Arts debate

Young film makers document the arts debate

C&T are a theatre company mixing drama, learning and new media.  We aim to inspire, educate and empower – using creativity as a tool to achieve change for our audiences and participants.   Participation is at the centre of everything we do, putting the lives, experiences and the diverse cultures of the young people we work with at the core of our work.  ICT is a crucial tool in helping us to achieve this ambition.

C&T’s operates an international network of partner schools, each with its own resident C&T Animateur.  Working creatively across the curriculum, through the extended day and in the wider community they create bespoke learning experiences for children, young people and learning disabled people.  But most significantly, being part of a wider network of partner schools means they can collaborate and learn alongside others, using C&T’s portfolio of  unique online drama projects.

C&T’s contribution to the Arts Debate is an example of this Networked Theatre. Hundreds of young people across the network undertook their own research and into what the Arts meant to them and their community and then shared and debated this work through C&T’s website.  The results of this work were then passed on to Arts Council England.  C&T’s partner schools in the Arts Debate where Pimlico School, London, Blessed Hugh Farringdon School, Reading, Blue Coat School, Walsall and Bishop Perowne College, Worcester. 

C&T have been actively involved in the arts debate. Below you can watch three films made by young people with the support of C&T.

What do young people learning about art in school gain from their experiences? Watch art students explore what they think is valuable about the arts.