2-10th July was Arts Award Week. During the week we discussed the central theme: Our Creative Future. We be offered advice on taking the first steps towards your career dreams, and will be shared advice from industry professionals and high profile creatives. See this page for activity that happened during the week, and to find top career tips going forwards.

As we kick off Arts Award Week, the theme of which is Our Creative Future, our Youth Network share their creative pasts, and the paths they've taken to get to their current positions; as young, successful, creative explorers.

In Spring 2016 we ran a competition to find 13-25 year olds who are creating art that aims to make a difference. Taiwo, Adekola and Kim a group of three poets, were one of three entries to be awarded runner up.

In Spring 2016 we ran a competition to find 13-25 year olds who are creating art that aims to make a difference. Ella Tighe, an independent dance artist, was one of three runners up.

The 2016 engage International Conference

Liverpool Hope University & venues across Liverpool

13 & 14 October; Fringe 12, 13 & 15 October #engageinLiverpool

The engage International Conference 2016 will explore how issues of access and activism impact on gallery and visual arts approaches to education and outreach.

Taking place in Liverpool, a city renowned for its radicalism and creativity, at the time of the Liverpool Biennial, this year's Conference programme will have a strong focus on arts activism – how it has changed not only society's response to art, but also how it has irrevocably altered the way in which the arts world now engages with society at large.

Conference will consider the exciting methods of engagement which have developed from the early days of activism, examples of how intervention achieves its aims and the ways in which the arts can create value in contemporary society. It will examine how the arts can effectively engage with schools and ask if the curricula, or styles of interaction need to change. A discussion about how best to provide sustainable careers for artists will bring the two days of interaction and conversation to a close.

An interview with Lucy Suggate - Guest Artist for the Siobhan Davies Dance Next Choreography Festival

Tate Modern expands and reorganises its collection in a new building, that is itself a work of art and stimulates the public's involvement

Ladies, and gentlemen; I present to you a list of the many albums that changed my perspective on the world and made me the music nerd I am today.

There has been a lot of talk about different aspects of the EU referendum: the economy, immigration and trade being the big talking points, but what impact does the EU have on arts and culture?

In Spring 2016 we ran a competition to find 13-25 year olds who are creating art that aims to make a difference. You can read full interviews with the winners, and preview their work over the coming weeks.

Next Choreography is a yearlong course for choreographically curious young people. Through weekly sessions participants explore choreographic processes used across art forms; working with artists and attending events, experimenting in the studio and presenting work at the Next Choreography Festival.

I'll be voting to stay in the EU. Will you?