Manchester City Council:cultural entitlement...
Manchester City Council have contracted Sally to evaluate their two year pilot cultural change pilot programme. The programme aims to test models of what 'cultural entitlement' might be for children and young people aged 0 to 19. The evalutation will explore the transferability and sustainability of children and young people's activity and asspociated capacity building and professional networks; the accessibility of the programmes for their target participants; relevance of the programme to the Counci's Local Authority Agreements and Children & Young People's Plan; and to make recommendations with regard to rolling the programme out across the city.
Manchester Science Festival.................................
Evaluation Consultant for the 08 and 09 Manchester Science Festivals. The festival includes over 30 partners and over 200 events. Evaluation focusses on how effectively the festival delivers its intended content; how the festival and partnerships work or could be improved organisationally; and the effectiveness of meeting the needs of its stakeholders. Evaluation includes quantitative and creative qualitative information gathering, including creative consultation and feedback opportunities integrated into the festival's programming.
MOSI 'Wasted' Exhibition........................................
For MOSI (Museum of Science & Industry, Manchester): Exploring the exhibition's success in meeting its aims of being suitable for a target audience of families and school groups; in challenging preconceptions of waste disposal mechanisms; in relaying its intended key messages; and identifying the project's impact on professional practice.
Urbis: Art & SuperCity.............................................
Sally wrote the evaluation report of Art, a contemporary street art participation project by Urbis exhibitions centre; street art and youth culture company Spearfish; and St Ambrose Barlow School in Salford. The project developed young people's work on the theme of the urban environment. This was then integrated into a major architecture and public realm exhibition of the work of Will Alsop, entitled SuperCity. The evaluation gathered and analysed qualitative and quantitative information from artists, project managers, teachers, students and visitors, to determine the successes and challenges of the project and make recommendations for the future.
Liverpool Capital of Culture: Little Acorns.........
Contracted as Evaluation Consultant for part of Liverpool Capital of Culture to explore a programme aiming to identify good practice in artists of all types, working in early years settings across Merseyside. The project invited the artists, staff and children to find ways of exploring the central themes of Liverpool, community, heritage, identity and family.