Creative Communities Unit
Staffordshire University

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Events (Upcoming)

Higher Education Academy

Inclusive Practice in Assessment and Feedback

Date: 23 Apr 2012 Start Time: 10:30 am

Location/venue: Staffordshire University, Ashley Building, Leek Road, Stoke-on-Trent , ST4 2DF

This event is being hosted as part of the Higher Education Academy's Workshop and Seminar Series 2012.

Find out more: HEA website

Events (Past)
International Womens Day

Connecting Girls, Inspiring Futures

Monday 5th March 2012, 9.15am – 12.30pm
Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent

Join us as at CCU as we celebrate inspirational women of the past and present. Find out more


Participatory Video

Power in Participatory Video
A one-day conference on participatory video

Tuesday 10th January 2012 (11am-4pm)

Download: Event Brochure

Related: Participatory Practitioners for Change


Parklive

Parklive
Wednesday 21st December 2011

Can you sing a song, dance, tell a joke, act, read a poem, do a turn, give a talk, tell a story, mime, play a tune, or something completely different?

Download: Event brochure


National Youth Work Week

Youth Work: Bringing Communities Together
31st October-4th November 2011

We are offering free workshops to youth workers and organisations on the theme of youth work week – Youth Work: Bringing communities together running in the week 31st October – 4th November.

Read more about Bringing Communities Together


Talk and Listen

Engaging Young People
Friday 21st October 2011

This workshop is a chance to think about how young people might be involved in your group and learn how to connect and work with them. You will get the chance to plan activities to engage them and explore how different generations might benefit from each other.

Download: Course Brochure | Application form


Easy read Clear Communication
June
2011

This workshop gets you thinking about what makes written communication clear. You will learn some basic symbols and pictures to make information
easier to understand and make a clear poster for your group.

Download: Course Brochure from last session.


Microphone

Working with the Media
Wednesday 25th May 2011 (10am-3pm)

A chance to think about what you want people to know about your community group, find out how to get the media interested and look at ways to use social media. You will get the chance to practice doing a media interview and write a news release.

Download: Course Brochure


Common Ground

Common Ground - 26th-27th June 2010

A weekend long arts event in Hanley Park, Stoke-on-Trent, organised by AirSpace Gallery Studio Artists.


Heart of Engagement

Heart of Engagement - 25th November 2010

This (free) hands-on, active workshop is for volunteers who have contact with local people in their job, and are thinking about how to engage with communities.


Heart of Engagement

Heart of Engagement - 2nd December 2010

This (free) hands-on, active workshop is for volunteers who have contact with local people in their job, and are thinking about how to engage with communities.


Making a Difference Rainbow logo

Climate Change and E-Democracy - 24th March 2010

Event indluded guest speakers, practical activities and an interactive I.T. workshop session to further explore participation through online media.


World Community Arts Day

World Community Arts Day - 17th February 2010

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


Conference 2009

Participatory Approaches in Action conference - 25th June 2009

The workshops were a range of case studies looking at participatory consultation in practice, and participatory tools and process.