Arts Kit - best practice guidance for schools
Arts Development can offer schools practical help and support in developing and implementing arts programmes. The ARTS KIT is a comprehensive resource which answers common questions and enquiries, offers guidance on best practice and promotes quality assurance.
Arts Kit
The Arts Kit includes:
- Guidelines for employing artists, including CRB and Employment Status
- A model Artist contract
- Project planning forms
- Evaluation forms
- Guidance materials on successful arts programming.
- Useful websites and publications list.
Download the ARTS KIT (3.76MB)
Contracting and employing artists and arts organisations
If you are considering employing an artist or arts organisation, a very useful resource is the Education Leeds ABC Guidance and Toolkit. This is a guide to best procurement practice.
Tendering
For help in drawing up an arts brief when seeking to contract with artists and arts organisations, you may find the following documents of use. The tender document has been matched to ABC protocols.
Download blank artist tender document (63KB)
Download artist tender document with guidance notes (196KB)
Artist Directory
The ArtForms Artist Directory contains over 120 artists' and arts organisations' contact details.
To request a hard copy of the ARTS KIT and DIRECTORY please contact Helen Taylor, Arts Administrator on tel: 0113 230 4074
Breeze Culture Network
While historically we have held a database of artists and arts organisations at ArtForms, a new online network has just been established in Leeds as part of the Find Your Talent programme. All of the artists on our database have now been transferred to the network. If you are interested in looking for artists or finding out about what the arts and cultural sector in Leeds has to offer young people, we very much encourage you to register on the Breeze Culture Network too. Once you are registered, you will be able to search the directory as well as automatically receive details of any opportunities we and any other arts organisations in the city have to offer schools and young people. Members of the network are able to contact each other or send messages to groups of people. We believe that once the network is fully up and running, it will provide an invaluable resource for schools in Leeds to build on links with the arts and cultural sector.
To register, please visit: http://culturenetwork.breezeleeds.org/register
