Common Ground Symposium 2022: Creativity in Heritage – The Future of Youth Engagement
What is the Common Ground Symposium?
Join us for the Common Ground Symposium 2022 at The Halls, Norwich on Friday 25th November!
What is the Common Ground Symposium?
Common Ground is a Norfolk & Norwich Festival 250 project, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, which connects young people in the East of England with their local natural and cultural heritage through the arts. As we reach the end of the three-year project, we’re excited to reflect on and creatively share our learning and outcomes through the Common Ground Symposium.
The event will explore how youth engagement with heritage can be enhanced through creative processes. Attendees will experience playful ways to hear young people’s ideas about heritage, creativity and power. It’s a chance to take part in a day of knowledge and idea sharing with Creative Arts and Heritage organisations, artists and young communities.
Common Ground has been an extraordinary three years of partnership working between Norfolk and Norwich Festival, Norfolk Wildlife Trust, Suffolk Wildlife Trust, The National Trust, Flag Fen, Colchester and Ipswich Museums Service, The Prince’s Trust, SHARE Museums East and a wider creative community. The Symposium will expand on these networks and explore the impact of working together.
It’s an opportunity to discover new ways of working in partnership and with young people, as well as for creative and cultural practitioners to explore opportunities in the Heritage sector. It will highlight the importance of investing in energy and ideas, people and place, and collaborating with young people from the start.
Who is it for?
The Common Ground Symposium will be a space to share, reflect on and energise your practice. You’ll gain a lot from it if you’re:
- A practitioner working or volunteering in heritage or the arts
- Working or volunteering in learning, engagement and audience development
- A creative practitioner interested in heritage and culture
- A young person (18 -25) interested in learning more about the sector
- Wanting to explore how your organisation can support youth voice and develop new methods of creative engagement.
Your participation in the event will contribute to a creative heritage toolkit and propel the national conversation around youth engagement with heritage forward.
What will happen?
The programme will be playful and co-curated with the Common Ground Leaders, a group of young people interested in the arts, heritage, making, producing, and changing the world around them.
We’ll be announcing the full programme in October, but we already expect there to be:
- Artist and partner facilitated talks and workshops
- Interactive exhibition spaces
- Youth led programming
- An Open Space, where participants create, manage and own the discussion
At the event you’ll explore how creative heritage collaborations enable young people to actively engage and be heard and understand what the impact of this on your organisation or practice could be. You’ll discover new ideas for collaborating with young people to create practices that support youth agency, voice and storytelling.
Ticket information
By purchasing an Early Bird ticket you’ll get a discount price, be first to hear about our exciting programme co-produced with young people and have your say in what happens at the event! Our full programme along with Standard tickets will be released in October.
Free tickets are available for young people, as well as for freelancers and those volunteering in the Heritage or Cultural sectors. If you have any queries about this, please email commonground@nnfestival.org.uk
Important information
Venue: St Andrew’s & Blackfriars’ Hall
Times: 9.30am arrival for 10am start. Day ends at 4.30pm with drinks to follow.
Refund Policy:
Tickets are refundable for a small fee up to 7 days before the event. For a refund enquiry please email commonground@nnfestival.org.uk
Recording Notice:
This event will be photographed and recorded for public use. If you have any concerns about this please email commonground@nnfestival.org.uk