The Young Audience Group is a collective of organisations and freelancers who have been meeting informally since 2018 to advocate for and raise awareness of the young audience sector.
The Young Audience Group is a collective of organisations and freelancers who have been meeting informally since 2018 to advocate for and raise awareness of the young audience sector. The collective is currently comprised of the following organisations and individuals: Action Boat, Barrowland Ballet, Catherine Wheels & Shona Reppe, Curious Seed, Frozen Charlotte, Imaginate, Independent Arts Projects, Lyra, Scottish Theatre Producers, Starcatchers and Visible Fictions.
In 2021, research carried out by Cultural Radar identified key needs and priorities for the Young Audience Group’s ongoing work. Victoria Beesley led a second phase of research in 2023 exploring what a new network/ membership collective of freelancers and organisations working in the young audience sector might look like.
This third phase of research is focused on two different elements: equity and access in a membership collective for the young audience sector – this research has been carried out by Kirstin Georgia Abraham; and the voices and rights of babies, children and young people within a membership collective for the young audience sector – this research has been carried out by Victoria Beesley and is the focus of this report.
Starcatchers, in partnership with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, are collaborating on a research project exploring current and emerging rights-based approaches in the arts for children from birth to 3 years in Scotland.
Starcatchers are working in partnership with Glasgow City Council Early Years Team to run a series of sessions around the consultation project Understanding the experience of birth-2s within Early Learning and Childcare.
Starcatchers is working with local nurseries in Helensburgh, to deliver Wee People, Big Feelings, an emotional literacy training programme for early years practitioners.
