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- 12. Making Cultural Venues Open
- 13. The Importance of Small Events
- 14. Evaluating Events (ii)
- Question Time 4
02. Staging Events with Excluded Young People
Clare Corran (North Liverpool Positive Futures)
Following Clare’s hugely successful session at last year’s conference, this session will help us learn about the top tips of delivering events for excluded young people - how to approach such events; what to avoid; how to generate longer lasting impacts from them? This will be a workshop format that brings in the practical experience of both NL Positive Futures and delegates.
Conference Report
The session was well attended and the audience consisted of a good mix of practitioners and strategic policy managers. Clare posed the group with three key questions, those being,
- What is an event?
- What is a successful event?
- What are the concerns or major considerations?
The delegates places their post it answers on the flip chart and it was interesting to note that not one person referred to the ‘content’ or activity of the event. As Clare noted, an event is ‘something that has an impact upon you but is not bound by a subject.’ The group considered the notion of ‘whose agenda’ you work towards when hosting an event. Clare stressed that some local authority organised events have a strong focus upon the need for site-visits, health and safety and so on and that this can be a very different starting point compared to a community led event. Clare added,
"We try not to see these things as boundaries, I want people to tell me the issues and we will work around them. But we are still a professional organisation and we have polices. The important thing is that we are role models."
This workshop was extremely interactive and Clare got everyone up on their feet to engage in an impromptu scenario decision making exercise. Clare read out a number of key facts associated with ‘events’ her team have hosted in the past, she then asked the audience to move from one end of the room, representing a ‘positive’ event to the other side of the room which represented a ‘high risk’ event. The workshop produced a lively debate and was extremely thought provoking. The interactive nature of the session worked well and ensured full participation and input from the audience.
