How can creativity lead us to alternative ways of seeing and enable youth engagement with heritage?

Are you a professional in Heritage or the Arts? Do you work in learning, engagement or audience development? Are you a creative practitioner interested in heritage projects or youth voice?

Join Common Ground and our partners to celebrate the culmination of our 3-year Norfolk & Norwich Festival project which connected young people with their local cultural and natural heritage through the arts, made possible by the National Heritage Lottery Fund.

There’ll be thought provoking keynote speakers from Heritage and Arts organisations, activities from sector leaders, panel discussions and an original project showcase.

What will I learn?

The Symposium invites participants to explore how we can make heritage non-traditional, playful and accessible for young people through creativity.

It’s a great opportunity to develop your ideas and practice around youth voice and engagement, creativity, storytelling and alternative ways of seeing heritage.

You’ll discover new ways of working in partnership and creating innovative experiences for cultural and natural heritage with and for young people.

The progamme will offer you space to connect with great practitioners working in Heritage and the Arts, as well as young people active in the sector.

What will happen?

• Expert keynote speakers from Heritage, creative organisations and youth engagement
• Breakout activities with creative sector leaders
• Panel discussions with our project partners and young people
• Common Ground project showcase throughout

About Common Ground

Common Ground is a Norfolk & Norwich Festival 250 project, supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Thanks to National Lottery Players, it’s been an extraordinary three years of partnership working with Norfolk Wildlife Trust, Suffolk Wildlife Trust, The National Trust, Flag Fen, Colchester and Ipswich Museums Service, The Prince’s Trust, SHARE Museums East and a wider creative community.