Our Curve Business Club event on the 11 July was to showcase a community engagement project that works with young entrepreneurs, helping turn creative ideas into enterprise. Members from the Young Arts Entrepreneurs provided a taster from their current projects and were on hand to share their experiences and answer questions.

1. Young Arts Entrepreneurs
11th July 2012

2. What is YAE?
• New and innovative project being developed at Curve over 3 years
• Funded by The Paul Hamlyn Foundation & The Esmee Fairbairn
Foundation
• Providing opportunities to young and emerging artists from across
Leicester & Leicestershire to develop, plan and deliver their own
community arts projects
• Providing a tailored training programme, mentoring and support and
funding to help young people turn their creative ideas into enterprise

3. The Delivery
• 10 week Arts, Facilitation and Leadership training programme
• Each participant will be developing their project and ideas with a chosen
community
• Each participant will be delivering their project in a community setting and
at Curve
• Helping to develop each of the project’s into an enterprise so that the life
of the projects can live on

4. The Story so far…
• November 2011: YAE launched at Curve & recruitment of Young Steering
Group
• November – December 2011: Recruitment of YAE begins
• January 2012: Shortlisting of applicants undertaken by Steering Group
and training programme finalised
• February 2012: Dragons’ Den & 10 applicants selected and started the 10
week training programme
• May 2012: YAE begin to deliver their projects
• August 16th 2012: End of first year showcase event at Curve

5. Highlights
Weapons Of Sound Phil McKenzie
I am Marley
Over 55’s Dance Embrace Arts Performance

6. The programme going forward
2012-14
The current YAE will take up roles within the Young Steering Group.
Year 2, September 2012 – August 2013
• A recurring programme to engage and train 10 new YAE
Year 3, September 2013 – August 2014
• A recurring programme to engage and train 10 new YAE
September 2014
• The project will seek to disseminate the achievements and learning
at a national level to maximise impact. Our aspirations include a
national launch with political support within the House of
Commons

7. Meet some of this years YAE

8. Aminata Kamara
Writer/Director
Producer of The I am Marley Project
Web: www.aminatakamara.co.uk
Email: info@aminatakamara.co.uk
Twitter: @amii4eva
Twitter: @Marleytheplay

9. Aminata Kamara
• BA Drama – Verbatim theatre, Ethnography, Political theatre
• MA Drama – Representation, Documentation, Black theatre,
Social Theatre, Boal
• Youth Work – Kaine Management
• Business development – YAE, The Banks of TMC
• Unidentified Drama – The I Am Marley Project

10. I Am Marley Project
• Interviews – Social workers, Adoptive
Parents, Fostering and Adoption agencies, transracially
adopted woman, Theatre practitioners
• Secondary Research -
Books, journals, documentaries, TV shows
• Script
• Team - Casting calls - Promotion

11. Rehearsals
• Frantic Assembly
• La Poche Nosta
• Theatre de Comlicite’
• Stanislavski

20. I am
Marley
Show

50. UNIDENTIFIED DRAMA PRESENTS…
I am MARLEY
“I looked at the woman That gave
birth to me and called her mum.
I looked at the woman that
raised me… and I called her
mummy”
Curve Theatre - Leicester
16th August 2012
10am – 6pm
To book a place for the show/ workshops please call:
01162423595
Quoting ‘Curve YAE Showcase’
Unidentified Drama under the direction of Aminata Kamara, is Supported by Curve Young
Arts Entrepreneurs Project, made possible by funding from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and
the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.

51. EMILY BOLTON & RACHEL

52. WHO
Emily Bolton and Rachel Eke
Co-Directors of Movin‟2gether
Social Enterprise Business
Registered with Companies
House in October 2011
WHAT
PASSIONATE and ENTHUSIASTIC about
delivering dance workshops to the
community, providing an ACCESSIBLE
opportunity for a range of audiences to
experience
CREATIVE DANCE

53. WHY
We believe that creative dance can have profound
positive effects for a wide range of people.
We pride ourselves on our professional dance workshops that focus
on individual creativity and provide opportunities for people to offer
something of themselves and be acknowledged for this. We believe
that this can;
- Increase MOTIVATION
- Un-lock TALENT
- Develop CONFIDENCE
- Increase SELF-ESTEEM
- UNITE the community

54. OUR STRANDS
Music and Movement Sessions with
Over 55‟s and the Elderly
Arts Award Programmes with
young people
Early Years Workshops

55. Music and Movement Sessions with
Mature Movers
Training
Resources
Support and
Advice
Networks Equipment

56. MUSIC AND MOVEMENT SESSIONS FOR
THE ELDERLY
Provide a range of exciting themed dance workshops for
mature movers, simulating the mind and the body.
Through a variety of chair based movement, the sessions allow
participants to;
-partake in physical activity
-engage psychologically
-be creative
Inspired by a range of popular dance styles and songs from past
eras, we offer a Movin’through the decades programme which is
specifically designed to enable participants to reminisce.
Actively engaging Increase in
physically and mobility,
mentally self-esteem and
general well-being

57. Movin’2gether now
regularly deliver sessions in
Care Homes around
Leicester and have
witnessed the pure
ENTHUSIASM and
ENJOYMENT experienced
by residents.

58. “I really enjoyed the session today – it sort of
brings you to life doesn’t it”
Participant at The Lodge Care
Home

59. FUTURE PLANS FOR SESSIONS WITH MATURE
MOVERS...
Reach more care homes
Deliver this unique service to a wider audience, allowing the 17.5% of
Leicester’s over 60’s to experience the vast benefits of Movin’2gether’s
workshops
Movin‟ through the Decades... Comes to Curve!
Thursday 16th August - This event aims to engage a wide range of over
55, with different abilities and from different backgrounds in a creative
experience. The themed afternoon will include a short film, a creative dance
workshop and an opportunity to connect with other participants from the
community over tea and cake! Movin’2gether hope that this will also promote
our regular sessions
Over 55‟s Class
Curve Theatre have now employed Movin’2gether to lead their weekly over
55’s class. We hope to continue to offer this service in more
locations, engaging a larger audience
Statistics taken from Leicester City Council’s Area Profile:
/
http://www.leicester.gov.uk/your-council-services/council-and-democracy/city-statistics/demographic-and-cultural

61. MOVIN‟ FORWARD 2GETHER
Engaging young people in Providing
One year on... a qualification that’s suited opportunities for
to them, while young children to
Extend our work encouraging their explore their
with over 55’s exploration of dance and creativity through
- established session Work with the enhancing their movement play –
at Curve, possibly 2 Elderly and those aspirations increasing
sessions with dementia confidence, self-
- another class that -Regular sessions Work with young esteem and
takes place at a - Termly events at people ownership
different location in Curve that engage -Continued funding
Leicester a wider audience from De Montfort
- Collaborative Universities Square
projects Mile project to deliver Early Years
more Arts Award -Regular sessions for
Motivating the programmes for a Early Years in
older generation to Focusing on wider range of ages community centres
engage in physical creative and (7-25) and theatre spaces
activity and reminiscent - Delivering these - Develop our
creativity, while sessions that are projects at more practice in this area
raising self-esteem both physically and schools, theatres etc with training and
and confidence mentally stimulating across Leicester experience

63. Akshay Sharma

65. It is estimated that currently around 80 000 children and young people
suffer from depression in the UK.
It is also estimated that 1 in 15 young people have deliberately self-
harmed, with additional evidence suggesting that UK rates of self-harm
are higher than the rest of Europe.
According to a study cited in the Samaritans report on young people
and suicide, there are an estimated 24,000 suicide attempts made by
10 to 19 year olds in England and Wales each year, which amounts to
one attempt every 20 minutes.
Suicide remains the most common cause of death in men under the
age of 35. 90% of suicides amongst teenagers had a diagnosable
mental illness, depression being the most common.

66. “I don't know many people for whom being a teenager was
not a pretty vile and difficult period, myself included. The
one thing I know for sure is that with the right friends, the
right shrinks and the right attitude it will definitely
pass. Music is a great help - I think of it as a kind of aural
medication without any nasty side-effects.”
James Rhodes, professional pianist

67. • Creating exciting new theatre
• Provoking discussion on current issues
• Working with young people
• Encouraging new talent and theatrical
exploration

68. “Do You Expect Me to Talk?”
• TIE workshops
• A series of discussions and interviews with local young people
• Workshops at Curve for local young actors
• An installation piece placed in a 'shop window set up' in Leicester City
Centre
• Support from national charity Young Minds UK

69. „Theatre In Education‟ Workshops
• Cognito have facilitated 2 workshop sessions with 9 to 12 year olds in local primary schools
which we were able to offer free of charge thanks to Curve's support and funding
• The sessions provide a fun introduction to drama and performance whilst featuring a strong
PSHE theme, getting pupils to discuss their emotions and feelings through drama
• The plan links into many parts of the primary curriculum
• The sessions have been a great source for Cognito's research and development for "Do You
Expect Me to Talk?"

70. The Installation
• Situated in an empty shop space in Leicester City Centre at the end of July
• Actors improvising and engaging with visitors, performing short monologues based
around confronting the stigma, and the idea of talking about mental health
• A short film on a loop, featuring interviews and artwork by local young people
• An interactive display of thoughts and experiences
• Artistic design by Leicester-based professional set and costume designer Kate Unwin

71. The Importance of Technology
• Blogging
• Social Networking
• Gadgets

72. Blogging
operationact.wordpress.com
• Detailed reports
• Screenshots
• Video
• Photos
• Links
• Stimuli

76. Social Networking
Twitter: @CognitoTheatre
Facebook: www.facebook.com/cognitotheatre
www.cognitotheatre.co.uk
We've also had people in contact via the Arts Jobs and
Creative Leicestershire sites.

78. Gadgets
• Easy communication via iPad and iPhones
• Apps to collect evaluative info such as FileMaker Go
• Writing and delivering presentations
• Taking photos and video