Partner with PAL

We welcome the opportunity to work in partnership with like-minded organisations and individuals whose expertise, imagination and experience complement our own. Working in partnership helps us extend the reach of PAL’s work geographically and into new fields. Contact us to explore how we could work together to make a project happen. 

Recent Partnership Projects and Programmes

Indian Children’s Film Lab

In December 2009, PAL held its first Screenwriters Lab in India. The Lab was jointly designed and organised by Eleeanora Images (India) and PAL and was supported by the Media International programme of the European Union, the British Council, Children’s Film Society of India, EON Productions, Skillset and the Goethe Institute. The aim of the Lab was to initiate the production of a slate of high-quality Indian films for children. It focused on stories with a potential for co-production and distribution in national and international markets, at the same time developing the creative and practical skills and knowledge needed to make productions for the child and family audience specifically.

Art, Design and Ecology — The Role of Artists and Designers in Creative Environmental Education for Sustainable Development

In November 2007 PAL brought a group of international artists, including Turner Prize-winner Jeremy Deller, Kayle Brandon and environmental campaigner and photographer Ravi Agarwal, to India to work under a tent in a forest in Ahmedabad. Peacocks shrieked, curious monkeys, chipmunks, snakes and lizards gathered, along with 1,500 environmentalists from 93 countries. For the first time in 35 years of UNESCO conferences on environmental issues, artists and their practice led an international conversation on the role of art, and design in education for sustainable development. Working with the RSA Arts & Ecology project, led by Michaela Crimmin, PAL designed and delivered nine hours of workshops over three days, generating new connections, new understanding and new opportunities for artists.

Artist as Leader

This ambitious new programme was launched in 2007 in partnership with the Cultural Enterprise Office, Glasgow and the On the Edge research team based at Grey’s School of Art, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. Over a twelve month period fifteen leading artists and policymakers from Scotland and England, examined ways in which they could demonstrate leadership through the practice of making art. This initiative addressed serious challenges for cultural policymakers at a time of enormous political change in Scotland. The results are producing a significant impact on the practice of all those involved. The next phase of the programme is being planned and will widen the partnership.

STEM Fluency East Midlands

PAL was delighted to work with Ignite! to secure a major three-year project 2008-2010, based in the East Midlands and funded by the East Midlands Development Agency. Called Ignition, the project comprises six integrated programmes to promote creativity in the learning of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) in the region and inspire the next generation of creative scientists, inventors and innovators. PAL’s role is to deliver three residential Labs for STEM teachers, artists and scientists.

Pygmalion Plus

Pygmalion Plus, an annual programme of residential Labs, is the only development training specifically designed for writers and producers of film, TV, interactive and cross-platform media for child and family audiences in Europe. The programme, principally funded by EU MEDIA, is delivered by a partnership of several European organisations, led by PAL. In 2008 the Pygmalion partners were Primehouse (Germany), BUFF (Sweden), Cinekid (Netherlands) and Katapult Film (Hungary). In 2009, PAL extended the programme into India.