Hackney Empire to release report on Creative Futures at twenty
Hattie Fisk
Thursday, June 23, 2022
The report will be released on 29 June, evaluating the impact of the Creative Futures project over the past 20 years.
To mark 20 years of the Creative Futures project, Hackney Empire is releasing an impact report outlining its effects in a special on-stage event on 29 June.
The report will be a culmination of data and information from the past 20 years evaluating the outcomes achieved by Creative Futures, with survey responses, case studies, interviews, quotes and analysis of its impact and breadth of its work.
Creative Futures annually engages with over 2,000 young people between the ages of 12 and 15, providing an average of 20 hours of free young programming.
Th project has created a flagship Artist Development Programme, as well as running outreach and afterschool programmes, creative development with young producers from under-represented backgrounds across Hackney, and has run Limitless - an intensive creative arts programme collaborating with a company of 40 neurodiverse and disabled young creatives aged 14 - 25 in the summer holidays.
The findings of the report released so far state that 92% of participants surveyed said they experienced greater emotional wellbeing as a result of being part of the Creative Futures Programme
Rachel Horowitz, Head of Learning and Participation, said: ‘It's exciting to share the incredible work we do at HE Creative Futures. Our young creatives are the next generation of artists and decision makers. We hope this report will showcase to the wider community the talent and voices of young people in East London.’
Yamin Choudury said: ‘Arts & Culture changes lives. It’s as simple as that. And for over twenty years, Hackney Empire and Hackney Empire: Creative Futures have been kicking down doors and creating vital access for young people, to not only transform their lives, but also our world.
‘I’m so proud to have been able to play a small part in this programme for nearly fifteen years, and it is now my job, alongside all of us, to make sure Creative Futures, and programmes like it all over the country, are able to continue to change young people’s lives for many more decades.’
