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  • Facilitator Training Course

    • Facilitator Training Course

    11 Dec 2024

    Throughout 2025, we will be running a Theatre Facilitator Training course that has a focus on developing work with young people, with a shared ethos of valuing youth voice and building up the skills and confidence of each individual within a playful, supportive and ambitious environment.

    The training will take place over 7 sessions across the year and each session will be focused on a different theme, including Planning, Creating the Right Space and Adaptability.

    The course will be run by our in-house Creative Engagement Practitioner, Emma Willatts, who has worked with many different companies including the Old Vic, Bigfoot, Company Three, The Marlowe Theatre and The Actors’ Lounge.

    Open to anyone 18+ who is interested in developing their skills as a theatre facilitator. We are offering this training as a Pay What You Decide opportunity. To register your interest, please fill out the questionnaire here, we will then be in touch in the new year. If you have any further questions please email creativeengagement@kent.ac.uk

    Here is some feedback from our first course, which ran throughout 2024!

    “The course gave me a safe, welcoming space to network with other professionals to share ideas and knowledge and have made lasting friendships”

    “I developed my skills and got a better understanding of what theatre facilitation is, and the best thing was meeting other fellow creative people who wanted to achieve the same.”

    “I gained invaluable knowledge into planning and devising my own activities and gained experience with leading sessions I had planned which has helped me with job interviews and workshops”

    “If I could do it again, I 1000% would. Bravo!”

    Deadline for Applications – Wednesday 8th January 2025

    Key Dates:

    30th January – 10am-3pm

    27th February – 10am-3pm

    27th March – 10am-3pm

    17th April – 10am-3pm

    29th May – 10am-3pm

    19th June – 10am-3pm

    17th July – 10am -3pm

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    ART31

    ART31 takes its name from Article 31 of the UN Convention on the Rights of a Child, which states that ‘Children have the right to relax and play, and to join in a wide range of cultural, artistic and other recreational activities’.

    ART31 is a vision created with, by, and for young people in Kent, championing the belief that all children and young people have an entitlement to access high quality arts and culture, to empower them to achieve their creative potential, and to genuinely engage young people as equal partners in any decision making that affects them.

    The ART31 Youth Board is made up of young people from across Kent aged 13-25 who steer its governance, and influence policy and practice across the county and beyond, challenging the creative sector to examine existing ways of working and integrate young people into the core of their practice.

    Our projects with young people

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    Youth Theatre

    Fantastic and fun sessions for ages 13-18 years, encouraging creativity and theatre-making skills.

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    SCREEN31

    Screen31 is a group for young people aged 15-25 interested in developing their film-making skills.
    TECH31

    TECH31

    TECH31 provides free practical training in technical theatre for ages 13 - 25
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    National Theatre Connections – Gulbenkian Young Company

    NT Connections is the National Theatre’s nationwide youth theatre festival. Each year it offers a unique opportunity for youth theatres and school theatre groups to stage new plays written for young people by some of theatre’s most exciting playwrights, and to perform in leading theatres across the UK.
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    Gulbenkian Uncovered

    Are you enthusiastic, committed and creative? Gulbenkian Uncovered gives University of Kent students the chance to programme films and run events.

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    Square Pegs Arts

    Square Pegs Arts are an award winning charity who provide drama groups, music projects and other accessible Arts opportunities for children and young adults who have learning disabilities and autism, and produce original, inspiring, challenging Theatre. Difference is celebrated and everyone is supported to shine in their own way.
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    KRAN Fam

    KRAN Fam is a drama group in partnership with Kent Refugee Action Network for young refugees and asylum-seekers.

    Accessible Film Club

    Relaxed Screenings

    Monthly film screenings that are open to all, especially those with autism and learning disabilities.

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    ARTY31

    Gulbenkian’s ARTY31 group is for young people aged 8-12 with a wide variety of arts interests.

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