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| Our friends at The National Youth Orchestras of Scotland are currently offering £2.50 tickets for young people under 25. Check out the upcoming dates and where to book –
NYOS Symphony Orchestra Glasgow & Dundee Concerts Tue 7 April – City Halls, Glasgow – Book Now Wed 8 April – Caird Hall, Dundee – Book Now
Senior Orchestra 2015 Perth Concert Mon 13 April – Perth Concert Hall – Book Now |
Day of Dance – Delivering a high quality Dance experience in a 21st century curriculum, Saturday 21 March 2015, Denny High School, Falkirk
This is a free event, open to teaching staff across all sectors. This will be of particular interest to schools who have started their learning journey through dance and wish to develop their confidence and competence in a variety of learning contexts. Participants will have the opportunity to attend a variety of practical workshops delivered by teachers. These workshops will showcase innovative learning approaches in dance and will demonstrate how these can be incorporated into practice.
Sign up here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8H2GX2Q
Why register?
This year, you must register as a delegate in order to book your tickets from our Festival and delegate events programme and to be included in the delegate manual. For more information and to download the full festival and delegate events programme, click here. Registration gives you:
All performances, events (and transport) are ticketed and subject to availability. Early booking is recommended, so register now in preparation for on sale day. Tickets are available to registered delegates from Monday 9 March at 12 noon. Best wishes The Imaginate team
Schools/Groups booking is open now.
The school performance programme is made available to schools for booking in advance of the public programme on sale date and also offers FREE performances of award-winning theatre from the UK for schools that do not have the resources to independently support visits to the Festival.
Here is the full link to the full information pages: http://www.imaginate.org.uk/festival/?utm_source=Imaginate+mailing+list&utm_campaign=0f2c1cc900-Imaginate_Festival_Delegate_events&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_16095e5529-0f2c1cc900-435383277
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.
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BBC Learning and BBC Performing Groups announced Ten Pieces, a new UK-wide initiative for primary schools in 2014/15 to open up classical music to children and inspire creativity. It will launch in October, with partners including Creative Scotland and Into Film and local activity through Champions at music education hubs and services.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4KCVB2XVgPQ0JwnqLGJl8y0/about-bbc-ten-pieces
The national working group for Dance met on 8 May at Optima Glasgow.
The main focus of the group is:
• to establish what the barriers are to the delivery of Dance
• to improve communication within the dance community
• to establish a network of contacts within the dance community
Con Morris from Education Scotland gave the group an insight into how Glow could be used to establish better communication and links. How a “Blether account” would allow practitioners to support each other and share good practice.
View full blog post here:
2013/2014 marks the 10th anniversary of the annual Show Racism the Red Card’s Anti-Racism/Anti-Sectarianism Creative Competition in Scotland. The Creative Competition is an integral part of the Show Racism the Red Card’s work in Scotland and has become a central feature in the calendar with almost one in five of Scotland’s schools having participated in the competition. Entries are welcome from both individuals as well as class groups and the closing date for all entries is Friday 31st January 2014.
To enter, school and college students must develop a piece of creative work that gets across loud and clear the important message that racism and/or sectarianism is not welcome in Scotland. This could be artwork, poetry, a short story, creative writing, music, a dance/drama performance, research project or multimedia presentation.
Competition winners will be invited to a star-studded award ceremony at Hampden Park in March, attended by the elite of Scottish football, to receive public acclaim for their work and receive their prizes.
For further information please visit the Show Racism website.
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