Category Archives: Creativity

It’s Playday 2012!

The Get out and play! campaign is calling on everyone to help make sure that children and young people across the UK have the time, freedom and space to play outdoors. As well as promoting children’s right to play, the campaign is highlighting that outdoor play is crucial for children’s health, well-being and happiness.

Playday is the national day for play, traditionally celebrated on the first Wednesday in August.

http://www.playday.org.uk/

On Playday thousands of children and their families get out to play at hundreds of community events across the UK.

As well as a celebration of children’s right to play, Playday is a campaign that highlights the importance of play in children’s lives.

Festival of Politics 17-25 August 2012

Politics. Culture. Creativity – A Force for Positive Change

Can  politics  be  creative?    Can  creativity  be  used  as  a  means  of  making   a  real  difference  to  our  culture?    The  2012  Festival  of  Politics  seeks  to   explore  some  of  these  issues  through  debate,  discussion,  drama  and  art.

A rich and varied programme includes sessions on ‘Creativity and Social Change’ and ‘Untangling Article 31 – Children’s Right to Play, Culture and the Arts’, and explores questions such as ‘What has been the most creative force in Scottish politics?

Download the Festival brochure here 2012_Festival_of_Politics_Programme

Edinburgh International Book Festival and Glow TV

This year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival RBS School Programme is bigger than ever before. It runs from 20th – 28th August in Charlotte Square Edinburgh and many events are live in Glow TV! It’s also truly international with writers from Australia, Canada, the USA, France and Poland as well as from all parts of the UK.

http://ltsblogs.org.uk/glowscotland/2012/07/02/edinburgh-international-book-festival-and-glow-tv/

Successful Summer School

FCA&C recently held a summer school in collaboration with the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Charitable Trust. Aimed at 5th and 6th year pupils who were hoping to go on shortly to art school, the 2 day event was experienced by 10 pupils from all over Fife. They met 3 practising artists who described their career path to date and also gave them some practical sketching exercises. It was so successful that we hope to make this an annual event. As one pupil commented on leaving “…opened my eyes as to what art college would be like and in fact really
got me excited about going.” You can’t get better than that and we wish them all a lot of success in their future.

See Us… tell our creative story

Over the next three months, people from across Scotland, and the world, are encouraged to get creative and submit photographs and stories that sum up what Scottish creativity means to us, today. Part of the Year of Creative Scotland 2012 celebrations, See Us is a collaboration between Creative Scotland, Blipfoto, Young Scot and The Scotsman.

All entries will be welcome, with the project aiming to include all areas of Scottish creativity – from high arts to everyday creative acts – whether it’s a scene from one of Scotland’s major festivals, a snapshot from a local event, or picture of your own creative life.  The idea is to tell a story of Scottish creativity in pictures.

Entries can be submitted through blipfoto.com/seeus and the site will remain open throughout the summer months.

Selected entries will then be curated for exhibition and publication in the autumn by a panel including leading author Ian Rankin, world renowned violinist Nicola Benedetti and the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, Michael Russell.

Got To Dance auditions!

Britain and Ireland’s biggest dance show, Sky One’s GOT TO DANCE, is back for a fourth series, presented by Davina McCall.

Once again, this Summer we will begin our hunt to find the dance act that could follow in the footsteps of previous winners Akai, Chris & Wes and Prodijig and become the GOT TO DANCE CHAMPION 2012. 

We are now accepting applications and want anyone who thinks they have what it takes to come to our auditions.

The competition is open to any dance act, of any size, of any style and of any age.

So whether your dance act’s members are aged 4 or 84, into Street or Salsa, a group or soloist, a professional or an amateur – we want to see it!  

Auditions are in July and August 2012

Anyone wanting to apply should go to www.sky.com/dance and complete the online application. 

Additional funding for cultural heritage

Investment in projects that will enhance and protect the fabric of Scotland’s cultural heritage has been welcomed by Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop. The £11.3 million additional funding for “shovel-ready” projects announced on 27 June will not only will boost the Scottish economy, but will also bring social and community benefits across Scotland.

Click here for more details

ArtWorks Scotland

Take part in a national survey for artists who work in participatory settings, from ArtWorks Scotland.

The purpose of this survey is to consult with artists in order to explore the following:

  •  The skills and knowledge needed to work in participatory settings 
  • Career paths of artists working in participatory settings
  • The nature of work in different participatory settings
  • Training needs and aspirations
  • Levels of awareness of training opportunities 

(A participatory setting refers to the place where the artist works with participants, which could be school, community spaces, prisons, healthcare settings etc.) 

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

The survey will take about 15 minutes to complete. 

Click here for more information about the ArtWorks Scotland project.