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Register now to take part in Children’s Art Day 6 -12 July 2009 and receive
funding and press coverage for your event!
Children’s Art Day is a national programme encouraging children, young
people, families and teachers to engage with visual art. Children’s Art Day
takes place during Shine – a national festival celebrating talent in all
young people. On Thursday 9 July the spotlight will be on the Visual Arts.
Children’s Art Day in 2009 is run by engage and supported by the Clore
Duffield Foundation, the Mayor of London and Kids Love London, part of Visit
London.
All visual galleries and museums, schools, youth and community organisations
across the UK are invited to take part in Children’s Art Day. The first 150
venues registering events will receive a grant of £50 as seed funding for an
event, which can be claimed on the event’s completion and on submission of a
brief report.
Your event could be anything from an hour-long workshop to a competition,
performance, gallery or studio visit or craft day and can take place at any
time during the week. For ideas and inspiration, go to the engage website at
http://www.engage.org. The deadline to register your event is 8 May 2009,
once registered you will be able to change the details of your event up
until this date.
All participating venues will be offered support to attract regional and
national media coverage for their events. There will be Children's Art Day
balloons and stickers for all venues, and the opportunity to display artwork
produced by participants and event photos on the Shine website’s ‘wall of
talent’. All London-based Children’s Art Day events will also automatically
be listed in a commissioned Time Out supplement. Children’s Art Day is
promoted by engage, Shine, the Mayor of London and through Kids Love London,
part of Visit London.
To register for Children’s Art Day go to http://www.engage.org. For further
information please contact Laura Cherry at [log in to unmask] or call
020 7729 5858. To sign up to join Shine 2009 and start adding your work to
the virtual ‘wall of talent’ please visit http://www.shineweek.co.uk. For
further information about the Mayor of London please visit
http://www.london.gov.uk
engage is the National Association for Gallery Education.
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