We are pleased to announce that applications to audition for our Youth Opera: Pay the Piper are now open! A full chorus of local young people will premiere the show at Glyndebourne in February 2022. 

Pay the Piper is based on the story of The Pied Piper of Hamelin and is a collaborative piece written by our four Balancing the Score composers. Successful auditionees will perform as a chorus in the show, alongside professional singers and the Psappha ensemble to bring the show to life. Working with top opera professionals, rehearsals begin this summer and will include stagecraft, choreography and of course singing, to make sure they are ready for the performance of a lifetime. 

The auditions will be held face to face, in small COVID safe groups at venues across Sussex. Audition dates and venues are on our website now - click through below for full details and to apply now.

Audition dates:
Sunday 20 June - Ropetackle Arts Centre, Shoreham
Saturday 26 June - Denton Social Centre, Newhaven
Sunday 27 June - Battle Memorial Hall

Applications to audition close on Friday 4 June 2021

Find out how to apply here

Careers East Sussex, in collaboration with always possible, Culture Shift and Sussex STEM, is hosting an innovative online careers week this spring, with eight events to inspire and mobilise the future workforce.
 
Focusing on careers in STEM, creative & digital, construction and health social care, there will be an event in each sector aimed at 14-24 year olds, and another for adults who have been made unemployed or are looking to change career.
 
Participants will be supported with information on training, live vacancies, apprenticeships and an overview of their sector of interest – as well as signposted to careers advice at their school/college or from the National Careers Service.
 
There will be an infographic video about each sector, a panel made up of individuals who work in a range of roles in the sector and a live Q&A. A supporting resource pack will be available to attendees after the event.
Event recordings and supporting materials will be available on the Careers East Sussex website from June.
 
The events can be booked through the links on the Careers East Sussex website which will direct to EventBrite.
Confirmation of registration for the event and the Teams joining instructions/link will then be emailed to you.
 
Book your free place: https://careerseastsussex.co.uk/events/

Bookings are now open for Artsworks final CPDL event of this academic year on Arts Rich schools – what they are and how to become one.  This free CPDL event takes place via Zoom on 30th June 2021 between 3pm-5pm.

Arts-Rich Schools - What They Are and How To Become One Tickets, Wed 30 Jun 2021 at 15:00 | Eventbrite
 
Explore how raising the profile of arts and creativity can energise teaching and learning for the whole school community.  Drawing on the Royal Society of Arts’ (RSA’s) research into Arts-Rich Schools published in January 2020, this event will provide inspiration and practical tips to enable you to harness the transformative power of the arts, culture and creativity.  Samantha Cairns, Co-Director of the Cultural Learning Alliance led the Arts-Rich Schools research project and we are delighted that she will lead this CPDL session, reflecting on the key findings of what an arts-rich school looks like.  We will hear presentations from three different education settings in the South East who will outline their offer, their journey to becoming arts-rich and its benefits for pupils, staff and the wider school community. 
 
This event is suited to senior leaders, arts leaders and teachers of any subject or phase who aspire to develop an arts-rich offer in their practice and settings.  Places are free but limited.  Previous events in this series sold out, so please secure your place soon.
 
Many thanks to those of you who were able to attend our two previous DfE-funded CPDL events this academic year.  Summaries and presentations from these events are available on our website.  The October event discussed Pupil Wellbeing and reconnecting with learning through creativity and in March we heard from schools taking creative approaches to Transition.   
 

Free Event - Taking (bank) notes: Pay Parity in the Cultural Sector

How can we emerge as a stronger cultural community from the pandemic? How can we ensure creative freelancers recover with greater financial security and organisations support that recovery?

Organisations often offer day rates for creative freelance work, but do we have a shared understanding of what these day rates need to cover for creative freelancers in order that they can have a sustainable career?

In this interactive session The Uncultured (Ashleigh Bowmott + Laura Sweeney) will share provocations and useful information on how we could shift the balance of pay disparity between arts and cultural sector freelance day rates and salaries. 

The first hour of the session will be open to both organisations and freelancers, the second part of the session will be exclusively for freelancers. The event will be BSL interpreted and zoom transcription will be in place. If you are a freelancer on a low income please enquire about our £50 bursaries.
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Only a few places left, please book  here

The Transform programme is delighted to invite you to take part in our Virtual Apprenticeship Roadshow Events this summer: SCTP is working in partnership with East Sussex County Council to run two Online Apprenticeship Roadshow Event on 11 June at 11:00-12:00 and 14 July at 18:00 – 19:30.
The events will bring together employers, training providers, young people, and their parents/carers, providing up to date information on apprenticeships (from pre-employment to higher and degree apprenticeships). Both Roadshows will feature panel events about apprenticeships giving the experiences of apprentices, apprenticeship employers and training providers.
If you are not free to join us on the day there are lots of other ways that you can get involved, for example, by allowing us to share information about your how your company supports apprenticeships or by enabling us to promote any apprenticeship vacancies that you have.  

They are looking for East Sussex Apprenticeship Employers to be part of the events to help promote apprenticeships, and to share their insight and experience with attendees. There will also be an opportunity to promote any live or future apprenticeship vacancies.
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The Apprenticeship Roadshow will:

• Give employers a platform to showcase their current and future career opportunities.
• Promote live apprenticeship vacancies.
• Share real life apprenticeship case studies and inspirational stories.
• Give apprenticeship training providers a platform to promote their services.
• Give East Sussex schools clear information about pathways to apprenticeships.
• Give young people the opportunity to understand how apprenticeships work, to meet employers, to find out about live and future vacancies, and hear from education and training providers.
• Give parents and carers clear and accurate information about apprenticeships to ensure that they can better support young people.
• Give adult job seekers the chance to learn about vacancies and training opportunities.
• Include a professional panel of Employers, Providers, and Apprentices, to answer questions from our virtual audience.
• Provide further information and Next Steps for young people.

 
The benefit to you:

• A platform to advertise your Live Vacancies.
• An opportunity to promote your business and industry sector to young people and adults seeking apprenticeships across the county.
• An opportunity to support your community and social responsibility and public relations aims within your business.

 
To find out more about how you can be part of this innovative and exciting event, please contact [email protected].
 

A youth voice initiative by Arts Council England's Bridge Network.   

The Bridge network has come together to collaboratively launch a new digital series focusing on good practice in children and young people voice across England. 

14th May will see the launch of a new online digital magazine series that highlights elements of best practice around fostering ‘children and young people’s voice (CYP Voice), in the context of creative and cultural learning. 

Launched collectively by the National Bridge Network and aimed at professionals working in the cultural, education and youth sectors, the series will showcase examples of adult-led CYP informed work as well as CYP initiated work.  

The Bridge network's collective goal is to demonstrate the range of conditions that enable young people to develop their voice in different contexts e.g. cultural sector, youth sector, education sector and community. 
 
The episodes will reflect on the impact of Covid19 and how it has affected young people and how they have adapted to using different platforms to get their voices heard. 
The initiative aims to encourage greater interest in and uptake of leading practice around encouraging CYP voice and young people’s leadership in a range of settings.  

Each episode will be published biweekly, initially for 3 months, and will follow themes covering, Wellbeing, Young Creatives, Child lead learning, Board participation, Changemakers and Ambassadors.   

The concept of this resource is to enable viewers who are well-practised in this work, and those who are just starting out to equally find meaningful and useful information related to questions such as: How is this ‘youth voice' work managed, What impact does ‘youth voice 'activity have both on your organisation and the young people who are participating? and How do you fund your youth voice 'activity."  

The first episode, focusing on wellbeing, is available to view below 
 
Visit the Website here

 
 

Join us for extraordinary opera and so much more
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We are delighted to be able to once again invite schools into our auditorium to watch a full opera as part of our Performances for Schools programme this autumn, which has already inspired over 30,000 students.

What to expect from a visit
These performances enable young audiences to immerse themselves in the excitement of an opera. These are fully staged, full length performances with plenty of free resources to help you get the most out of the visit, including: digital guides and worksheets; an on stage introduction; a poster for the classroom and a chance to meet the cast after the show. Find out more. 

This year we expect your visit will look a little different due to Covid-19. We are continually updating our policies in line with Government guidelines - please find our current safety measures here. 

How to book 
Tickets will be assigned by ballot application using the link below. The ballot will close on Friday 18 June and you will hear from us by Monday 21 June if you are successful. 

Go to Performances for Schools - Glyndebourne to enter the ballot.