SPEAKER LINE UP

We had over 30 speakers join us in our TV Studio from Hull, Sunderland, Cornwall, Liverpool, Leeds and India:

• Cllr Ruth Bush – the first Labour Lord Mayor of Westminster

• Peter Rafferty – Grandad in Liverpool who will connect with his 3 grand sons in Lancashire

• Prof Stepen Heppell - world leading authority on Creative Education

• Tom Morley – Rock Star, co-founder of band Scritti Politti

• Leanne Birkett - a mum on an estate in Leeds who made a crane for her son from scraps of wood they found and an electric drill and had a rocket land in their yard last week

• Grandad Wheels - the grandad who wrote a book about his life on two wheels

• Gina Fenwick - a mum in Paddington, Westminster who saw the rocket launch in London that landed in Leeds!

To issue a call for #ARTforALL on this, the first day of May. May Day

See the full film of the afternoon below:

ALL PART OF THE BIG PLAN

It's all part of our #CommunityLockIn, itself part of our #COLLABORATE20 Year of events inspired as you can see here by a fomrer Culture Minister and musician Nile Rodgers.

It is all part of the build up to #FESTIVAL22 and follows our #ARTCONNECTS19 year, inspired by the the Culture Minister Jeremy Wright and a lad off an estate in Leeds who came and spoke at our last parliament launch event.

Next year we think we'll have an #INSPIRATION21 Year in parallel with Coventry 2021 as we all gear up to #FESTIVAL22.

Bring it on

THE UK ART TAKE-OVER

The month plan for the #UKArtTakeOver is as follows:

• 1st May: Parliament launch - With very special guests

• 4th May: Inspiranation Pop-Up - South Wales

• 5th May: Inspiranation Pop-Up - Londonderry, Northern Ireland

• 6th May: Inspiranation Pop-Up - Edinburgh, Scotland

• 7th May: World Cardboard Challenge Day - With Caine Monroy on Caine’s Arcade fame

• 8th May: EdTech event - Celebrating, Sharing and Connecting Parents and Teachers on home schooling

• 9-16th May: #GetCreativeAtHome Pop-Ups - 7 Popup’s across the UK as part of Voluntary Arts’ National Get Creative Festival

• 20th: Brighton at Home Festival Pop-Up - a collaboration with our friends at the seaside who sadly had to wind in their festival

• 23rd May : Creative Careers Day - a day of inspiring careers talks and inspiration from Academy St James’ Primary in Bradford

• 24th May: Hey #ARTofBOOKS Festival - A One Day Children’s Literature Festival in Hay on Wye

• 29-31st May: The #ARTofCOMMUNITY Festival - a weekend of our, your, their art (whatever it is) with a Little Big Lunch Street party on Sunday

THE #GetCreative At Home Pop-Up Tour:

Here's the UK Tour dates for the #GetCreativeAt Home Pop-Up Tour:

• Sat 9th May - Bude, Cornwall

• Sun 10th May - Glastonbury, Somerset

• Mon 11th May - Cowes, Isle of Wight

• Tues 12th May - Liverpool, Merseyside

• Weds 13th May - Newcastle, Tyneside

• Thurs 14th May - Ludlow, Shropshire

• Fri 15th May - Leeds, Yorkshire

• Sat 16th May - Oxford, Oxfordshire

• Sun 17th May - Brent, London

Each of the above Pop-Up days wil consist of:

• 10am: Rocket Kids Club briefing - an hour long TV show where we’ll set an Art Challenge for Kids and their Creative Carers - it might be the #ARTofCARDBOARD, or the #ARTofCODING, the #ARTofCODING or the #ARTofBOOKS

• 2pm: Rocket Kids Club review - a 30 minute TV show where we’ll look at what everyone did and get a few kids on live

• 3-5pm: ARTCONNECTS show - a 2 hour TV Show chatting about Creativity in Schools, Work and Lives in the area we’re visiting

• #DanceConnects - every afternoon at drive time as we hit the road, we’ll hand over our air waves to a local DJ to give us a few tunes to end the day with and accompany us on our drive to the next stop on our tour, Know anyone who might be up for it?

• Local Creatives - We hope to get funding to pay for performances by local creatives each day of the tour. While we’re all artists, a creative is someone whose art is their livelihood and they’ve been especially hard hit by Covid-19, so we do hope we get the Arts Council grant we’ve applied for for all this.