With Find Your Talent now approaching its first birthday, has it convinced the sceptics who criticised the Government’s previous attempts to engage young people with culture and provided access to high-quality culture?

The programme has resulted in targeted investment in ten UK districts. The Shepway district of Folkestone is just one of the ten areas being transformed by the project, with regenerated old buildings being used for creative activities and having a positive impact on young people in the area.

Find Your Talent appears to focus on three main categories of cultural improvement; digital media, physical expression, and visual arts.

Refreshingly, activities aren’t constrained to safe, indoor activities but range from street theatre to graffiti murals. The project isn’t hiding away either; the creative output from the young people involved is high profile, with exhibits, film screenings and a street arts performance at the opening ceremony of the Special Olympics held in Leicester recently.

The real test for Find Your talent will be in seeing how the project’s emphasis changes now that the cultural infrastructures have been established.

For a more in-depth article on Find Your Talent, see ‘A talented bunch’ in the latest issue of Futurelab’s VISION magazine.

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