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Its sister facility, Signal, caters for young people 13–22 years. An Australia Council ofthe Arts funded Creative Community Partnership Initiative, the ACCESS Program, implemented at ArtPlay and Signal, involved diverse groups of children, families and young people in four artist-led projects. The projects were assessed using a researcher developed creative and community development evaluation framework. This article reports on one of these projects, City Beats, which involved a partnership between the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and ArtPlay.  \nKey words: arts, artists, children, community, research  \nAustralian Journal of Music Education 2012:2,82-91  \nIntroduction  \nArtPlay is a unique public arts space managed by the City of Melbourne.1 It caters for children aged from three to thirteen and provides dynamic and diverse opportunities for social engagement and cultural expression. A key feature is the emphasis given to artist-led practical programs. Located in the heart of the city alongside the main river precinct, ArtPlay has consolidated its position through the development of a number of key partnerships, including one with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Informed by on-going reflection and research, ArtPlay has continued to revise and refine its practices, balancing established popular programs with new and innovative workshop concepts. The attendancesat ArtPlay have been high, and the quality of workshops has been shown to be engaging, but  \n1. For more information go to [http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/](http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/)[ ](http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/)artplay/Pages/ArtPlayHome.aspx  \nresearch has identified an opportunity to extend the program, and the need to involve more children from marginalised and disadvantaged backgrounds.  \nAn aspiration to broaden and deepen the offer of ArtPlay led to the development of a Creative and Community Partnership Initiative, entitled the ACCESS Program2, funded by the Australia Council for the Arts. This initiative provided a unique opportunity to initiate, implement and research the development of innovative community engagement practices and strategies that would strengthen and embed values of inclusion, excellence and evaluation into the vision and organisational structure of ArtPlay. As part of the ACCESS Program, four projects were established to address the above goals; two based at ArtPlay and two at Signal, the  \n2. For more information go to [http://education.unimelb.edu.au/](http://education.unimelb.edu.au/)[ ](http://education.unimelb.edu.au/)[news_and_activities/projects/artplay](news_and_activities/projects/artplay)  \n82 2012, No. 2  \nsister facility to ArtPlay that caters for young people aged from 13 to 22 years. The four projects included, The ArtPlay Backyard, ArtPlay Melbourne Symphony Orchestra City Beats, Evolution, and Signal 37.  \nEvaluation Framework  \nGuided by the goals of the Australia Council for the Arts3 researchers also examined to map how the projects realised the principles of creative community development. This was a complex task given the broadly encompassing goals of the initiative covered aspirations to ‘excellent artistic practice’,‘community engagement’ and‘well-being’. To do so, the researchers developed the ACCESS evaluation framework which enabled a multi-dimensional representation of project outcomes (Figure 1) .  \nParticipation is commonly noted in evaluations of community-based programs that do not involve mandatory attendance. In this respect attention is given to the backgrounds of participants, cultural, socio-economic and educational, taking into account what promotes or ","cbCairH0FJ9BtbVw","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairH0FJ9BtbVw","pdf",619705,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n# Evaluation Framework","[{\"question\":\"What is ArtPlay and who does it serve?\",\"answer\":\"ArtPlay is a public arts space managed by the City of Melbourne. It serves children aged 3–13 with artist-led programs for a broad community.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the ACCESS Program?\",\"answer\":\"The ACCESS Program is a Creative Community Partnership Initiative funded by the Australia Council for the Arts. 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