Today is the start of a new series of bi-weekly posts highlighting the very best content available through the Creativity Portal.
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Sir Ken Robinson’s call for education reform, visualised using animation, has been a powerful starting point for educators to begin a journey towards creative teaching, creative learning and creative approaches to transformational change.
We have six weeks to go before the deadline on the 16th September and we hope you will be able to continue helping us circulate this opportunity to your networks.
Groups may apply for up to £5,000 to the Community Theatre scheme for a development project or for a project which includes the commission of a new piece of theatre created by a specified professional theatre maker chosen by the group. Examples of projects the scheme would cover range from:
If you think this is something that you could publicise for us, then please do not hesitate to direct people to our website and encourage them to apply. This blog by our Trustees offers further thoughts regarding the scheme.
Furthermore, if you feel that you might be able to Tweet about the scheme, then that would also be very welcome! Something along the lines of:
See the criteria for the BBC PAF #CommunityTheatre scheme if you’re a community theatre project after funding: http://bit.ly/PAF_CT
With Best wishes,
The BBC Performing Arts Fund Team
After a highly successful first year, SPL Music Box is back. Over the course of the next 12 months, SPL Music Box, which is supported by Creative Scotland’s CashBack for Creativity Programme, will provide young people aged 10-16 with a chance to take part in free music making workshops at a number of Scottish Premier League Clubs.
http://www.creativescotland.co.uk/news/spl-music-box-is-back-18072013
Opportunities will include tuition in a range of popular musical instruments, songwriting and recording workshops as well as information on the wider music industry. Young people will also get the chance to participate in a number of performances and showcases throughout the course of the programme.
There is still time to join nearly 600 other schools and give your learners the opportunity to have their pictures in one of the athletes’ or officials’ room one year from now.
Find out more on the Game On Scotland website.
‘Following on from the earlier blog about the Festival of Dangerous Ideas (FODI), we also participated by hosting our own ‘dangerous’ event. We all know the power behind moving images. Anyone who’s been moved to tears by a movie or participated in plot related arguments after a trip to the cinema will understand how caught up we can get in the different realities presented to us through moving image. With that in mind we asked ourselves why moving image is so underused in education? Is moving image seen as a ‘soft option’? Demonised by its association with media studies?
http://www.teachingscotland.org.uk/home/blog.aspx
We wanted to challenge that idea and so our own Dangerous Idea was born. Moving Image as a vehicle for knowledge creation! But what knowledge could we create?’
The Maggie’s Centres design competition for Standard Grade and Higher pupils challenges students to design a new Maggie’s Cancer Centre. This competition provides an opportunity to develop research and presentation skills, to introduce architecture in the classroom and to inspire pupils who have an interest in design.
The ‘Squeasy Peasey’ team from Ullapool High School has won the European Business Game (EBG). Their proposed reusable baby food pouch company impressed the judges at the international final in the Faroe Islands on Friday (5 July).
http://www.highland.gov.uk/yourcouncil/news/newsreleases/2013/July/2013-07-09-07.htm
The team represented the whole of Scotland after winning the national final in April. The international final was a particularly tough competition with some great ideas from each of the participating countries.
It was the team’s innovative product and detailed proposal that saw them win the award. Their business pitch included market research, a three-year financial plan, and multi-lingual baby-food recipe videos on YouTube. The Czech Republic’s entry – a car wheel-changing device – came a very close second.
GIRFEC Wellbeing competition – still plenty time to enter
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/People/Young-People/wellbeingwk/competition
The Getting it right for every child (GIRFEC) team is looking for talented young writers and artists/designers to help develop a meaningful guide for young people about GIRFEC. The competition is open to young people aged between 11 and 15.
IRISS would like to illustrate how the creative arts are currently being applied in Scotland’s social services. They know that creativity can change lives for the better and they would like you to help them understand how the creative arts are being used, and the impact this type of work can have for people supported by services and for staff.
They have created a survey for you to complete to give them an overview of your work. After they’ve received your responses, their plan is to work with some of you to showcase what it is you are doing so that they can inspire others. Part of this project will also be to document the strengths and challenges of the use of the arts in the sector, so that they can share the learning across different disciplines.
Creative Quarter Project:
Award created in honour of social reformer Robert Owen.
A new award recognising inspirational educators has been announced by Education Secretary Michael Russell.
The Robert Owen Award will recognise ground breaking and inspirational innovation in Education. The first winner will be announced later this year.
Mr Russell made the announcement while speaking to international delegates at The Utopian Studies Society’s European conference at New Lanark, the village where Owen provided security, education and decent living conditions for the mill workers and their families.
The award also recognises that this is the 200th anniversary of the publication of Owen’s seminal book “A New View of Society”.
Mr Russell said:
“In New Lanark child labour was ended; a sickness fund was established; a crèche for working mothers was developed and a comprehensive system of education was provided. Robert Owen saw education as being essential to the human experience.
“Modern Scotland embraces that view – we see education as a societal good as well as an individual one. It remains central to our values and to our very sense of ourselves.
“Owen challenged the status quo, he looked at how to engage and inspire people through education as he realised that it was the most important foundation in life.
“The Robert Owen Award will reward outstanding commitment to Scottish education, it will recognise creativity and it will exemplify why so many countries in Europe look on with interest on all that we have achieved in improving the prospects for our young people.
“Like Owen, we believe that we have a duty to provide education and that we all pay the price if we do not meet that responsibility.
“Yet until Scotland gains full control of its own finances, until we develop our own system of welfare, benefits and taxation, we will continue to be at the mercy of decisions taken remotely that limit our ability to do the best we can.
“For me, the independence debate is about the powers we need to tackle the deep-rooted challenges that face us – challenges like child poverty and gaps in educational attainment that have never been adequately tackled.
“Those are the issues that Robert Owen started to tackle and it is a debate which starts with the question; What kind of Scotland do we want to live in?”
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