The annual National Storytelling Week is organised by the Society for Storytelling and aims to promote what it describes as ‘the oldest art form in the world’.
The Society provides advice on organising and publicising events including storytelling in schools, libraries, museums and art galleries.
The website has resources for developing storytelling skills and advice for teachers, as well as information about more than 150 storytellers throughout the UK.
Throughout the short course teachers will be supported by Shakespeare’s Globe’s educational specialist who has developed dynamic learning approaches to exploring Shakepeare’s plays with boys.
Their approach to supporting teachers will in turn aid secondary pupils to better understand characterization, themes and language.
Shakespeare’s Globe use a variety of techniques to explore and experiment with text; from the actor’s viewpoint and from the director’s, differing interpretations of the same play and interactive tasks to bring the text to life.
A short but specific focus of the day will be on Romeo and Juliet.
This opportunity is available in: Glasgow City
For further information, please contact shortcourses@rcs.ac.uk (Short Courses), or call 0141 270 8213, or visithttp://www.rcs.ac.uk/shortcourses/dramaadults/professionaldevelopment/. The deadline is Friday 22 February 2013 at 17:00.
22 January, 11.00 am http://glo.li/Vpe5Fh
Join Margo Kerr, Early Years Development Officer in West Lothian to listen to the wonderful story of Meerkat Mail by Emily Gravett and find out about this week’s creativity challenge. We know you can do it!!
21 January, 11.00 am http://glo.li/Vkl0Q1
During this Glow TV session the artist will demonstrate three examples of making books, first is the five minute note book made from just one piece of paper, the second is the simple concertina folded book and lastly a basic hand sewn note book.
Join us for our celebration of the birth of Burns and the life and work of our famous bard on Friday 25 January at 9.30 am. This year we want you to be able to share what you have been doing in your schools and classrooms so join us for our Burns Bash.
http://blogs.educationscotland.gov.uk/glowscotland/2013/01/16/burns-bash/
If you would like to share your Scottish poems, dances or art work then make sure that you are with us that day to let other schools see what you have been doing – remember we always need an audience too so if you don’t want to perform then please just join us anyway.
Paper Creativity Challenge – Paper Making Workshop, Today, 11 am http://glo.li/VVDkvv
Make delicate handmade papers from pulps. Learn simple techniques suitable for using at home such as how to create a smooth surface texture for printing on, soaking and blending recycled paper and then also painting with coloured pulp.
Paper Creativity Challenge – Ernest, 15 January 2013, 11 am http://glo.li/VVDuTD
Now it is your chance to Glow Meet with Catherine Rayner as she reads her book ‘Ernest’. During this session you will have the opportunity to read and explore the story of Ernest, a rather large moose, with early years pupils and then Catherine will work with older children and demonstrate to them how to illustrate texts. Ideally learners should have paper and paint so that they can also try the techniques.
Photos of the sculptures discovered in the Book Week Scotland treasure hunt, and information on where you can see them are now on the Scottish Book Trust website.
http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/book-sculptures-the-full-set
Are you aged between 14 and 17 years old? Do you love writing? Do you want to develop your writing skills? Come along to our Young Writers Conference!
Come along to our Young Writers Conference, where you’ll meet loads of like-minded people, hear from award winning novelist Annabel Pitcher and choose from workshops on writing fiction, comics, poetry, plays or writing a truly convincing fight scene!
We’re very excited to confirm that this year’s conference will include workshops led by Annabel Pitcher, Cathy Forde and Steve Cole. We’ve got something for everyone, including fiction, playwrighting, poetry and comics.
For more information on the individual workshops please visit the website.
When: Saturday 1st December, 10.00am – 4.15pm
Where: The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN.
Tickets: £6, must be booked in advance.
This opportunity is available in: All Scotland
For further information, please contact Claire.Marchant-Collier@scottishbooktrust.com (Claire Marchant-Collier), or call 0131 524 0160, or visit http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/young-writers-conference-2012. The deadline isFriday 30 November 2012 at 09:00.
School pupils and their teachers are invited to choose an inspirational painting, photograph, print or sculpture from the National Galleries of Scotland’s Collection and to create a piece of poetry or prose not exceeding 1,000 words in length. Works may be viewed in person, or online at www.nationalgalleries.org/onlinecollections
There are three categories for school pupils:
Category A School Pupils Under 12
Category B School Pupils 12-14 Years of Age
Category C School Pupils 15-18 Years of Age
There will be ten awards in each category: Winner, two Runners-up and seven Special Merit. All will be included in a public reading at the Scottish National Gallery in April 2013.
Full details of rules, and a very comprehensive and helpful resource, can be viewed on www.nationalgalleries.org. Follow the link to Education and click on competitions. The closing date is Friday 18 January 2013.
The Clackmannanshire Storytelling Festival will be celebrating ‘The Year of Creative Scotland’ with a programme of storytelling, writing poetry and the arts, from 27 October until 4 November 2012.
http://www.clacksweb.org.uk/council/press/?release=3215
The festival will launch with events delivered in partnership with the Scottish International Storytelling Festival, and culminating in the celebration of some of the best of contemporary Scottish Poetry at the ‘Alloa Poetry Jamboree.’
The Clackmannanshire Storytelling Festival, sponsored by Clackmannanshire Council and Creative Scotland is supported by The Scottish Book Trust, The Scottish Poetry Library and the International Scottish Storytelling Festival.
