‘BE IT’– Transforming leadership
Led by
Commissioned
by
Prince Taylor
Roseanna Dias
2019-2022
YEAR
Funded Project: Leadership
TAGS
Young
Creatives
A1
Alamay Combley
Amber Ruth-Watson
Ant Lightfoot
Courtenay Welcome
Daisy Hvnter
Ella Trudgeon
Kiara Corales
Lucy Turner
MARIA
Malizah
Olamiposi Ayorinde
Orla Bligh
Priyanka Raval
Qezz Gill
Rhona Oughton
Rosina Al-Shaater
Yasmin Qureshi
We believe that young people have the knowledge and insight to be leaders now—not just in the future—with the potential to radically shift our cities and creative industries towards true cooperation and inclusion. Our aim is for young people to be represented at every level of the arts, including the strategic.
Young leaders need opportunities to experiment, to fail and to share their learning. This is where BE IT comes in: our radical leadership programme that focuses on nurturing and empowering these existing, unrecognised young leaders in the city.
Over the span of two years, BE IT directly supported twenty 18-30 year-olds, with another twenty indirectly benefitting through shadowing and peer mentoring opportunities.
We built a community of young leaders through our radical model of holistic personal leadership development, giving participants the opportunity to challenge the structures within the creative sector—and the city—that continue to exclude them.
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Impact
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New opportunities for young people to lead happened as part of BE IT - from Experiment placements with organisations to joining Boards after the programme.
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Cultural partners took part in some form of the programme and got to experience young people leading first hand or were part of advocating for the programme through our steering group.
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New young Co-Directors of Rising Arts Agency who transitioned their leadership alongside the BE IT programme and in conversation with the co-leaders of the programme.
“I just want to reiterate how much Rising’s support and specifically the BE IT programme has changed everything for me, really.
In terms of feeling like I’m part of a community, feeling connected to Bristol and the art ecology of Bristol and knowing there is an organisation that I can go to for support when I have lost confidence in myself and need support to manage a situation that I am in.
It’s basically that Rising can be supportive of people getting opportunities but they can also say, ‘there is a danger in this’ and being there if you need support, they really listen when things go wrong and they make sure that their community members are protected from that and I really feel that sense of protection and that safety net there, which doesn’t seem to exist anywhere else that I’ve seen.”
– Longitudinal Cohort Interview, December 2022