Using home-stitched parachute and equipment found on Craigslist, two 17-year-olds send Lego-naut 80,000ft into the air.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/26/canadian-teenagers-lego-man-space?newsfeed=true
Summer Festival is the acclaimed, annual flagship event for young people aged 8 – 25 from Scotland’s national theatre ‘for and by’ young people.
Every summer hundreds of young people who are passionate about theatre and performance take part in Summer Festival in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Choose from the 5 week, 3 week, Foundation and Junior Courses, and make your Summer 2012 unforgettable!
Past participants in Summer Festivals include Conor McCarron (NEDS), Andrew Still (Hollyoaks), Karen Gillan (Dr. Who), Gerard Butler (Law Abiding Citizen, 300) and KT Tunstall (Eye to the Telescope, Drastic Fantastic). Every year, Summer Festival makes the summer unforgettable for young people aged 8-25 from all over Scotland.
HOW TO APPLY
To apply, click here to find course information, application packs and forms <http://www.scottishyouththeatre.org/festival/summer_festival_2012/> . Simply choose the course that meets your age, stage and interests, complete the application form and send to:
Summer Festival 2012 Applications, Scottish Youth Theatre, The Old Sheriff Court, 105 Brunswick Street, Glasgow, G1 1TF
Performance and Production Course (5 weeks, ages 16-25)
Glasgow
2 July – 4 August
Technical Theatre Course (5 weeks, ages 14-25)
Glasgow
2 July – 4 August
Intermediate Course (3 weeks, ages 14-18)
Glasgow
16 July – 4 August
Foundation Course (2 weeks, ages 12-15)
Aberdeen, 16 July – 28 July
Edinburgh, 23 July – 4 August
Glasgow, 9 July – 23 July
Junior Performance Course (1 week, ages 8-11)
Aberdeen, 6 Aug – 11 Aug
Edinburgh, 2 July – 7 July
Glasgow, 6 Aug – 11 Aug
For all enquiries contact artsadmin@scottishyouththeatre.org <mailto:info@scottishyouththeatre.org> or call 0141 552 3988.
For all information and to apply visit www.scottishyouththeatre.org <http://www.scottishyouththeatre.org>
Closing date for applications is Mon Feb 20th 2012
Celebrate Robert Burns 2012 at the National Museum of Scotland from 21st – 27th January.
Robert Burns: To a Mouse Family Footprints Trail
Dates: Sat 21 – Fri 27 January
Time: All day
Cost: Free
Available from: Info Zone, Level 3, Grand Gallery Balcony
A new museum trail for families exploring one of Burns’ famous poems through exhibits in our Scottish collections.
Supported by Scotland’s Winter Festivals.
Dates: Sat 21, Sun 22 and Fri 27 January
Times: 11:00–13:00, 14:00–16:00
Where: Scotland galleries Levels -1, 1 and 3
Three colourful characters step from the pages of history into the Museum, to explain what life was like in the past.
Supported by Scotland’s Winter Festivals.
Date: Sunday 22 January
Join us for an afternoon of engaging activities, workshops, performances and encounters with some of our 26 Treasures writers, Hopscotch Theatre, and Slice of Life characters who will help you celebrate and explore Scotland, Burns and the Scots tongue!
Time: 13:00–16:00 (drop in, but please gather at 13:00 for the introduction if possible)
Where: Grand Gallery, Level 1
Cost: Free
More than 200 years ago a man called James Johnson, working in collaboration with Robert Burns, published an important set of books of Scottish songs called The Scots Musical Museum. This afternoon, Scots writer James Robertson will help create a Scots Magical Museum. Join James at 13:00 as we kick off with some fun introductory games in Scots before you go off and select an interesting object to draw. James will help you find a word or phrase in Scots to describe it before you add it to the Scots Magical Museum. What will you choose?
Times: 13:30 and 15:30 (45 mins)
Where: Hawthornden Court, Level 1
Cost: Free
Join the more than slightly tipsy Tam as he clambers aboard his long suffering, but trusty grey mare Meg, and sets off into the heart of a wild storm, for a confrontation with witches, warlocks and ‘the deil himsel’! Performed in the round and with audience participation, the versatile actors will bring to vivid life the many colourful characters from this epic, cautionary tale, full of couthy humour and dark mystery.
Supported by Scotland’s Winter Festivals.
Time: 14:00 (60 mins)
Where: Learning Centre Level 4
Cost: Free, but places are limited. Please sign up on the day in the Learning Centre.
Suitable for: Ages 9–12
What would your ideal Scottish Superhero be like? What superpowers would they have? Join 26 Treasures writer Kate Tough to create your own Super Scot through words and pictures in this workshop suitable for ages 9–12.
Time: 15:00 (60 mins)
Where: Learning Centre, level 4
Cost: Free, but places are limited. Please sign up on the day in the Learning Centre.
Suitable for: Ages 10–15
V Campbell’s latest book Viking Gold is an historical action adventure about a 16 year old Viking boy who discovers America with the help of a mysterious Irish manuscript. Victoria will read excerpts from Viking Gold and use replica Viking arms, costumes, everyday objects and multi-media to instigate discussions about what life would be like for young people in Dark Age Europe. There will also be a chance to ask questions about her book and the writing process.
Dates: Mon 23 and Wed 25 January
Times: 10:30, 11:30 (20 mins)
Suitable for: Up to 5 years
Cost: Free – sign up on the day for a limited place at the Information Desk in the Entrance Hall.
Our magic carpet introduces your little ones to different themes and galleries in the museum through stories, songs, objects and activities. Join guest leader and Scots writer Aimee Chalmers for some special sessions themed around Robert Burns and the Scots language.
Supported by Scotland’s Winter Festivals.
Date: Thu 26 January
Time: 18:30 (1.5hrs)
Cost: £6, £5 Concession and Members
Booking: Book tickets online or call 0300 123 6789
A museum is a treasure chest not just of objects but of stories. At this closing event for the 26 Treasures project, James Robertson, Sara Sheridan, Lee Randall and Lucy Harland join Jamie Jauncey to discuss how they tapped into the rich story of Scotland’s past through objects that connect them not only to social, political, cultural and religious history, but to the powerful emotions of people who lived at that time.
James Robertson and Aimee Chalmers kick off this event with a selection of Burns poetry and a 21st century Scots poem inspired by the bard.
Supported by Scotland’s Winter Festivals.
Online interactive Robert Burns animation: http://www.scotland.org/burns-haggis-address/
Check out the creative resources for Burns celebrations on the Education Scotland website, including recordings of some of the bard’s best known songs:
http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/scotlandsculture/robertburns/index.asp
2012 Creative Place award winners announced!
http://www.creativescotland.com/news/2012-creative-place-award-winners-announced-24012012
Five Scottish communities are celebrating awards in recognition of being one of the country’s most creative places. The Creative Place Awards celebrate and recognise the hard work and imagination that contributes to the rich cultural life of a community, as well as its social and economic well-being.
The Awards are part of the Year of Creative Scotland 2012, a year-long celebration of our nation’s cultural and creative strengths.
Talented pupils put on a show at Summerlee – 8th Creative Residency Exhibition opens
http://www.northlanarkshire.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=23472
North Lanarkshire Council reports that stunning and original artwork produced by some of North Lanarkshire’s most talented and creative young people is being showcased at Summerlee Museum in Coatbridge.
The Festival of Dangerous Ideas aims to re-establish the importance of dangerous ideas as agents of change in education – to shift the axis of what is possible! As Oscar Wilde once said: ‘An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all’.
Whether you want to contribute to one of our events, host an event of your own, provide a venue, sponsor a session, or even hold a dinner, exhibition or debate, we would love to hear from you.
During the week-long festival, in conjunction with Creative Scotland and partners, there will be a variety of activities happening around Scotland, including:
•My Dangerous Idea (opportunities for sharing ideas)
•Dangerous Words (what’s the future for books? is the kindle the beginning or the end?)
•Dangerous Wisdom (philosophy cafe – what is the purpose of education?)
•Dangerous Research (a platform for academic voices with FERRN)
•Dangerous Theatre (forum and invisible theatre with Visible Fictions)
•Dangerous Gardening (introduction to guerrilla gardening with an expert from New York)
•Emporium of Dangerous Ideas.
This opportunity is available in: All Scotland
For further information, please contact karen.lawson@scotcol.ac.uk (Karen Lawson), or call 07764 310 470, or visit http://www.scotlandscolleges.ac.uk.
The Scottish Qualifications Authority and Scottish Business in the Community’s inspirational new competition asks young people to develop a piece of creative work that clearly shows their vision of our future – Scotland 2050.
Ideas can be developed in four broad categories:
All entrants have to do to enter is develop a scientific project or piece of creative work that shows their vision for Scotland 2050.
The Scottish Qualifications Authority and the Scottish Football Association have joined forces once again to promote their annual anti-racism competition, Show Racism the Red Card. Pupils and students across Scotland are asked to produce a creative piece of work that promotes messages of anti-racism or anti-sectarianism. The concept is simple, come up with a piece of creative work that gets across loud and clear the message that racism and sectarianism are not welcome in Scotland.
The competition has been running since 2003 and thousands of pupils from all over Scotland have entered the competition. The competition culminates with a prize giving ceremony at Hampden Park with celebrities from the football world on hand to meet the winners.
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