Culture Weston Enhancing Creative Courses Through Career Excellence Hubs
We are proud to be partnered with Culture Weston to bring career-boosting benefits to our learners in Creative Arts!
Weston-super-Mare based community arts initiative Culture Weston have recently been announced as a partner in the College’s Creative Arts Career Excellence Hub. These new initiatives are endorsed by relevant sector employers to ensure lessons are relevant and to maximise experience opportunities, making learners ‘job ready’.
Culture Weston is a new partnership-led initiative that aims to build and maintain the future growth of culture within Weston-super-Mare, with Creative Arts playing a significant role.
In partnership with North Somerset arts organisation Theatre Orchard, North Somerset Council and Arts Council England, Culture Weston promotes and protects the town’s past, present and future with large focuses on heritage and sustainability moving forward.
Projects such as help to immerse our learners in the local community and grow their understanding of the local landscape and the impact of social action. As well as reducing our carbon footprint, Weston College is committed to creating brighter and greener future for our community.
With community at its core, the Culture Weston team help local people by offering advice and support, developing partnerships and instigating new initiatives that can “help forge an optimistic, people-powered future for this creative town”.
Culture Weston programme lead, Tom Newman said:
“We’re delighted to be partnering in Weston College’s Creative Arts Career Excellence Hub. Nurturing local talent and inspiring young people to engage with creative arts is a key part of our mission at Culture Weston. Through our partnership with the College we hope to maximise opportunities for students studying creative subjects, and to create new entry routes and pathways for young people to develop careers in the creative arts. We’ve hosted a number of placements from the College, and their creative ideas and contributions have been really valuable.”
Weston College helps to maximise opportunities for students studying creative subjects such as Art and Design, Graphic Design, Fashion, Performing Arts, Photography, Game and Animation, Media and Music – All of which are taught as full-time courses at the college’s Loxton Campus.
Racheal Heath, Dean of Faculty for Creative Arts, added: “Our career-focused study programmes help to broaden the horizons of our learners. Through industry partnerships such as this, we help to raise aspirations and inspire by having students learn directly from the industry and the vast number of opportunities that the Creative Arts industry provides.”
Recent examples of collaboration include the Culture Weston’s 'Arts and Health Week'. Dancers from the college’s Performing Arts department had the opportunity to work alongside world renowned Studio Wayne McGregor in an unforgettable series of beach performances to remember those we have lost in the global pandemic.
Read more about the 'In Memoriam' performance here
With more collaborations on the horizon, we are looking forward to continuing our partnership to continue to increase participation and inclusivity of creative arts and culture for our students and across our local community.
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