When: Wednesday 6 January 2016, 8.30am-9.30am
Host: Cardiff School of Art & Design, Cardiff Metropolitan University
Where: Heart Space, B Block (main CSAD building), Llandaff Campus, Western Avenue Cardiff CF5 2YB
(The Heart Space is the first floor social space, accessed via the wide staircase from the B Block foyer. As you walk through the Campus, you will find B Block on the right hand side of the square. It’s accessed via the glass tube, and has a large shiny University crest on its side.)
Chair: Chris Glynn, Senior Lecturer, Illustration
The main doors will be open from 8.00am. Refreshments will be provided.
This will be the meeting space for What Next? Cardiff until Wednesday 10 February.
There is bike parking around the Campus and we have been able to reserve 5 parking spaces at the very front of the Campus outside the main reception building. A limited amount of paid for car parking is also available at the front of the Campus – you need to collect a parking permit to also display in your car from the front reception desk.
For more information including on public transport links visit http://www.cardiffmet.ac.uk/about/campuses/Pages/Llandaff-Campus.aspx
- Welcome and introductions
- City of Cardiff council budget
The council is proposing to cut its funding of Cardiff Contemporary, Arts Active, Artes Mundi, Cardiff Singer of the World and community led arts programmes. The cuts were discussed at the special meeting that took place on Wednesday 17 December and the deadline for submitting feedback to Council as a part of the consultation process is 11 January 2016.
More info on the proposals and public consultation: http://www.cardiff.gov.uk/budget
- Response from WN? to the Welsh Government consultation the Well-being of Future Generations Act
Laura Drane and a colleague have been working on a response from WH? for use by individuals, organisations and the sector more widely.
- Extension of the BBC Get Creative project and the BBC’s partnership with What Next?
- Future What Next? Meetings. Planning ahead for activity in 2016. Which speakers should we invite? Themes to discuss? Activity around Welsh Assembly elections. Support and development of other What Next? Chapters in Wales. Future venues.
Potential future topics for discussion
- Setting-up a Cardiff Family Arts Network (suggested by Chris Ricketts)
- Cardiff City Region: how to get arts/culture represented at Board level
- Equality, Diversity and Social Justice: Time for Positive Action (on Google drive) – speech from Kerry Michael at NitroBEAT
- SUSTAINABILITY DUTY: Identify and invite the lead individuals from the following to future What Next? Cardiff meetings: Prosperity, Resilience, Health, Equality, Communities, Welsh Language, Global Responsibility.
- Crowdsourced (Ceri Black tc)
- Opportunity for engagement with art and design students: invitation to WN to hold panel discussion: ‘Artists and Designers in Society: pillars or bedrock?’/future of public arts in Wales, as part of CSAD’s ‘Future Generations’ conference on 18-19 Jan. See attachment. (Chris Glynn).
Potential future speakers
- Chris Jenkins, Chief Executive, Commonwealth Games Wales Office TO BE RESCHEDULED
- Amelia Womack, Green Party Deputy – DATE TBC
- Neil Hanratty, the Director of Economic Development SUGGESTION
(Michael Garvey has contacted)
- Kath Richards and Heather Brown SUGGESTION
- Cath Richards, Cardiff Council SUGGESTION
- Paul Orders, Chief Exec SUGGESTION
- Cllr Pete Bradbury SUGGESTION
- Amanda Spence, Design Advisor at the Design Commission for Wales SUGGESTION
Cardiff School of Art and Design future speakers
- 20 January – Claudia Castro, a recently graduated International Clore Fellow from Brazil – CONFIRMED
New speaker suggestions welcome – please email creativecardiff@cardiff.ac.uk
- Any Other Business
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.
What Next? Cardiff website (agendas, members etc): http://whatnextcardiff.wordpress.com
What Next? UK movement website: www.whatnextculture.org
What Next? Twitter:
Cardiff: www.twitter.com/wncardiff or @WNCardiff and #wnculture
UK: www.twitter.com/whatnextculture and #wnculture
Please note: We want everyone to feel free to ask questions and share their thoughts at What Next? meetings without worrying that they’ll be quoted elsewhere or out of context. It’s generally accepted that no-one reports on the meetings, tweets anything personal or identifiable, or shares any content without checking first with the contributor.
What Next? Future Host Venues
Supporting Information
Get Creative
The following information on Get Creative (#mycreativehour and website) has been sent to What Next? Cardiff via; Hannah Lambert – Get Creative Campaign – What Next? Project Manager
Get Creative Day #mycreativehour
On Saturday 2nd April 2016, we will celebrate a year of Get Creative, a year of everyday artists and citizen crafts, a year of shining a light on the millions of people who love to get creative every day.
The week before, on Sunday 27th March, the clocks spring forward and people across the UK will have an extra hour of light in their days. What will you do with that hour of light? What might you do with a week of light, bright hours?
Get Creative invites all its Champions and the public to use the extra hours of light to do something creative in that week – write a short story, learn a new piece of music, hold a free taster session or master-class, dance an hour a day, throw open your rehearsals or studios and invite someone new, direct a one act play, design a wedding dress, build a set, invent an artwork. Whether you’re an individual or an organisation, everyone is invited to take part. Do it for an hour a day all week, or just find an hour on the 2nd April – get creative with your hour of light.
Show us what you create, design, do and make by using the hashtag #mycreativehour and we’ll showcase as many of your creations as possible on the Get Creative website.
Let’s celebrate the nation’s creative heartbeat and a year of Get Creative – #mycreativehour
Get Creative website
To recap, the website is regularly receiving 20k visitors a week and has surpassed well over 1 million page views since its launch. It’s continuing to develop audiences and we are committed to diversifying content and contributors. It is very likely that GC will continue on past GC Day on 2nd April.
To work editorially on the website, stories need to hang off something unusual, useful and interesting. So rather than just emailing in to notify the GC team of a free event or workshop, it really comes alive when we can pick something out of the story and run with that instead, referencing the event or link at the end.
For example:
Fun Palace in Stoke – the story is all about uncovering the newly discovered Minton tiles hidden in the venue’s basement
Fun Palace at the London Met Archives – their event was themed around microscopic art so the GC piece looks at the history of that type of art with lots of lovely pictures to draw the reader in
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/l7Gj3W5081fFdhhmxD6nKS/putting-art-under-the-microscope
A lovely Heritage Open Days story about the last remaining seaside orchestra in the UK – Scarborough Spa Orchestra,
A fun article about the Wurlitzer organ from the Royalty cinema in Cumbria, including ‘Five things you didn’t know about the Wurlitzer’
A piece about Hastings pier and ‘pier culture’ including a playlist put together by music historians of music from the past 50 decades at the pier
We have found editorial pieces that are accessible and curious as well as informative work really well. If there is an easy way in to a subject or art-form, such as top-tips / masterclasses to playing the guitar or starting a painting, it’s a great way to talk about a creative project or event to a wide (and increasing!) audience via the GC website.
I’d be really happy to be contacted by any of your Cardiff chapter if they have any thoughts they want to run past me. We’d love to get some more Welsh content up on the website. Please remember that organisations do need to sign up as GC Champions in order to contribute and that GC events need to be either free or cost-recoverable in order to comply with BBC guidelines.
To get in touch with Hannah: hlambert.projects@gmail.com / @HannahMLambert