AGENDA
Wednesday 20 May 2015, 8.30am-9.30am
Chapter Meeting Room 2 (NB: further info at bottom of agenda)
Chair: Andy Eagle
The purpose of What Next?
BROAD AIM: to find new ways of engaging with our audience and visitors: the ever-expanding millions who value and take part in the cultural work that happens day-in, day-out up and down this country.
GUIDING STAR: to encourage the people of this country, as individuals and as communities, to see connections between the many different ways art and culture affect and enhance our lives; to urge everyone to register their endorsement of – and pleasure in – their art and culture, especially where these are under threat.
WN? Cardiff site (agendas, members, etc.): http://whatnextcardiff.wordpress.com
WN? UK movement website: www.whatnextculture.org
Twitter:
Cardiff: www.twitter.com/wncardiff or @WNCardiff and #wn2014 #wnculture
UK: www.twitter.com/whatnextculture and #wn2014 #wnculture
1. Welcome and Introductions
2. Updates:
– Creative Learning plan
3. Points to consider to put to DM for Culture, Sport and Tourism
– New thinking on working with education sector and its most pressing issues
– Responding to Wales the creative nation idea
– The city region and its possibilities including Capital of Culture bid
– Thinking through ‘participation’
– The relationship between Wales and DCMS on cultural policy
– The interrelationship between arts, culture and technology
– BBC ‘Get Creative’ campaign and its legacy
– Funding sources including trusts and philanthropic giving
– A wider role for WN? as a consultative body on big issues facing arts policy
– Public Service Boards
– KPIs in relation to the Wales We Want campaign
4. The Wales We Want: Preparations for the forthcoming Well-being of Future Generations (WFG) Act – follow-up discussion
5. Follow-up on invitations to future WN? – S4C/ACW partnership, BBC Wales, WN? centrally, Cardiff City Council
6. AOB
PLEASE NOTE FUTURE HOST VENUES:
National Theatre Wales 27 May – 1 July
BBC NOW 8 July – 29 July
** August break **
WNO 9 Sept – 14 Oct
Sherman Cymru 21 Oct – 25 Nov
Creative Economy, Cardiff University 2 Dec – 16 Dec
Information on venue:
Chapter will be hosting What Next? until 20 May.
Meeting Room 2 is on the first floor and will be signposted.
There is bike parking at the front of the building and a car park at the rear. Bus numbers 17 + 18 buses direct to Chapter are every 5 minutes from Cardiff Central. There is a car park at the rear of the building and two Cardiff Council car parks in walking distance which are free for the first two hours. More info here: http://www.chapter.org/maps-directions
Refreshments won’t be provided but there is a large café on the ground floor.
Upcoming events:
The Wales We Want: Preparations for the forthcoming Well-being of Future Generations (WFG) Act (1-28 May)
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/y-gymru-a-garem-the-wales-we-want-6638461205
http://www.thewaleswewant.co.uk/
ACW & Academi Wales event: “Margaret Wheatley: Who do we choose to be for this time?” (The Old Hall, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Lampeter Campus, Ceredigion SA48 7ED – Friday 26 June 12.45pm-4.30pm) http://www.artscouncilofwales.org.uk/87538
Making Culture Work “Self-evaluation events in London, Swindon or Manchester”
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/making-culture-work-8105123474?s=37025289
Creative Learning Through the Arts plan
From Welsh Government
- The plan: http://gov.wales/docs/dcells/publications/150302-creative-learning-through-the-arts.pdf
- The timeline: http://gov.wales/docs/dcells/publications/150302-creative-learning-through-the-arts-timeline.pdf
- Statement: http://gov.wales/topics/educationandskills/publications/guidance/creative-learning-through-the-arts/?lang=en
- And here: http://gov.wales/newsroom/educationandskills/2015/150303creativelearningarts/?lang=en
From Arts Council of Wales
- Press release/ statement: http://artswales.org.uk/85513
- Microsite: http://www.artscouncilofwales.org.uk/what-we-do/creative-learning
- FAQ: http://www.artscouncilofwales.org.uk/what-we-do/creative-learning/faqs-for-arts-organisations-and-practitioners
Donaldson curriculum review
- The full report, Successful Futures, is here:
- http://gov.wales/topics/educationandskills/schoolshome/curriculuminwales/curriculum-for-wales/?lang=en
- The WG statement in response is here:
- http://gov.wales/newsroom/educationandskills/2015/150225curriculum/?lang=en
- Great Debate info is here:
- http://gov.wales/topics/educationandskills/great-debate/?lang=en
- One response, by Earlyarts, is here:
- http://earlyarts.co.uk/successful-futures-earlyarts-insight-proposed-educational-reform-wales/
- Estyn report: Best practice in the creative arts at key stage 2. This report is written in response to a request for advice from the Welsh Government in the Minister’s annual remit letter to Estyn for 2013-2014. It is partly as a result of Professor Dai Smith’s report ‘Arts in Education in the Schools of Wales’ (September 2013). http://www.estyn.gov.uk/download/publication/357711.9/best-practice-in-teaching-and-learning-in-the-creative-arts-at-key-stage-2-training-material/