Category Archives: Events

French Transformations Theatre Company

“Granny Smith”     

 Bilingual show – French / English 

  Story, mask and acting by Tracey Boot

Touring Scotland soon !

 “Granny Smith” is our latest comic mask show. An intimate, interactive performance piece  mixing theatre, French, English and cooking !

The story line :

Come and meet « Granny Smith » who’s been living in France for many years.

Discover a rather active granny who talks about her home, her likes and dislikes, her friends and activities … an interactive performance piece which will give you a taste for French culture , French language and most importantly French food !

Tracey is an experienced bilingual performer who adapts the quantity of french and english language to suit the audience.

  •  Target audience : family & schools (6-13yrs)
  • Performance Space : min of 3m x 3m
  • Show running time :50 minutes( no Interval)
  • N° of cast : 1 female
  • Maximum of 60 people per performance       
  • We are  technically self sufficient
  • Fees : contact us for details  contact@theatretransformations.com

Teachers’ pack  available

Granny SmithANG – copie

Scottish Book Trust- Book Week Scotland

Book Week Scotland is Scotland’s first national celebration of books and reading, taking place from 26 November to 2 December 2012.

The week-long programme of events has opportunities for people from all ages, interests and reading abilities, to embark or continue on a reading journey.

Book Week Scotland will encourage the whole nation to embrace reading’s unique capacity for empowerment, enrichment, education, solace, pleasure and growth. It will also provide a platform for everyone in Scotland to celebrate our exceptional literary talent, our history of literary excellence, and our rich creativity.

Scottish Book Trust has worked with partners across the country to create a diverse programme of events with some of Scoland’s best loved authors including Iain Banks in Loch Leven, Val McDermid in Orkney, Debi Gliori in Carnoustie, Janice Galloway in Benbecula, Christopher Brookmyre in Greenock, Vivian French in Glenrothes and many more.

What does remembrance mean?

This year Poppyscotland has teamed up with Glow TV to bring you a series of events about remembrance. 

This is the first of this thought provoking series. During this Glow Meet you will get the chance to hear from and chat with St Brigid’s Primary school as they talk about their experience of entering and winning Moving Stories 2011 and how you can enter the competition this year! Other Glow TV events on Remembrance will take place on 8 November and 22 November

For full details of this event, please log in to Glow and view the current schedule (Glow log-in and password required).

ASN – Support through Educationally Based Theatre

1 November, 3.45 pm

Engross Theatre is a registered charity that brings the principles of the Curriculum for Excellence to children with additional support needs, through educationally based theatre. This Glow TV event will give you the opportunity to find out more about this theatre company and hear from a teacher who has worked with them For full details of these and other events, please log in to Glow and view the current schedule here.

 Glow log-in and password required

 

Africa In Motion

Find out what’s going on now here!

The main aims of the festival have been, since its inception, to introduce Scottish audiences to the brilliance of African cinema and to overcome the under-representation and marginalisation of African film in British film-going culture. We believe that the best way to learn about Africa is to listen to African voices and to view representations created by African themselves, as these often counter the stereotypical representations we see from Africa in mainstream media in the West. But our main reason for screening the films is because we believe they are great films which should be seen the world over. Over the past six years we have screened over 200 African films to audiences totalling around 15,000 people!

Travelling Gallery’s Spring exhibition


We are now taking bookings for the Travelling Gallery’s Spring exhibition, which will tour from 25th February to 7th June 2013.

The exhibition ‘Was that a Smile?’ (working title) will be a group show of 8 – 10 established and emerging artists from both home and abroad, who work in a broad range of media including drawing, animation, film, sculpture, photography, painting and digital media. The exhibition will include artists who use a playful, feel good essence in their work, sometimes hiding darker depths but more often making us smile.
 
A 5 day tour is £700 + VAT and the Travelling Gallery can visit a different venue each day. Hirers need to supply a draft itinerary and the Travelling Gallery team will do the rest.
 
We hope you find this of interest and look forward to hearing from you. Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you require any further information. Our tours often book up very quickly so please get in touch soon to secure your preferred dates.

 Vicky Konieczny I Travelling Gallery Assistant I Travelling Gallery I Culture and Sport I Corporate Governance I City of Edinburgh Council I City Art Centre I 2 Market Street I Edinburgh I EH1 1DE I T 0131 529 3930 I F 0131 529 3977 

Tackling Sectarianism: Sharing Good Practice (national good practice conference)

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27 November,

9.30 am,

Grand Central Hotel, Glasgow

Education Scotland is taking forward capacity building activities to support Scottish Government’s objective in tackling sectarianism. This conference offers the chance to draw upon good practice in schools and communities in dealing with prejudice. The conference will include information and display from key organisations across Scotland, workshops of best practice in minimising the impact of sectarian attitudes and behaviours and the opportunity to hear from Scottish Government of their commitment and support for practitioners seeking to eradicate sectarianism in Scotland.

 Education Scotland is working to identify and share good practice, to review and improve resources and engage in professional dialogue through its specific work on combating sectarianism. Education Scotland promotes and ensures diversity and equality across its improvement activities. For further information please contact Lindsay Jane Murray (LindsayJane.Murray@EducationScotland.gov.uk).

New Creative Conversations Edinburgh

The first of the 2012/13 Creative Conversations will be on Monday 29th October at 4 for 4.30 till 5.30 with wine and canapes afterwards (venue to follow with confirmation of attendance). Our first Creative Catalyst this session is Frank Crawford.

Frank is a former Chief Inspector (HMIe), forward thinker, innovator and enthusiastic biker. He has been centrally involved in the development of Scottish education and remains at the forefront of thinking. Frank will take a creative approach, sketching out ideas about meeting the demands of external evaluation, handling inspections, what self evaluation should really be and how we need to think about change and innovation. Frank is in great demand internationally so this is a great chance to catch up with him here in Edinburgh.

As with all previous Creative Conversations, David Cameron will facilitate the discussion and you are invited to continue the conversations afterwards with Frank, David and colleagues over wine and canapes!

This will be a popular Creative Conversation – please get back to me directly if you would like to attend and I’ll send full venue details and confirmation of your place next week.

I look forward to seeing you on the 29th.

Linda

Linda Lees

Arts and Learning Manager

City of Edinburgh Council, Children and Families

Waverley Court Business Centre 1/2

4 East Market Street

Edinburgh

EH8 8BG

Tel: 0131 469 3956

Fax: 0131 529 6212

Email: linda.lees@edinburgh.gov.uk

Creativity Exchange Fife

Fife’s Creative Learning Network (FCLN) is delighted to announce their event ‘creativity exchange fife’ which will take place on Thursday 8 November 2012 from 3pm – 7pm at the Rothes Halls, Glenrothes.

This event is FREE for teachers and creative and cultural practitioners within Fife.

This event has been developed to:

  • showcase the impact creativity has on children and young people in their learning experiences and opportunities provided by educators and creative practitioners within Fife.
  • highlight the benefits of creative learning  
  • and to emphasise creativity as a cross-curricular theme within the context of Curriculum for Excellence.

The Programme is in development and will be published soon but advance bookings are now being taken by contacting cultural.partnerships@fife.gov.uk or phoning 01592 583255.  Please note places are limited. 

Creativity Exchange Fife

Young Scot and the Financial Services Authority

Young Scot and the Financial Services Authority are hosting an event:

“Simples?: Young People and Financial Services” on Wednesday 17 October at the Pearce Institute, Govan, Glasgow.   

 The event will feature a range of interactive, participatory and fun activities to give young people the opportunity to share their ideas and opinions on their use of financial products and services. Next year the Financial Services Authority is transforming into the new Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and wants to hear from the present – and future – customers of financial services, to increase their understanding and awareness about they affect the day-to-day lives of the public. Using digital tools, drama, video, games and lots more, participants will be able to take part in a wide range of interactive workshops covering some of the most relevant issues facing young people and financial services today. For example, they will have the chance to work out whether they are getting the best deal for their money, learn how to look for hidden costs in mobile phone contracts and insurance, and understand the jargon when opening bank accounts.  The event also provides the opportunity for young people to have their say on the future of their finances and feedback to the new FCA on how they can they can improve financial services and protection for young people.  If you work with young people and you are interested in attending the event register at http://youngpeopleandfinancialservices.eventbrite.co.uk or email fionamca@youngscot.org for further information.