July 2008 – latest news

• July 08: East Leeds FM - job opportunity With ELFM's summer programme in full swing, we are looking to appoint a Project Director to take ELFM into it's next phase. All the details regarding the appointment are on our website on the appointment pages and keep in touch with all ELFM news through the ELFM website.

• June 08: Wilthorpe and the World - Heads Together worked with Wilthorpe Infants School for over 5 years, thanks to the Creative Partnership programme in Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham. On 2nd July we launch the booklet that tells the story of the project in the words of those who were part of it - artists, teachers, pupils. Contact us if you would like a copy.

• May 08: Fettling - Jurgen has taken over the moderation of the fettling website which came from the Meltdown project in 2004 - Words and Images from a West Yorkshire Foundry (in fact the last aluminium foundry in the country - closed down with the loss of over 600 jobs. The project was in partnership with the Union Amicus and the transnational corporation - Hydro - who were closing it down, with funding from the Heritage Lottery Foundation. Jurgen is one of the former employees at the foundry and is moderating the afterlives section where former employees keep in touch. Great project - book, dvd, exhibition and website and great to see it still being useful - 4 years on.

• April 08: Creative Collation - working with the Fine Bunch of cultural protagonists in Kirklees, Adrian Sinclair presents on behalf of the cultural sector to the Leader and Chief Executive of Kirklees Metropolitan Council – how to create an effective strategic partnership between the sector and the local authority.

• Mar 08: Celebrating Success - dvd pack with posters, postcards and more launched in partnership with LOCA and Huddersfield Technical College: a resource created with a group of young black students at the College – aiming to encourage ambition amongst other young people from minority ethnic backgrounds.

• Feb 08: Don't get me started (again) - more salon evenings in Huddersfield. A second series of discussion evenings starts Monday 18th February "Obesity - Are we bingeing on another scare story". Adrian Sinclair, is chairing the debate - download salon evenings

• Feb 08: East Leeds FM internet broadcast - 2955 people, aged between 3 and 87, have broadcast from one of ELFM studios since we began the project in 2003. ELFM's latest internet broadcast goes live 9-15 February. You can download the broadcast details. And to listen live, comment or hear the podcasts anytime, go to the ELFM website

• Jan 08: On the move - Heads Together are moving office. From the 4th January we are at the Media Centre in Huddersfield - the unpacking is done and all forms of communication back on line - see contact page.

• Dec 07: Urban Forum National Conference - Creative Director, Adrian Sinclair, is an 'Expert Witness' at the two-day conference in Leeds - December 3/4th. At the same time, young people from ELFM are attending the conference to make the official conference podcast. For more information have a look at the event programme at the Urban Forum website

• East Leeds FM website - you can be one of the first to test out the new ELFM website, listen to and comment on the podcasts. For a sneaky look, go to ELFM test website Let us know what you think.

• Don't get me started - salon evenings in Huddersfield. After two very successful evenings in October and November, the final session of the mini-series is on Thursday 6th December with Phil Wood and Munira Mirza speaking on the theme "Is Multiculturalism Dead". Creative Director, Adrian Sinclair, is chairing the debate - download salon evenings

• A space to float - a project documenting swimming in Leeds at a time of change. The dvd pack was launched at a very successful tea party on the 40th birthday of the Leeds International Pool. Copies of the pack available from the Pool or Heads Together - cost £10.

• Following a very successful June broadcast, our remarkably successful community radio station, East Leeds FM starts a series of podcasts - see www.elfm.co.uk or download information about our ELFM autumn activities

• Creative Director, Adrian Sinclair, will be one of the keynote speakers at the Mapping Design Activism conference run by Leeds Metropolitan University on September 14th.

• Dr Kate Pahl, Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Sheffield, has now completed her two-year study on Heads Together's work at Wilthorpe Infants School as part of Creative Partnerships in Barnsley. She concludes:

"The space between artists and teachers is a muddy one, and can be riven with disappointment. In this project the artists asked the teachers to take over the project and run it themselves and this was a risky option. Neverltheless they did end up doing it, and saw the effects. The projects were successful, and the interventions hugely exciting for the teachers to participate in."

For more information You can download a full copy of the report: Looking with a different eye

For more information on any of Heads Together's projects, have a look at our recent news pages.

• In September 2006, Heads Together took a week off to think! We invited Bert Mulder from De InformatieWerkPlaats in the Hague to stimulate our thinking juices; culminating in a public seminar on Friday 22nd September. For more information and if you want to listen yourself, go to Thinking Allowed.

Email: info@headstogether.org