Creative Agents' Overview of Curious Minds Sharing, Reflection & CPD
Diary Dates: 2010-2011
EVENT
Sharing & Reflection Day 1:
Brokerage
Sharing and Reflection Day 2:
Inspirational Partnerships
Optional Seminar 1:
Creative Documentation
Dates, Times and Venue
Merseyside:
Monday 20 September, League of
Welldoers
Lancashire:
Wednesday 22 September,
Gujurat Hindu Society
Merseyside: Monday 15
November, League of Welldoers
Lancashire: Tuesday 16
November, Gujurat Hindu Society
Arrival: 09:30 for 10:00 start
Lunch: 13:00-14:00
Pods: 14:00-17:00
Monday 17 January, MDDA -
Manchester Digital Development
Agency
Theme
Brokerage
Jude Bird invites a panel of
inspirational leaders to explore
how creativity has impacted on
them personally and
professionally.
1st Agent Pod meeting: Pods will
focus on the agent role in
supporting evaluation and
creative documentation of impact.
How can we support schools to
use beautiful, inspiring and
effective methods of documenting
learning, using ICT, digital media
and creative arts.
Point of interest
Partnership Discussion Cards
Case studies (www.curiousminds.org.uk)
Panellists are leaders working within organisations and on a
freelance basis. The panel includes representatives from:
 Schools across the North West
 MALIT (Motivated and Loving It)
 John Moore's University and the Centre for Postgraduate
and Professional Development
 Aimhigher
 Cape UK
Please see programme for details.
Delivery by:
 Dr Helen Manchester, Faculty of Education and Language
Studies, Child and Youth Studies Research Group, The
Open University
 Paul Main, Merseyside Creative Agent
 Paul Merrick & Alison Unsworth, BALTIC Arts
EVENT Dates, Times and Venue Theme Point of interest

Sharing & Reflection Day 3:
Mining the Gold: Documenting
Learning
Merseyside: Monday 24 January,
League of Welldoers
Lancashire: Tuesday 25 January,
Gujurat Hindu Society
Agents share practice on how they are
documenting learning; reflection on
Creative Documentation Seminar -
what did we learn?
2nd Agent Pod meeting
Merseyside:
 Emma Bramley presents Mantle of the Expert
 Sheila Large presents Reflect
Lancashire:
 Naomi Whitman presents how she documents
conversations.

Optional Seminar 2: Monday 21 February, Latest educational policy presented by Bill Lucas is Co-Director, Centre for Real-World Learning
Educational Policy Cornerhouse guest speaker Bill Lucas & Professor of Learning, University of Winchester.
For more info: http://tinyurl.com/2dk9cab

Sharing & Reflection Day 4:
Curious Minds Big Ideas (2)
Merseyside: Monday 21 March,
National Wildflower Centre
Lancashire: Tuesday 22 March,
Gujurat Hindu Society
Chris May facilitates Big Ideas (2,) Chris May:
following on from the Spring 2010 Chief Executive, Curious Minds
event
3rd Agent Pod meeting

Sharing and Reflection Day 5:
Where next?
Merseyside: Monday 16 May,
National Wildflower Centre
Lancashire: Tuesday 17 May,
Gujurat Hindu Society
How can Creative Agents develop
practice beyond Creative
Partnerships? (facilitated by MALIT)
4th Agent Pod meeting
MALIT is an educational consultancy specializing in
delivering innovative training.
http://www.malit.org.uk/about/

Celebration Event: Sharing the Thursday 21 July, Manchester All 6 Pods, across Lancashire and All Creative Agents (Merseyside and Lancashire) to attend
Gold: Disseminating Learning Merseyside, share the impact of Pods
in achieving good evaluation practice.

VENUE DETAILS
Gujurat Hindu Society
League of Welldoers
MDDA
Cornerhouse
National Wildflower Centre
GHS Centre, South Meadow Lane, Preston PR1 8JN http://www.ghspreston.co.uk/
(also known as Lee Jones Centre), 119-123 Limekiln Lane, Liverpool L5 8SN http://www.welldoers.org/
Manchester Digital Development Agency - LG Floor, 117-119 Portland S, Manchester M1 6ED http://www.manchesterdda.com/
70 Oxford Street, Manchester M1 5NH http://www.cornerhouse.org/
Primrose Room, The Wildflower Centre, Court Hey Park, Roby Road, Knowsley, Liverpool, L16 3NA http://www.nwc.org.uk/