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YMT’s Skills Courses – Do something fun this summer holidays
This summer holidays will soon be starting, can I hear a huge cheer?! So how are you planning on keeping yourself entertained? Youth Music Theatre UK, the national music theatre company for young people, are running six-day action-packed residential Skills Courses in musical theatre (for ages 11-21) in London, Surrey, Hertfordshire and Edinburgh.
Get the chance to develop your skills in acting, singing and dancing, gain a grade 6 Trinity Guildhall certificate, make lots of new friends, create a musical in six fun-filled days and perform it to family and friends. If you or someone you know would like to take part, find out more about each course theme below…
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Summer Skills Course in Edinburgh
Monday 5 August – Saturday 10 August |
Edinburgh’s Summer Skills Course is based around the themes ‘The Boy Who Fell Asleep’ and ‘Sleeping Beauty’. Jenna is different from most young girls her age. Jenna randomly falls asleep. What would happen if she didn’t wake, would she be completely forgotten, would any one care?
21st Century fairytales sought to celebrate golden anniversary
To mark the 50th anniversary of the National Trust for Scotland’s care of Craigievar Castle – the conservation charity has teamed up with the Press and Journal, Aberdeenshire Writer in Residence Deborah Leslie and the Friends of Craigievar Castle to launch the Craigievar Creative Writing competition. Entries are invited from school pupils in 2 categories P6 – P7 for Junior Category and S1 to S6 for Senior Category, and all stories must be 500 words and suitable for children under ten years of age.
The winning entry will be chosen by Aberdeenshire’s Deborah Leslie the celebrated author of children’s tales such as the ‘Fyvie Castle Witch Trials’, and the top 2 stories will be performed by Deborah at Craigievar Castle on the 7 and 8 September at a special Family Fairytale Castle day.
To find out more information including How to Enter, Facts about Craigievar, take a virtual tour of the castle to help inspire you and the terms and conditions for entry visit
http://www.nts.org.uk/learn/events_writing.php or to discuss the competition please contact Dr Alison Burke – ABurke@nts.org.uk or 0844 493 2161.
The Magnum Moment from Identity Artworks
The Magnum Moment is a learning experience that helps students deal with and manage peer pressure, school pressure and life pressure.
TMM starts with a short storytelling video and continues with creative activities and games that raise self-awareness in actions, thoughts and feelings that might hurt their own future.
The experience concludes with each student gaining a fresh perspective of themselves through active reflection.
Activity 1 – This colourful and dynamic tabletop brainstorming experience uncovers and explores how certain actions, things they say or do, that might inadvertently create barriers for themselves. Prizes are awarded to the table with the most actions listed.
Activity 2 – ‘Thoughts’ card game reviews thinking styles and patterns contributing to harmful actions identified during brainstorming.
Activity 3 – ‘Feelings’ card game engages students to raise self-awareness and prioritize their emotions for more positive outcomes in the future.
TMM comprises two school periods delivered by an Identity associate with one school staff member also taking part. Once school delivery is complete the school staff member oversees the short ongoing workbook reflection process in which students…
· Identify 1 action/thought/feeling that resonates from the brainstorming activity.
· This 1 action/thought/feeling is explored and written about daily with 5 easy questions.
· The 5 questions are addressed for 7 days thus changing habits.
Each student walks away with a literal toolkit to make better decisions in the future.
· TMM workbooks
· TMM wristbands
· TMM four sided cards
Each school walks away with their own toolkit to carry on the good work.
· TMM ‘thoughts’ card pack
· TMM ‘emotions’ card pack
The icing on the cake is students are awarded YoungScot points for school participation.
Ideally delivered to 70 students this programme is flexible depending on school needs. As such price will vary according to how many students attend.
For more information or to book a session contact Billy Zima (billy@identityartworks.co.uk)
ON Fest 2013 -Summer Projects for Children and Young People
ON at Fife are working with Youth Music Theatre Scotland this year to provide a comprehensive ON at Fife Youth Music Theatre programme in 2013. This includes:
The Jungle Book Kids
29th Jun- 6th Jul
Ages 7-11, The Lochgelly Centre
The Phantom of the Opera, An Amateur Youth Group Production.
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Lyrics by Charles Hart, Additional lyrics by Richard Stilgoe, Book by Richard Stilgoe & Andrew Lloyd Webber
Based on the novel “Le Fantome de ‘l’Opéra” by Gaston Leroux Originally directed by Harold Prince , Orchestrations by David Cullen & Andrew Lloyd Webber, Original production by Cameron Mackintosh and The Really Useful Group Ltd.ON at Fife Youth Music Theatre – PRODUCTION PROJECT
Casting 15/16th Jun
Shows 6-27th Jul
Ages 11-21, Adam Smith Theatre
Inspiration to Creation (theatre writing course)
15-19th Jul
11+, Adam Smith Theatre
rED4 Hamelin, The Last Child
28th Jul-10th Aug
12+, Adam Smith Theatre and The Fringe
DanceON
30th Jul- 2nd Aug
11+, Adam Smith Theatre
Kids ON Stage
29th Jul-3rd Aug
Ages 6-11, Adam Smith Theatre
Caught in The Net
29th Jul-10th Aug
11+, The Fringe
Les Miserables Schools Edition
5th Aug-17th Aug
11-19, The Fringe
The programme is headed by Janet Robertson (Creative Director of YMTS and ON Creative)
For full details of what’s coming up and how to get involved, download the courses outline here.
Click here to download the application form.
Celebrate Bookbug Week 20 – 26 May 2013
Scottish Book Trust
Bookbug Week is next week. For information about free resources and events, please visit Scottish Book Trust website here
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Game On Scotland – Athletes’ Village art competition
Through this competition your school can be part of the Games. Game On Scotland is asking every school in Scotland to get their pupils to design posters, which will decorate the rooms of the Athletes’ Village. You are encouraged to hold your own competition in your school and then submit the winning pieces of artwork for inclusion in the village.
For more information click here.
Celebrate
Celebrate is a joint scheme originated by the Scottish Lottery Distributor’s Forum (SLDF) offering funding for events and projects which celebrate Glasgow 2014 or that are inspired by Scottish links to the 71 nations and territories which make up the Commonwealth.
Celebrate will support new and existing events and activities that mark the Games through arts, heritage, sports and local community celebrations. It will fund local celebration events and activities which stimulate greater involvement in community activity and develop your understanding as citizens of the Commonwealth. Celebrations can be a single one-off event or activities which with a celebration event.
Projects should meet one or more of the following outcomes:
- Communities come together through arts, heritage, sports and local celebrations of the Commonwealth Games;
- Communities celebrate the people, places and culture of the commonwealth.
You can apply if you are a:
- voluntary and community organisation;
- community council;
- statutory body (such as a school, local authority or health board).
You can apply for between £500 and £10,000.
Applications to Celebrate will close at noon on Friday 12 December 2014.
Please note that your application should be sent at least three months before your project is due to start.
Contact: Celebrate, phone: 0300 123 7110 [ e-mail | website ]
G Force
Aimed at young people aged 16-25 in Edinburgh, G Force provides the opportunity to train with some of the best professional dance, circus and urban sports performers in Scotland.
Participants will be able to take part in a 16 week programme where they can train in breakdance, acrobatics, parkour, circus and performance skills with an opportunity to perform on the World Dance Feste Stage at the Edinburgh Mela in August this year.
Taster sessions are being held in May. Workshops are free and open to all those aged 16-25 with an interest in dance, acrobatics, parkour and circus, but places must be booked via the Bright Night International website or by email.
The G Force Project has been developed by the Edinburgh Mela and Bright Night International and is supported by CashBack for Communities.
Contact: Edinburgh Mela, phone: 0131 661 7100 [ e-mail | website ]
Look, Capture, Create – Inky Adventures, 21 May 10.00 am
Week 2 of the Look, Capture, Create project coincides with ‘Walk to School Week’ and ‘Scottish Biodiversity week’. This Glow TV broadcast gives learners the opportunity to journey on an inky adventure with the Scottish illustrator/designer Johanna Basford to learn about her art techniques, what inspires her designs and her success commercially. Visit the Glow group here.
Click here to sign up for this event (glow username required)
