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What other people say about us
Penny Vigers, Warwickshire College
“The students here thought the sessions were absolutely fantastic
- they all enjoyed them hugely and got a lot from the sessions in
terms of confidence, fun and group building. Please thank the trainer
and the peer mentors for giving the students such a great experience.”
Liam Byrne MP
Minister for the West Midlands
“You see a lot of things in this job, and you should be really
proud of what you’ve done here. It’s one of the most
extraordinary things I’ve seen since I became the Regional
Minister.”
Jim Graham
Chief Executive
Warwickshire County Council
“Hybrid Arts meet many shared aims in offering opportunities
to learn and gain confidence by engaging young people in art and
music. Whilst these opportunities are available to a wide range
of young people, we are particularly supportive of the fact that
Hybrid Arts has very productively engaged some challenging young
people who have undoubtedly been diverted from anti-social behaviour
through their art and music activities.”
Ursula Russell MBE DL
“Hybrid Arts not only motivates young people through creative
technologies, but also prepares them for the working world, an
outcome that employers are demanding and not always getting from
students leaving education.”
Chris Elliott
Chief Executive
Warwick District Council
“The work that Hybrid Arts is doing and has been doing, with
this Council’s support, over a number of years in terms
of developing the local base for the creative sector and enabling
access for youth training in the process is widely acknowledged
as being exceptionally innovative.”
Becta Case Study: Hybrid Arts using technology to engage the
disengaged 2006
“The centre staff are all practising artists in their own
right and their approach to life is less about conventions and
more about realising potential and working outside of formal models.
They bring this specific philosophy to their creative practice as
learning facilitators and technology is used as a conduit to creative
activity.”
Mark Gore
Head of Service – Education Partnerships and School Development
Warwickshire County Council
“I have been hugely impressed with the work Hybrid Arts has
done with some challenging young people. In particular I have been
impressed by the way in which they have achieved high standards from
the young people by having high expectations of tem and never compromising
the quality of what you offer and what you expect. This unique combination
of empathy with young people, the rigour of their approach and the
creativity inherent in the organisation ensures Hybrid Arts’ success.”
Anna Kershaw
CAMHS LAC Social Worker
Warwick District Children's Assessment Team
"I am hugely impressed with the support that Hybrid Arts has
provided for A, a young person with whom I work. The staff at Hybrid
have gone out of their way to accommodate and work with the emotional
difficulties that this A brought with her. They have worked hard
to become trusted people in the A's life and they provided A with
emotional and practical support when she needed it. They also worked
hard to improve A's self esteem. I believe that without this consistent,
non-judgemental and proactive response from Hybrid Arts, A may not
be in the position that she is in now where she is able to access
further education. I hope that Hybrid Arts will continue to grow
and be able to provide more vulnerable young people with the creative
support that A has received. Thank you Hybrid Arts".
Philip Oliver, CEO, Blitz Games
"Hybrid:arts is all about an invaluable outlet for creative
expression, helping to support young people by bringing out their
creative personalities. Often, these are people who have failed in
mainstream education."
"One thing I have seen when visiting schools is that it was
often the creative ones who are not very good at sitting down and
doing the maths lessons and everything; but that's because they're
not the sheep, they're the people who want to express themselves."
"The fresh creative talent that this scheme aims
to seek out doesn't come from the sheep who just sit at the classroom
table. Hybrid:arts is all about picking up these people and giving
them the tools and support they need."
Lorna Ferguson, Joint Commissioning Manager (Alcohol)
“Work with Hybrid has given young people purpose, has for
many given them support and allowed them to use mediums of communication
not normally on offer to them. In turn this has enabled bored and
often frustrated youngsters to begin to shape up, to shed their frustration
with adults, the system etc and develop trust and with this a sense
of their own worth.”
Peter Hunter, Warwick Area Manager, WCC
“You have a great reputation for the work that you do with
young people in the fields of the arts, and in particular, music.”
Phil Stock, Central Warwickshire 14 – 19 Consortium Co-ordinator
“My visits to Hybrid:arts impressed me with both the quality
of the relationships that have been developed between students and
staff and the high quality of both the hardware and software that
is made available to students.”
Steve Stewart, Executive Director, Connexions Coventry & Warwickshire
“Hybrid:arts have a profound effect on the lives of some
of our most vulnerable young people and improve their self-confidence.
They contribute to improve community cohesion, reducing offending
behaviour and increasing achievement and retention.”
Joe Eden, E2E Training Co-ordinator, South Warwickshire Training
“Hybrid:arts offers excellent support to individual learners
as well as enabling them to utilise superb facilities. One noticeable
benefit has been an increase of confidence in learners who often
lack self assurance.”
Lynne Upton, 14 – 19 Inspector, WCC
“I have always been impressed with Hybrid:arts’ total
commitment to engage young people by offering opportunities to work
with the highest quality resources which match or exceed industry
standard. Their approach to working with young people is always based
on developing their personal skills as well as a love of music and
creativity.”
Cllr C J Saint, Economic Development Portfolio Holder – WCC
“Hybrid:arts have a unique vision…working with young
people, engagement with the County Education Service and the promotion
of key planks within the Every Child Matters framework press all
the right buttons.”
Cathryn Ravenhall, Community Arts Officer, WCC
“Hybrid:arts has a good record of working with the harder
to reach and engage young people who have often dropped out of mainstream
education and training, and have successfully supported and positively
nurtured these young people’s self esteem and talents.”
Nick Wilson, Senior Business Development Advisor, Cov & Warks
CDA
“I believe their use of professional artists, established
multimedia and software companies has always added credibility to
their delivery and training techniques which facilitates real change
in the young people.”
Jim Graham, Chief Executive, WCC
“We are particularly supportive of the fact that Hybrid:arts
has very productively
engaged some challenging young people who have undoubtedly been
diverted from anti-social behaviour through their art and music activities.”
Rachael Stewart, Education and Lifelong Learning Manager, LSC
“I have never ceased to be amazed by the feelings of self-worth
that many young people have developed through being on one of the
programmes on offer.”
Heather Walton, Operations Manager, Youth Offending Team
“Hybrid:arts has done fabulous work with some very challenging
young people but makes art and music available to young.people ‘across
the board’.”
Sam Hatton-Brown, Video Editor, Codemasters
“I do believe that Hybrid:arts go one step further. In addition
to offering training in tools that are currently used in the creative
industries, I also notice an emphasis on universal life and social
skills. This seems due to the genuine care and passion that goes
into Hybrid projects.”
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“Part of these developments – the so-called ‘hybrid’ arts,
formed by interaction between cultures – is extremely exciting. ‘Hybrid
arts’ are a distinctive contemporary voice that has come
from the equal alliance of different cultural perspectives. The
forms they create are quintessentially British, emerging from a
healthy and at times passionate friction rather than from a passive
fusion.” ACE
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