BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5376@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20191104 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20191110 DTSTAMP:20191101T133205Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/ourart19-week-in-liverpool/ SUMMARY:Liverpool: #OURART19 week in Liverpool DESCRIPTION:#OURART19 WEEK IN LIVERPOOL AND ACROSS THE UK 4-9 NOV\n\nNext w eek sees a major collaboration between national non-profit community ente rprise STEAM Co.\, Liverpool John Moore's University\, Dot Art Schools\, The RSA and The Black-E\, Liverpool's iconic community arts centre.\n\n\nS TEAM Co held a launch event in the city nearly 5 years ago with Sir Ken Robinson (who inspired them to start STEAM Co.) and have worked with schoo ls across the city since\, most notably Florence Melly Primary as in this 60 second clip\n\nWe have to help children dream and find their passion. Their art.\n\nSTEAM Co helps connect them with their art.\n\nAnd our commu nities with their schools\n\nWe feel there is a #CreativityCrisis loomin g in our schools\, not least because art is undervalued and misunderstood by many people\, parents and teachers so to make it more accessible and li nked to life pathways we say that 'art is what we call it when what we do might connect us'.\n\n\n\nOne child’s art might be painting\, another’ s photography. Cooking or coding\, fashion or football\, robots or rockets . Whatever\, we\n\nTo help make the word ‘art’ accessible\, understood and embraced\, on 1st Jan we announced the #ARTCONNECTS19 Festival of Cre ative Schools\, Work and Lives.\n\n\n\n\n\nThe #OURART19 Week is part of t he year-long co-created #ARTCONNECTS19 Festival of Creative Schools\, Wo rk and Lives.\n\nIt will see a week long programme of activities in the c ity and across the country to Showcase\, Celebrate and Inspire Art (the Po wer of Creativity\, Tech and People) in School Communities.\n\nInspired in no small way by the Keith Haring exhibition at Tate Liverpool\, the week will see his work feature in 'WhatsYourArt?' sessions for primary children  in schools and at the Liverpool School of Art and Design and a screenin g of the multi award winning creative education documentary 'Most Likely to Succeed' with a panel including Sir Mark Featherstone-Witty OBE\, Foun der of LIPA.\n\nFriday The Black-E Community Arts Centre will host the #AR TattheHEART (of an Outstanding School Community) day of inspiring keynote s\, short talks\, performances and workshops including Professor Simon Jam es\, research Lead on the Durham Commission Report\, Bill Harpe - Co-found er of the Black-E\, Authors Frank Cottrell-Boyce and Alan Gibbons\, Graffi ti Artist Inkie from Bristol and many others.\n\nSaturday will see an #ART ofCOMMUNITY Pop-UP in the derelict Baltic Triangle skate park and an even ing #DANCECONENCTS community party.\n\nSchools communities and other crea tive people and organisations are being encouraged to be part of the #OU RART19 Week with their art by downloading and printing signage for socia l media posts.\n\nGrant support from The National Lottery Arts Council En gland is pending in addition to support received earlier in the year but sponsors are still being sought for this and a two week 'Twelve Days of (Creative) Christmas' UK tour pre Christmas as part of the National Lott ery 25th Anniversary\n\nMore info and tickets here ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2019/11/STEAM-Co.-OURART19-week-Week-overview.jpg LOCATION:Liverpool\, Water Street\, Liverpool\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom GEO:53.406445;-2.992941 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Water Street\, Liverpool\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Liverpool:geo:53.406 445,-2.992941 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20191027T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR