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GENERATION gets underway

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GENERATION, a major, nation-wide exhibition project showcasing some of the best and most significant art to have emerged from Scotland in the last 25 years is now underway. Over 60 venues throughout Scotland will take part  bringing together an exciting programme of work by over 100 artists from this month through to November, with the majority of exhibitions taking place over the summer of 2014, as part of the Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme. One of the central aims of the project is to engage with a new generation and bring to life the possibilities that contemporary visual art presents to young people. Look out contemporary art workshops and CPD opportunities in your area!

GENERATION exhibitions now underway include Toby Paterson at Fife Contemporary Art and Craft @ Kirkcaldy Galleries (27th April – 22nd June), Corin Sworn at Inverleith House (12th April – 29th June), GENERATION  – SXSW 2014 featuring work by Christine Borland, Graham Fagen and Dalziel + Scullion (The Dick Institute, East Ayrshire (3rd May – 16th August) and ARTIST ROOMS: Douglas Gordon at Caithness Horizons (9th May – 11thOctober).Find further details at generationartscotland.org.

GENERATION is produced through a core partnership between National Galleries of Scotland, Glasgow Life and Creative Scotland. GENERATION is part of the Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme. The series of exhibitions is being produced with the support of VisitScotland and EventScotland, British Council Scotland, Museums Galleries Scotland, the BBC, Education Scotland, Children in Scotland and Young Scot.

Art, Art and Design, CPD, Expressive Arts, Primary schools, Science, Scotland Colleges, Secondary schools, Social Studies, Technologies

New CPD sessions at DCA

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Click on the link below to download the booklet from DCA detailing new creative CPD sessions for the next academic year.
DCA aim to combine their classroom experience with exciting programme content and ‘really useful’ resources so that teachers take away something that can be used in class the next day.  There is  a charge but within that they provide tea/coffee and cake/nibbles to keep folk going.
Art, Art and Design, Primary schools, Scotland Colleges, Social Studies

I HEART SCOTLAND

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The Travelling Gallery’s Spring 2014 exhibition, I HEART SCOTLAND, is a solo show and takes a refreshing look at how contemporary artist Rachel Maclean, has chosen to explore her ideas about Scottish national identity.

Issues around power, culture, politics and history are raised together with romanticism and folktales – all through Rachel’s ingenious use of costume performance, digital photography, film and installation.

By means of dark humour and remarkable technical skills, Rachel offers insightful and shrewd observations on these and other significant themes, creating a complex and surreal vision of modern Scotland in what is certainly an important year for people to ponder its future.

The I HEART SCOTLAND exhibition includes work that was commissioned, published and produced by Edinburgh Printmakers Workshop for her very successful exhibition there during the 2013 Edinburgh Art Festival.

So far, touring mainly to Secondary schools, we have visited venues accross Angus, Edinburgh, Midlothian and the Highlands where the installation has stimulated lots of discussion and created quite a buzz of excitement amongst pupils and teachers alike. Look at our website to see where we will be for the next leg of the tour…

Art, Primary schools, Secondary schools, Social Studies

THIS LAND – 2013 Autumn Tour

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To coincide with the Year of Natural Scotland, the Autumn 2013 exhibition in the Travelling Gallery brought together the work of a range International artists, both well-extablished and up-and-coming; chosen for their fascination with aspects of the Scottish landscape. The gallery contained a collection of artworks to captivate, resonate and inform –  initiating lots of observations and discussion from all different ages and abilities. There were 5 main artists exhibiting: Henry Coombes,  Andy Holden,  Hannah Imlach,Michael Reisch and Iain Sarjeant. The exhibition was accompanied by a complementary programme, which included the Beta Band music video ‘ Inner Meet Me’ by John Maclean and ‘ Wish You Were Here’, a series of 16 postcards by Francis Davies as well as a selection of artist books and sketchbooks by recent graduates.

Areas visited by the gallery with THIS LAND included Shetland, South Ayrshire, Renfrewshire, Lewis, Harris and the Uists and the Highlands.

For further information check out our website

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
Art, Art and Design, Creative practitioners, Events, Learning, Opportunities, Science, Secondary schools

‘Weather to Whether’

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Fife Contemporary Art & Craft (FCA&C) are delighted to announce the ‘Weather to Whether’ event in partnership with Bright Green Hydrogen, who operates the Hydrogen Office project in Methil.

The event is aimed at S2/S3 pupils and will showcase FCA&C’s‘Weather Project’, which took place in the Levenmouth area, as well as visual displays/working models of power from the weather and hydrogen and energy storage by Bright Green Hydrogen (see programme below).

We are delighted to be able to offer a travel subsidy for this event, supported by Fife Cultural Trust’s Seedcorn Transport Scheme (details and form below).

***Spaces are limited and early booking is advised***

Weather to Whether Flyer

SeedcornApplication2013

FCT SEEDCORN TRANSPORT SCHEME

The maximum amount you can apply for is £250 per school towards transport costs to attend this event.  Once you have confirmed your booking at the event through FCA&C, please complete the attached Seedcorn Transport Scheme Application Form and return it to the address at the bottom of the form.  This fund is administered by FCT Cultural Partnerships and they will confirm your award and advise how to claim the monies for your school.

Art, Art and Design, Education Scotland, Glasgow2014

Pupil artwork to welcome Commonwealth athletes

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Thousands of Scotland’s school pupils will demonstrate their artistic talents to the world at Scotland’s Commonwealth Games. More than 700 schools across the country have participated in a national art competition run by Game On Scotland, the official education programme for the Games.

This competition, launched in May 2013, has provided a unique opportunity for Scottish schoolchildren to create Games-inspired artwork for the Athletes’ Village. The artwork will adorn the rooms of the Village, which will be a true home from home for all the competitors coming to Glasgow from the 70 nations and territories of the Commonwealth.

Click here to read more.

Art, Art and Design, Community Learning and Development, Creative practitioners, Dance, Drama, Funding, Health and Wellbeing, Literacy and English, Music, Primary schools, Scotland Colleges, Secondary schools, Social Studies, Technologies

Refugee Week Scotland 2014

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Community Celebrations Grant Application
Deadline: 3rd March – 5pm

At the Scottish Refugee Council we have been busy organising a very exciting programme for Refugee Week Scotland 2014! It will run from 16th – 22nd June in venues across the country, and we’d love for as many organisations as possible to get involved this year. The 2014 theme is ‘Welcome’, so we want you to have a think about how ‘welcome’ is shown in your community.

The SRC are awarding grants of £100 – £450 to help small community organisations to organise your own events as part of Refugee Week Scotland 2014. We strongly encourage you to apply and to spread the word to any other organisations or community groups that you think may be interested!

There are two files attached below – an Application Form and Grant Application Guidance Notes. Please read them both before applying! Receiving the grant from the SRC is unfortunately not guaranteed, so to make sure you are in the best position for acceptance, we urge you to read through these Guidance Notes thoroughly.  We are looking for ideas that explore the theme – ‘Welcome’ – and discuss all the different things that this word can mean. For example, your activity could:

–          Explore how welcome is shown in your community

–          Encourage people to share their experiences of how welcome they have been made to feel here

–          Encourage people to share experiences of how they have welcomed life in Scotland

Most importantly, you must demonstrate how your event will appeal to other communities and general public, and how you plan to involve them! The Community Celebration Events are the first step towards wide-scale understanding and integration among asylum seeker, refugee and local communities across the whole of Scotland. We want to know how your event will help this become a reality!

The deadline for submission is Monday 3rd March, 5pm. Please send all completed applications to arts@scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk

If you need help – we are happy to discuss any ideas and give advice where necessary – just email arts@scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk.You can also browse last year’s programme for inspiration.
Good luck!

Community Celebration Grant Application Form 2014

Community Celebration Grant Application Guidance Notes 2014 Final

Art, Art and Design, Drama, Glasgow2014

The Tin Forest Light Up

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The National Theatre of Scotland is asking you to make a Light Up Lantern out of junk, and join hundreds of others in your local community and around the world, to plant your lantern in a forgotten place. It might be a local park or derelict ground; it might be your garden or back court. What’s important is you plant it and share the moment when Spring arrives, with the promise of a flowering future.

So, anytime from Thursday 20th March, take a photo or video of your Light Up Lantern and your promise.

Then post it at thetinforest.com/participants OR tweet it with the hashtag #TinForest OR email it to info@thetinforest.com.

For more information click here.

Art, Art and Design, Creative practitioners, Dance, Drama, Health and Wellbeing, Literacy and English, Music, Numeracy and Maths, Primary schools, resources, Science, Secondary schools, Social Studies, Technologies

Into Film in Fife

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Into Film is a new film education charity, bringing together FILMCLUB and First Light, gives 5-19 year olds a chance to experience film and the moving image creatively and critically, as well as learning about the film industry and careers within it. In or out of school Into Film cultivates their interest, and provide teachers and youth leaders with the tools and training to support engagement at all levels.

The film education programme includes learning resources, CPD and training, film clubs, filmmaking film festivals, industry interactions, youth engagement and more. For information or to register for updates visit www.intofilm.org or if you’re interested in starting a film club to watch, make and understand films register at www.filmclub.org