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Category Archives: Creativity
The Byre Theatre presents…auditions for Snow white!
Do you love acting?
Do you love singing and dancing?
Are you aged between 10 and 21?
Would you like to be part of the biggest performance in St Andrews?
Then we have the perfect opportunity for you.
This year’s fantastic family panto at the Byre Theatre is Snow White, written and directed by Gordon Barr, and we’re looking for talented young people to join our company and act alongside our professional cast.
Perhaps you fancy being part of “The Forest Crew” – a bunch of misfit lost boys (and girls) hiding out in the forest, always ready for mischief and determined to help our heroine, Snow White, get her happy ending.
Or maybe you’d like to be part of the all-singing, all-dancing “Mirrorettes” – a girl group full of sass, class and bursting with attitude.
If you would like to be part of the cast of this year’s spectacular Byre Theatre panto, then we’ll be holding auditions on Sunday 9th September between 2p.m. and 6 p.m. at the Byre Theatre.
The young cast will rehearse weekly and during the October half-term before working with the professional cast from 19th to 28th November and then performing from 29th November to 30th December. (Please note this will require successful cast members to be excused from school for some rehearsals and performances)
To sign up for an audition, contact Ashley Foster on 01334 468728 or e-mail ashley.foster@byretheatre.com
Scotland is Going Global!
Calling all secondary schools…NUS Scotland and partners have been working on an exciting new project to encourage more Scottish students to study abroad as part of their course. The project includes an academic year of action around study abroad opportunities.
Fife is one of three pilot areas where we hope to roll out a training module (‘Scotland’s Students are Going Global!’) in partnership with the Scottish European Educational Trust.
For more information on the project, please do not hesitate to contact Kristellys Zolondek kristellys.zolondek@nus-scotland.org.uk
Rehearse with Random Accomplice
Join Tron Participation on Wednesday 12 September at 2 pm live from the Tron Theatre as we take a sneak peek into the rehearsal room with Random Accomplice as they prepare for their upcoming show ‘The Incredible Adventures of See Thru Sam’.
Our Glow Meet will allow you to see the company, meet the cast, watch some rehearsal exercises and ask questions to the creative team.
Cultural Village – SLF 2012 – #slf12
Invitation
To celebrate the Year of Creative Scotland, leading artists from all disciplines have been invited to deliver artistic engagement workshops with children at the Creative Scotland stall during the Scottish Learning Festival.
The Creative Scotland stall in hall 3 intends to engage, inspire and inform. The programme of activities demonstrates the many powerful and positive impacts of working creatively to deliver Curriculum for Excellence and offers an opportunity to discuss the work and partnerships with artists experienced in working in education.
The attached schedule details the times, dates and activities of the artists. Please drop in and see excellent artistic engagement in action.
The Scottish Learning Festival is open for visitors on Wednesday, September 19th from 9am-5pm and on Thursday, September 20th from 9am -4pm. For further details about the Scottish Learning Festival and to register, please visit http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/slf/index.asp
Early Years Network consultation – get involved
What creative activity for early years happens in your community?
Would you like more access to the arts and creativity for early years?
Would an Early Years Creative Network help?
Starcatchers is carrying out some research into the potential of an Early Years Creative Network for Scotland.
We want to hear the views of people across Scotland as part of this process – from parents, childcare professionals, artists, arts organisations, local authorities, and other local and national organisations working across different sectors with Early Years in Scotland
We would like to invite you to a consultation event to share your views. We are holding a series of events that you can attend:
- Tuesday 25th September at Eden Court, Inverness from 2pm – 4pm
- Wednesday 26th September at Macrobert Arts Centre, Stirling from 3.30pm – 5.30pm
- Tuesday 2nd October at Rothes Halls, Glenrothes, Fife from 2pm – 4pm
- Wednesday 3rd October at Tron Theatre, Glasgow from 4pm – 6pm
- Monday 8th October at The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen from 10.30am – 12.30pm
- Tuesday 9th October at the Festival Theatre, Edinburgh from 4pm – 6pm
Places at these events are free but must be reserved by emailing info@starcatchers.org.uk
Dennis the Menace becomes a global citizen
Who’d have thought it? Dennis the Menace becoming a global citizen and the Bash Street Kids growing their own vegetables and getting their 5-a-day!
In the forthcoming special edition of the Beano, primary school pupils will get to see a very different side of their favourite characters. Scottish Business in the Community, a charity that actively encourages businesses from all sectors to improve their impacts on the economy, environment and society, has teamed up with one of its members, DC Thomson, to support the creation of a special edition Beano designed to engage young people in environmental and societal issues in a positive and fun way.
Sent to every primary school pupil in Scotland, the free special edition Beano will incorporate the key themes core to SBC and central to creating a sustainable future for Scotland including:
- Environment / visioning the future
- Health & wellbeing / growing your own veg
- Employability and soft skills
- Responsible citizenship and community
This special edition Beano is supported by a teachers information pack linking to Curriculum for Excellence.
Dr Alasdair Allan, Minister for Leaning, Science and Scotland’s Languages, is very supportive of the initiative saying, ‘I welcome the opportunity afforded to schools to use resources such as this to engage the children in positive and more importantly, fun learning experiences.’
Comics should start arriving in schools now.
Creativity at work films now on the Creativity Portal
Creativity at work films are now available on the Creativity Portal. So far these include eight interviews with scientists, designers, a space exploration engineer, an architect, a ballet dancer, a cameraman and a baker on how creativity is vital to their work and what that process feels like. The films demonstrate how professionals generate ideas, formulate questions, improvise, make connections and allow ideas to evolve. This is a useful cross-curricular resource, with a focus on careers and skills for life. It is perfect support for any design challenge, poster competition, or creative problem that you may be offering your learners, as well as supporting careers and pathways across all subjects.
Fife’s Creative Connections 2012
Creative Connections 2012 Final Report
Read the above report on this informative event held in St Andrew’s, where Dr Suzanne Zeedyk, Honorary Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology, University of Dundee was the keynote speaker.
Visit our Early Years glow group where you can access the full programme from Fife’s Creative Connections 2012 and watch what you missed on glow tv within Fife’s CLN meeting space.
Music Plus
Music Plus is a mentoring scheme run by the Scottish Music Centre and supported by the Youth Music Initiative.
The aim of the project is to link young people 1:1 with music industry professionals who’ll offer guidance, encouragement, skills and knowledge across a range of industry roles from performance to event promotion.
Online registration is now open for those who are:
– age 14-19
– living in Glasgow, Fife and The Highlands
– involved in making any kind of music
– interested in working in the music industry
This opportunity is available in: Fife, Glasgow City, Highland
For further information, please contact musicplus@scottishmusiccentre.com (Keith Beattie), or call 0141 552 5222, or visit http://www.musicplus.org.uk. The deadline is Friday 31 August 2012 at 18:00.
