Find Your Talent

The Find Your Talent Programme

A musical encounter at the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic

The cultural learning programmes of the Find Your Talent partners are based on the following principles:

• Breadth: We want children to experience all cultural forms not what just happens to be on offer in their area
• Reach: This range of experience needs to be there for all children not just the fortunate few
• Quality and Sustainability: Young people want ongoing high quality experiences not one off projects
• Pathways: Young people want to be able to take their interests, passions and talents to the next level and if appropriate into their career choices.

Because of the breadth of the partnership, there is an expansive and diverse offer already there for children and young people to access but the FYT bespoke projects allow us to extend this further and work in a more coherent and coordinated way to ensure young people know more about what's on offer and how to access it. The beposke FYT programmes are designed to test these ways of working, support more strategic delivery and ensure better coverage of the target areas.

Here you can find full details on the Find Your Talent programme, and the wider learning programme offered by our partners.

Former culture secretary, Andy Burnham, pays a visit to a National Museums Liverpool event at FACT

 

How are young people involved?

Find Your Talent is unique in that it places young people at the heart of the programme. The thoughts and opinions of young people have been integral in shaping the programme and will continue to be so throughout its development. This 'ground up' approach ensures that Find Your Talent has been built around young people, with their needs and cultural references being central to the project's development.

Find Your Talent Coordinators work directly with schools and local authorities to ensure that organizers and participants are supported and their voices heard.

What would long-term success look like?

Long-term success would mean a generation of children and young people growing up so excited and inspired by their cultural experiences they can't wait to pass the good news on to their friends. It would extend from the young instrumentalist from Kirkby, in the running for Royal Liverpool Philharmonic's Young Musician of the Year, to the child in St Helens creating their very own computer games.

Success would reach from the young person who has commissioned an artwork as part of Liverpool Biennial's programme to national acclaim, to a 4-year-old telling magical stories to their grandparents.

The long-term legacy of Find Your Talent would be a future generation of confident and innovative young people in the region, readily accessing and contributing to their own rich cultural heritage.