Where artistic challenge meets arts leadership! Attain a recognised qualification in Art on Saturdays between 10am – 1pm, discover your potential and ability through a range of creative and inspiring art and design activities. Meet new people with shared interests. Start your creative career with us. Successful students can progress on to full time courses at The Northern School of Art and develop careers within the creative industries. Silver Arts Award gives young people the chance to take on an artistic challenge and a leadership role too. As well as being about creativity, it's about becoming a reviewer, researcher and project manager. Participants build a broad range of transferable skills as they complete their portfolio and gain a Level 2 qualification. To achieve Silver Arts Award, students create a portfolio, in a format of their choice, presenting evidence that they have completed all tasks. Arts Practice & Pathways planning an arts challenge that develops their skills implementing and reviewing the success of their challenge reviewing arts events and sharing their views researching careers and future opportunities in the arts Arts Leadership Identifying an arts leadership role and planning an arts project, being an effective arts leader. Including dealing with practical issues and working effectively with others reviewing their project and leadership abilities