See summary film of the evening above and full stream below
AN EVENING WAS ABOUT MEMORIES
This evening event was part of the #Coventry21 month of our #InspiraNation21 Year and the global #ImagineIf Festival to celebrate and remember the life of Sir Ken Robinson, who inspired a group of parents, teachers and other creative carers to start STEAM Co.
It was essentially a free flow live stream in which anyone was welcome to join a global conversation sharing memories of how Sir Ken's inspiration, creativity and generosity touched lives, hearts and minds.
We want to give everyone whose life and work was touched by this great man to have a voice, and are delighted to collaborate with the #TinyVoiceTalks Twitter group of passionate educationalists.
This wasn’t about big on stage and screen celebrity but our own memories of this great man.
EXCLUSIVE GUEST
It included an exclusive conversation with Prof Mick Waters, one of the UK's most respected education gurus and friend of Sir Ken's.
For twelve years, Sir Ken was Professor of Education at the prestigious University of Warwick in the heart of Shakespeare county, so where better to live stream this from than a half size cardboard cathedral in a school playground in nearby Coventry a city whose cathedral rose from the ashes after world war two and that was the global centre of the Two-Tone creativity movement after years of injustice.
From The Element to Creative Schools, Sir Ken's work inspired the group of parents , teachers and creative carers staging tonight to start STEAM Co. ten years ago to help connect our kids with their art and our communities with their schools.
LIVE LINKS
This free event was live streamed as above on all platforms using our hi-tech co-conference platform which has been updated for our #InspiraNation21 Year.
STEAM Co. AND SIR KEN ROBINSON
Sir Ken’s work - particularly the books The Element and Creative Schools - inspired a group of parents in a primary school community in Paddington, London, England to start STEAM Co. ten years ago to help connect our kids with their art and our communities with their schools.
He was very generous to us and even proposed Nick Corston, one of the co-founders of STEAM Co. who now leads this non-profit community enterprise, for a TED Fellowship.
He was also very generous in his public praise for STEAM Co. which you can see here when he credited us at a major Arts Council England Conference.
We were particularly grateful to him and his family when he give an exclusive interview at our first regional launch event in the city of his birth, Liverpool back in 2015, seen below.