Award Winning C&T

At the Jaguar Land Rover Awards for Arts & Business at the Town Hall, Birmingham on Thursday 9 October, C&T won a prestigious award recognising the creative training work we did with partners the MAP Consortium at Aston Business School in Birmingham.

The award’s full title The Radisson SAS Hotel Birmingham Arts & Business Award for People Development went to the best example of partnership working between arts organisations and a commercial organisation in the West Midlands in 2008 in the field of personal development.

Pictured above are (l to r) Sarah Falkland , BBC West Midlands presenter, Colin Tweedy , Chief Executive of Arts & Business, Helen Higson , Head of Teaching and Learning at Aston Business School, Paul Sutton , C&T’s Artistic Director, Martin Gent of the MAP consortium and Katie Smirnina from Radisson SAS Hotel group. The award itself is a glass and platic artwork created by Ruth Spaak, one of the artists selected by Arts & Business to participate in the innovative Visual art service for business.

Aston Business School is one of the country’s foremost business schools, currently rated as a 5-star research facility by the Research Assessment Exercise. MAP is a consortium of artists producing cutting edge work in the fields of performance, creative development, education and training.  C&T worked with lecturers from Aston Business School using creative training and applied theatre techniques to help lecturers present with greater impact.

This is C&T’s second Arts & Business Award.