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Summer fun at Summer Festival

Summer Festival

Are you interested in drama or theatre production? Or are you keen to explore the performing arts but not sure how to go about it? Scottish Youth Theatre’s Summer Festival has something to offer to everyone.

Make your summer 2013 unforgettable: make new friends from all across the country who have similar interests as you, learn more about the performing arts in a unique and fun environment, and then at the end of your chosen course, perform in front of a live audience in a professional theatre venue.

The theme of Summer Festival 2013 is “Independence?” – engage in the debate of Scottish independence and develop your skills within performance and technical production.

For more information click HERE.

YMFS: Monthly Live Streamed Discussion – Article 31

Wednesday 29 May, 2013 from 6:00 PM—7:30 PM

Google+ Link: http://bit.ly/YMFSarticle31

Join us for the first in a series of monthly live streamed broadcasts, led by Youth Music Forum Scotland using Google+, exploring current topics in youth music from all across the country.

This first broadcast will feature guest Tam Baillie, Scotland’s Commissioner for Children and Young People, joining us to discuss the recently released Article 31 (children’s right to culture, leisure and play) and the effect it will have on young people and those who work with young people throughout the UK.

Take part in the discussion live online where you can ask the Commissioner anything on Article 31 and find out all about what’s happening in youth music in Scotland this month.

The live stream discussion will run from 6.00—7.30pm on Wed 29 May.

To join in the debate, you’ll need a Google account, which takes just a few minutes to set up and will enable you to join in the discussion fully. We encourage you to pose questions to the Children’s Commissioner in advance of the event by emailing, hello@ymfs.org.uk or on Twitter using the hashtag, #Article31 or at Facebook.com/YMFScot or you can call the Inner Ear office and ask to speak with Benny or Anny, on 0141 226 8808. If you prefer you can join the Google+ hangout where you can talk directly on camera (using your computer’s in-built microphone and camera) and ask a question as if you were in the room. If you’re new to Google, we recommend you take a few minutes to familiarise yourself with Google+ from 6pm, where we’ll be on hand to help with any technical queries before the broadcast starts from 6:30pm.

If you’re able to join us live on Tuesday 29 May on Google+, please join the event or you can sign up via eventbrite.com.

Train to be an actor and earn credits at Scotland’s national conservatoire

8 July – 9 August (5 weeks)
20 SCQF credits
£2000

Introduction to Actor Training is the perfect short course for any student wishing to take their first steps towards professional training in acting and earn credits whilst doing so.

This intensive five-week acting course will introduce you to foundation acting skills and is taught by the world-renowned staff who teach on the full-time BA Acting degree course at the Royal Conservatoire.

By the end of this summer course, you will be fully prepared for further vocational training in acting and you will have experienced what life is like studying in a conservatoire.
Apply online now for Introduction to Actor Training – the closing date is 24 May 2013.

For more information about this course or to find out details on the bursary scheme, please contact the Short Courses team onshortcourses@rcs.ac.uk or 0141 270 8213.

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

CPD Event: Creative Learning!

This session is aimed at primary and secondary teachers wishing to enhance their knowledge of the importance of creativity across the whole curriculum. It will introduce participants to Fife’s Creative Learning Network (CLN), a newly established group bringing together community representatives and key local and national cultural partners with education representatives.

This session will consider the importance of creativity as a higher order thinking skill and its relevance within CfE, launch Fife’s CLN glow group and introduce current creative resources from Education Scotland

4-5pm, ASDARC, Thursday 15th 2012

Book now…places going fast!

MAIL Online article: PAUL McKENNA reveals.. How you can be just as creative as Walt Disney

Walt Disney- Mickey Mouse

“The only real limit on your creativity is your willingness to recognise it and put it to work for you.

That doesn’t mean you will suddenly be able to write songs or to paint masterpieces. It just means that you can tap into the creative force whenever and wherever you want, to solve problems and create new possibilities in your life and work.”

“Walt Disney was one of the most creative and innovative geniuses of the 20th century.

The power of Disney’s creativity strategy is that it makes full and separate use of the three stages of any creative process: daydreaming about possibility; taking action; and a healthy critique of the process, interrogating it to ensure what’s being created is worth creating.”

Paul McKenna

Read the full article online

Fife’s creative resource inspiring all Scotland!

Marks on the Landscape is a resource available through Education Scotland to inspire creativity across the curriculum. It integrates creative skills with experiences and outcomes across a range of curriculum areas to support interdisciplinary learning. 

Creative Skills

 

The context for learning and teaching for this resource is Fife Earth, an ambitious land regeneration project. 

Fife Earth

“Fife Earth is a surface coal mine, three miles squared, being reclaimed as a huge project, but this is much more. Fife Earth is reclaiming and transforming this huge site into a celebration of art, creativity and of Scotland, its history, its achievements and its place in the world. It is art created by bulldozers. It is a vision driven by ambition, conceived by one man and being realised by many. ” 

From the essay ‘How big are your dreams?’ by David Cameron, Education Consultant 

Take a virtual tour of Fife Earth 

Visit Marks on the Landscape to find out more!