Creative Learning
Project Information
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Our Creative Learning team engages with people of all ages, but especially young people.
We work with creative practitioners across all artforms. We plan, deliver and evaluate projects in a variety of contexts, from formal learning to more informal work in public spaces. Our programmes are developed through collaborative partnership working. We have worked closely with Curious Minds, Arts Council England's Bridge Organisation for the North West.
Our past work includes:
- Development and delivery of projects funded by for example, Heritage Lottery, Youth Music, Princes Trust and the Clore Foundation.
- Artsmark assessment and moderation across the North West
- Arts Award advisory work with young people
- Kicking Leaves - our young people's literature festival in Pennine Lancashire
- Projects with schools clusters in Padiham, Blackburn and Todmorden, each spanning a term and culminating in celebratory events
- Bespoke and long term curriculum development in primary and infant schools in Accrington and Nelson
- Community projects at heritage sites
- Project management of Creative Partnerships work in schools across Lancashire and in Runcorn
- Creative consultation work with school children and teachers in advance of capital build work
- Delivery of the Landscape Institute's 'Spaceshaper' toolkit to help young people in Nelson and Fleetwood assess the quality of their local public spaces
- Evaluation of schools' literacy programmes in museums for Renaissance in the Regions in the North East
- Research reports for Curious Minds focusing on Arts Award, Artsmark and Schools Clusters
- Consultancy work for Curious Minds acting as Arts and Culture Advocates in schools across Lancashire
Current Events
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50th Anniversary of Mid Pennine Arts
Opens 01 May 2015
Celebrating our 50th anniversary in keeping with the MPA tradition and ethos of creative innovation, cultural learning, heritage exploration and lots of fun! -
Songs from the Singing Ringing Tree
From 01 July 2015
This partnership project with three early years settings will engage children in music making activities throughout an entire school year .
Previous Events
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Todmorden Treat Explores Folk Art
From 01 April 2015
Our eleventh Todmorden schools’ tour - known affectionately as the Tod Treat. -
Truce
From 04 July 2014
Truce engaged thousands of community members, young and old, to explore the shared heritage of the WW1 centenary by focusing on the moment of shared humanity that was the Christmas truce. -
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Wonderful Things in Song
From 01 April 2014
This partnership project with four early years settings engaged children in activity at local museum, Gawthorpe Hall, with Music Leaders. -
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Heard Through Beat and Word
From 06 January 2014
Engaging young people, especially women aged 11-16, in music by commissioning inspiring Music Leaders, mentoring young people to act as leaders, developing confidence and self esteem. -
Portraits of the Past
From 01 August 2013
Exploring Gawthorpe Hall through oral history, photography and the creative arts. -
Gawain and the Green Knight
Started 01 March 2013
Using storytelling, music and visual arts to explore this classic poem. -
Discovering Ted Hughes (The Iron Man)
Started 01 March 2013
Exploring new ways of approaching children's literature in the classroom. -
Lancashire’s Lost Legends: Witch is True?!
Started 01 September 2012
A project exploring the myths and facts around the story of the Pendle Witch Trials, led by young people in the Ribble Valley and Pendle. -
Urban Music Leaders
Started 01 September 2012
An exciting project in Burnley developing hip hop music with young people. -
Spinning Stories, Swapping Songs
Started 11 June 2012
An exciting project engaging young children with our Contemporary Heritage commissions. -
Inspiring Art at Helmshore
Started 01 June 2012
Artist Karen Alderson led two groups of children in responding to the Contemporary Heritage installation ‘No Match’ by Claire Morgan. -
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Family Friendly
Our family friendly programmes bring together partnerships with cultural institutions, funders and early years’ and foundation stage providers. -
Prince's Foundation for Children and The Arts: the 'Start' programme
A cluster of 10 schools is working with a writer and an environmental artist. -
Padiham Greenway Cluster
10 schools and a creative programme focused on engaging their children, families and the local community with the newly created Padiham Greenway. -
Blackburn Oasis Schools' Cluster
Six Blackburn Schools funded a new creative programme of work for summer 2011. -
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Drama
A small rural school in the Forest of Bowland were keen to incorporate more drama into their teaching and learning and use these techniques to explore issues of global cultural diversity. -
Heritage
Young people from three local schools are exploring local heritage as part of MPA’s ‘Project Pride’. The groups are working in textiles, film, drama and cross-artform to reveal hidden stories in their historic localities. -
Kicking Leaves- Organising a Children's Literature Festival
The 2010-11 Kicking Leaves was our fifth successful biennial literature festival. -
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Outdoor Learning: Big Bold Art
Primary school students worked on large scale creativity, taking advantage of their fantastic wooded surroundings -
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Creating a WOW Week
Working with a local primary school 5 practitioners spent 5 days in drama, dance, music and art workshops leading to a final day of celebration. -
CABE Spaceshaper
We are trained facilitators for Spaceshaper which aims to get young people involved in improving the built environment.