My time as a Cultural Leadership Trainee at Gloucestershire Libraries
Aimee is currently on a creative leadership programme with Gloucester Culture Trust, working for Gloucestershire Libraries and for two days a week at Strike A Light. She helps engage with people through creative projects based in libraries across Gloucester.
We caught up with her 3 months into her traineeship…
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The Creative Leadership Trainee Programme
In March 2019, Gloucester Culture Trust launched the Creative Leadership Trainee Programme. The aim: to nurture the future creative leaders of today.
The programme has created four full-time, year-long jobs within four of Gloucester’s creative organisations, all of which are fully funded by the Creative Entrepreneurs strand of the city’s Great Place project. This area of our work, which we call JOLT, is about creating opportunities and a supportive space which enables people to work and make a living in the creatives industries, right here in Gloucester.
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Come and celebrate Tewkesbury with local creative people, artists and businesses
Are you interested in coming together to celebrate Tewkesbury as a fun, vibrant and creative place?
If so come along to Tewkesbury Library to meet other local creative people for cake, refreshments as well as inspiring conversation and new ideas.
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Culture | Data | Learning: creative lab
Join Create Gloucestershire for this hands-on lab exploring where data and art meet.
Are you an artist interested in how data might shape your creations? Or do you work with data, and want to explore how to look at it in new ways? We want you to join us and get creative though team projects to discover, explore and represent data about the cultural education landscape in Gloucestershire.
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Catch up with CG's Sector Support Manager for Arts on Prescription
We caught up with Carrie Creamer to find out more about her role as Project Manager for arts on prescription - working alongside arts organisations delivering programmes in Glos - as well as her own chance encounter in a hospital setting which delivered a moment of joy amongst the worry and waiting.
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catalyst: a development programme for people in Gloucestershire who want to kickstart and sustain change
We are delighted to have been selected by Arts Council England to develop a leadership development programme to address specific issues around diversity in leadership - amongst 18 fabulous other projects nationwide. We will be posting more about our project in the coming weeks but in the meantime please take a look at the ace website to find out more about the programme.
https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/fund…/transforming-leadership Arts Council England
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Culture | Data | Learning: creative lab
Join Create Gloucestershire for this hands-on lab exploring where data and art meet.
Are you an artist interested in how data might shape your creations? Or do you work with data, and want to explore how to look at it in new ways? We want you to join us and get creative though team projects to discover, explore and represent data about the cultural education landscape in Gloucestershire.
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Tewkesbury Pop Up
Are you interested in making Tewkesbury a more vibrant, fun and creative place? If so come along to Tewkesbury Library on Wednesday 23 October 1.30 – 3.30pm to meet other like-minded creatives for free cake, refreshments as well as conversation and new ideas.
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Data Nuggets: Schools in the South West
As CG explores the use of data to support arts engagement in schools, we will signpost a range of datasets you might find useful when planning new projects or longer-term strategies.
First up: school data.
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Deeper into Data: An Exploration
As Create Gloucestershire delves more deeply into data and how it can support innovation and collaboration in the arts and cultural sector, we are delighted to welcome Tim Davies as a Digital Catalyst to our team.
This post explores the many different relationships between data and art, and introduces out plans for a data-art hack event later this spring.
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January 2019 Newsletter
This month we want to share a new Community Producer role, some events coming up soon and a request for all of you...
Read our newsletter online here
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December 2018 Newsletter
Hello there,
Well we're nearly at the end of another year in arts and culture and its been a real pleasure to meet so many of you, hear what you are up to and see the changes you are making happen across Gloucestershire.
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Shalize Nicholas, the founder of Madia & Matilda, talks to us about her journey from starting her sustainable fashion business to making it a success
Shalize Nicholas, the founder of Madia & Matilda, talks to us about her journey from starting her sustainable fashion business to making it a success
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Discover and Explore Arts Award Adviser Training
Create Gloucestershire is working in partnership with Real Ideas Organisation (RIO) to deliver a highly subsidised in-house training session for schools, independent artists, makers, employees of arts organisations, museums, libraries and music education hubs who want to become Discover and Explore Arts Award Advisers in Gloucestershire.
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Are you an ambitious creative business in Gloucestershire?
Are you an ambitious creative business in Gloucestershire?
If so take a look at this inspirational one-day business development workshop, PLUS follow up support, which is being delivered by The Growth Hub and Create Gloucestershire.
The workshop take place on Wednesday 19th September 2018, one of the first to be hosted at the stunning new Growth Hub in Gloucester.
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Autumn Pop Up: Exploring the opportunities & challenges of digital tech
Join us for our next Pop Up meeting where we'll b exploring the Opportunities & Challenges of Digital Technology - 11th September 10am - 12pm, Moreton in the Marsh
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Launch of Art of Libraries Summer Programme 2018
Looking for something creative and free to do this summer? There are over 60 workshops especially for with children, young people and families happening in Gloucester, Matson, Coleford, Tewkesbury, Moreton in Marsh and Dursley Library as part of Art of Libraries.
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Arts Council Chair Sir Nicholas Serota visits Culture Matson
Sir Nicholas Serota heralds a new creative chapter for Matson and meets community leaders involved in setting up GL4 and Culture Matson.
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Getting started in the creative and cultural sector
Create Gloucestershire was fortunate to be involved in an life changing initiative, the Creative Employment Programme which supported 40 young people as paid interns and apprentices in 20 different creative organisations/SME’s in taking their first step into working in the creative sector. Of those 40 young people, over half of them were kept on by their employer or moved on to further study.
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