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Rushes: New Skills, New Experiences

Yolanda Idehen talks us through the skills she picked up while on the Creativity Works: Rushes course earlier this year, and how she put them to use

What lessons can culture learn from local change programmes?

This month A New Direction will publish two new papers in a building collection of place-based intelligence, focused on learning beyond the arts. Sarah Davies introduces the papers

Becoming a Digital Production Intern

From Fashion Week to Forbes, Malik Fields tells us all about his internship at LCF, what it meant to him, and how he feels about leaving...

If you’re reading this, it’s not too late

Creativity Works: Advertising participant Asher Harris tells us how the course helped to restore his confidence and inspired him to start his own agency

£2 million investment announced to boost young Londoners’ creativity and cultural engagement

Organisations come together to match £900,000 investment, totalling around £2 million investment in cultural education for young Londoners over the next 3 years

A radical new mode of arts & cultural management

Partnerships Director, Holly Donagh, shares her thoughts on how new research exploring cultural eco-systems could be a template for change

Burning Questions - Creativity Works: Rushes

STEP into the Smithsonian: Pre-Departure Reflections, Part 2

More on what's sparking off some key museum-related ideas, from STEP into the Smithsonian trainee Mohammed Rahman

STEP into the Smithsonian: Pre-Departure Reflections, Part 1

Ahead of a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Washington DC, Mohammed Rahman is thinking about what the STEP into the Smithsonian programme will have to offer in this two-part feature

Announcing: the New Museum School Podcasts

Listen in to the audio productions from our NMS trainees!

St. Philomena’s journey to Artsmark Gold

Art Subject Leader, Timothy Devenish, shares his reflections and tips on completing the Artsmark process

Tate Year 3 Project enters last term of photography

A New Direction’s School Relationship Co-ordinator, Marina Lewis-King, gives an update on this major project which has engaged 65% of all London primary schools

"A Magical Journey": the AFL Experience

Bimbola Fadairo's take on Creativity Works: Arts Festival Leaders with Create Jobs and Tate Exchange - and how it reminded him of Dragon Ball Super and 50 Cent

Deaf, disabled & neurodiverse young people take over Tate Modern

A New Direction welcomed over 3,000 visitors to I Am At Tate Exchange Festival in March - we share some highlights from this inclusive festival of creativity

Five tips for creatives to remember

Advice from Abraham Asefaw as Meet a Mentor gets underway

An interview with Andria Zafirakou, Global Teacher of the Year

A New Direction CEO, Steve Moffitt, speaks to Andria about the current state of arts education, how her life has changed since winning the prize, and what the future holds for her

Diversity: breaking formulas and telling different narratives

Autumn Byam on diversity in filmmaking, getting into the industry and what the Creativity Works: Rushes course has done for her

Introducing the Cultural Learning Evidence Champion's Handbook

Partnerships Director, Holly Donagh, introduces a new handbook designed to help evaluate projects, conduct research & think about how to measure the impact of work with children and young people

We’re looking for new members to join our Young Challenge Group!

If you are aged 15 – 24 and want to make a real difference to young people’s creative and cultural opportunities in London, the Young Challenge Group might be for you

"Discovering the Tech World"

Ilana Graham gives us the inside scoop on Digital Pipeline LDN 2

Mentoring: a mentor's perspective

As the fifth Meet a Mentor launches next week, hear how mentor Jayshree Viswanathan at FCB Inferno got on with the programme