After 5 years, 3 festivals and 40k young people, I say goodbye and thanks to @factory_international 🫡
Big love to all the artists, facilitators, young people, and orgs I’ve worked with. 💐
Follow my new page @north_inc_ for diasporic leadership in action, starting with @mobofringe 🔈
Just believe in yourself and your abilities.
Next year is a great year for you - a golden year. This year is a foundation year, next year is a period is creating success and future success.
✨ Creativity and young people isn’t just improving confidence, it creates economic value.
Our research with @probonoecon , @beewelluk , and @officialuom shows that engaging in the arts can transform young people’s wellbeing — and add real value to the UK economy. 🎭💡
After four years of designing and delivering @factory_international Creative Learning programme, building an incredible team, and collaborating across education, culture and research — the results are in:
💷 Using Treasury-approved methods, the wellbeing impact is worth almost £10,000 per young person.
💫 That’s a £7 return for every £1 invested.
This isn’t just numbers.
It’s confidence built.
Emotions explored.
Self-expression unlocked.
Futures re-imagined.
When young people are given creative space, they don’t just make art — they make change.
#CreativeLearning #ArtsInEducation #Wellbeing #Impact #UnlockingCreativity #ArtsMatter #YouthCreativity #ArtsForChange
Manchester in full effect tonight 🇬🇧✨
@konnykon - DJ, MC and one half of Children of Zeus - goes b2b with @sameed_sameed_sameed , the British–Iranian DJ and curator known for blending deep house, hip hop and diasporic rhythm.
Together playing inside from 10PM they’ll take you from soulful warmth to raw percussive energy expect R&B, garage, reggae, neo-soul and everything in between.
🎶 Free before 10PM / £7 on the door after
⏰ Come early - this one’s gonna go deep.
📸: @ian.robert.wilkinson
