Thursday introduced those of us participating in Future Producers Plus to the Gold Arts Award.

Simply put, the Gold Arts Award is a way of benchmarking talent development programmes within the arts.  It consists of two units; unit 1, personal development and unit 2, arts leadership project.  Via this blog, I will be building my portfolio to submit as part of the award.  I’m really glad to be participating in the programme for a number of reasons, but mainly because I know it is going to encourage me to do things which I keep meaning to do; like write more, review shows, learn new art forms and develop new projects.

We’re beginning the programme with a skill swap; I’ll be giving a photography workshop for those interested in developing their photography skills and I’ll be learning printmaking from Flo, which I am very excited about!