Welcome to ChalleNGe Nottingham
ChalleNGe is a city-wide partnership of arts organisations, schools and young people. We collaborate to reach more children and young people with arts, cultural and creative opportunities in Nottingham.
Join us on Fri 20th Sept (2-4pm) for an inspiring afternoon with school leaders and creative practitioners.
Families - creative activities
Families - creative activities
Families - creative activities
Discover organisations and groups that offer creative activities for children and young people in the city. Why not try something new? There are arts groups, dance classes, youth theatre and music opportunities all year around - to name but a few!
Teachers - connect with us
Families - creative activities
Families - creative activities
Interested in bringing more creativity to your classroom, or wanting to develop new opportunities for your pupils? From one-off events to long-term partnerships, ChalleNGe brings you regular updates and boosts your creative connections. Download the latest Wallplanner.
Check out our latest Sept 2024 Primary newsletter.
Creativity Collaboratives Short film
Creativity Collaboratives Short film
Creativity Collaboratives Short film
Over the last 3 years, 12 schools from Nottingham Schools Trust have embarked on a whole range of activities to learn about and share approaches to 'Teaching for Creativity', with creative practitioner residencies and regular community of practice meetings.
Our work has been part of a national Creativity Collaboratives programme, supported by the Arts Council and the Freelands Foundation. We invite you to watch our 13m film (click on the video link above) for an inspirational look back at some of the things we've learnt about how to sustain teaching for creativity in schools.
Find Creative Practitioners here and sign up to Nottingham's Cultural Rucksack programme, to embed more creativity in your school here.
Secondary Teachers Invite!
Creativity Collaboratives Short film
Creativity Collaboratives Short film
On Tuesday August 6th (10am-2pm) Rhiannon Harries and John Marks from the University of Nottingham met with a group of Secondary teachers to watch Laurent Cantet’s film The Class (2008) at the Broadway Cinema. The screening was followed by an informal discussion on public perceptions of teaching promoted in the film versus the realities of the work teachers do.
A second event, including a screening of French-Canadian film Monsieur Lazhar (2011) will take place on Tues 29th October.
The events are part of a pilot project that aims, with the input of teachers themselves, to create an informal and convivial space for teachers to talk about their work.
Refreshments, A £10 amazon voucher and a free cinema ticket for later use will be provided.
For Teachers:
Culturemeets - Sept 2024
A-Z Directory for schools
A-Z Directory for schools
We bring teachers and arts professionals together for a termly online network called CultureMeets. We begin with 5min presentations from arts organisations about their upcoming exhibitions, workshops and resources before a themed discussion. See all past Culturemeets here.
You can book now to attend the next Culturemeets in September via eventbrite:
A-Z Directory for schools
A-Z Directory for schools
A-Z Directory for schools
Nottingham's Cultural Rucksack encourages the development of high quality partnerships between arts, cultural and heritage providers and schools - embedding a range of rich and diverse experiences to bring your curriculum to life.
Nottingham's schools are signing up to become 'Cultural Rucksack schools' - supporting their pupils to feel connected and valued by their city. Find out more about becoming a CR school here.
Creativity Collaboratives
A-Z Directory for schools
Creativity Collaboratives
Nottingham's Creativity Collaboratives programme has involved 12 schools exploring and embedding approaches around 'Teaching for Creativity' over the last 3 years.
Find out more about the Creative Practitioners and read our latest case studies.
See the Creativity Exchange website and Leading for Creative Thinking website for inspiration, links and resources.
City-wide collaborative projects
Art of Belonging
Child Friendly Nottingham
Celebrating Languages
Art of Belonging is a city-wide programme that seeks to welcome refugees and asylum seekers in Nottingham. The Art of Belonging Pledge has now been signed by 14 arts organisations and we have a growing network of creative practitioners who are being supported to facilitate sessions with new arrivals. From partnership projects with NEST (the Nottingham Education Sanctuary team) and arts venues, to the Refugee Roots regular creative programme and collaborations with Nottingham Playhouse, NAE and more - there are many ways you can support this work and get involved.
Celebrating Languages
Child Friendly Nottingham
Celebrating Languages
We're delighted to be working in partnership with schools, communities, arts partners and our two Universities to celebrate our diverse languages and dialects in Nottingham.
Thanks to funding from NTU, 8 partnership projects across the city have been created to explore new ways to engage people in Celebrating Languages - and we are working with a video producer, Dee Kalakoti, to bring you short films from each project.
We are also excited to be the Community partner for a Co(l)laboratory and welcome Jack Benjamin as our PhD researcher.
Child Friendly Nottingham
Child Friendly Nottingham
Child Friendly Nottingham
Child Friendly Nottingham is a city-wide partnership programme to put children's rights into practice. Lots of organisations are supporting children and young people to have a meaningful say in local decisions, services and spaces. Training and resources from UNICEF are available for teams and organisations to get involved.
Over 9000 children and young people collaborated to choose 3 'badges' (areas to focus on) which are:
Safe and Secure; Education and Learning and Healthy. 'Equal and included is the golden thread, linking all our work together.
RSE Day
Connecting Notts, Youth Voices
Child Friendly Nottingham
Every year, we work in partnership with Catherine Kirk from Nottingham City Council on developing a collaborative schools project and resources for RSE day - a national celebration of RSE (Relationships and Sex Education). This year, the theme was 'Embracing Change' and we commissioned illustrator Hannah Sawtell to run schools workshops and design 6 postcards that were distributed to every school in the city. Check out the new website the Achieve Well Team, led by Catherine Kirk.
Connecting Notts, Youth Voices
Connecting Notts, Youth Voices
Connecting Notts, Youth Voices
Connecting Notts is a Young Creatives Network - that brings together 16-15 year olds from ChalleNGe arts and community Partners to regularly meet, influence and plan events for young people.
Facilitated by ChalleNGe and Upstart Projects (who also run Voice Mag) members of Connecting Notts meet monthly (usually Mondays from 5-7pm) and plan 4 events a year for young people across the city, to better connect, network and shape arts opportunities for young people.
Bulwell Arts Festival
Connecting Notts, Youth Voices
Connecting Notts, Youth Voices
We believe that art opportunities should be on every child's doorstep, in neighbourhoods, schools and parks - as well as within the fabulous arts venues of our city. So we have been delighted to work in close partnership with Bulwell Arts Festival (hosted by One Vision Partnership) and Bilborough Arts Festival over the years - supporting local creative activities in community centres, schools and libraries in the run up to their annual Art festivals. Huge congratulations to Nicola Curzon and the OVP team on a fabulous Bulwell Arts Festival 2024. We love working with you!
