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What do values-led arts projects look like?

A conversation on facilitation & leadership with care-experienced communities.

What does it mean to really lead by your values? How can we create projects that collaborate with and respect participants with lived care-experience? In this conversation we’ll explore practical ways in which facilitators have changed the power paradigm and are involving participants in a safe, empowering and active way.

Early 2025 Stella Barnes was commissioned by A New Direction to create Doing It Justince: Applying Ethical Values in Working Creatively with Care-Experiences Children and Young People. Over several months Stella had conversations with or invited written responses with contributors, over half of whom were care-experienced. This included previous young participants of creative projects, creative practitioners and representatives of arts organisations

In this Cultural Sector Masterclass session, you will hear from:

Stella Barnes, a freelance Arts Consultant, Participatory Artist and PhD Supervisor, based in West Yorkshire; working in the Northwest, London and nationally.

Ansh Shah, former Duchamp & Sons participant, now a Youth and Community Worker, creative, activist, and writer in the making.

India Harvey, a socially engaged artist with particular interest in Play and sensory/Neuro-inclusion and is Communities and Learning Manager for Supersmashers and Creative Families at the South London Gallery.

This session invites artists and cultural organisations who work with children and young people to reflect on their own practices and consider the importance of slowing down the process, listening and putting people and places in the centre of our practice.

This Masterclass will give you a chance to reflect on:

  • How we can create projects that are values-led.
  • A New Direction’s Ethical Participation resource: Doing It Justice.
  • What ethical participation looks like in practice.

This event may be particularly relevant for anyone who is interested in:

  • Works with care experienced children and young people.
  • Works with refugees and vulnerable children young people.
  • Develops creative programmes for children and young people.
  • Is an artist or cultural organisation working in delivery with children and young people looking to develop their inclusive practice.

This Masterclass series will be hosted by Clare Murphy, a storyteller, speaker and consultant who brings the ancient art of story firmly into the contemporary world where it belongs.


This free-to-access CPD is a part of A New Direction's Cultural Sector Masterclass 2025-26 series for creative learning professionals to reflect upon and strengthen your practice. This session is only available online and won't be recorded.

Find out more about our Cultural Sector programme.

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  • Date
    16 September 2025
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    10:00AM — 12:00PM
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