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‘Connecting Culture’ Creative Consultation with
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Children and young people from across Southampton are at the heart of \u2018Connecting Culture\u2019, a ground-breaking project focused on addressing the question of how the city\u2019s thriving Cultural Quarter can enrich the lives of those aged five to 25. <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The project begins this winter with an Artist-led \u2018Creative Consultation\u2019 with over 350 participants that will provide an insight into each participant\u2019s individual experience of culture and collectively, it will form a picture for Southampton of how children and young people would like to engage in creative activity across the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ‘Connecting Culture’ Consortium is delighted to announce that Southampton-based artists Nazneen Ahmed, Anna Carr, Faye Phillips <\/strong>and Natalie Watson <\/strong>have been selected to undertake the Creative Consultation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are thrilled to be working with Nazneen, Natalie, Anna and Faye. Each artist brings an extraordinary wealth of experience. Together their individual practices include dance, theatre, photography, stitching, writing and visual art, alongside a deep commitment to enable children and young people to develop their own creative voices and means of expression,\u201d<\/em> Louise Coysh, Associate Director, Arts and Culture, University of Southampton<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The artists will work together with Dr Ronda Gowland-Pryde and the Research Team to devise, develop and deliver a series of workshops suitable for a range of ages and levels, taking place in different settings across the city\u2019s 16 wards. This vital work will inform the subsequent stages of the project, which overall will see young people produce a Young People\u2019s Manifesto and Map that will adopted by \u2018Child-Friendly Southampton\u2019 and create a sustained programme that reflects their needs. The city-wide Creative Consultation will commence this winter and we will be working with our strategic partners to identify participating groups that reflect the city\u2019s population. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Led by University of Southampton, \u2018Connecting Culture\u2019 is a two-year research project, supported by a \u00a375,000 grant from Arts Council England, involving a large consortium of arts organisations and child-focused services, to catalyse a new future in the arts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Editors notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Artist-Facilitators:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nazneen Ahmed<\/strong> is a writer and creative\nwriting facilitator and lives in Southampton. She writes fiction for children,\ncreative non-fiction and poetry for adults, all of which are often inspired by\nthe theme of migration, which was the topic of her work as an academic\nresearcher and historian at University College London and the University of\nOxford. She is currently Writer in Residence with the Southampton Stories\nproject at Southampton City Museums and has held residences at John Hansard Gallery\nand Southampton City Libraries in the past. She runs writing workshops in\nschools, libraries and community settings. She was selected for the 2016\/17\nround of Penguin Random House\u2019s Write Now Live mentorship scheme for\nunderrepresented writers for her historical fantasy novel in progress which is\naimed at readers aged 11 upwards. She is represented by Louise Lamont at LBA\nBooks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anna Carr<\/strong> is a Southampton-based\nsocially engaged, multi-platform Theatre Maker, and Associate Artist at The\nPoint, Eastleigh. She trained at East 15 School\nof Acting. Her work draws on cross-form devised, verbatim &\nautobiographical approaches. She regularly collaborates with\nprofessional artists and under-represented communities and has 8 year\u2019s\nexperience of facilitating a broad range of community groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faye\nPhillips<\/strong> is a visual artist and educator with a BA (hons)\ndegree in photography from Southampton Solent University. Since finishing\nher degree in 2013, Faye has worked within the local community and a range of\nsettings across Hampshire and the South of England, delivering a variety of\nhigh quality arts workshops to young people from diverse backgrounds. Faye\nspecialises in conceptual photography, visual art, book making and is a trained\nArts Award advisor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Natalie Watson<\/strong> is a freelance contemporary dance artist. Since graduating from Chichester University in 2014 with a BA and MA in Dance, she has performed nationally and internationally with Michaela Cisarikova Dance Company (MCDC), Nexus Dance Theatre, Hayley Barker and DarkFest. Alongside performing, Natalie teaches and choreographs in wide range of educational and community settings such The Point, Fluid Motion Theatre Company, Newbury Corn Exchange and Zoie Logic Dance Theatre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Connecting Culture project strands\ninvolve: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n