Direct Impact for Newham 2006

LiveEd offers Newham an opportunity to engage fully with issues of world development. As a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural borough which will host the 2012 Olympic Games, Newham can play a strong part modelling global partnerships in mutual sharing and growth. Through creative arts exchange LiveEd can create:

1. An opportunity to host international visitors and share with them what we do best.
2. An opportunity for a group of young people to practice hosting international visitors and share their views and experiences.
3. An opportunity for over 800 young Arts Festival participants to learn how other young people manage and handle themselves in rehearsal and performance preparation.
4. An opportunity for over 1,500 audience members to share a caring Newham vision of development through partnership.
5. An opportunity to reflect on how international visitors perceive young people in Newham and to explore the impact of tourism.
6. An opportunity to share repertoire and performances for the Arts Festival 2006 directly with international exchange visitors.
7. The sharing of specific skills and practices in rehearsal.
8. An opportunity to challenge perceptions of how young people in Newham measure themselves against young people in other countries.
9. An opportunity for 3 young people and 3 performing Arts Leaders to visit Namibia and to explore all the above in a contrasting context.
10. A chance for these 6 people to record their experiences,reflections, perceptions and discoveries through film, photographs and written reports and to report back to a wider audience of school, and Community groups in Newham.