Youth Arts Framework

DGU commissioned The Articulate Cultural Trust to develop a Youth Arts Framework for Dumfries and Galloway, to better understand current provision and to seek recommendations to help make youth arts in the region the best that it can be.

Download the Framework for Youth Arts in Dumfries and Galloway.

Read the Consultation Report – Youth Arts Framework.

A call to action

At DGU's Creative Routes Conference 2018, 17 year old Abby Gray, a member of the National Youth Arts Advisory Group, called on Dumfries and Galloway’s creative practitioners and organisations to pledge their support for the region’s youth arts sector by signing up to the report’s key findings and six recommendations.

Read Abby's response to the youth arts framework and her call to action.

Pledge your support for the Youth Arts Framework.

Next steps

DGU is working with the pARTners group to secure funding to commission a young person to take forward some of the key areas detailed in the report, so watch this space for future developments.

Creative practitioners and organisations already signed up to supporting the youth arts framework: