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Christmas Concert 2021

Our YMI elves have been busying away creating lots of fun Christmas music activities for you all and we’re so excited to share them with you.

More importantly, we can’t wait to see you join in and we hope you will share your class activities with us by sending on your class performances to be featured in our virtual Christmas Concert.

Our online virtual Christmas Concert this year will take place on Monday 20th December. To be featured, all material needs to be shared by 8th December! Please share your video via OneDrive to gw16oneillmartin@glowmail.org.uk

Please visit the YMI website here to access all the activities

I am the Earth / Is mise an saoghal – A COP26 Project

Glasgow CREATE are delighted to share this ambitious city-wide music project as part of COP26, with primary and secondary schools from all over Glasgow taking part. Performing the song ‘I am the Earth’ by composer Glyn Lehmann, with gaelic translation from Beverley Darroch, this is Glasgow’s message to the world. “We share the future…One Earth, One People…”

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SWG3 Mural

Sunnyside Primary School, Hillhead High and Shawlands worked with artists from SWG3’S yardworks over a number of weeks to create 2 murals on the arches at SWG3 linked to Climate Change.

City Groups Re-Launch

We are delighted to be re-launching our Glasgow City Council, Education Services CREATE Bands, Orchestras and Choirs starting in November 2021.  We are so looking forward to welcoming our young musicians back to City Halls on a Saturday morning and filling it with music and singing.  It has been such a challenging time, but we have been utterly blown away by the creativity and innovation shown by our tutors and young people to keep music alive in our schools and beyond.  We would like to thank everyone so much for their support, hard work, determination and solution focussed approaches which have allowed us to develop and strengthen our Music Service and we are so looking forward to the months ahead.  Please note, we are pleased to tell you that due to Scottish Government Funding, there will no longer be an annual charge for our extra-curricular groups. 

We continue to strive to give the best possible opportunities and experiences for our young people and in doing that we are making some changes, additions and improvements to our Music Service this year. We are starting with the registration for our String Orchestra, String Sinfonia, Concert Band, Symphonic Wind Band and all being well, we will be reviewing our City Choirs and Glasgow Schools Symphony Orchestra early in 2022.

We will be sharing all of our news, projects, initiatives and concerts here on our CREATE Website as well as updates in terms of our progress and registration for all of our City Groups. We will also share any important information via our CREATE Social Media – Twitter | Facebook

Due to the restrictions, our Christmas Concert this year will be hosted on our CREATE Youtube Channel but we hope to have everything up and running for a very special Concert in Spring 2022 where we will celebrate and showcase our very talented musicians and singers. We have waited a long time for this and are sure that it will be a complete sell out and it will be a wonderful performance and celebration of us being back up and running but bigger, better and stronger than ever!

Many thanks to all for all of your support and we look forward to an exciting few months of relaunching our City Music.

Gerard M Burns & St Anne’s Primary School – A COP26 Project

Created specially for COP26, this new painting by artist Gerard M Burns entitled ‘Our Future’ features 6 children from a primary school in Glasgow’s East End.

In Gerard M Burns’ paintings the underlying meaning or message is presented to us via breath-taking painterly technique and ‘Our Future’, set against a gritty urban backdrop, is no exception. Working with oil and canvas, and in the dark rich tones which reflect his environment, Gerard’s every-day subjects are imbued with an almost ‘heroic’ stature in the way they are presented. A graduate of Glasgow School of Art’s painting department in the mid 80’s, Gerard has forged a reputation as one of Scotland’s most important artists. The symbolism here is obvious….six young children staring straight out of the canvas in what can only be described as a ‘challenge’ or ‘accusation’. This is exactly the artist’s intention, as the issue being confronted couldn’t possibly be any more serious, especially for our young people.

‘I hope this painting makes people feel slightly uncomfortable. If COP26 is about anything it’s about the future. Perhaps not my future, but without question my children and my grandchildren’s future…… It is absolutely appropriate therefore that the focus of the artwork should be on children. After all, they are the ones who will live to face the consequences of any failure to act now.’

Gerard’s gift is to be able to present children in a very ‘unsentimental’ way. In so doing he is able to tap into the interior-world of childhood, which when used properly is an extremely powerful way to tell any story. His hope is that the image of these 6 children will stay with you. That it will touch you on an emotional level and perhaps help motivate each one of you to apply the pressure required on our world leaders to meet the challenge of climate change head-on, and to make the hard choices required to make the changes necessary, for all our children’s future.

The Beginning

The Kids

The Story

The Song

Mother Glasgow

The bird, the bell, the fish and the tree
A song for all children, for you and for me
This precious world is weeping you see
Yes it’s now or never It’s time to believe

Chorus

Mother glasgow fair of face
in your embrace
guard us and keep us
in this dear green place

Mother Glasgow in your eyes
there’s no place to hide
the whole world is watching
it’s time to decide
the whole world is watching
it’s time to decide
the whole world is waiting
for us to decide

The moments now
time won’t allow
there is no time to waste
To change things somehow
let’s make a start
we know in our hearts
for this brand-new beginning
we must play our part

Chorus

The chance to Hope
The chance to believe
The chance to do better
With what we’ve received
So lift your voice
In sweet harmony
If we all sing together
It’s easy you see

Chorus 

Let our voices be heard

For nearly three decades the UN has been bringing together almost every country on earth for global climate summits – called COPs – which stands for ‘Conference of the Parties’. In that time climate change has gone from being a fringe issue to a global priority.

This year will be the 26th annual summit – giving it the name COP26. With the UK as President, COP26 takes place in Glasgow.

In the run up to COP26 the UK is working with every nation to reach agreement on how to tackle climate change. More than 190 world leaders will arrive in Scotland. Joining them will be tens of thousands of negotiators, government representatives, businesses and citizens for twelve days of talks.

Imagine if you were a world leader………what is your idea for change- big or small?

If you are in S4-6 share your idea with us. Sharing of your ideas through poetry, oration, art, music, dance and drama will then be exhibited and broadcast through CREATE’s YouTube Channel along with live exhibitions and performances.

Submit a video or picture of your work by Thursday 7th October.

To share, please save your project to your glow OneDrive account on iPad and follow these instructions :
1. Open OneDrive app on iPad and navigate to your project file.
2. Tap the 3 dots on the far right hand side of your file and choose ‘Share’
3. Tap ‘People you specify can edit’ and change to ‘Anyone with the link’ and then tap ‘Apply’
4. In the ‘To:’ field, enter CREATE@glasgow.gov.uk
5. In the ‘Message’ field, enter Let our voices be heard with a brief message about your submission. Ensure you enter your name, school and year group
6. Tap ‘Send’ when finished

Citywide COP26 Music Project

As the world’s eyes look upon Glasgow ahead of COP26, the CREATE YMI & IMS team have launched an ambitious citywide music project.

Our tutors have created fabulous resources for teachers to use in class. All the material, including lyric sheet, percussion rhythms, video lessons for early, first and second level as well as demonstration video and backing track can be found here.

The project will culminate in the creation of a video performance of recordings gathered from all schools and all stages citywide, which will then be broadcast at the start of COP26, along with special live performances from schools at high profile events during COP26.

YMI Summer Showcase

PREMIERES Wed 26th May at 2pm on the CREATE YouTube Channel.

Welcome to the CREATE YMI Summer Showcase 2021. Our Youth Music Initiative (YMI) tutors have been delivering remote learning video lessons to all primary schools across Glasgow, with a focus on the music of Scotland, China and India. We are delighted to showcase some of the great work that has been going on in classrooms across the city. Enjoy these wonderful performances!

CELTIC CONNECTIONS SCHOOL CONCERT PROGRAMME 2021

Celtic Connections are pleased to announce that the 5 school concerts we had to postpone in January will soon be available to watch on the Glasgow Life YouTube channel. These concerts feature some of the fantastic artists who appeared at Celtic Connections Online in January.

We hope that you and your pupils enjoy these concerts. Each video will be streamed on the date shown below and they will remain online for a week only. Any feedback would be gratefully received. Hopefully we will be back live at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall in 2022.

The concerts can be accessed here:

Concert 1, 10 May   Celtic Connections Big Band; Come Away In
Ep 1 – https://youtu.be/c9Mjd22904c

 

Concert 2, 17 May   Blazin’ Fiddles; Fiona Hunter
Ep 2 – https://youtu.be/hzFKo-oAJe4

 

Concert 3, 24 May   Shooglenifty; Paul McKenna Band; Manran
Ep 3 – https://youtu.be/XXrZTiwcNLU

 

Concert 4, 31 May   Talisk; Kinnaris Quintet
Ep 4 – https://youtu.be/xelw9OfcJVg

 

Concert 5, 7 June     Fara; Breabach
Ep 5 – https://youtu.be/evleA7RW_fU

 

The 24 mini concerts that we streamed in January are still available to watch. They include, Scots song, Gaelic song, Clarsach, An introduction to Indian music, featuring tabla, singing and sitar. There is also a Burns concert with songs and Tam O’Shanter.

The mini concerts can be accessed here and will be available to watch for the rest of the year:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLboTtfd6l4fqONOo35oXbSoZB17g-vL-8

YMI Programme Apr-Jun 2021

April / May 2021

CREATE YMI Summer Showcase – 26th May

Watch online at youtube.com/glasgowcreate 

Video music lessons to guide your class through rehearsal and performance of material from our ‘Music from Scotland and other cultures’ lessons.
All released: 21st April 

Send your class performance videos via OneDrive to gw16oneillmartin@glow.ea.glasgow.sch.uk by 14th May to feature in the Summer Showcase! 

June 2021

Video music lessons for P1-7 & ASN – Carnival theme Linked to COP26 and Learning for Sustainability
Released: 2nd, 9th & 16th June