Are you ready for the challenge?

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Arts Award and Summer Reading Challenge
Did you know you can use the House and the Mouse
activity book for Arts Award Discover?
Arts Award Discover was a great fit with what
we were already delivering and contributed to our
library strategy. The staff and children really
enjoyed the project and feedback from the parents
has been really positive. It was a really good
way of bringing children of different ages and
schools together to have fun and learn. One group
of children even met outside of the library and
visited the cinema together as part of the
award. Ruth Gedalovitch, Reader Development
Manager for Havering Libraries
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What is Arts Award?

• Arts Awards unique qualifications support young
  people to develop as artists and arts leaders
• The programme develops creativity, leadership
  and communications skills
• Arts Award is open to anyone aged 5 to 25
• Arts Award embraces all interests and
  backgrounds
• Available at five levels, four accredited on the
  QCF and one introductory level
• Arts Award is run by Trinity College London in
  association with Arts Council England working
  with 10 regional Bridge organisations
• Arts Award will be available for 5 and 6 year
  olds from September 2013

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What do children do for Arts Award Discover?

• Take part in a range of arts activities to widen
  their experience and understanding of the arts.
  This could include reading, writing,
  storytelling, drawing, drama.... any creative
  activities they get involved in at the library,
  or elsewhere
• Find out about artists and their work. Writers,
  poets, illustrators, singers, actors and creative
  people they know or meet through the Summer
  Reading Challenge
• Share what they found out with others taking
  part in the Summer Reading Challenge, staff and
  volunteers at the library, their family or
  online at www.creepy-house.org.uk
• Create an arts log of evidence. For Summer
  Reading Challenge 2013 they can use the House and
  Mouse activity book

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Arts Award Discover Summer Reading Challenge
2013

• The Reading Agency has worked closely with
  Trinity College and the regional Bridge
  organisations to embed Arts Award Discover into
  the Summer Reading Challenge 2013
• If you have purchased the House and the Mouse
  activity book this can be used as the arts log
  for Arts Award Discover
• Any library wanting to offer children Arts Award
  Discover will need a trained Arts Award adviser
  ask your Bridge about training
• Each child achieves an Arts Award certificate
  which costs between 1 and 2.50 depending on
  group size. Taking part in Summer Reading
  Challenge may entitle libraries to discounted
  fees

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Arts Award Discover Summer Reading Challenge
2013

• We hope that you will want to use the House and
  the Mouse activity book to deliver Arts Award
  Discover! However, you are not required to run
  Arts Award in order to use the activity book
• You can take a look inside the activity book
  here The House and the Mouse
• Even if you dont run Arts Award Discover with
  the House and the Mouse activity book, it will
  show you how easy it is to incorporate Arts Award
  into existing projects
• The Bridge organisations are actively encouraging
  libraries to engage with Arts Award and may be
  able to help you to do so

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Delivering Arts Award

• You will need to have a member of staff or a
  volunteer with experience of working with
  children trained as an Arts Award Discover and
  Explore adviser
• Register your library service as an Arts Award
  centre. This is free and advisers can work across
  your library sites
• You can work in collaboration with an existing
  Arts Award centre to deliver Arts Award
• Find local centres on the map at
  www.artsaward.org.uk/centres

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Arts Award Supporter

• If youre not ready to run Arts Award at your
  library you can register as an Arts Award
  Supporter. This is free and gives you the
  opportunity to promote activities you offer that
  children and young people can use towards their
  Arts Award.
• As a Supporter your library might offer
• workshops
• arts, literary and cultural events which they can
  review
• opportunities to find out about artists and
  cultural opportunities
• a chance to share skills, lead arts projects or
  show their work at the library
• Find out more and register at www.artsaward.org.uk
  /supporter

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Support

• Trinity College manages Arts Award on behalf of
  the Arts Council England. The Arts Award website
  tells you about the different levels, how to
  deliver it, what children and young people get
  out of it, and provides resources and case
  studies www.artsaward.org.uk
• The Arts Award Guide has information and costs
  www.artsaward.org.uk/guide
• The Arts Council funded Bridge organisations are
  actively engaging with the library sector to
  encourage more library services to train staff as
  advisers and deliver Arts Award.

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Bridge Organisations
A goal of Arts Council Englands mission,
achieving great art for everyone, is to
make sure that every child and young person has
the opportunity to experience the richness of
the arts and culture. To help achieve this, ACE
has funded a network of 10 Bridge
organisations. They use their experience and
expertise to connect children and young people,
schools, communities, libraries and museums with
art and culture.
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What Bridges can to do support your library

• Each regional Bridge organisation has an officer
  with responsibilities for engaging with libraries
• Many offer training advice on Arts Award and may
  be able to help library staff/volunteers access
  Arts Award Adviser training
• The Bridges have excellent information on the
  arts and cultural offers and organsations within
  their region
• They offer an excellent opportunity for library
  services to engage with other arts and cultural
  organisations
• For more information contact your regional Bridge

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The Bridge organisations
East of England Norfolk and Norwich
Festival http//bit.ly/ZyhE0B Royal Opera
House http//bit.ly/11bZYDe East Midlands The
Mighty Creatives http//bit.ly/19t3u2C
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The Bridge organisations
London A New Direction http//bit.ly/10EpHro No
rth East The Sage Gateshead http//bit.ly/1431Wu
0 North West Curious Minds http//bit.ly/ZykC5h
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The Bridge organisations
South East Artswork http//bit.ly/16vU9IG South
West RIO http//bit.ly/16vUkUp West
Midlands Arts Connect http//bit.ly/1aIjjR4 Yor
kshire Cape UK http//bit.ly/14eycXx
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Bridge library leads
East of England Norfolk and Norwich Festival -
Joff Whitten - joff_at_nnfestival.org.uk Royal
Opera House Kelly Lean - kelly.lean_at_roh.org.uk
East Midlands The Mighty Creatives Mary Mills
- mary_at_themightycreatives.com London A New
Direction John Mahon - john.McMahon_at_anewdirectio
n.org.uk North East The Sage Gateshead Dawn
Williams - dawn.williams_at_thesagegateshead.org Nort
h West Curious Minds Caz Brader -
Caz.Brader_at_curiousminds.org.uk South
East Artswork Ruth Taylor -
ruth_at_artswork.org,uk South West RIO Tamzyn
Smith - tamzyn.smith_at_realideas.org West
Midlands Arts Connect Susan Goodwin -
Susan.Goodwin_at_wlv.ac.uk Yorkshire Cape UK -
Jael Edwards - Jael.edwards_at_capeuk.org