Category Archives: Creative Partners

Creative Partners, Literacy and English

Summer Reading Challenge

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Mythical Maze Holiday Fun at Your Library

Get ready to lose yourself in the library with the Mythical Maze Summer Reading Challenge 2014!

Children aged 4 to 11 years are challenged to read six library books over the summer holidays, with a special Bookbug category this year for 2-3 year olds.

Join up at your local library and collect an amazing starter challenge pack. There are stickers and rewards along the way and a certificate and gold medal on completion!  Connect to the Mythical Maze website (www.mythical-maze.org.uk) where you can read, share, create and take part in interactive games.

The Challenge runs from Monday 30th June to Sunday 31st August and children can sign up at any Fife Library from Monday 23rd June.  Those who sign up by the 14th July will be entered into the prize draw to win some mythical prizes, and everyone who completes the challenge has a chance to win an author visit to their school.

Look out too for the programme of mythical summer events and activities in libraries over the holidays.  Details can be found at www.onfife.com or ask at any library.

Creative Partners

VYN Networking Events

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A networking breakfast with around 40 people and 20 organisations went ahead on 26thMarch at the Gilvenbank Hotel in Glenrothes.  This event was once again very successful and everyone enjoyed the experience.   Delegates enjoyed a heartly breakfast followed by presentation from Paul McIlvenney about Young People’s participation and how to engage with them about the referendum.

If you took part in the event please click on the following link and complete this short survey.  It will take a couple of minutes and help us evaluate the service:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Y86C6DJ

We have another event planned for 30th October 2014 at the Carnegie Conference Centre. We’d really value your suggestions for topics for table discussions as well as anything you’d like to see at the event.

If you would like further information about the VYN Network or would like to post something on the E-Bulletin please contact the team at vyn@btconnect.com or call 01592611319.  We would be very interested to know if you would like attend future events.

Come and join us to celebrate the creativity and individuality of the voluntary youth work sector!

CPD, Creative Partners

What’s on at Youth 1st

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Please find below details of events and training coming up over the next couple of months.

If you are interested in any of the events contact the office on 01592 611319 or email nichola@youth1st.co.uk.

Places are limited on the workshops so book now to avoid disappointment.

Like and share our new Facebook page by clicking this link:  www.facebook.com/youth1st1938

Attached are flyers for all the workshops.  Please complete a registration form to book a place.

Emergency First Aid

Date:               13/05/14    16/09/14

Time:               5.30 to 9pm

Venue:            Youth 1st

Cost:                £25 per person

Hosted by Youth 1st and delivered by qualified First Aid instructors from Thistle Medical, this session gives the first aider the confidence

to deal with most emergency situations until the arrival of the emergency services.

There are STILL PLACES AVAILABLE on this workshop. BOOK NOW to avoid disappointment. Deadline for registration is 1st May 2014.

Dynamic Youth Awards

Date:               27/05/14

Time:               6pm to 9pm

Venue:            Youth 1st

Cost:                FREE for Youth 1st member groups and voluntary youth organisations. £15 per person for all others.

This induction training course is aimed at youth workers or volunteers who are thinking about introducing Dynamic Youth Awards to their young people. Dynamic Youth Awards are activity based and are designed to encourage young people to progressively take more responsibility in organising activities in their communities. Attendance at the induction is a requirement before you can deliver the awards to young people. This ensures that the Awards are completed to the standard that the awarding body, ASDAN require.

There are STILL PLACES AVAILABLE on this workshop. BOOK NOW to avoid disappointment. Deadline for registration is 12th May 2014.

Stand Up

Date:               02/06/14

Time:               10am to 1pm

Venue:            Youth 1st

Cost:                Free – Lunch will also be provided

This interactive session will explore the causes, issues and impact of sectarianism in Scotland. It will focus on providing participants with the skills to run dynamic and effective anti-sectarian workshops and programmes for young people.

These training events have been designed and developed in partnership with Nil by Mouth, Scotland’s leading anti-sectarian charity, with over a decades experience in helping challenge sectarianism.

Learning Outcomes

1. Increased awareness of the causes and issues surrounding sectarianism.

2. Greater understanding of sectarianism and how it present itself in modern Scotland, including its impacts on our society.

3. Increased confidence to deliver quality youth work on sectarian issues.

4. Increased knowledge of resources available and examples of best practice in challenging sectarianism.

To book a place please follow link below.

http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stand-up-to-sectarianism-intro-for-youth-workers-and-volunteers-tickets-11196730723

Youth Achievement Awards

Date:               24/06/14

Time:               6pm to 9pm

Venue:            Youth 1st

Cost:                FREE for Youth 1st member groups and voluntary youth organisations. £15 per person for all others.

This induction training course is aimed at youth workers or volunteers who are thinking about introducing Youth Achievement Awards to their young people. Youth Achievement Awards are activity based and are designed to encourage young people to progressively take more responsibility in organising events within their community. Attendance at the induction is a requirement before you can deliver the awards to young people. This ensures that the Awards are completed to the standard that the awarding body, ASDAN require.

There are STILL PLACES AVAILABLE on this workshop. BOOK NOW to avoid disappointment. Deadline for registration is 9th June 2014.

Creative Partners, Scotland Colleges, Secondary schools

Young people invited to join Creative Generation project

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Perth Museum & Art Gallery is looking for young people aged 16 to 25 to join a new project where they can discover more about the art world and life as a practising artist or budding curator.

Creative Generation is part of GENERATION, a national celebration of 25 years of contemporary art in Scotland, and young people taking part in the project will be focussing in particular on the work of Scottish painter Alison Watt, whose art will be showcased in an exhibition at Perth Museum and Art Gallery during the summer of 2014.

Participants will have the chance to gain experience of being an artist or curator and share their newly-gained knowledge with visitors to the Museum and Art Gallery.

Anyone aged 16 to 25 who is interested in studying art or in continuing art as a career is invited to apply. The closing date for applications is Monday 28th April 2014.

For further information and to obtain an application form, please visit Perth Museum and Art Gallery, George Street, Perth, email artsdev@pkc.gov.uk or call 01738 632488 and ask for Anna Murray, Project Coordinator for Creative Generation.

Creative Partners, Drama, Glow TV, Music, Primary schools

Divided City by Theresa Breslin: New Musical Version for Primary Schools

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Register: http://bit.ly/1jYpnfR (Glow log-in required)

Join Theresa Breslin and Elly Goodman of the Citizens Theatre as they offer a unique insight into the history of bringing this iconic book to the stage. Pupils and teachers will get the chance to ask Theresa and Elly questions about the play and the book and to find out more about this ground-breaking project. The Citizens Theatre has now staged three large scale musical theatre productions of Theresa Breslin’s Divided City, adapted for the stage by Martin Travers with an original score and songs by Claire McKenzie. More information about this Glow TV event is on the Education Scotland Learning Blog.

CPD, Creative Partners, Dance, Secondary schools

CPD Training – Dance for Core PE

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YDance are delivering CPD Training Days for secondary school teachers this June at a venue in Glasgow covering Dance for Core PE, National 4 PE (Dance) and National 5 PE (Dance).

DATES & COSTS

Dance for Core PE (S1 to S3)
2 June 2014
9.30am to 4pm
£70 per person

National 4 PE (Dance)
3 June 2014
9.30am to 12.30pm
£45

National 5 PE (Dance)
3 June 2014
1.30am to 4.30pm
£45 per person

DISCOUNTS

Discounts are available for those who book more than one CPD Training Day with YDance. For the full range of sessions please visit www.ydance.org.

BOOKINGS

All enquiries and bookings can be emailed to cpd@ydance.org or call the office on 0141 552 7712

CPD, Creative Partners, Creative practitioners, Dance, Early Years, Primary schools

CPD Training – Commonwealth Games

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Due to the success of our Commonwealth Games CPD in 2013 we have decided to add an extra date – Tuesday 29 April 2014.

This CPD Training Day is open to nursery, primary and secondary school teachers and is designed to provide you with a fun and creative session to adapt for your own classroom.

Explore three different aspects of the Commonwealth Games through dance:

– Cultures & Traditions
– Ready, Set, Go! (creative dance tasks)
– Learn the Motto, Get Inspired!

Bookings

If you have any questions and/or you’d like to book a place on this CPD Training day please email cpd@ydance.org or call the office on 0141 552 7712. We’re more than happy to help with any queries and we also offer a discount to those who book more than one CPD Training Day with YDance – please visit www.ydance.org for more available dates.

When: 29 April 2014
Where: Glasgow
Cost: £70 per person (inc VAT)

Art, Community Learning and Development, Creative Partners, Events, Science

An Audience with Graham Smith

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The journey of ‘technology’ as it meets weather … as it meets art!

Join Fife Contemporary Art & Craft for the screening of ‘Six Years of Mondays’, a documentary artwork about a man called Graham
Smith living in Lochgelly, Fife, who has been making timelapse recordings of the view from his bedroom window everyday from 6am to 6pm since 2006. Graham will share his journey; from his interest in the local Scottish Weather, his technological background and how this led to the creation of www.fifeweather.co.uk, the UK’s only mobile weather lab (www.weatherevents.net), the timelapse recordings and Youtube channel.
Learn how Graham’s recordings were the basis of a commissioned piece of work by artists Thomson and Craighead (www.thomson-craighead.net) as part of Fife Contemporary Art & Craft’s ‘Weather Project’, which took place in Levenmouth and resulted in the creation of ‘Six Years of Mondays’ short video.
Fife Contemporary Art & Craft will share how the short video work takes us through a visualisation of six years of Mondays where each ‘year’ is soundtracked differently offering a range of contexts from which this contemplative landscape can be viewed. There will be a chance to ask questions at the end of the event with both Graham Smith and Fife Contemporary Art & Craft.
Date: Tuesday 29 April 2014
Time: 7pm – 8.30pm
Venue: The Studio, Lochgelly Centre, Bank Street, Lochgelly,
KY5 9RD
Cost: FREE
Bookings: 01592 583303 or boxoffice.lochgellyc@onfife.com