This year the TAKE 1 ACTION Film Festival Screenings of SHORTS FOR PRIMARIES and SONITA for Secondaries will be hosted by our wonderful partners at PLATFORM. Take a look below for more details and to make a booking. Bookings are still made via the GFT Website, just select the film that you want to see and visit our School Booking Page to make your booking, as normal.
We also have some fantastic out-of-school-time learning offers for your children and young people.
Interested in digital arts and working with young people? Look no further. We have two great opportunities for you. Livescore Digital Workshop – 10 Sept (Platform) Lead by the livescore creative team: Greg Sinclair, Neil McGuire, Jassy Earl and Kyle McAslan. There are still places for this free workshop exploring some of the techniques that have been developed and used with young people throughout the livescore project, including:
developing performances using instruction scores
interacting with various digital technologies in performance
creating short performance films
Deadline: Monday 5 SeptemberMore information here.As the Crow Flies – 22 Oct (Platform) and 26 Oct (Traverse) Our Livescore project will culminate with a performance of As The Crow Flies. Created by Greg Sinclair and the Livescore creative team with children from Scotland and Belgium, this performance celebrates human connections and differences between individual people in diverse locations and features live music and digital technologies.
The show is suitable for 12+ From point to point, as the crow flies.There’s a man alone on stage in front of you. He’s here to do the performance. But there are also some children on a Scottish island, and some teenagers from Belgium; they want to be a part of the show too. And they have their own ideas about what is going to happen.Booking information:Platform – 22 Oct at 2pmTraverse – 26 Oct at 7.30pmAs The Crow Flies is supported by Time to Shine, Scotland’s Youth Arts Strategy which is administered by Creative Scotland.
Please join us for the STEAM Symposium at The Baltic where we will explore, share and showcase what happens when the arts, science, tech and digital collide! Tickets £25 & £35. Full details below. Please share, and forward to those you think this might be of interest.
Since 2013, Starcatchers has been delivering Creative Skills training for Early Years practitioners in Scotland. Funded by the Scottish Government, this programme offers a range of training sessions from Early Years artists which explore a range of art forms using a playful, open-ended, child centred approach. As evidenced through an independent evaluation undertaken for the pilot programme 2013-15 (Really Useful Knowledge), the training has been proven to deepen understanding of arts and creativity and to help participants integrate knowledge and skills gained into practice.
We are delighted that the Scottish Government has funded this free, innovative training for Inverclyde, Dundee, Aberdeen and Midlothian in 2016-2017.
We are also launching the Creative Skills in Early Childhood practice SQA qualification, developed using the Creative Skills approach. The course will be delivered in partnership with Glasgow Kelvin College from January 2017, and Glasgow City Council may be able to cover up to 50% of the £500 course fee.
National Numeracy is partnering with Maths on Toast to launch their first summer holiday drawing competition. Children aged 13 and under are invited to design a number superhero. Entrants need to think about what qualities you need to be good at maths and how someone who is confident with numbers would think and act.
It’s open until Friday 16 September and all the information is available here. There are some great prizes up for grabs including Number Rumbler a brain-fizzing, fun game for families, and other maths goodies.
Join us at the Edinburgh International Book Festival to learn some mind-blowing facts about chaotic chemistry, bloody biology, and frightful physics as the Horrible Science books are brought to life. With Nick Arnold’s scary stories and explosive experiments and Tony De Saulles’ crazy cartoons (volunteers may be required…!). Expect a lot of laughs, a feast of foul facts and some seriously squishy science.
The Horrible Science Show – Monday 22nd August @ 1.30pm
Shortlisted for the Education Scotland Education Awards in the Creative Learning category, Middleton Park School in Aberdeen were awarded the Creative School of the Year Award at the TES Schools Awards this summer.
This year the TAKE 1 ACTION Film Festival Screenings of SHORTS FOR PRIMARIES and SONITA for Secondaries will be hosted by our wonderful partners at PLATFORM. Take a look at the newsletter linked below for more details and to make a booking:
