{"id":3732,"date":"2017-02-24T13:19:22","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T12:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/?p=3732"},"modified":"2017-02-24T13:19:22","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T12:19:22","slug":"creative-conversation-edinburgh-friday-10th-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/2017\/02\/24\/creative-conversation-edinburgh-friday-10th-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Conversation &#8211; Edinburgh &#8211; Friday 10th March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\"><b>Creative Conversation<\/b> <b>\u2013 your invitation to \u2018Monkey Man\u2019<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\"><b>Friday 10<sup><span style=\"font-size: small\">th<\/span><\/sup> March<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\"><b>Lunch is from 1pm and the Creative Conversation begins at 2pm<\/b>. As ever \u2013 think about leaving your car at home so you can enjoy a glass of wine with colleagues and continue the conversation from about 3.15\/3.30. The venue details will follow with your confirmation of a place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">The Creative Catalyst for \u2018Monkey Man\u2019 is <b>Jonathan Lear<\/b>. He is not very well known in Scotland &#8211; yet &#8211; but like Hywel Roberts, he will be after this! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">Jonathan has a great lesson based on a documentary about primates. It then moves into the <b>big questions about what curriculum is and what it should be<\/b>. It is full of big debates about creativity, independence, problem solving and some of the big issues of <b>visible learning<\/b>. It is also <b>very practical<\/b> and focussed on the experience of learners and it is <b>incredibly entertaining<\/b>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">Jonathan has that blend that Hywel Roberts has between <b>big ideas and takeaways that you can put into practice<\/b> straightaway. It is another conversation that shouldn\u2019t be missed. No wonder all these people are singing about him!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">If you and a colleague would like to attend please get back to me ASAP and <u>by 12noon on Thursday 11<sup><span style=\"font-size: small\">th<\/span><\/sup><\/u> at the latest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">Looking forward to seeing you there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">Linda<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';font-size: 10pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Linda Lees | Service Manager, Arts and Creative Learning\u00a0| Schools and Community Services\u00a0|\u00a0Children and Families\u00a0| The City of Edinburgh Council, Waverley Court, Business Centre 1\/1, 4 East Market Street, Edinburgh EH8 8BG | Tel 0131 469 3956 | Mobile 07917 825007 |\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"mailto:linda.lees@edinburgh.gov.uk\"><u><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">mailto:linda.lees@edinburgh.gov.uk<\/span><\/u><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\"> |\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edinburgh.gov.uk\/\"><u><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">www.edinburgh.gov.uk<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creative Conversation \u2013 your invitation to \u2018Monkey Man\u2019 \u00a0Friday 10th March Lunch is from 1pm and the Creative Conversation begins at 2pm. As ever \u2013 think about leaving your car at home so you can enjoy a glass of wine with colleagues and continue the conversation from about 3.15\/3.30. The venue details will follow with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/2017\/02\/24\/creative-conversation-edinburgh-friday-10th-march\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Creative Conversation &#8211; Edinburgh &#8211; Friday 10th March<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1272,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[503,504],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-primary","category-secondary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3733,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732\/revisions\/3733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}