Category Archives: Opportunities
Festival of Politics: Get the Picture! Event at the Scottish Parliament, Saturday 25 August 2012
Following on from the success of last year’s Young People’s Day event, the Scottish Parliament is inviting young people to take over for the day at this year’s Get the Picture! event. They are looking for a wide range of groups of young people aged 16 to 25 years old from all over Scotland to come and make this event even bigger and better than ever before. They are working in partnership with the Scottish Youth Parliament and Young Scot to create an event to remember.
One of the themes of this year’s Festival of Politics is ‘Positive Change’. There will be creative ways to display and discuss young people’s issues as well as their ideas and innovative solutions. For more information and a booking form please email education.services@scottish.parliament.uk.
Won’t make the Scottish Learning Festival???
Then go to Teachmeet- The Scottish Learning Fringe instead!
TeachMeet – teachers sharing ideas with teachers
What is TeachMeet Scottish Learning Fringe?
The Scottish Learning Festival is great. It’s a fantastic opportunity to find out about what’s going on, have your thinking stretched and network with colleagues from across the country, and beyond. However, it’s midweek. Many classroom teachers struggle to make it to SLF as they’re too busy teaching classes! And anyway, in Scotland a festival is not really a festival unless it has a fringe festival. Enter, TeachMeet Scottish Learning Fringe
Click here for all the info
Scottish Learning Festival 2012 – registration now open!
The SLF 2012 Conference Programme and visitor registration are now available on the SLF website.
The Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning will give the opening address to SLF.
In addition, there will be the following keynote speakers:
• Professor Keith Grint, Professor of Public Leadership, Warwick University Business School
• Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive, RSA.
The full programme of keynotes and seminars, along with details of the range of additional activities, is now available on the SLF website.
Creative Identities – funding now available
Creative Identities is part of the Scottish Government’s CashBack for Communities programme, which reinvests the proceeds of crime back into communities to benefit Scotland’s young people. The Scottish Government has allocated £2.25 million over three years (2011-2014) to Creative Scotland to deliver Creative Identities programme.
The purpose of Creative Identities is to provide access to high quality experiential opportunities in dance, film and music for young people (0-25 years) in communities where there is an identified and demonstrated need.
For full details on how to access investment through Creative Identities following the link below.
This opportunity is available in: All Scotland
For further information, please contact enquiries@creativescotland.com, or visithttp://www.creativescotland.com/investment/creativeidentities.
Secondary teachers and CLD Practitioners – we need your creativity
The Scottish and Credit Qualifications Framework Partnership (SCQFP) invites teachers and those working in community learning to come up with a new title for the guide currently known as the Schools Toolkit. This competition is open to all secondary school teachers and workers in community learning settings in Scotland and the deadline for entries is Friday 29 June 2012.
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Two fantastic film opportunities for young people!
What a fantastic and unique Film-Making scheme for your young people. We are looking for twenty 16-19 year olds to get involved in the Edinburgh International Film Festival and make a short film, which will be screened at the Filmhouse in August! 
Click here for more details!
ALSO…
Are you aged between 16 – 25? Could you make a sci-fi film in just a few short days? If you are up for the challenge you could get your film screened at EIFF this year!
Click here for more details
Your future in the creative industries – a guide for young people
TALK BY STEWART SVAASAND: WEDNESDAY 25 JULY
– 5.00pm – 6.00pm
– Church Hall (upstairs)
– FREE
– Age 14-21
A rare opportunity to be guided by a top professional TV and film director Stewart Svaasand. Stewart’s work includes Hollyoaks, Missing, One Last Chance being shown later tonight and Waterloo Road Reunited. Stewart will outline the challenges and opportunities in the creative industries – a not to be missed event for any young person determined to succeed in this field.
Calling all film makers!
FILM NIGHT: WEDNESDAY 25 JULY
As part of the Aberdour Festival Family Film Night on Wednesday 25th July, Aberdour Festival is hosting its very own BAFTAs – Brilliant Aberdour Film Talent Awards. Budding film makers are invited to submit short films (of around five minutes) for showing on the night. If you have a film that you would like to show, or would like to make one especially for this event, please contact Lewis Banks for details of how to enter (01383 861267 / lewis@gallery8art.co.uk).
Submissions of all types are welcome from all ages and there will be prizes for the audience’s favourites on the night. There is a special prize for the committee’s favourite film produced by anyone under 16: Channel Fife TV has offered to work with a young person as a presenter and one as a camera operator and shoot for Channel Fife a topic of their choice. Your chance to work with the professionals! Graeme Campbell, Project Director at Channel Fife TV, said, ‘Channel Fife TV is developing a web broadcast television service across Fife and is delighted to be able to support local programme making in the community by sponsoring the Aberdour Festival Film Night.’
‘We are hoping to receive films on a wide range of topics, comedy, drama or documentary, from anyone who wants to pick up their camera or mobile phone and have a go. Maybe you could be the next Quentin Tarantino, Bill Forsyth or Steven Spielberg!’
Lewis Banks
“Stop Vandalism in Your Community” Storyboard Competition – Shortlist Announced
Say4schools recently launched a competition for Primary 6 and 7 pupils in Fife Schools to create a short storyboard on the theme of “Stop Vandalism in Your Community”.
The initiative is a joint partnership between Fife’s Community Safety Panels, Fife Education Service, Fife Constabulary and Adam Smith College and is now in its second year. The aim of the initiative is to deliver messages of safety through cartoons, animation or pupil voices.
The competition has been a great success and attracted over 700 entries from schools all over Fife. The quality of entries has been outstanding and the judges had a difficult time choosing the 21 shortlisted entries (3 from each Community Safety Area) to attend an Awards Ceremony on Thursday 21 June at Auchterderran Centre, where the winner will be announced.
A big thank you to all pupils who entered the competition – you’re all small genius’ with great imaginations.
Click on the link to see all shorlisted entries http://bit.ly/KSBo0R
