SPRING 2010 – Inroads were commissioned to train volunteers for the festival in Child protection, Health and Safety and Communication Skills.

Sara has been gathering initial stories and research for ideas for the play, which will involve local people as actors, musicians, storytellers and audience.

Planned production is July 2012 at Newhaven Fort, working in collaboration with Zap Arts

Sara Clifford and Chrissie Tiller  won the contract from Creativity, Culture and Education, working in partnership with three other European cultural and educational organisations: Drommarnas Hus, Sweden, KulturKontakt Austria (KKA) and; Kunstenaars&Co, to deliver a week of professional development for artists from five European countries, and to develop a new practical guide to be presented at an international conference in Brussels in September 2011, available as a download:

See www.artistsincreativeeducation.com

Photo by Stuart Griffiths

Recent projects include:
St Christopher’s Hospice in Sydenham,  from 2001 to 2005, three projects with the overarching theme of Quality of Life.

Working with patients in the Day Centre, Sara Clifford used drama and creative writing to facilitate the group’s exploration of the theme, creating a script that was performed by professional actors to an audience of family, friends and staff.

Sara then worked with Hanna Slattne, a professional dramaturg, to use verbatim text from patients, to create a script, Silence is Golden, that was again performed with actors.

Kwame Kwei-Armah – Kwame spoke to a packed Pelham House about the future and young people. 

2008

Nitin Sawhney – Nitin gave an informative and entertaining presentation about his training, his music and his interest in working with young people. 

2007 

A seminar about Accreditation for creative practitioners at the De La Warr Pavilion was led by Tony Fegan from the London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT) and Liz Whitehead, Director of Fabrica Art Gallery.

These courses will be delivered in East Sussex, West Sussex and Surrey between November 2010 and July 2011. 

A brand new set of one day courses, subsidised by East Sussex County Council, led by creative practitioners for creative practitioners. Presented by Creative Partnerships, working within the Centre for Continuing Engagement at the University of Sussex, in association with Inroads, Continuing Professional Development Consultants.

Facilitation Skills

Enabling ‘Participant Voice’

Next Steps

Working with Cultural Organisations

This is a modular course accredited by the University of Brighton. The pilot was delivered in 2008/9 at the University Centre Hastings, with 10 students successfully completing the course. Led by Sara Clifford with creative practitioners and creative agents via Creative Partnerships, the course gives a thorough and supportive grounding in transferring your practice into formal and informal education settings. 

The modules are:

• Planning a project, including creative learning, project structure
• Delivering a project, including group facilitation, session planning, toolbox
• Reflection and Review
• Business skills

Feedback included:

Students:

• I feel a lot more professional with this reflective information and experience. It has also given me a lot of practical exercises to use, especially warm ups – previously I felt less confident about these. An excellent course!

 Education and Learning Manager, Towner Art Gallery:

The course gives the opportunity for artists/practitioners to interrogate and evaluate their work and where this sits within the wider context of socially engaged practice. For organisations such as Towner the course supports the future of gallery education developing in terms of critical enquiry

Creative Agent:

One practitioner I have been working with this year on an Enquiry project has found the course to be useful to her in providing much needed peer support whilst undertaking the work in school. She was also someone whose participation on the course in the first place acted very much in her favour at the point of selection of practitioners for the project