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.
Contact cathy@challengenottingham.co.uk to join, share news, opportunities and connect!
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!
We collate a Parents and Carers newsletter before every half term holiday - so sign up to receive the next one in time for October 2024!
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. 2024/25 Wallplanner
September bi-monthly enewsletter for Nottingham teachers: Primary newsletter and Secondary newsletter .
Teaching for Creativity Network
Secondary Teachers - free film showing
Secondary Teachers - free film showing
Watch our film, 'This Much We Know' (13 mins) created to celebrate and share the work of 12 schools over the last 3 years, who have been collaborating with creative practitioners to explore 'Teaching for Creativity' to nurture children's curiosity and love of learning.
Our work has been part of a national Creativity Collaboratives programme, supported by the Arts Council and the Freelands Foundation. Find Creative Practitioners involved here and sign up to Nottingham's Cultural Rucksack programme, to embed more creativity in your school here.
Join our new Teaching for Creativity Network - the next meeting is on Tues 26th November at Welbeck Primary, 1.15-3.15pm where you can visit classrooms and see Teaching for Creativity in action.
Secondary Teachers - free film showing
Secondary Teachers - free film showing
Secondary Teachers - free film showing
On Tues 29th October (during half term!) Rhiannon Harries and John Marks from the University of Nottingham will be showing Philippe Falardeau's film Monsieur Lazhar (2011) at the Broadway Cinema. The screening will be followed by an informal discussion on public perceptions of teaching promoted in the film and other media versus the realities of the work teachers do.
If you would like to attend this event please register here or email john.marks@nottingham.ac.uk and you'll be contacted in October with further details.
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.
Watch the Sept Primaries culturemeet
and book your place at the secondaries meeting: 4-5pm on Thurs 26th Sept
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 have been supported to explore new partnerships between arts organisations, schools and community groups to highlight and celebrate Languages within their work.
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 & 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!
