, Latitude has 15+ arenas and spaces
offering every aspect of the arts including music, theatre, dance,
poetry, literature, film, cabaret and comedy. Everything that can be
explored as part of Latitude is suitable for Arts Award!
In the Inbetweeners Teen Arena, teenagers will be able to let their imagination run wild with
Culture Works East’s programme of interactive and industry savvy creative and media workshops for 12 to 17 year olds.
Across a range of masterclasses young people will gain insight into
real
creative careers, the chance to work alongside top industry pros, get
involved themselves and be part of a team of young reviewers at
Latitude! Areas to choose from include music and film journalism, TV and
radio news reporting and festival photography. The
work created is showcased on the Latitude Young Reviewers page linked
into both the Latitude website and the Arts Award website:
cultureworkseast.tumblr.com.
Culture
Works East (CWE) will also be providing some specially designed
workshops where participants can document, reflect and review their
experiences for their Arts Award.
In
particular, CWE are creating two special opportunities for Arts Award
participants, the first of which provides a unique opportunity for Arts
Award participants aged 12 to 17 to interview
CJ Daugherty, international bestselling author of YA crime thriller series,
Night School.
Following an author event in the
Inbetweeners Teen Arena, where CJ Daugherty will read from her forthcoming novel
Fracture, share her secrets of bestselling success and run a
fiction writing workshop, there will be a special opportunity for a
small group of young reporters to put their questions to her in person,
and record the answers in a variety of media from
film, radio, writing or photography. Participants will work with
trained Arts Award Advisors to put their research into an engaging
portfolio.
The second opportunity is a chance for a young artist, musician or acoustic group from Suffolk to perform in the
Inbetweeners Teen Arena in partnership with Culture Works East,
Access To Music and Norfolk & Norwich Festival Bridge organisation.
Following the performance, they will be able to work with trained Arts
Award Advisors to document their experience as
part of the Arts Award portfolio.
Arts Awards participants will also have the chance to learn about the career of two other professional authors
Dawn O'Porter who will be talking about her new book Paper Aeroplanes, and horror writer
Alexander Gordon Smith, author of the popular Furnace series.
Industry professionals from
Total Film, Writer's Centre Norwich, Access To Music and
BBC Norfolk Introducing will be hosting drop-in activities including
TV Special Effects, the DJ Shed, album cover design, silk screen
printing, making your own ringtone or creating animation and multimedia
visuals in the music and media tent. The full programme
of events, as well as details of how young people can get involved with
Arts Award at Latitude, is available to download from the Latitude
website.
Elsewhere
across the festival, there are many opportunities for Arts Award
participants to work towards their qualification by getting involved
watching performances from the likes of
The Maccabees, Jessie Ware and Rudimental; Dance Company
Sadler’s Wells, who will be showcasing the award-winning flamenco dancer,
Rocío Molina; and critically acclaimed ballet group, BalletBoyz® The TALENT 2013. In
The Faraway Forest London based artist David Shillinglaw
will be painting a mural, inviting festival-goers to relax, watch the
painting process and participate in the creation of the piece by
submitting their thoughts, words and phrases into a
box next to the mural.
The National Gallery invites the audience to immerse themselves in great art by Renaissance master
Titian, with their mobile cinema offering a National Gallery festival experience celebrating
Diana and Callisto, a painting recently acquired for the nation, and the chance to ask the experts questions.
The National Youth Theatre present their new version of Little Red Riding Hood with not one, but two separate endings, exploring the themes and fears of the fairy tale.
Forest Fringe will deliver immersive theatre, with the twist
being that the festival goers both create and participate in the show,
making dreams come true, while
Dance East return to Latitude with their hit dance workshops.
Sharon Reuben, Latitude Festival Children & Teen programmer, said:
“Arts
Award will provide a fantastic model to expand young people's
experience at Latitude and we’re very thrilled to be working on such an
ambitious and accessible project. Since 2011 Culture Works
East has delivered a varied, professional and exciting programme of
activities for Latitude’s teens.”
Elli Chapman, Artistic Director at Culture Works East said:
"Latitude provides
a very different platform for the arts, bringing high quality
programming out of traditional spaces to new and varied audiences like
young people who might not visit more mainstream
venues like theatres and galleries. By becoming an Arts Award Supporter
organisation, we offer young festival goers the chance to deepen their
relationship with the arts, learn new technical, creative and
transferrable skills, get their opinions heard and
support them to make a connection with the arts that goes beyond the
festival."
Emily Ward, Norfolk & Norwich Festival Bridge’s Artsmark and Arts Award Programme Manager said:
“Norfolk
& Norwich Festival Bridge is delighted to support Festival Republic
and Cultureworks’ inspirational ambition to launch Arts Award at
Latitude this year. Children and young people
attending the festival will not only have the chance to explore
artistic and creative opportunities, but also be able to strengthen
their skills as artists and future art leaders by engaging with the Arts
Award programme.”
ABOUT ARTS AWARD
Arts Award offers
nationally recognised qualifications which support young people to
develop as artists and arts leaders. Since launch in 2005, nearly
100,000 young people have achieved awards.
Arts Award’s ambition is to support any young person to deepen their
engagement with the arts, build creativity, communication and leadership
skills and achieve a national qualification.
Arts Award assesses how young people develop in their chosen
art form rather than achievement of a specific skills level. Young
people can gain an Arts Award through work in any art form including
creative, technical and support roles.
There are no entry requirements, no time limit for completing the award, and
no set rules on how to present final work. Participants just
need to be aged between 7 and 25, and ready to explore new creative
experiences. Arts Award can be achieved at five levels: four accredited
qualifications and an introductory level.
Silver and Gold Arts Award
have
two strands – arts practice and arts leadership. Young people gather
evidence of their creative and skills development which they present as a
portfolio in any format. Young people can
work towards Arts Award within, outside and beyond school and college.
A
trained Arts Awards advisor supports and mentors participants. An
advisor is usually a teacher, artist or youth worker. Advisors
facilitate arts experiences, support progress and assess young people’s
portfolios before external moderation. An advisor is attached to a
centre – this can be any organisation which supports young people’s
activities.
Arts Award is managed by
Trinity College London in association with Arts Council England working with 10 regional Bridge organisations. Employers and colleges recognise it as proof of skills and commitment. Arts Award at Latitude is supported by the
Norfolk & Norwich Festival Bridge, one of ten bridge
organisations funded by Arts Council England to connect children and
young people with arts and culture across Cambridgeshire, Norfolk,
Suffolk and Peterborough.
More at www.artsaward.org.uk
or www.artsawardvoice.com
ABOUT CULTURE WORKS EAST
Culture Works East
(CWE) seeks to use high quality creative arts, media and creativity
to inspire children and young people to discover and reach their full
potential. We work across the East of England using creative & media
approaches to provide engagement, social inclusion,
education, training and support to young people. www.cultureworkseast.co.uk
Artistic Director Elli Chapman was awarded the Natwest Everywoman Gaia Award 2012
awarded
to the most inspirational and successful female entrepreneur who runs a
business with a clearly defined social and/or ethical purpose at its
heart.
TICKET INFORMATION
Tickets are now on sale, subject to booking fees:
Weekend adult tickets £182.50
Weekend accompanied teen ticket (13-15 years) £132.50
Weekend child (5-12 years) tickets £5.00
Adult day tickets Fri, Sat, Sun £77.50
Child (5-12 years) day tickets Fri, Sat, Sun £5.00
Campervan Permit £40-80 (dependent on size)
Locker £16.00
Weekend
tickets prices include car parking and camping. Day tickets include car
parking only. For weekend accompanied teen tickets, all teenagers must
be accompanied by an over 18. Teen tickets can only
be purchased at the same time as an adult ticket.
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