Inclusive Youth Arts Programme: Artist in residence

Attenborough Arts Centre is currently seeking 2 freelance artists across 2 different disciplines to join our learning team for 6 months as artists in residence. In response to consultation with children and their families, we are inviting proposals from dance/music and visual artists looking to create and deliver inclusive and exciting workshops for children and young people with complex needs and disabilities and their families, particularly those who are able to work in an interdisciplinary way.

Context

Attenborough Arts Centres Inclusive Youth Arts Programme (IYAP) provides much needed opportunities for children and young people with complex needs and disabilities to be creative outside of school, promoting their wellbeing and enjoyment of being with others. All our workshops and performances are free to people from Leicester and Leicestershire who register on our programme.

Our programme takes place at weekends and during school holidays. Children on our programme have lived experience of disabilities and complex needs that require a range of sensory and person-centred approaches so they can participate in the arts: including but not limited to PMLD (Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties), Autism, ADHD (Attention Deficiency Hyperactive Disorder), Auditory, speech and visual impairments, Down’s Syndrome and Global Developmental Delay.

We have two strands to the programme:

• ART explorers for under 18s
• pARTicipate for 18-25s