Project Oracle CHOREOGRAPHING EVALUATION 5 November 2014 11am-6pm

Overview Project Oracle invites you to participate in an exciting day of activities, discussion and performance on the values of arts interventions and how we measure them. This forum will provide a rare opportunity for youth arts providers, commissioners and researchers to exchange ideas and experiences in a practical and creative way. We will engage researchers, evaluators, policymakers, providers and artists to explore the synergies between the arts, public policy and research. Aims of the event

• To showcase specialist providers who are at the cutting edge of embedding evidence into their work.

• To engage in new, innovative approaches to arts-based research. • To demonstrate the significance of the arts for youth policy. • To discuss the potential influence of arts-based evaluation methodologies

on approaches to social science research. • To connect providers and researchers with bridging organisations

specialising in youth arts provision.

Why should you attend? • To experience how arts-based evaluation methods are being used to

evidence interventions from high quality providers. • To gain insights from researchers and providers as to how the arts are

working to positively change the lives of young people in London. • To engage in a forum for open discussion where providers, funders,

academics and artists come together with a common interest and shared commitment.

• To celebrate the remarkable, evidence based art interventions in the children and youth sector.

Register your attendance at Choreographing Evaluation here.

Venue Project Oracle at the Hub Westminster 1st Floor New Zealand House, 80 Haymarket, London, SW1Y 4T What are we trying to achieve with Project Oracle? Project Oracle is London’s Children and Youth Evidence Hub, managed by The Social Innovation Partnership and London Metropolitan University. We aim to improve outcomes for young people in London by promoting better evidence and understanding of what really works. We do this by:

• building a growing resource of independently assessed and evaluated projects.

• building capacity by supporting organisations and commissioners to develop the evidence base for their youth programmes.

This is done through alignment of project evaluations with our Standards of Evidence. These are five Standards which describe what good evidence looks like. Our aim is to move project providers through the Standards by supporting them to gather better evidence. We are bridging the gaps between experts, providers and commissioners of services for children and young people, and promoting cross-sector conversations about the use of evidence in children and youth services.

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