Create Gloucestershire

Huge congratulations to our director Pippa Jones who has received an MBE for services to the Arts. It is so well deserved and the whole team are super proud of you! 👏

This year we have programmed an ‘after work’ drinks reception at the #glosdataday so that if you are unable to join us for whatever reason during the day you can still take part. Come along to chat with speakers and participants and find out what we have discovered over the course of the dataday. See the art work created on the day 👉 Read the poetry written during the Creative writing inspired by data workshop. 👉 View and feel! the textiles made in the ‘Stitch in Time: building confidence and connectivity through creativity’ workshop. 👉 See and hear the Music created in ‘From Numbers to Notes: Humanising Data Through Sound’ workshop. PLUS take a look at the box fresh Gloucestershire data assets system map to find out what data is available for everyone to use in the county. BOOK YOUR EVENING TICKETS HERE 16th December @Parabola Arts Centre in Cheltenham. Find out more and book your place here. 👉https://lnkd.in/eFuG3zWj

🔥 Saffron's Artist Development Programme is back for 24/25!!!

A lot of CG’s thinking and action is about the less visible systems, structures and behaviours that create inequalities in Gloucestershire and how this plays out in, and is played out by, the cultural and creative sectors. Building new equitable foundations for how things get done requires the slow, careful work of growing trust across the system. Our team support people and organisations to work better together so they can create the change that matters to them. We also hold the space for dialogue about how to do this in a way that doesn’t further damage our natural world. CG’s long-term systems wide approach is harder to see and count than project based activity. What does a 'trust balance sheet' look like for example? Which is why we deeply appreciate the support of the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation who understand how vital it is to re-imagine first; before building the governance and management that can seed and sustain creative, confident, communities. You can find out more about our relationship and work in partnership with Esmée Fairbairn Foundation here: 👉 https://lnkd.in/eNMcXdgJ

Join data experts and data novices on 16th December at Parabola Arts in Cheltenham to share knowledge, data and techniques to release the power from your data. Find out more and book your place here. 👉 https://lnkd.in/eFuG3zWj Barnwood Trust Active Gloucestershire Arts Council England Age UK Gloucestershire Connected by Data 📈Amit Kohli Daniel Gale Daniel Jacques Alan Inman-Ward Claire Glasbey Roz Warden Adél Schofield GRCC Digital Poverty Alliance #glosdataday #communitydata

Community Health & Wellbeing grants available! The funding aims to support local groups & organisations to create the conditions for healthy individuals & communities. 📆 Application deadline: 11 November 24 Grants between: £10 and 20k Find out more & apply: https://buff.ly/48dObhC #Gloucestershire #Funding

Tickets are GO! for #glosdataday number 2. Join us to help demystify, democratise and re-draw data so it works better for us all. 16th December @Parabola Arts Centre in Cheltenham. The full programme will be coming soon, but in the meantime here are 3 sessions to give you a sense of what's on offer. 🔶 Is the data being used to prioritise investment a good fit with rural communities needs and interests? Join Tom Beasley from Active Gloucestershire to explore. 🔶 The Tree Equity Score UK was created to help address disparities in urban tree distribution. Join @Adamcormack from the The Woodland Trust to explore why the data intersection between tree cover and social/health justice matters. 🔶 Data is a source of power. Campaigns are a way to exercise change but do we know how to campaign to change how data is collected, stored and used? Join Jeni Tennison from Connected by Data who will be sharing their newly launched Community Campaigns Toolkit- what's in it and why its useful. Find out more and book your place here. 👉 https://dataday.org.uk/ Barnwood Trust Active Gloucestershire Arts Council England Age UK Gloucestershire Connected by Data 📈Amit Kohli Daniel Gale Alan Inman-Ward Claire Glasbey Roz Warden Adél Schofield

We're looking forward to joining the panel at the second Movement for Change event this week. We'll be alongside GL4 CIC sharing our experience of Culture Matson and what we have noticed about the system wide culture of collaboration in Gloucestershire. We'll be joined on the panel by Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and the Barnwood Trust to delve into questions such as 'what role we play in encouraging partnerships' and 'what the ingredients for good partnership work' are. We'll be sharing highlights from the day but please join us if you would like to understand our individual agendas and explore how we can each complement each other to work together for Gloucester. https://bit.ly/3YbdSKR

One of our Create Local networks is planning a fun collaborative event for artists (of any discipline!) in Cheltenham on Friday 8th November. Join @Cheltenham Arts Network and artist Alice Sheppard Fidler for a relaxed, experimental workshop moving through different opportunities to engage in a variety of creative ways. This collaborative workshop has been developed to support and encourage creatives in or new to the role of host or creative leader. Come and have fun through individual and group activities. Places are FREE but limited and priority will be given to those who live or work in Cheltenham. You can book your place here or by scanning the QR code in the photo. https://lnkd.in/en2sCt6n (Thank you to Cheltenham Borough Council for your support!) Image credit: @AliceSheppardFidler

“By opening up the arts to everyone, everywhere, the lives of children you will never meet, whose names you will never know, will be changed forever.” In her first speech, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy sets out arts policy plans at #LabourConference24. Read on for the highlights 👇 1) ARTS EDUCATION 📚 "We’re going to reignite the imagination of the next generation, because a complete education is a creative education." Lisa Nandy announces the upcoming curriculum review that will aim to "put arts, sport and music back at the heart of the curriculum." 2) LOCAL COUNCILS 🏬 Lisa Nandy acknowledged that the slashing of council funding has created "cultural deserts" in parts of the UK. She proposes to hand back power to communities to reclaim their cultural assets and historic buildings. 3) CREATIVE INDUSTRIES 🎭 Lisa Nandy announced plans to support creative industries everywhere - including with councils and mayors - with "good jobs and the chance to write the next chapter in our national story." 4) PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING 📺 The Culture Secretary criticised attacks on public service broadcasters, including the BBC. The Government is about to kickstart the Charter review "to ensure the BBC survives and thrives well into the latter half of this century." 5) ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND 🎨 "We will never accept that there is a trade-off between excellence and access." Lisa Nandy plans to review Arts Council England. She says that it will help "to ensure arts for everyone, everywhere". 6) CIVIL SOCIETY 👥 "They are the central partners in the country we seek to build. They have not just a right but a duty to speak out." - The Culture Secretary intends to reset the Government’s relationship with civil society, including charities & trade unions. ---- We welcome these pledges to address chronic underfunding, neglect & barriers to arts access, education and provision. We call on the Culture Secretary to deliver on all these promises. Because the arts matter, and everybody should have opportunities to experience and engage with them.