Time

Space

Day plan

9:00 – 9:30

Concorde

Level 1

Registration

On entry to Waterfront delegates register and collect information packs.

Thinkbucket kick off.

BIFHE and Thinkbucket collaborate in a day-long investigation turning our conference inside-out, creatively.  A team of twenty-three 1^st year Performing Arts students from Belfast Institute of Further and Higher Education (BIFHE) will, in pseudo-performance roles, investigate the progress and development of the conference throughout the day. By engaging delegates in discussion the lab-coated ‘inspectors’ will collect data, experiment with approaches, investigate resources and feedback their findings by the end of the conference.

Tessa Greer – DJ and Music Producer

Having worked for over 10 years in the music industry, Bangor-based Tessa is part of ‘Beat’n’Track’, a creative development initiative that provides tailor-made music workshops for individuals and groups. Today as one of Creative Youth partnerships musical artists, she provides atmospheric musical interludes for our conference day.

Lucy Turner and Katie Blue, CYP Artists

Creativity Captured: a developmental interactive collaboration between the artists and the audience begins led by two of Creative Youth Partnerships artists.

Registration for workshops

Register now for two workshops in the afternoon. Numbers are limited for individual workshops and enrolment is on a first come-first-served basis.

9:30-9:40

Studio

McMaster Brothers – Mime onstage in studio - Classic mime artists for the modern day.

Known as The McMaster Brothers, Paul and Neil have been training in Classical Mime for the past 6 / 7 years through a tutor who himself trained under Marcel Marceau and the brothers have recently enrolled as Creative Youth Partnerships artists. The audience can expect professional quality, vibrant and lively characters, first impressions stirring wonder and curiosity in audiences of any age and leaving you with a newly inspired appreciation and inspiration of mime as an art-form.

A-freek-a! Nicky Such, Conference Opening

A-freek-a! is an inner city cross-community African drum group which is part of the Belfast City School of Music. The group range in age from eight years to forty plus. CYP has funded the group this year and with their help we have raised our standards dramatically. One highlight of this year was playing at all the main IFA matches including the Northern Ireland match and the Irish Cup final.

9:40-9:50

Studio

Welcome and Introductions followed by

Official Opening of Conference by Paul Sweeney, Permanent Secretary of DCAL.

9:50-9:55

Studio

Promotional DVD of work of CYP

9:55-10:00

Studio

Introducing Dr Jonothan Needlands.

10:00 – 10:35

Studio

Vital Learning!’ - Creativity, Partnerships and Beginning a Creative Future.

Dr Jonothan Neelands, Reader in Drama & Theatre Education, Institute of Education. Deputy Director of Research, National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth, University of Warwick, delivers a keynote address that will remind us of the importance of focusing on the arts and creativity as ways of bringing quality of life and quality of learning into our schools.

10:35 – 10:40

Studio

Promotional DVD

10:45 – 10:50

Studio

Introducing Nick Randell

10:50 – 11:25

Studio

Arts interventions with young people excluded from mainstream education.

Nick Randell, is a Youth Arts Consultant, Researcher and Project Manager, UK; his key note address is informed through his work with those excluded from mainstream education (The Arts Included) and young offenders (Including the Arts: Preventing youth offending).

11:25 -11:45

Gallery 1 and 2

Refreshments and Networking.

Sign up for workshops in afternoon.

11:45 -12:05

Studio

A Marvellous Medicine!

Creative Youth Partnership Action Zone Project, WELB.  Children from Drumachose Primary School (Limavady),  St Colmcille’s Primary School (Claudy), led by Brian Irvine and the Ultan String Quartet in partnership with the University of Ulster Music and Drama Students.

12:05-12:15

Studio

Promotional DVD

12:15 -12:20

Studio

Introduction of Tim Rollins

12:20-12:50

Studio

Kids of Survival (KOS), NY - Looking back over 25 years work collaborating with artistically gifted and disadvantaged young people, first in the South Bronx community in New York City and more recently on an international scale in distressed neighborhoods throughout the world.

Tim Rollins, our third key note speaker, is a senior instructor at the School of Visual Arts in NYC and is also Visiting Professor of Art, Literature and Music at the Martha Washington Elementary in Philadelphia, Pa sponsored by The Centre for the Prevention of School Violence at Drexel University, Philadelphia.

12:50-12:55

Studio

DVD: Dylan Quinn and dance

12:55-1:05

Studio

‘Warrina’ Performed by pupils from St. Mary's and St. Joseph's Primary School, Belfast.

‘Warrina’ means ‘rest in peace’. The performance is an homage to three young Aboriginal children who were murdered by a policeman. John Johnston (CYP artist) was told this story while in Australia by an elder called Uncle Martin. He was asked to spread the word of this sad tale and so carried the story from Australia to inspire this piece of work with other young people. This emotive and dramatic piece of work is the childrens' response to the story. Warrina is a multi-artform performance of drumming, dance and visual art which has an Aboriginal theme.

1:05-1:10

Studio

Young people introduce lunch and signpost for workshops

1:10-2:00

Gallery 1 and 2

Lunchtime opportunities for creative exchange and networking.

2:00 – 2:45

Various venues (see detailed workshop timetable )

Workshops – Session 1

1. ‘And as imagination Bodies Forth’                 Tim Rollins
2. ‘Drama – Walking in different shoes.’             Jonothan Needlands
3. ‘The Arts Included’                                       Nick Randell
4. ‘Beneath the surface’                                   Kids Own
5. ‘Young people in the driving seat’                  Young at Art
6. ‘Visions of the Future’                                  SEELB
7. ‘Sounds of Lough Neagh’                              SELB
8. ‘Visualise Omagh in Creative Expression’      WELB
9. ‘The Complete Picture’                                 BELB
10. ‘Education and the artist’                             NEELB

2:45-3:00

Workshop changeover

3:00 -3:45

Various venues (see detailed workshop timetable )

Workshops – Session 2

11. ‘And as imagination Bodies Forth’                 Tim Rollins
12. ‘Drama – Walking in different shoes.’             Jonothan Needlands
13. ‘The Arts Included’                                       Nick Randell
14. ‘Beneath the surface’                                   Kids Own
15. ‘Young people in the driving seat’                  Young at Art
16. ‘Visions of the Future’                                  SEELB
17. ‘Sounds of Lough Neagh’                              SELB
18. ‘Visualise Omagh in Creative Expression’       WELB
19. ‘The Complete Picture’                                  BELB
20. ‘Education and the artist’                               NEELB

3:45 -4:00

Gallery 1 and 2

Refreshments and Networking.

4:00 -4:15

Studio

Human Orchestra – Brian Irvine

Brian has worked as a Creative Youth Partnerships artist in a wide range of settings. He is a passionate believer in the wider values involved in the creation of new music and has conducted over 500 hands-on composition and improvisation music workshops. Today he creates an orchestra of you!

4:15 -4:30

Studio

Thinkbucket

The day-long investigation is mapped and wrapped up in a light performance and media-based evaluation, delivered by the Thinkbucket team of first year BIFHE students.  Delegates can look forward to reliving the conference day in a fun and fast-paced ten minute experience.

4:30 -4:55

Studio

Arts and Minds –Investing in the future sustainability of Youth Arts.

Feedback opportunity from those central to the work of CYP, including our funding partners, our artists and the chair of CYP. The panel will include representatives from ACNI, DCAL, DEL, DE, CYP Artists forum and the ELBs.

4:55- 5:00

Studio

Close of conference.