Power Up:
Creative Education Network
Come and join our creative network. Hear more about our ongoing creative programmes, meet the PiCL team and the practitioners and educators we are working with. Our network is a blend of in-person meetings, online discussions and focussed CPD activities. The CPD activities are run by creative practitioners are delivering high quality, engaging activity tailored and responsive to the changing needs of young people and the educators working with them.
Funded by
Power Up is generously funded by Arts Council England.
Power up
Christmas special
Join us to hear from Jess Simm, a local professional practitioner who will share her success story.
Life as an artist - Someone like me: Hear inspiration from jess about her less traditional pathway into the art sector and how someone from her background gets to do the variety of work she is involved in.
Followed by a Christmas Card Printing Special workshop with Becky Bell, tis the season to get printy!
15th December 2025
4.30-6.00pm
King Street Studio
14a King Street
Newcastle under Lyme
ST5 1EJ
FREE BUT BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL
Power up
Christmas special
Hear from Katie Leath, Director of Culture and Enrichment / Teacher of Art & Design at Madeley school on how they achieved their Artsmark Gold status.
Artsmark empowers teachers with the skills they need to embed arts, culture and creativity across the whole curriculum through CPD training from our partner, Goldsmiths, University of London.
Artsmark is open to primary, secondary, special schools and hospital schools, as well as pupil referral units, youth offending teams and sixth form colleges in England.
The Superpower of Looking with ArtUK
The Superpower of Looking is an innovative and inclusive programme that seeks to transform the visual literacy skills of primary school children across the UK, taking the world of art and images as its starting point.
Using a set of free teaching resources, children will gain an essential superpower: the ability to really 'see' – to critically observe, analyse, question, interpret, and empathise. Children will become visually literate in the image-dominated world around them.
Refreshments included.
Please let us know if you have any accessIbility requirements.
Middleport Pottery
Port Street Burslem,
ST6 3PE
FREE BUT BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL
