As well as the ‘big’ Creative Conversations Edinburgh City Council are also planning a number of Creative Conversations that take as the stimulus for conversation, a piece of creative work. We first tried this in February with a drama performance by award winning children’s theatre company Catherine Wheels. Not just drama teachers but many people from different backgrounds attended. The animated conversation that followed was testimony to the potential for art to influence learning across all curriculum areas. The feedback was excellent.
Date for your diary:
The next of this type of Creative Conversation is on Wednesday 26th November starting with coffee at 4pm for 4.30 with wine and nibbles at around 5.30. The stimulus for discussion is The Heavenly View which is a dance piece first performed at the Edinburgh Fringe this year and based upon Mahler’s 4th Symphony. The choreography was inspired by the voices and ideas of children in Edinburgh primary schools: Canal View, Hillwood, Ratho and Gylemuir. The approach was unconventional in that the starting point was the learners’ ideas, from which the piece was choreographed. Responses to the work will be shared from the primary schools including poetry and visual art as well as the chance to explore the interdisciplinary and creative learning opportunities arising experiences from an arts stimulus.
The costume designs by Edinburgh College of Art 2014 graduates, Emily Beaney and Kate Hamilton, also took their inspiration from the pupils ideas. The dancers include current and alumni students from the MSc Dance Science and Education and the Advanced Training Programme at Morningside Dance Academy.
Please get back to carla.hay@edinburgh.gov.uk directly if you would like to attend and she’ll send full venue details and confirmation of your place.
Creative Conversations are for Edinburgh, Midlothian and East Lothian and we are happy for non-Edinburgh/Lothian folk to come if we have space.
