Step up Festival 2006

Celebrating Specialist Arts Colleges and Artsmark schools

Step Up is the annual north west schools' arts
festival.

From humble beginnings in 2002 (under its original name Celebrating Creativity), the event has grown
into a multi-artform festival, of over a week in length.

It is a festival both 'of' and 'for' schools and strives to showcase the highest quality of work, alongside offering creaive development opportunities for pupils and teachers.

Step Up is based on the view that the north west needs a platform dedicated to the arts in schools.
The intention is to develop a yearly festival that gives the clearest statment to the region and the rest of
the country that our primary, secondary and special schools value the arts.

All participant schools are either Specialist Arts Colleges or hold an Arts Council Artsmark award
and are situated in Cumbria, Cheshire, Greater Manchester Lancashire or Merseyside.

Step Up was initiated by The Bridgewater Hall Community Education Trust, Arts Council England, North West and Arts Learning North West.

Organisations and individuals that have been
involved in Step Up include BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Evelyn Glennie, BBC Radio DJs Marc
& Lard, Urbis and Ludus Dance.

Work was selected for an exhibition at the
Manchester museum of science and industrys 1830 warehouse the pupils had the chance to go to the private view of the exhibition in manchester, congratulations to those pupils.