Valerie Taiwo of the El Shaddai Multicultural Partnership at the Launch Pad conference

"Thank you for the conference. Not only did you organise everything wonderfully and do everything that I needed to have a good time and be safe, but also it ran so well for me and was really useful. Other people I spoke to as well said it is one of the best ones they have been to ... you may have restored my faith in conferences, thank you."
Message from Tan Draig after the Launch Pad conference.

A session with artist Tan Draig at the Launch Pad conference
 

ARCHIVE OF PROJECTS


Downside Trailblazers Evaluation This arts and regeneration project, based on the Downside estate in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, is part of Arts Council England East's Arts Generate project. Catherine submitted her final report in September 2005, which is feeding into the overall research conducted by Cultural Intelligence Ltd. For more information on Trailblazers, click here.

Specialist Arts Colleges Conference - a one-day conference for teachers, organised for the Specialist Schools' Trust. It took places at South Hill Park, Bracknell, Berkshire on 20th October 2004. Click here for a summary of the event.

New Audiences website and Essential Audiences
Catherine wrote and edited content for Arts Council England's New Audiences website (www.newaudiences.org.uk) over a period of three years. For the first year, this was part of a project called Essential Audiences, collaborating with ArtsProfessional Magazine on a series of articles with website back-up. This included reports, articles and downloads from New Audiences-funded projects.

Pulse Sciart Workshop Series
Catherine worked with Sarah Bedell and Kiran Rao of Aspirational Arts Partnerships to organise and deliver this series of eight information workshops for the Wellcome Trust. To read more, click here.

Launch Pad - the arts and the early years - a one-day conference for Arts Council England, East Midlands in July 2004.
Click here to download a summary of the conference programme

Young people's Arts Awards launch events
CRO organised two events in the South East region to launch the national roll-out of the Young People's Arts Awards.

The events were organised by Catherine Rose's Office on behalf of Arts Council England, South East, and in collaboration with Artswork, the national youth arts development agency, which is organising the awards nationwide.

The events took place:
  • 15th March 2006 at the West Wing in Slough
  • 23rd March 2006 at the Komedia theatre in Brighton.

For Arts Council England, South East, click here.
For Artswork, click here.