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Social Studies

Show Racism the Red Card creative competition

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Creative Competition 10th year Anniversary http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/newsandevents/educationnews/2013/education/august/news_tcm4813659.asp?dm_i=LQE,1SLVU,3GU5HR,6ESKF,1
Show Racism the Red Card, the UK’s premier anti-racism charity, which uses professional footballers as anti-racism role models, is celebrating the 10th anniversary of their anti-racism/anti-sectarianism creative competition.

This year, as it is the 10th anniversary of the competition, they are looking at celebrating the diverse cultures and heritage that make Scotland the place it is today.

Using Scotland’s heritage as a theme, they would like you to develop a piece of creative work that gets across clear messages of anti-racism and anti-sectarianism.

The competition will be launched in mid–September so please visit the Show Racism the Red Card website for updates.

Drama, Social Studies

Battle of Bannockburn Short Film Competition

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National Trust for Scotland

http://www.battleofbannockburn.com/learn/battle-of-bannockburn-short-film-competition/

As part of the programme of events to mark the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn, the National Trust for Scotland are launching the Battle of Bannockburn Short Film Competition to encourage school pupils to create new works which interpret Bannockburn from their own perspective.

For centuries the events that took place at Bannockburn on the 23 and 24 of June 1314 have inspired and influenced people. Through art, song and the written word pieces have been created to commemorate those fateful days. Now it’s your pupils’ turn.

Entries can be made using live action, any form of animation or anything else pupils can imagine and create. Entries do not need to portray events during the battle, they can be set in any place or time.

Drama, Health and Wellbeing, Music

Commonwealth Games 2014 Glow Meet – Creativity and Expressive Arts

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Game On Scotland – Expressive Arts

3 September 2013 16.00

http://bit.ly/15dNkeP

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/Game/2013/08/27/game-on-scotland-glow-meet/

Join us every month for a series of 19 exciting Glow meets running throughout the academic year 2013/14.  This is the first Glow Meet in a new series around the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games highlighting opportunities for interdisciplinary across all 8 curriculum areas. This CPD session will provide practitioners with a kaleidoscope of ideas and opportunities in using the Games as a context for learning with a specific focus on expressive arts and creativity.

Drama

Creativity Portal Highlights #5 – Imaginate – Evaluating the Performing Arts

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As part of the Co-Create fund that challenged creative organisation to use Glow technologies in innovative ways, Imaginate created a micro-site within Glow that allowed learners to play the role of theatre critic and reflect on a performance they had experienced.

The tool uses beautiful animation and works on the white board to generate a truly interactive experience in the classroom.

http://creativityportal.org.uk/?q=evaluating+and+app

Health and Wellbeing

‘Angel Wings’ – mental health publication

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Due to popular demand arts organisation, Artlink have reprinted it’s short story publication called ‘Angel Wings’ written by acclaimed Scottish author Anne Donovan and illustrated by Tess Wood.  ‘Angel Wings’ is work of fiction based on the experiences of a selected group of people with experience of mental ill health. After discussion Artlink commissioned Anne Donovan to write imaginatively about a child’s experience of having a mother or father who experiences mental ill health. Anne was asked to write it in a way that would speak to children and young adults assuring them that they were not alone and that the experience is relatively common.
Angel Wings has been used as teaching tool across the country in exploring issues of health and wellbeing. Very recently we received extensive feedback from a Mind Your Head Co-ordinator in Shetland who has been using the book with a composite P 4/5/6 class, one of the pupils said: ‘It is very important to accept others who may be different from yourself. In Angel Wings it has a very good explanation of mental health, it said that mental health is an illness, it is a bit like a T.V and it is not tuned in properly and it can go onto different channels and they can hear voices that we can’t hear, some are nice but some are scary’. More information about the project in Shetland is on the Angel Wings blogsite (under the downloads section) which can be accessed here.
Artlink are keen that the story continues to be put to positive use in supporting children and young people to explore issues of mental ill health. The book is suitable to be used within a formal educational settings for ages 8 and up – further teaching materials linked to the Curriculum for Excellence can be found on the resources page on the blogsite. Hard copies of the story can be obtained from  info@artlinkedinburgh.co.uk Artlink 13a Spittal Street, Edinburgh EH3 9DY 0131 229 3555 with a small donation for postage.  ISBN 978-09551882-3-7
Technologies

Creativity Portal Highlights #4 – Paint like Jackson Pollock

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Today is the fourth in a new series of bi-weekly posts highlighting the very best content available through the Creativity Portal.
#4

Jacksonpollock.org is a curiosity of a website that allows you to paint like Jackson Pollock with your mouse or keyboard. Great fun and strangely liberating it is a tiny window into what it might feel like to paint in such a style.

http://creativityportal.org.uk/?q=pollock

Languages and Literacy, Sciences

Glow TV events from Edinburgh International Book Festival – create your own story

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EIBF 2013 – Superhero Siblings with Gwyneth Rees, 20 August 10.30am http://bit.ly/14xLyVH

Saffie is no ordinary sibling, she’s a sister with superpowers! Join author Gwyneth Rees and meet the quirky characters from her enchanting My Super Sister series. Share stories of superpowered magic and mayhem, and find out how to create your own super special story idea. This event is suitable for Primary 3-5.

EIBF 2013 – The Physics of Superheroes with James Kakalios, 20 August 12.00 midday http://bit.ly/1477joh

James Kakalios explains the basic principles of physics without an inclined plane or pulley in sight.  Instead, all of his examples come from superhero comic books (particularly those in which the heroes get their science right!). Starting with fun superhero questions, the fascinating mysteries of science are revealed. This event is suitable for S2- S6.

EIBF 2013 – Ciaran Murtagh: Jokes, Genies and Japes, 21 August, 12.30 pm http://bit.ly/1br310Z

Ace author, CBBC scriptwriter and star of The Slammer, Ciaran Murtagh wants you to help him make up a brand new story.
Choose a title, decide what happens next and then make sure everything’s all right in the end. Giggles are guaranteed as this master storyteller weaves words into stories right before your eyes!
This event is suitable for P3-6.

For full details of these and other events, please log in to Glow and view the current schedule:

https://portal.glowscotland.org.uk/establishments/nationalsite/GlowTV/tvpages/Schedule.aspx.

(Glow log-in and password required).

Drama

BBC Performing Arts Fund Community Theatre Funding Scheme

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We have six weeks to go before the deadline on the 16th September and we hope you will be able to continue helping us circulate this opportunity to your networks.

Groups may apply for up to £5,000 to the Community Theatre scheme for a development project or for a project which includes the commission of a new piece of theatre created by a specified professional theatre maker chosen by the group. Examples of projects the scheme would cover range from:

  • Sending key members of a Group on a training course;
  • Running workshops with the intention of encouraging and attracting new participants to join in; to
  • Trying out a new and ambitious way of performing e.g. a piece that would normally be out of reach; creating new partnerships to try something more ambitious etc.

If you think this is something that you could publicise for us, then please do not hesitate to direct people to our website and encourage them to apply.  This blog by our Trustees offers further thoughts regarding the scheme.

Furthermore, if you feel that you might be able to Tweet about the scheme, then that would also be very welcome! Something along the lines of:

See the criteria for the BBC PAF #CommunityTheatre scheme if you’re a community theatre project after funding: http://bit.ly/PAF_CT

With Best wishes,

The BBC Performing Arts Fund Team

Music

Scottish Premier League – Music box

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After a highly successful first year, SPL Music Box is back. Over the course of the next 12 months, SPL Music Box, which is supported by Creative Scotland’s CashBack for Creativity Programme, will provide young people aged 10-16 with a chance to take part in free music making workshops at a number of Scottish Premier League Clubs.

http://www.creativescotland.co.uk/news/spl-music-box-is-back-18072013

Opportunities will include tuition in a range of popular musical instruments, songwriting and recording workshops as well as information on the wider music industry. Young people will also get the chance to participate in a number of performances and showcases throughout the course of the programme.