OCM
4
Artists
8
Sessions
29
Participants
29
Awards
8
Performances
1
Tracks
Introduction
Since the success of our recent Canal Sounds Project OCM have been keen to continue to include Arts Award as part of its delivery in education workshops with children and young people. We wanted to develop a model where young people could discover and explore both music and sound art in a way that is fun, accessible and connects to the interests of the students involved. Using Arts Award Discover we developed a project that would allow young people from different year groups to explore and discover music making and experimental sound in new and unique ways. This learning log is a story of that Journey.
Context
During the first half of the summer term OCM piloted our new Arts Award Discover Programme with Bayard’s Hill Primary school. One of our main outcomes for this piece of work was to create a framework for our Arts Award offer to schools in the area. We wanted our framework to be developed in a way that allows our offer to remain bespoke so that any schools seeking to engage with us can have an offer that is relevant to them and their pupils.
The Story
The project we developed worked with four Music and Sound Artists and each week the students would be visited by a new practitioner that would take them on their Arts Award Discover adventure.
- Session 1 – Beat boxing with Faz Shaar
- Session 2 – Spoons with Jo May
- Session 3 – African Drumming with Hannah Rhodes
- Session 4 – Sound tracking for films with Kelly Smith
Next Steps
This project has enabled OCM to develop a new model of working for delivery of our Arts Award programme.
This new approach will enable us to:
- Deliver Arts Award in a cost and tie effective way but still maintain a high quality in our delivery of education experiences.
- Effectively partner with other arts organisations on joint Arts Award projects.
- Build bespoke workshops for school and other youth settings so we can make our Arts Award offer relevant and inline with the interests of the participants we engage with.
So what’s next?
MORE ARTS AWARD PROJECTS IN OXFORDSHIRE!
