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Original artwork from fifty of North Lanarkshire’s most talented teenagers is on display at Coatbridge’s Summerlee Museum. The exhibition features examples of visual art, filmmaking, digital photography, printed textiles, jewellery and music, all inspired by the pupils’ time in the council’s annual Creative Residency programme.
http://www.northlanarkshire.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=26308
This event will celebrate and raise the awareness of the adoption of the UN General Comment on article 31: children’s right to culture, leisure and play and how policy makers and practitioners can make the expectations of the UN General Comment a reality in Scotland.
What does this mean for Scotland’s children?
Thursday 28th March 2013, Our Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh
(9.15 Registration; 10 am—3.30 pm)
Click here for the attached pdf – A Richer Understanding of Article 31 Conference March 2013 Brochure
This is an exciting opportunity for people from across arts, culture, leisure, play and human rights sectors to come together to see how we can work collaboratively to ensure children in Scotland have the best opportunities to engage and participate in culture, leisure and play.
The 2013 Songs for Social Justice Festival was launched in November 2012 and all Scottish secondary schools were notified of it in December 2012.
Schools are invited to confirm their intention to participate in the Festival by Monday 3 June 2013, and to submit a maximum of two songs per school by Friday 1st November
The Festival will showcase one entry from each school at a Showcasing event on Friday 29 November 2013 at the STUC Centre, Glasgow.
All participating schools will be presented with an Award Certificate.
For more information and contact details, please read the information booklet.
A convenient at a glance look at forthcoming exhibitions, productions and education projects in East Ayrshire.
Extremely well received motivational teacher training days in Glasgow and Edinburgh led by The Prince’s Foundation for Children and the Arts.
Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh – 26th April
Citizens Theatre, Glasgow – 25th April
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Building on Education Scotland’s successful ‘3-18 Places Projects’, this free half day event will prepare you to build the curriculum around the possibilities of an outdoor place near your school. We aim to give you an inspiring and enjoyable day that will open your eyes to the many possibilities of teaching outdoors in a local place, and leave you with practical ideas for how to get started
Find out more by looking at the reports of two previous events below.
Download (PDF) West Report Download (PDF) East Report
East event on 15 April 2013 1.30 pm – 5.30 pm at Hermitage of Braid, Edinburgh. EH10, UK http://www.ltl.org.uk/resources/results.php?id=620
West event on 15 March 2013 1.30 pm – 5.30 pm at Chatelherault Country Park, Hamilton. ML3 7UE http://www.ltl.org.uk/resources/results.php?id=619
It would be great to see as many teachers as possible joining in these opportunities to develop place-responsive curriculum making.
Careers in Theatre Day – Front of House and Box Office, 26 February 10.00 am http://bit.ly/156FnDY
In our first session find out how the operational side of the Traverse Theatre works with representatives from our Front of House and Box Office teams. This workshop will explain and explore how we go about creating the best possible experience for our customers/audiences before and after they have been to one of our shows.
Careers in Theatre Day – Technical Theatre, 26 February 12.00 pm http://bit.ly/Yol4vs
During this second event find out more about a day in the life of a theatre technician, with Graham Raith, Head of Electrics at the Festival and King’s Theatres. Including on stage visit to see Scottish Opera’s set of Massenet’s Werther.
Careers in Theatre Day – Acting and Directing, 26 February 2.30 pm http://bit.ly/136AZ9n
Careers in Theatre Day is the Festival Theatre Edinburgh, The Lyceum Theatre and The Traverse Theatre’s unique interactive one day careers event. During this session learn more about acting and directing in a Producing Theatre, whilst meeting some of the people involved in Time and the Conways. A great chance to find out how to make a career as an actor or director.
Scotland’s Still Singing, 27 February, 2.00 pm http://bit.ly/XghwPD
After our very successful events at the end of last year we are delighted to bring to you another opportunity to join in with a national singing lesson. Join Maeve Mackinnon and Innes Watson as they entertain us with Scots and Gaelic songs.
For full details of these and other events, please log in to Glow and view the current schedule:
https://portal.glowscotland.org.uk/establishments/nationalsite/GlowTV/tvpages/Schedule.aspx.
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What’s your dangerous idea for education?
Dangerous Ed is back!!! Colleges Development Network is delighted to announce that the Festival of Dangerous Ideas will run again this year from 13-21 June 2013.
This year’s festival will be launched in Glasgow by world leading social entrepreneur Mel Young. Mel is President and CEO of the Homeless World Cup and Co-founder of The Big Issue in Scotland. Through his experience of working with the homeless, Mel has developed his own dangerous ideas for education.
There will be events happening throughout the week all over Scotland – co-created by people who are passionate about education. Events so far include:
Get involved and create your own dangerous event – register by completing the event submission form no later than 31 March 2013.
You can also join the Festival LinkedIn group, find us on Facebook and follow @Dangerous_Ed on Twitter.
University of Edinburgh family programme at the Museum, 2013
Discover science with real scientists from University of Edinburgh. Visit the Learning Centre for free, family-friendly drop-in activities, workshops and shows from 23 March – 6 April. Drop-in activities run 10am – 4.30pm daily and most are suitable for age 5 to adult. Click here for the full programme: Uni activities at Museum prog details 2013.
Drop-in activities
The Energy Challenge
Discover Our Earth
Pop-up Engineering
Exciting times for the Higgs Boson
The SCI-FUN Road-show
Bio-Discoveries
Secrets of Symmetry
Human and Animal Medicine
Workshops
Powerful Patterns
Intelligent Robots
Shows
The Chemistry Show
Dr Bunhead’s Poo and Goo Show
The Jolomo Schools Painting Award sponsored by Bank of Scotland will be run for the first time in school year 2012/13. Students from the senior phase at all Scottish secondary schools are invited to take part in the inaugural schools painting award. Students are asked to paint and submit their interpretation of the Scottish landscape. The winner will receive £500, with an additional £500 going to the winning schools Art Department. The winner will also have the opportunity to be mentored by the artist John Lowrie Morrison (Jolomo). More information can be found by clicking on ‘HOW TO ENTER’ on the home page of The Jolomo Foundation website. www.jolomofoundation.org.
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