Up with Creativity! Protest Camp Highlights. . .

Protest Camp is a Children’s Democracy Project which creates a forum for creative rebellious thought and a step off point for debate and discussion. Through our events in schools, festivals and communities we we encourage the views of children to take centre stage, in all their eccentricity and vibrancy. Society ignores the voice of the child at its peril, and Mischief Makers Protest Camp calls for our youth to be heard!

Art in Schools . . .

Attending ‘A New Direction’s Creative Schools London’ at the British Library last week was an inspirational day. The conference was called by A.N.D. in response to the urgent matter of ‘sustaining a cultural curriculum in a time of change’. In addition to the presentations by Ian Middleton of Ofsted, Mark Reid -Head of Education at the BFI and Patricia Lankester, trustee of the Tate and arts educationalist, we heard impassioned  and moving testimony from teachers and workers in education on the vital role that creativity has and should continue to have in the lives of our young people.

The day became a fantastic kind of mind mapping of all the thoughts and plans that many who work in education dream of and yet never have a moment or opportunity to express outside of such frantically busy schedules.

So much thanks has to go to A New Direction for arranging this day, the first of many we all hoped and the beginnings of a serious conversation about cultural engagement between all of us who work with young people in these difficult times.

Mischief Makers 2012