Young Cultural Creators is a project which opens up young people’s reading and inspires their creativity. The combination of libraries, museums, archives, galleries, and children’s writers brings the project to life.
Young Cultural Creators (YCC) was conceived by the London Libraries Development Agency (LLDA) and the Tate Gallery and is now coordinated and funded by MLA London – the regional development agency for museums, libraries and archives in the capital. This Young Cultural Creators website has been jointly funded by MLA London and the British Council.
This site aims to encourage librarians, teachers, and educators in museums,
archives and galleries all over the world, to set up their own YCC programmes and to share their experiences and good practice in a world-wide network.
You will find case studies, resources and guidelines for running a YCC programme both in the UK and outside the UK.
Young Cultural Creators is an innovative and exciting approach to reader and writer development for young people.
The project enables children to explore creativity with
writers and illustrators of children’s books, stimulated
by working in a museum, archive, or gallery, and their local
library.
See Philosophy
YCC in London
YCC has now been running
across London very successfully for 3 years. It started
as a grant funded partnership between London’s libraries and the
Tate Gallery, coordinated by the London Libraries Development Agency.
IN 2001-2 over 90 YCC workshops in libraries and at Tate
Britain and Tate Modern were held. These involved 1080 children
aged between 10 and 14, their parents and teachers and librarians
from 27 of the 33 London boroughs.
Since then the YCC partnership, under the coordination
of MLA London has grown to include working with a wider range of London
's museums, archives and art galleries.
Since 2002 over 1500 children from 30 boroughs have taken part in YCC at 15
different venues from the Theatre Museum to London Metropolitan Archives and
the National Portrait Gallery.
See Partners
YCC around the World
Through partnership
with the British Council YCC
is opening up to venues outside the UK. Teachers, librarians, and art, archives
and museum educators worldwide will
be introduced to the project and will be able to develop their own YCC programmes
using the resources and guidelines provided on this website and sharing good
practice in a world-wide network.
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