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Scottish Interfaith Week 2017 – Creativity and Art Competition
Are you between 5 and 18 years old?
Do you like creating artwork?
Do you want to win prizes up to £ 50?
Take part in the Scottish Interfaith Week art competition!
Scottish Interfaith Week is an annual festival in November celebrating religious diversity and what different faiths have in common.
How can you participate?
✓ Design an “Interfaith place of worship for the 21st century”
– it can be a drawing, painting, digital model or 3D model.
✓ You can enter on your own or as a group.
✓ Be as creative as you can!
✓ The deadline for entries is 23rd October.
Guidelines, poster and application form below.
For more information go to www.interfaithscotland.org or email us at admin@interfaithscotland.org or call us on 0141 5580778.
Creativity and the Arts Competition Advice Sheet
Creativity Banners now available in all local authorities
Your local Creative Learning Network now have high quality pull up banners available to loan that offer deep learning opportunities for creativity across learning, creativity and employability and creativity for attainment. You will find all of the infographics used on the banners on the National Improvement Hub: http://bit.ly/creativityinfographics
The set of 5 pull-up banners offer an informative and dramatic display for any creativity themed event or project you may be planning. They can be used as discussion materials for CLPL, to stimulate activities with learners, and as easy to digest resources for classrooms and staffrooms. As well as relating directly to Quality Indicator 3.3 in How Good Is Our School 4 they offer a key component in any work around skills for life, learning and work and Developing the Young Workforce.
To borrow the banners you can find your local authority’s creative learning contacts on the Creativity Portal: http://bit.ly/creativitycontacts or email Stephen Bullock, Development Officer for Creativity Stephen.bullock@educationscotland.gsi.gov.uk
Free CPD at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland: Theatre Production Careers Day
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Jupiter Artland – outdoor sculpture garden – FREE opportunities deadline soon
Jupiter Artland – www.jupiterartland.org
Call for Applications – deadline 31 March! The Jupiter Artland Foundation enables nurseries, schools, universities and other learning groups to visit Jupiter Artland, a private sculpture garden just outside of Edinburgh, for free.
Choose one of our visit options – from half-days, to full-days or even whole school engagements, pick your day and let us know what your themes/topics are. Visits can including a tour, a workshop or even a Minecraft experience with our new App (launching at the Science Festival in April). We want to hear from you and find out how we can help you achieve your aims and outcomes when you come and visit us.
Fill in our short application form by 31 March 2017 for visits between August and November.
Find our more here: https://www.jupiterartland.org/learning/school-and-universities
Jupiter Artland also offers two Free Teachers Private Views:
https://www.jupiterartland.org/whats-on/teachers-private-view
After last year’s sold-out success, Jupiter Artland offers three CLPL Events in 2017 (£15 each):
https://www.jupiterartland.org/whats-on/creative-learning-for-early-years-cpd
https://www.jupiterartland.org/whats-on/creative-learning-in-the-outdoors
https://www.jupiterartland.org/whats-on/engaging-children-and-young-people-in-contemporary-art
Jupiter Artland outdoor sculpture garden – FREE opportunities
Jupiter Artland – www.jupiterartland.org
Call for Applications – deadline 31 March! The Jupiter Artland Foundation enables nurseries, schools, universities and other learning groups to visit Jupiter Artland, a private sculpture garden just outside of Edinburgh, for free.
Choose one of our visit options – from half-days, to full-days or even whole school engagements, pick your day and let us know what your themes/topics are. Visits can including a tour, a workshop or even a Minecraft experience with our new App (launching at the Science Festival in April). We want to hear from you and find out how we can help you achieve your aims and outcomes when you come and visit us.
Fill in our short application form by 31 March 2017 for visits between August and November.
Find our more here: https://www.jupiterartland.org/learning/school-and-universities
Jupiter Artland also offers two Free Teachers Private Views:
https://www.jupiterartland.org/whats-on/teachers-private-view
After last year’s sold-out success, Jupiter Artland offers three CLPL Events in 2017 (£15 each):
https://www.jupiterartland.org/whats-on/creative-learning-for-early-years-cpd
https://www.jupiterartland.org/whats-on/creative-learning-in-the-outdoors
https://www.jupiterartland.org/whats-on/engaging-children-and-young-people-in-contemporary-art
Y Dance Newsletter now available
Destinations Performance Showcase: Applications Open – youth dance groups
Project Y 2017 – 16-21 year olds
Let’s Dance Professional Development Day with Marc Brew – Saturday 4th February 2017 at The Space, Dundee
You can find out more and subscribe to their newsletter here: http://www.ydance.org/
Show Racism the Red Card – creative competition
The Show Racism the Red Card creative competition is now open. This year the theme for the competition is ‘Sco
tland for All’.
It could be:
· Artwork
· Poetry
· Short Story
· Creative writing
· Music
· Dance/Drama performance
· Research project
· Multimedia presentation
In fact it could be anything that is creative, inspirational and stimulated by an anti-racism or anti-sectarianism message.
The competition is an opportunity for young people to make a stand against racism. 2016 has been an exciting year for Show Racism the Red Card marking the 20th anniversary of the charity in the UK. After many years working to combat racism they are looking for young people to come up with an entry for their competition that celebrates a Scotland for All. Please see the website for more details.
http://www.theredcard.org/educational/competitions/scotland?dm_i=LQE,4KNKU,KX1ATA,GZ2IH,1
YDance opportunities – October
Y Dance’s October Newsletter is now available including:
- Free professional development day for Dance Leaders led by dance artists from acclaimed inclusive dance company Candoco
- Dancers from DeLoopers Dance (Bremen, Germany), Stichting Keunstwerk (Leeuwarden, Netherlands) and AAICC (Granada, Spain) are working with our own Horizons youth dance company at Glasgow Clyde College Anniesland campus.
- Horizons is also recruiting. The Glasgow-based integrated youth dance company is seeking new members to participate in choreographic workshops and performance opportunities.
- Saturday 4th March 2017 is the newly-confirmed date for the 2017 DESTINATIONS youth dance showcase. Applications will open at the end of October.
You can read the full newsletter here:
http://dmtrk.net/7KA-4AYUU-A5NOAOGO20/cr.aspx
Digital Arts CLPL – FREE workshop – music, performance and technologies from Imaginate
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 September More 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 2pm Traverse – 26 Oct at 7.30pm As The Crow Flies is supported by Time to Shine, Scotland’s Youth Arts Strategy which is administered by Creative Scotland.
