Issue #5 - Winter 2009

In this issue:

• Making a difference in your Community
• New Partnership with Centre for Youth Ministry - CYM
• Mentoring Study Days at Staffordshire University
• Nick Clements’s Inaugural event as the New Honorary Professor of Community Arts
• The Creative Communities Open Day
• Come and get Creative with us!

Speaking Up and Taking Part

New short courses starting in January 2010

Find out more about 'Speaking Up and 'Taking Part'

Get Talking 'Consulting your Community'

A new short course starting in December 2009

Read the course brochure | Download an application form

Issue #4 - July 2009

In this issue:

• Participatory Approaches in Action conference
• Cre8 Radio
• Youth and Community Work - New developments
• Mentoring Study Days
• Nick Clements: Honorary Professor in Community Arts
• The Creative Communities Open Day

Participatory Approaches in Action conference

The Creative Communities Unit in partnership with Participatory Practitioners for Change, held a conference on Thursday 25th June called “Participatory Approaches in Action”.

Community Radio Station Launched

Cre8FM is a community radio project which has arrived in Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme. It started with a two week broadcast on 87.7FM at the end of May.

New courses from September '09

The Creative Communities Unit at Staffordshire University is offering a wide range of awards and courses in 2008-09.

Handmade Intercultural Dialogues Blog

We are in in collaboration with the University of Warsaw and Laundry (association of artists based in West Midlands) on a set of placements in the UK for young culture animators from Poland.

Students are using a Blog to document their visit.

Staffordshire University - Community Arts and The World!

The aim is to create a world festival society for a day, to illustrate how festival and celebration through art can provide answers.