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Category Archives: Events
Spring into Scotland Sings – Glow TV
2 May, 9.45
Register: http://bit.ly/1mVCroZ
Following on from our highly successful Scotland Sings on Burns Day we are back – with more songs for you to learn and join in with!! This time we will be joined in the Glow TV Studio by Dumfriesshire singer Jen Butterworth. So get your best singing voices ready and join us for another fun event!
The Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games: Promoting Equality and Diversity
7 May 2014 (9.00 – 3.00), Hampden National Stadium, Glasgow
With Scotland’s biggest ever cultural and multi-sport event so close we would like to invite practitioners to join us and find out more about issues related to the Commonwealth Games. The three core values of the 2014 games are humanity, equality and destiny and the conference will engage with these values through speakers and workshops focused on equality, diversity and human rights issues as well as the inclusion of all.
The event will showcase inspirational initiatives from schools and third sector organisations across the board, highlighting programmes available to teachers and ensuring that, together, we deliver a lasting legacy for learning.
Divided City by Theresa Breslin: New Musical Version for Primary Schools
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.
An Audience with Graham Smith
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
Easter activity at Dundee Science Centre
Meet Robert the Bruce – Glow TV
25 March 10.15
Abbot House Heritage Centre, Dunfermline Presbytery, and Historic Scotland are pleased to offer a collaborative programme exploring three themes of the life of King Robert Bruce (1274-1329) for local primary students.
Get Scotland Dancing
Get Scotland Dancing (GSD) was created by a Scottish Government policy in 2010 and is one of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games Legacy programmes. It is also part of Culture 2014, the national strand of the Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme. It is free to join and school/youth groups can register at getscotlanddancing.org. Being part of the online community means you can find out what’s going on in your area and make connections with other dance groups and teachers who could help develop your work.
‘Weather to Whether’
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***
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.
CLD Creative Conversation – how can partnerships support Post 16 transitions
Education Scotland’s Community Learning and Development (CLD) Policy and Improvement team are working in partnership with the CLD sector and wider stakeholders to deliver a series of short ‘Creative Conversations’ on key areas of current policy reform which have an impact on CLD partners.
This conversation will focus on how partnerships support Post-16 transitions and Opportunities for All. It will also consider how 16+ reform impacts on this area of work. Participants will range from community learning and development, schools, colleges and third sector organisations. The format for the day will maximise opportunities for cross-sector discussion building on the work currently being developed to ensure successful transitions.
The format of the session will be ‘thought pieces’ of 10-15 minutes, followed by facilitated discussion considering:
•How can we collectively ensure we share and understand best practice locally
and nationally?
•What makes for best practice in ensuring successful transitions post 16?
•Ways forward from here?
The event is free to attend and takes place on Friday 21 March from 10.30am until 3pm at Kilwinning College campus. To book your place please email Fraser MacKay.
Further details about the event can be found on the Education Scotland website.
