This site celebrates and supports the stunning work happening across Cornwall with young people and the community in the creative arts.
KEAP is an arts education partnership with a mission to engage the whole community in creative learning through the Arts. We know the benefits of creative learning and we’re passionate about making it happen. We work with anyone and everyone from teachers and youth workers, to Early Years’ settings and Cornwall Council, to make sure that the arts and creativity are at the heart of work with children & young people.
We've got a great reputation and track record, and we know just the right people across the education and arts sectors. We’ll work with you to create projects or programmes that meet your aims, we can find you the right artist for your idea, or if you’re an artist we can advise you on your work with schools or link you up with other organisations.
In the KEAP Informed! ebulletin section you’ll find vacancies, commissions, opportunities and training within Cornwall and across the South West and there’s a dedicated KEAP Informed! Education bulletin as well. In the Resources section is a downloadable pack for Artists and Schools which helps with the nuts and bolts like planning and insurance. If you’re looking for an artist then check out the Artists and Workshops section, and if you want to know a bit more about what we’re up to then look at Projects & Programmes.
Latest news - KEAP & CYMAZ win Big Mediabox Contract!
Kernow Education Arts Partnership and CYMAZ have succeeded in winning Big Mediabox Contract funding of £40,000 to support disadvantaged young people in Cornwall use media to tell their stories or highlight the issues that are important to them.
Working with 40 young people in Short Stay Schools, the Hospital and Education Service and youth centres, the project will use Media Professionals in radio, comic strip and digital photography to up skill and support the young people to manage and deliver their own photography, podcast and graphic novel projects and help them make sure their voices are heard in their local communities and beyond. Read more ...
Latest events - Sing Up Cousin Jacks at Hall for Cornwall
There is a well known saying in Cornwall that 'a mine is a hole anywhere in the world with at least one Cornishman at the bottom of it!' Young people from 28 Cornish schools brought this story alive through songs and music reflecting the Cornish mining heritage across the world at the Hall for Cornwall on 23 June 2010.
As the culmination of a Super Sing Up cluster project over 500 young people from the secondary schools and their feeder primaries in Bodmin, Brannel, Camelford, Wadebridge and Richard Lander created a performance charting the journey from Cornwall to America, Africa and Australia by Cornish miners in the 18th and 19th centuries. They performed to a sell out audience at Hall for Cornwall with the audience joining in the finale song, ‘Cornwall, the land I love,’ by Richard Gendall.
Latest events - Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and The Lizard Schools at Eden
Over the past few months children in the ten schools on The Lizard have been working together to create a new musical composition which was performed at The Eden Project on May 20th.
Community Musician Andy Baker from the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Chris Morgan from Music and Dance Education based in Marazion, as well as Jo Cole a primary music teacher from St Michael’s school, Helston and Sing Up have been supporting and inspiring the children and teachers to come up with a new composition inspired by the book “Dinosaurs and all the Rubbish” by Michael Foreman. This story has been chosen because of its environmental message which is fitting for a performance at Eden.
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