8 episodes

Nick Corston, Dad, Co-Founder and CEO of non-profit STEAM Co. hosts the ARTCONNECTS Podcast.

A Celebration of the Power of Creativity, Technology and People to Inspire Young People and Children in their Learning, To Create Careers and Power the Economy and to Engage and Connect Society and Communities.

STEAM Co. believe we have to Connect Young People with their Art be it dance, dj-ing, cooking or coding, fashion or football and Connect Communities with their Schools.

Every episode we'll be talking to not just teachers and people in the world of education but across the board in business and other organisations.

Because 'Art is what we call it when what we do might connect us'.

Series 1: #ARTCONNECTS19 - our first flurry into podcasting and what a wonderful response we had

Series 2: #TALKWALKERS20 - chats with people who knew and were inspired by Sir Ken Robinson on the sad shadow of his tragic passing

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Nick Corston, Dad, Co-Founder and CEO of non-profit STEAM Co. hosts the ARTCONNECTS Podcast.

A Celebration of the Power of Creativity, Technology and People to Inspire Young People and Children in their Learning, To Create Careers and Power the Economy and to Engage and Connect Society and Communities.

STEAM Co. believe we have to Connect Young People with their Art be it dance, dj-ing, cooking or coding, fashion or football and Connect Communities with their Schools.

Every episode we'll be talking to not just teachers and people in the world of education but across the board in business and other organisations.

Because 'Art is what we call it when what we do might connect us'.

Series 1: #ARTCONNECTS19 - our first flurry into podcasting and what a wonderful response we had

Series 2: #TALKWALKERS20 - chats with people who knew and were inspired by Sir Ken Robinson on the sad shadow of his tragic passing

    #TalkWalkers20 - Creative Coalition Festival

    #TalkWalkers20 - Creative Coalition Festival

    Our last podcast with Mark Featherstone-Witty, Founding Principal of the Brit School and LIPA shortly after the tragic passing of Sir Ken Robinson inspired this short #TalkWalkers20 Series series in memory of Sir Ken and a contribution to his legacy.

    This one was recorded on our Pyramid Stage made form cardboard, code and creativity which we set up at BBC Television Center as you can see for the Creative Coalition 2020 Festival in London.

    Like the whole series, it features people who knew and worked with Sir Ken, in thsi case:

    Chair: Nick Corston - Dad, Co-founder, CEO of STEAM Co.

    Shona McCarthy - Chief Executive, Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society

    Kenneth Olumuyima Tharpe - Freelance Arts & Culture Consultant

    Anne Bamford - Strategic Director of Education and Skills , City of London

    • 1 hr 12 min
    The #ART OF LIVERPOOL with Mark Featherstone-Witty OBE, CEO/Founding Principal LIPA

    The #ART OF LIVERPOOL with Mark Featherstone-Witty OBE, CEO/Founding Principal LIPA

    Mark Featherstone-Witty OBE is an educator and entrepreneur. He is the Founding Principal and Chief Executive of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts which he founded, with Paul McCartney, in the mid-1990s, after establishing the British Record Industry Trust BRIT School in Croydon with Richard Branson

    What an honour to interview him for this podcast series and how timely, with the tragic recent passing of one of Liverpool's founding fathers, Sir Ken Robinson.

    Hear what Mark says the English School's Minister, Nick Gibb said when he first met Sir Ken and also which Rocket Man he says is possibly going to be part of a tribute of some sort to his legacy.

    This podcast inspired our #TALKSWALKERS20 series, a series of chats with people who knew, worked with and were inspired by Sir Ken.

    • 53 min
    The #ART OF BABIES with Suzanne Zeedyk - Research Scientist

    The #ART OF BABIES with Suzanne Zeedyk - Research Scientist

    Now this episode was a blast and tells the story of how a crazy day out in Oxford became a day in Leicester and a week in Scotland and the North East.

    A story of connections but is mostly an inspiring chat with Research Scientist Suzanne Zeedyk about the amazing connections that babies form and how we break them at our peril.

    Enjoy.

    • 47 min
    The #ART OFACADEMICS with Prof Bill Lucas, Co-Chair of the OECD PISA Creative Thinking Committee

    The #ART OFACADEMICS with Prof Bill Lucas, Co-Chair of the OECD PISA Creative Thinking Committee

    "I like university professors, but we shouldn't hold them up as the high watermark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life; another form of life. 

    But they're rather curious, and I say this out of affection for them. There's something curious about professors, in my experience; not all of them, but typically - they live in their heads. 

    They live up there and slightly to one side. 

    They're disembodied in a kind of literal way. 

    They look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads, don't they? 

    It's a way of getting their head to meetings."

    Said Sir Ken Robinson in his No 1 TED Talk on how schools can kill creativity, so what better intro to our #ARTCONNECTS podcast with a man, a dad, a professor who is similarly inspiring, grounded and globally impactful in his role as Co-Chair  of the OECD PISA committee for Creative Thinking.

    We give you Prof Bill Lucas, recorded here in an echoey room at the University of Winchester back in 2019

    • 38 min
    The #ART OF BOLD with Kirsty Williams - Minister for Education, Wales

    The #ART OF BOLD with Kirsty Williams - Minister for Education, Wales

    Whether you’re a parent, teacher, employer, policy maker or any other type of creative carer you’ll have a vested interest in how we educate our children.

    This podcast is about a bold move by a country around how it educates its children.

    Wales has co-created and trialled a new curriculum with school leaders, teachers and some of the world’s leading experts. It has creativity at its heart.

    Here their Education Minister, Kirsty Williams outlines the vision and thinking behind it.

    This is the Art of Bold.

    • 53 min
    The #ART OF THE VILLAGE with Richard Gerver

    The #ART OF THE VILLAGE with Richard Gerver

    A chat with Richard Gerver, one of the world's leading authors, speakers and leaders of education and business taking in Obama, Google, Sir Ken Robinson among others and how these learnings might help the fight for creativity in our schools, work and lives.
    He even turned a school around using Disney as inspiration and has just published a new book, Education: A Manifesto for Change which has one major theme: Collaboration.
    The #ARTofTheVILLAGE because as we've always said 'It Takes a Village to Inspire a Child'
    You'll be hearing a lot more from this man as he's promised to help us change the world.

    • 1 hr 1 min

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