LET’S INSPIRE A MILLION KIDS
WHAT A YEAR
We’re going to create together in our year long #Ignite22 grass roots festival of creativity, co-created with school communities across the UK.
Read below to find out more about:
#Ignite22🔥 - our year long grassroots festival year Celebrating and Inspiring Creativity in School Communities
Or click to check out:
#MissionToMars22🚀 - our Tours visiting and inspiring School Communities across the UK
#OurMillion22👨👨👦👦 - our appeal to raise a Million Quids to Inspire a Million Kids
#ImagineIf22😲 - a live/livestreamed event to co-creat the #Ignite22🔥 Festival Year events - we’l lbring the post-it notes!
#NewNewYearsEve22✨ - our launch event where we rebooted 2022 on Mon 31st Jan.
Be part of it. Help co-create it
We'll be pulling the first ideas together through February with a co-creation event at the end of the month.
Like many other arts organisations, we believe we're all artists so this is for everyone but at this stage we're particularly looking for people who can help us come up with ideas for big and small events and activities, on and off line (get your tents ready) and/or folk who can help stage them in their school or community, sponsors and creatives - folk whose art is their liveliood.
Anyone who wants to be part of it, whereever they are.
Bring your ideas, your energy, your creativity.Sign up here to be part of it.
We’ve come a long long way together
We’ve been working for ten years to get here, and four years ago we came up with a vision for this day, this year.
You can read about that here.
We spent January taking stock and recovering from 2021, but did do a 2 week UK tour to John O’Groats"!
We had another New Years Eve, New New Years’ Eve on Jan 31st/Feb 1st.
So sign up here and tell us how you’d like to be part of it
Show me the money
At the end of 2021 we launched #OurMillion22 appeal to raise a Million Quids to Inspire a Million Kids to Aim Higher Than High powered by Their Creativiity and Our Communities.
By putting up to 22 of our Pop-up Creativity Day Drop Trucks and STEAMsters on the road and running Communty Creativity Festivals in and with School Communities across the UK.
We’re looking for three pilot areas for the first three Drop Trucks. Get in touch if you’d like to be part of this.
if at first
Of course we failed - it was an #EpicFail21 - but we’re not giving up. What example would that send to our kids?
We’re hitting the road again at the end of January and at the end of February we’ll hold a big event you can be part of there, or here to plan a year of events.
Be part of it with your art - whatever it is - becaue ‘art is what we call it when what we do might conect us to someone else.
So whether you want to play or perform, speak, sponsor or sign, create or collaborate sign up here now and we’ll get back to you.
TIME TO GET LUCKY
Make it your new Years Resolution to Live a #CreativeLife22
Headteacher and Author, Mike Fairclough and his lovely Family in Sussex
As our dear friend and head teacher Mike Fairclough says in his book ‘Wild Thing’:
In all you do, try to always Find Gratitude
It’s academically proven you will Be Happy
And there’ s a good chance you will Get Lucky
Start here
Check out #TheJanuaryChallenge - it’s a wonderful way of rekindling your art or bringing creativity back into your life with a simple daily creative task (we say back as we were all born creative and lived creative lives as children).
Electric Dreams
Our Christmas 2021 film made with schools in Leeds, Oxford and across the UK
