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Young Cultural Creators inspiring young people's reading and creativity

YCC News

Take a look at this special section supported by MLA London, the Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries.

Welcome

Anthony Browne listening to children talking about their projectQUOTE: ‘Young Cultural Creators is a project which opens up young people's reading and inspires their creativity.' IMAGE: Children developing their ideas with illustrator Korky Paul

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.

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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.

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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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