ARTSADMIN YOUTH BOARDPROJECTS & OPPORTUNITIES

The Artsadmin Youth Board was set up in 2007 to offer long term support to young people who had taken part in Artsamin’s projects. Since then it has become a model of best practice in youth-led programming. This publication outlines its projects and what can be offered to individuals and organisations for their artistic and professional development, including:

• SCRITS

• Talking With Your Mouth Full

• Dot Dot Dash Dot

• Mentoring and Consultation

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ARTSADMIN YOUTH BOARDSupporting young people as cultural leaders

The Artsadmin Youth Board is a collective of artists, producers and performers between the ages of 16 and 25, who initiate, produce and deliver a participatory programme for other emerging artists. Supported and mentored by Artsadmin’s education producer Sam Trotman, the board’s core aims are to: promote access to live art, performance and visual art for young people; produce and facilitate events to support young artists and their work; advise on Artsadmin’s programme for young people and to build connections with other organisations.

SCRITSA unique blend of a fine art critique crossed with a performance scratch...

Artsadmin’s Youth Board Scrits are a unique platform for emerging artists wanting to test out and develop a new piece of work. Artists present work to a small invited group of fellow practitioners from a diverse range of disciplines, making the event ideal for those who want feedback from an impartial but experienced audience. Scrits are best suited for work that does not easily fit within one particular specialism and offers new outside perspectives from the varied experiences and backgrounds of the audience.

During a Scrit, four artists are given a forty minute slot to present and get feedback on a piece of work they have been developing. The artist has the first fifteen minutes to perform or present the work before it is opened up to the audience for critique and discussion. The critique is led by the audience, without input from the artist, so that discussion emerges from the work itself. This allows the artist to get feedback from a new audience seeing the work with fresh eyes before they join the discussion themselves.

The Youth Board stays in contact with all the artists who participate in a Scrit, providing further advice about their work and new opportunities.

TALKING WITH YOUR MOUTHFULLAn event for sharing ideas, thoughts and food, for young people and emerging artists interested in performance, visual and live art

Talking With Your Mouth Full is an event to help emerging artists make connections with like-minded people to discuss practical issues around making and showing work and the various opportunities that education institutions and cultural organisations offer. We host an open space for debates, discussions and reviews of the opportunities available both at Artsadmin and elsewhere. The discussion during each Talking With Your Mouth Full is prompted at the start by an introductory game with a set of questions. Guests can offer advice to one another based on the answers to these questions. The discussions help forge new connections and identify the variety of opportunities available.

Previous events have begun with questions including ‘How can I continue to make work once I leave university?’ ‘Where do I find space to rehearse?’ or ‘How can I obtain funding for a new project?’. Talking with Your Mouth Full provides an ideal opportunity for young artists to meet, engage in new work and create new networks. Whilst sharing food and thoughts it is a space to get involved in the development of new participatory projects.

The Artsadmin Youth Board presents an event for film and performance lovers – screening the old with the new, we invite you to come and watch...

Dot Dot Dash Dot is a film event to promote the work of emerging artists and film-makers. For each event the Youth Board panel choose a theme of interest and promote an open call for short films engaging with this theme. Three shorts are selected and screened alongside a feature from a more established artist in an evening event at Toynbee Studios Arts Bar & Café, in London, to a captive audience.

A performance based film by an established artist is chosen for our feature - usually something that is rarely screened in public. Dot Dot Dash Dot is a chance for fans to watch a piece of film and performance history, as well as to see it in a different context alongside new work.

Previous themes have included ‘Home’ inspired by Bobby Baker’s Kitchen Show and ‘The Cost of Living’ from DV8’s film of the same name. The Youth Board endevours to maintain a relationship with all the film-makers that take part in Dot Dot Dash Dot, continuing to offer advice and opportunities to help develop their practice.

MENTORING ANDCONSULTATIONThe Artsadmin Youth Board provides consultation for other arts organisations regarding ‘best practice’ and ways of working with young people. Using our collective experience, we can offer mentoring and advice as needed for specific projects and how these may be best facilitated. The Youth Board is always seeking new ways to collaborate with arts organisations and youth initiatives to produce new and exciting opportunities for emerging artists and young people across the country.

All aspects of the public programme are offered as off-site events and in the past the youth board have delivered and collaborated on projects at the Arnolfini in Bristol, MK Gallery in Milton Keynes and Midlands Arts Centre in Birmingham. If you are from an organisation that would like to host or collaborate on parts of the programme listed here, or would like support and advice in producing youth-led events, then we want to hear from you!

youthboard@artsadmin.co.ukartsadmin.co.uk/strands/youth-board

Artsadmin Youth BoardToynbee Studios28 Commercial StreetLondon E1 6AB

T 020 7247 5102F 020 7247 5103

Written, designed and produced by the Artsadmin Youth Board.Cover and group photo by Calvin Condry, all other photos by the Artsadmin Youth Board.

Artsadmin receives regular funding from Arts Council England. Registered in the UK no. 2979487. Registered charity no. 1044645.