Arts and Education Network: South East Wales

The Arts and Education Network: South East Wales is a network of teachers, arts practitioners, and educators from arts and cultural organisations based, or operating in, the South East region of Wales in the counties of Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Monmouthshire, Newport and Torfaen. Membership is free and you can join today.

The network:

Organises a programme of high quality professional development for teachers, artists, and arts organisations,
Creates digital and face-to-face networking opportunities for those in the arts and education sectors,
Connects schools with artists and arts, creative, cultural and heritage organisations, acting as a broker,
Collects information on the regional arts offer and publicises examples of best practice,
Delivers an Arts Champions programme – a team of arts mentors who can support teachers developing arts projects.

Dive in to Earth Hour 2018 with Head4Arts

Head4Arts is hosting four family friendly Earth Hour events across the South East Wales Valleys region this year.

Showcase: Amy Wadge Songwriting Programme

A programme established to support songwriting at Lewis School Pengam.

An Expanded View of Drawing

An exhibition highlighting contemporary artists from South Wales to support and inspire the teaching of art in secondary schools.

About

The Arts and Education Network: South East Wales is a network of teachers, artists, and educators from cultural organisations based or operating in the South East region of Wales in the counties of Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Monmouthshire, Newport and Torfaen.

Arts Champions

The Arts Champions team is a vital part of the Arts and Education Network offer. They are recruited from across our region and have experience of delivering arts projects in schools and educational settings.

Funding

The Arts and Education Network: South East Wales has three funding streams that have been devised to support arts activity in schools in Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Monmouthshire, Newport or Torfaen.

Artist Directory

The directory is designed to help schools find creative individuals and cultural organisations in the South East Wales region.

Resources

The Learning Resources repository also contains resources with information developed by other organisations that we feel will be useful to teachers and artists delivering projects in schools.

Useful Documents

This section is a repository for documents we think will be useful to teachers, artists and educators in cultural organisations delivering arts projects in schools.