Paul Collard has been the Chief Executive of Creativity, Culture and Education, where he retired from. He has 25 years’ experience of working in the arts and is an expert in delivering programs that use creativity and culture as drivers of social and economic change. ‘We defined the creative habits of mind: curious, inquisitive, persistent, …
Read more “Paul Collard on the Creative Habits of Mind and about how creativity is how we learn.”
Miranda Siemelink workes as as project lead at the Lab, from CultuurOost. The Lab is a professional learning community, consisting of arts educators, teachers, students from both art school and teacher training, artists, musicians and other experts. They spend 4 years working together on enhancing arts education, divided in different groups. The Lab that Miranda …
Read more “Miranda Siemelink on what happened during the Lab, where teachers, artists and students co-create.”
Jane O’Hanlon, education officer of Poetry Ireland. We talk about the initiative Writers in Schools. She started as a teacher in a prison. She tells us what she learned from the inmates and still uses in her work. And she talks about how she thinks the arts help children to ask the big questions. ‘The …
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This is a very special episode for us and of course we hope you’ll enjoy it too! We are going to talk to one of our own, about the work that we are doing together. Klaas Dijkstra is teacher at Basisschool de Pijlstaart, Manja and Linda have been working with Klaas since 2011! This is …
Read more “Klaas Dijkstra on what a 10 year long teacher artist partnership had brought to his classroom”
Jolanda is a visual artist, lecturer at the Utrecht School of the Arts and she works as project lead in Creatief Vermogen Utrecht, Creative Competence Utrecht. Jolanda has been working in the arts for 30 years in many roles. In this conversation we talk about her huge watercolour painting and her community arts work with …
Read more “Jolanda Schouten on how to facilitate creative process in many roles”
Sanja Krsmanović Tasić is the president of CEDEUM, a youth theater company in Belgrade, Serbia. Throughout her career she had many roles, starting out as a dancer, and slowly moving on to directing and founding many initiatives for theatre and dance. In this conversation we hear Sanja tell us about the importance of having mentors …
Read more “Sanja Krsmanović Tasić on how arts education can be seen as peace education.”
Georgina Kakoudaki is a theater director and pedagogue in Greece. Georgina has a big love for working with young adults. Kids from 14 or 15 should learn how to speak their minds and voice their opinions. Georgina tells us about how she approaches this work in the project: Theatre within the walls. ‘Theatre can be …
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Tania Banotti is the director of Creative Ireland. An ambitious program that works toward enabling all people in Ireland to realize their full creative potential. Tania takes us through the programm. You’ll hear about different governmental departments working together. She has a very hollistic view and is able to dream big but with realistic nuances. …
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Today Linda talks to Maja and Mirka of Škograd, a collective of artist, teachers and other professionals. Together with kids, neigbors and staff of “Vlada Obradović Kameni” school they are talking, organizing workshops to re-think, re-imagine and together work on how to improve neighborhood of Ledine. The conversation focusses on the Summerschool that takes place …
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Today Manja interviews Siobhan Mulcahy. She is the Arts Officer of County Clare, Ireland. Being an arts officer part of her job is to facilitate programs like TAP, teacher Artist Partnership. We explore the role of local government in making arts in schools possible and how different counties support each other by sharing expertise and knowledge. …
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