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Children and Creativity: In Conversation with Anne Longfield

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12 December 2024 - 12 December 2024

4:00PM - 6:00PM

CB008, Confluence Building, on the main Durham University Science Site off Stockton Road.

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In 2019, the Durham Commission on Creativity and Education, a partnership between Durham University and Arts Council England, launched its first report investigating the teaching of young people to be creative and to think creatively, and made ten recommendations across not only schools, but also Early Years, apprenticeships, Universities and the arts.

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Five years after the report, Durham University welcomes Anne Longfield, inaugural Children’s Commissioner. In conversation with Professor Simon James, she will be discussing how far we have come in realising the report’s ambitions, our hopes for the new Government, and what still remains to be done. In advance of the publication of a Child of the North report on Creativity and the Arts by the Centre for Young Lives, we ask how inequalities in childhood can be best addressed, and the role of creativity in giving young people the best possible start in life. 

You are warmly invited to attend this discussion. Opening remarks will be delivered by the University’s Vice Chancellor & Warden Professor Karen O’Brien.  Please register your attendance via this link

This event is open to all and will be of particular interest to anyone working in education, with young people, in the arts and culture or the creative industries. 

If you have any queries about the event please contact Tyra Sandford, Faculty Coordinator arts.execsupport@durham.ac.uk

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