BWA:: Consulting

Consulting

The aim and approach of the Black Women in the Arts Consultancy Services is:

To provide excellence in the delivery of effective and informed consultancy to arts agencies, mangers, their teams and their organisations.

Our consultant are qualified and experienced as creative consultants, trainers, researchers, counsellors, psychologists, group enablers and as a body, is a valuable resource to our customers.

Black Women in the Arts' consultants enables managers and their staff in organisations to work effectively with each other having creatively tapped into their power. This allows staff teams to powerfully experience a relationship with change, with customers and with colleagues, that diminishes many of the fears that people bring to their role as ‘workers' or as ‘doers' within organisations. This is accessed as individuals find the art within themselves and are able to acknowledge that in others.

Managers and organisations will use a BWACS technology that enables them to:
Understand and work with creative dynamics of their artistes and with their teams
Exploit practical opportunities to know themselves in leadership
Understand their organisational role as player in a bigger market place
Develop creative solutions to operational and organisational challenges
Discover the management of new levels of accountability

Background

Founded in November 1995, Black Women in the Arts work with un-established and semi-established artistes, providing a range of services for the empowerment of female artistes. We do sin in partnership with know artistes, with business and in the public sector.

Black Women in the Arts is working nationally and internationally to build the capacity of individual artistes.

We have a commitment to providing quality as:-

We work with individuals providing opportunities to showcase their talent through events, projects, developing and multi-skilling.
We believe that successes can be shared. We undertake research, gather ideas and disseminate this information within and through communities.
We look closely at what is unproductive. We collaborate with others in communicating what does not work, to partners, policy and programme makers

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Approach

Our approach is guided by the organisation's vision, the requirements of our member artistes and organisations and our relationship with the filed of cultural industries activities.

Our approach can be philosophical and can be pragmatic. Our approach is influence by psychological schools of thought, by the broad resource base of ‘the arts' by organisational development, theories of adult learning and by ontological enquiry into people as actors in their lives. We generate ideas and bring projects to fruition. Black Women in the Arts is a useful tool to any organisation or individual needing clarity and specific recommendation to further its work. We are able to strengthen your practical work with real and substantial information about Black artistes and about the cultural industries. Because our work is underpinned by a clear vision, we offer you both insight and results.

Services

The Black Women in the Arts Consultancy Service (BWACS) provides development opportunities that are tailored to the clients' needs. You can commission Black Women I the Arts as advisers, to provide training, to undertake a piece of research or to access artistes' services as agreed.

As a tool, consultancy has an important role to play in personal and organisational development. As BWACS analyses your needs, you'll be encouraged to think beyond self-imposed limits. Our consultancy allows you to find the most appropriate response to your situation.

Partnership Building and Maintenance

Allows organisations to work effectively with communities and with individual artistes.

There are key facts that enable collaboration when building and managing projects.

They include agreeing the commonalties, existence of integrity, distinguishing the value bases and commitment to workable partnership. BWACS Associates have substantial experience and expertise in facilitating use of these areas for those committed to partnership.

Research

Organisations and individuals are interested in research for reasons as varied as finding a solution to a problem, getting people's views on an issue, recording and assessing one's work or perhaps planning for future organisational development. The increasingly imaginative use of research can support organisations in fulfilling their key aims and objectives. BWACS will provide insight and guidance so that you can access research as a useful device in your strategic planning.

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Youth Arts

Black Women in the Arts has broad expertise in working with young people. As a Youth Arts, Urban Music and other descriptions arise for young people's creative expression, young people continue to look for ‘the big change' and as fair change to express themselves authentically. One of the organisations that is well-used by young people, is Black Women in the arts and BWACS can facilitate your work with your artistes. We work with young people using an entirely inclusive and consultative approach. BWACS Associates offer management skills, youth work expertise and other complementary interpersonal approaches to impact your commitment in this area of artistic enterprise.

Events Management

Do you need access to quality artistes and up-to-date information on Black visual and performing artistes? Black Women in the Arts and the consultancy team offer an excellent service to those involved in the training, development and provision of artistes.

Our development portfolio includes customised programmes, standardised programmes and development opportunities to match your arts commitment.

Black Women in the Arts Consultancy Service (The Art within you)

Development Portfolio