Arts Accolade for 80 local schoolchildren for their contribution to Brighton Festival Children's Parade
On Tuesday 4th February, over 80 local schoolchildren from Westdene and Fairlight Primary schools will visit Brighton Town Hall to receive their Arts Award from The Right Worshipful the Mayor of the City of Brighton & Hove, Councillor Denise Cobb.
The children gained their Arts Award - a nationally recognised qualification for young people's achievement through the arts - as part of their contribution to the 2013 Brighton Festival Children's Parade. The award recognises their success in areas of art, design, creativity and music and is a fitting reward for their hard work and in helping to ensure that the 2013 parade was a vibrant celebration of the collective creativity of the city.
For over 25 years the Children's Parade has opened Brighton Festival, with local school children stepping into show stopping costumes they have designed and made themselves. It is the largest annual children's event in the UK and is produced on behalf of Brighton Dome and Festival by community arts organisation, Same Sky. In 2013, poet, writer, broadcaster, former Children's Laureate and Arts Award Champion, Michael Rosen guest-directed Brighton Festival and inspired the theme of the parade which was the alphabet.
With the additional support from Artswork - the national Youth Arts Development Agency and South East Bridge Organisation - Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival and Same Sky were able to include Arts Award in the parade for the first time, with many more schools signing up to deliver the award as part of their parade contribution for 2014. 2014's theme for the Children's Parade is "the arts".
Michael Rosen, talking about Arts Award - 'I like the way Arts Award is based on a reflective model of learning, encouraging teachers and leaders to focus on children and young people as individuals and as creative artists in their own right. Arts Award is a flexible framework, rather than a set curriculum, which ignites ideas rather than dictating answers.'
After launching an appeal for a sponsor earlier in 2014, Brighton Festival is proud to announce that sponsors for 2014 are ‘Class of Their Own', an organization that provides high quality, affordable and secure out of school play provision for children in Sussex. ‘Class of Their Own' has matched a kind donation from an anonymous individual donor received by Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival towards the Children's Parade.
Posted: 31st of January 2014