Thursday 14 June 11:00 – 11:45
Join us in Celebrating Summer of Song and the Olympic Torch Relay in Scotland with award winning author/illustrator Oliver Jeffers. Oliver’s interactive illustration workshop will guide your pupils through drawing characters from his new series, The Hueys as well as an exclusive reading of The Hueys.
The National Records of Scotland, in partnership with the Scottish Parliament, is mounting an exhibition in the Parliament from Wednesday 15 August to Saturday 8 September 2012 featuring two surviving original documents with a direct link to William Wallace. Many visitors to the exhibition are unlikely to know much about this turbulent period of Scottish history so primary and secondary pupils are invited to provide text, artwork or short films to help tell the story in a modern way.
Contributions for the exhibition must be submitted to the Scottish Parliament Education Service by Friday 15 June. Full details about this and the Education
Programme during the exhibition are available on the Scottish Parliament website (www.scottish.parliament.uk/education/wallace <http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/education/wallace> ).
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/visitandlearn/Education/50458.aspx
On Monday 2 July at 10.30, a filmed version of I, Cinna (The Poet) will be streamed exclusively to schools around the UK. The film will be followed by a live question and answer session with the actor and writer.
This unique online event gives students aged 11 to 16 the chance to participate in a real-time nationwide project in which they can interact with thousands of other young people across the country. It will be a one click and play live broadcast, which teachers will be able to access on their computer and play through any projection device in the classroom, including a Whiteboard.
Written for ages 11+, I,Cinna (The Poet) is Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar told through the eyes of a jiggling fool.
Cinna asks the young audience to consider the relationship between words and actions, art and politics, self and society. During the performance he will ask students to write poems with him: small poems on big themes. These poems can be reworked after the performance and sent to the RSC, where a web archive of responses to the play will be created.
I,Cinna is the latest in a series of solo shows written and directed by Tim Crouch inspired by Shakespeare’s lesser characters, including I, Peaseblossom and I, Malvolio (RSC, 2011) and has been commissioned as part of the World Shakespeare Festival.
In the run-up to the announcement of the winner of the 2012 Angus Book Award <http://www.angus.gov.uk/bookaward/default.htm> , the short-listed authors will have a full day of visits to the eight Angus secondary schools on Tuesday 22 May, to meet pupils who have taken part in the voting process.
The four novels in the running for this year’s award were read by around 400 Angus third year pupils before they voted for their favourite book in a secret ballot. The winner will be revealed at the award ceremony which this year is being held at Carnoustie High School.
http://www.angus.gov.uk/new/releases-archive/2012/2012-05-17b.html
The poem Tam o’ Shanter was written by Robert Burns in 1790 and its 224 lines, tradition has it, were composed in a single afternoon. A new challenge has been set to reboot Tam o’ Shanter, bringing it up to date in a new and original version that follows the structure of Burns’ poem but would be relevant in the twenty-first century.
Entries are being sought for Tam o’ Shanter Reboot, a poem about a night out and the return home after a wild and unpredicted experience – of whatever kind! It should be written in Scots or English and be the original work of the author, unpublished and not accepted for publication elsewhere. It should not be under consideration in other writing competitions and should not be a translation of another author’s work.
Scottish Book Trust and BBC Scotland have launched an exciting new writing project to encourage people to write about the place in Scotland that they love the most.
My Favourite Place in Scotland is running from 19 March to 31 August 2012, and in that time Scottish Book Trust wants to involve everyone in Scotland in building a written picture of Scotland’s best-loved places.
Submissions should be made to Scottish Book Trust website and can be written in a huge variety of different forms, such as a story, poem, song lyrics, a short play or sketch, a letter or even diary entry.
Each submission will feature on Scottish Book Trust’s website and a selection of the most interesting and inspiring offerings will be broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland and published in a book in late 2012.
Submissions can be made online athttp://www.scottishbooktrust.com/myfavouriteplace or by post to My Favourite Place, Scottish Book Trust, Sandeman House, Trunks Close, 55 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1SR.
The closing date for entries is 31 August 2012.
For more information read Scottish Book Trust press release.
For three days leading up to the Edinburgh Art Festival, International artist Tim Rollins and his collective, Kids of Survival (K.O.S), invite young people to take part in a unique one-off art event at the Talbot Rice Gallery during July 2012.
Over two days, young people will work directly with K.O.S members Tim, Angel and Rick to finish a unique work of art based the classic adventure novel ‘Treasure Island’ by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. This work will feature in the forthcoming exhibition at the Talbot Rice Gallery.
Tim Rollins and K.O.S are an artist collective from New York who create original artworks inspired by classic novels, speeches and music. The group act as an artist team whose members are of different ages and from all types of different backgrounds.
Since the formation of K.O.S in 1981, works by the group are now part of prestigious private and public collections across the world including the Museum of Modern Art (New York); The Tate Gallery (London) and The Hirshhorn Museum of Art (Washington D.C)
Tim Rollins & K.O.S are a key highlight of this years’ Edinburgh Art Festival (EAF), the UK’s largest annual festival dedicated to visual art. The new work created in Edinburgh and based on ‘Treasure Island’ will feature prominently in the Talbot Rice Gallery exhibition.
Please refer to the attached PDF for more information and an application form.
Contact Rachel.thibbotumunuwe@ed.ac.uk for further information.
Did you ever want to be on air and run your own radio show? This is your chance: East Renfrewshire Council in conjunction with Pulse Radio 98.4 will celebrate young peoples’ engagement and voice by inviting pupils and youth clubs from the 12 to 14 June to participate in a Youth Radiothon.
We hope you had the opportunity to join over 240 schools – around 7200 excited Glow users – across Scotland as they participated in the Authors Live Event. If you missed it then you can watch again, go to GlowTV watch-again.
http://ltsblogs.org.uk/glowscotland/2012/05/11/authors-live-david-walliams/
Visit the Scottish Poetry Library website for information about National Poetry Day on Thursday 4 October 2012.
http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/learn/librarians/professional-news-resources
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