YOUTH ENGAGEMENT
B.ARTS deliver Youth Activities in areas of multiple deprivation, with the aim of engaging more young people in arts and creative activities. This can take the form of individual creative interventions, sustained project work or long running weekly art clubs.
We have worked with a number of artists to deliver unique and exciting youth activity including parkour in a lush community garden with a stuntman, graffiti and mural workshops with young people across the city, five short films created with wildly different groups of young people spreading from Biddulph to Longton, and much, much more.
Our model is lived experience and neurodivergent informed, and aims to give young people the agency to be able to co-create their own creative experience.
B.ARTS’ current priority areas for youth activity are Abbey Hulton, Fegg Hayes, Norton and Smallthorne and last year we worked with around a thousand young people across these areas.
B.ARTS also work internationally helping to train new Youth Leaders, partnering with Youth Focused organisations from Moldova, Georgia, Ukraine, Spain & Germany to develop cross border models for creative youth activity.
Our current partners are Fegg Hayes Futures, Sutton Trust Community Group, The Wallace Centre, Stoke on Trent City Council, Cultural Zebra, 10 Count Boxing, Ulysses Youth, Laolalta, Sala4Teatro, Artistania & Kultulabor Trial&Error.
B.ARTS Youth Engagement has recently been funded by Film Hub Midlands, Tudor Trust, Coalfields Regeneration Trust and Stoke on Trent City Council.
FOR MORE DETAILS
Or to commission Youth Activity in your area please contact our Youth Engagement Lead, Martin Gooding.