We have 3 years of funding working with young people at the African Caribbean Centre in one of the most deprived areas of Leicester, this was our first year running from June 2019 – 2020 June July 2020 – June 2021 June 22 – June 2023 .- Children in Need We ran free school holiday camp in Highfields the most culturally diverse areas in Leicester with high levels of deprivation. Working with young people aged 8-16, to create artefacts to be displayed at the regional New Year celebrations, and a cultural community sharing event in Highfields. The participants created a large-scale artwork displayed across the city streets and also performed a shadow puppet performance. This project taught the participants about different cultures and many creative transferable skills. Their work being displayed in the city centre and viewed by 1000’s of people gave them a sense of pride encouraging empowerment, as they had devised all the work displayed/performed. We did a range of cultural arts activities with the children throughout the school holiday periods throughout the year, - Black History Month in October, Christmas Party in December which the High Sheriff and Lord Mayor of Leicester did a gift appeal for the children and attended. We also did Chinese New Year celebrations. Our work helps create better cultural understanding and breakdown racial barriers in a area where racial tensions run high. This 3 year project funded by Children in Need that started on 26 June 2019 and will run every school holiday until ran July 2022, extended for another year due to COVID and delivering a free high quality arts camp. We had guest inspirational role models from a variety of cultural backgrounds to talk about their life journey and run engaging workshops. Including the first Black Lord Mayor and Asian female High Sheriff We identified through working with the Chinese community that they lost their community centre in 2013 and not had a public Chinese New Year celebration for over 5 years. We have done annual Chinese New Year celebrations with the Chinese communities in the city and county. We did the first ever research into Chinese migration and heritage in Leicester - 2018 and we did the first ever regional research into Chinese migration and heritage in the East Midlands 2022-23 delivering our outcomes as part of the Chinese New Year celebrations in Leicester, Nottingham and Derby. We received funding from Heritage Lottery Fund for the research and touring delivery aspect and funding from the Arts Council of England for the Chinese New Year Celebrations we did in each city. We created a documentary in which we interviewed Chinese people who migrated to Nottingham, Derby or Leicester, in the 1950’s, 60’s. 70’s, 80’s 90’s, 20’s and 10’s – this became a film which was streamed online and also present on the website we created that housed all our research, this was also translated into simplified Chinese so Mandarin and Cantonese speaking people could read it. We looked at Chinese history to see why people migrated to the UK in different decades. We researched local history in each city to see how the communities evolved and made their life here. We used this material to create an immersive digital interactive exhibition, creating a room filled with video wall, that allowed the audience to select the film they wanted to watch just by waving their arms Infront of the screen, as the film was playing, they could reveal old photographs displayed on a screen through moving their arms and body – like a scratch card. We had free Chinese arts make and take workshops run by Chinese artists so that people could meet and talk to Chinese people. This exhibition toured each city and was housed within empty shops in shopping centres – Derbion – Derby, Haymarket Leicester and Victoria Centre – Nottingham. We also did a procession through each city centre – Nottingham, Derby and Leicester, and also did a large-scale combined arts performance in the main square in each city with pyrotechnics, fire dance, lion and dragon dance, music, lasers and lights. All activities and performances ran smoothly, had 1000’s of people attend and were a huge success. Covered by regional TV news, local newspapers, regional and local radio stations and social media. 20th January – 22nd January 2023 Leicester with an extra event at Leicester Museum and Arts Gallery delivering a full programme of events on Saturday 21st January with a full programme of traditional performances of live music, dance, acrobatics and a range of arts workshops. This was a huge success and was the busiest day in the museum all year. 27th - 29th January Nottingham and 3rd – 5th February Derby 2023 We received funding to deliver free music lessons to young people in Highfields from Youth Music, this funding came to an end, so got support from Leicester City Council Music Hub, Jazzhouse Leicester, Mighty Creatives and NYJO we offered keyboard, saxophone, bass, trumpet, guitar, drums, guitar and singing lessons and provided free musical instruments for them to learn on, we did this at the African Caribbean Centre Leicester. We created music videos of their performances which were part of the Cosmopolitan Arts Festival. The Music Hub asked the young people to perform at their annual De Montfort Hall show, young musicians had workshops with NYJO and Jazz at the Lincoln Centre. They performed at the For The Love of Jazz Festival and the Queens Jubilee which was televised and broadcast – We finished this project in December 2022

All the work that we produce is subject to consultation with all communities involved, we undergo various methodologies of research which in both quantitative and qualitative and form steering groups to make sure that we deliver high quality projects that are both relevant and needed. We also undertake a continuous process of evaluation during project delivery, to check that we are delivering a high quality experience to all involved. At the end of a project we will undertake an in-depth evaluation of the whole project. Techniques that we deploy to facilitate this process: Meet with community members and organisations to consult with them regarding our project ideas, so that they can be tailored to fit their specific needs. Form a steering group made up of all the different cultural groups that we wish to engage with, as this helps us understand specific needs and aspirations of cultural groups and deliver work that is relevant to achieve greater outcomes. When working on projects we create robust well rounded pieces of research before we create our ideas, we create community action plans when necessary and always consult all relevant parties. Surveys issued both before and during project activity, so that we can ascertain individuals needs and opinions to help us formulate relevant and robust plans for the projects that we deliver. When working with children we play games to obtain their views for evaluation and research, as this is a softer way to obtain honest views and opinions. We deploy a range of techniques to evaluate projects that helps us gain a true picture of the project as a whole and the work produced, which helps us strengthen future project work that we undertake. When evaluating the end of a project we invite all involved to give feedback this also includes sessional staff and volunteers as we believe their view is also important as it give a full picture of the whole project.

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