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CPD, Events, Interdisciplinary Learning

Magical Thinking – Tapestry Masterclasses 2012-13

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Tapestry Partnership has launched a programme of Masterclasses taking place between November 2012 and September 2013 which offer examplars from Scotland and elsewhere of meaningful and lasting change in learning. If offers snapshots of approaches which are “making a difference” and where change is progressive and the direction for the future is ambitious and challenging.

The programme explores areas such as unlocking potential, improving schools, interdisciplinary learning, and making thinking visible. For more information download the programme here:

Magical Thinking – Tapestry Masterclasses 2012-2013

CPD, Events

Tim Rollins Symposium – Talbot Rice, Edinburgh, 13th October

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A Genuine Mystery – Inspiration and shared belief in collaborative art and education contexts

Saturday 13 October, Talbot Rice Gallery, 10am-5pm, Free

‘There has to be a common problem and it has to be a genuine mystery’.
Tim Rollins

The symposium will take the collaborative working practice of Tim
Rollins and K.O.S and his statement about group motivation as a point of
departure to explore ideas about art and pedagogy

· How do you balance the learning agenda with quality art production
and process?
· What are the ethics of the social encounter in socially engaged art practice?
· Within the collective production context how is authorship
negotiated? (Is it relevant?)
· What role does inspiration and shared belief play in a learning
environment?
· Can models of collaborative production and learning thrive in
mainstream education systems?

The symposium will be chaired by Susan T. Grant, an artist and
independent arts manager who specialises in collaborative artworks in the public
realm.

Symposium contributors include Declan McGonagle, Director of the
National College of Art and Design Dublin; Marsha Bradfield from Critical
Practice; Katie Bruce, Producer/Curator at the Gallery of Modern Art Glasgow and
Associate Artist Rachel Mimiec; Professor Neil Mulholland and Dan Brown
on Shift/Work; John Reardon and Johannes Maier of ArtSchool/UK; Rachel
Thibbotumunuwe, Hilary Nicol and Johnny Gailey, Artworks Scotland &
Talbot Rice Gallery partnership.

This is a free event with a sandwich lunch and refreshments provided.
Booking is essential. Contact info.talbotrice@ed.ac.uk to book your
place.

The symposium has been made possible with support from the University
of Edinburgh’s Principal’s Fund and is a partnership with engage
Scotland.

Artists, Creative Practitioners, Events

Artworks Conference, 22 and 23 Nov 2012 – Book your place

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Art, Society and Participation: Constructing the Larger Narrative will place arts in participatory settings in a wider social context by exploring current thinking around quality, value and ethics in this area of creative practice. It will invite practitioners to take part in a range of practical activities to reflect, build skills, knowledge and networks. The conference places Scotland on a wider international stage and celebrates the quality of arts taking place in participatory settings throughout Scotland.

Thur 22 & Fri 23 Nov
The Lighthouse
Glasgow
G1 3NU

Tickets:

£21 per day for self funded delegates
£41 per day for delegates being funded by an organisation
Delegates can attend one day or both days of the conference.

Keynote speakers:

Arlene Goldbard: New York born, but now based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Arlene is a writer, speaker, consultant and cultural activist. She has addressed many academic and community audiences in the U.S. and Europe on topics ranging from the ethics of community arts practice to the development of integral organisations. Arlene is currently working on a new book about art’s public purpose.

Charles Chip McNeal: Director of Education at San Francisco Ballet. Charles is an award winning lecturer, choreographer and teacher working across artforms, with particular interest in social justice, multiculturalism, quality and ethics.

The conference will explore such things as:

  • What is your larger narrative – the big story that gives meaning to your work?
  • What is the social significance of your work?
  • Why do you do it?
  • What does it mean to be an artist working in participatory settings?
  • How do we maintain our integrity when working in participatory settings?
  • What do you do to be a sound, ethical and relevant practitioner?

To book your ticket for the conference, visit the Citz Box Office.

To stay up-to-date about the conference as well as all ArtWorks events and information sign up to the ArtWorks e-bulletin.

* European and UK presenters still to be confirmed.

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National Creative Learning Network at SLF 2012

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National Creative Learning Network at SLF 2012

The National Creative Learning Network (NCLN) is a community of practice which has a leadership role in championing and advocating creativity in both formal and informal learning contexts. The Network is well represented at this year’s SLF, with members from local authorities across Scotland leading workshops and seminars throughout the two days of the festival.

Seminar Programme

Find out about the benefits of being involved in a Creative Learning Network at Fife’s CLN Showcase seminar, or find out what being creative means to Edinburgh’s young apprentices.

  • Creative Learners, Creative Thinkers, Creative Careers (Edinburgh)
  • Showcasing Fife’s Creative Learning Network (Fife)
  • What’s the Past got to do with us? (Aberdeenshire)

Visit the SLF website to view the full seminar programme

Education Showcase

The Showcase programme features demonstrations, experiments, drama and music making with NCLN contributions from a number of authorities:

  • Arts and Culture as a Catalyst for Learning: The Aberdeen Arts Across Learning Festival (Aberdeen City)
  • Inspiring Creativity, Highland’s Creativity Conference (Highland)
  • Supporting Drama through Literacy – Learners with Mild to Severe and Complex Needs (Dumfries & Galloway)
  • Challenging Creativity Creatively (Edinburgh)
  • The Big Drum Experiment (Scottish Borders)
  • Little Rabbit: drama for early years (Angus)
  • Teachers Realising their Creative Potential (Aberdeen City)
  • Write a Song in 30 Minutes (Stirling)

To view the full Education Showcase programme click here

The NCLN consists of the the group of coordinators who lead each local authority’s Creative Learning Network. Visit the Creativity Portal to find out who your local Creative Learning Network contact is: http://bit.ly/Creative_Learning_Contacts

Find out more about the Creative Learning Networks by watching one of the short films on the Creativity Portal: http://bit.ly/CLN_Creativity_Portal

Early Years, Events

Early Years Creative Network for Scotland

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Starcatchers is carrying out some research into the potential of an Early Years Creative Network for Scotland.

Director of Starcatchers, Rhona Matheson, has kindly provided some contextual information for the Creative Learning Networks:

“How do organisations working with early years connect with creativity?  As Starcatchers has evolved over the last 6 years I have been aware that there are a wide range of creative and arts experiences available to parents, families and child care settings in Scotland, however there seems to be a gap in how people communicate about this work – for example we have been working in East Glasgow for more than 2 years with a fairly high profile through our work with Platform, however there are still settings and organisations who don’t know what we do and vice versa.

When Starcatchers was part of Imaginate, we created a ‘Starcatchers Network’ to try and give people opportunities to come together and share practice – this wasn’t just about sharing the Starcatchers experience but also about sharing the practice that other organisations or nurseries were delivering and there seemed to be demand from the people engaging with us for access these kinds of activities. I always felt that there was a way that an early years creative network could be more cohesive and respond to the policy and funding context in Scotland and with the needs of those engaging with it.

The consultation and research we are undertaking at the moment is a means of exploring this.  Through individual conversations, consultation events and an online questionnaire, we are trying to engage with a wide group of people in Scotland to understand what potential there might be for this kind of network.  We want to engage with arts and education sectors as well as play, health and social work and get a really good understanding of the landscape and need.”

There are clear links between the NCLN, CLNs and an Early Years Creative Network for Scotland. If you are interested in contributing to this discussion, please sign up for one of the consultation events – you can download the invitation here:  Consultation Invitation.

Events, Funding, Young People

Money for Life Challenge

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The Money for Life Challenge offers young people (aged 16-24) the opportunity to develop a money management/financial information themed project which will have an impact in their community.

This presents an excellent opportunity for encouraging young people to take ownership of their learning, to develop their confidence and make an effective contribution.

There are Scottish prizes to be won as well as UK National prizes, all awarded at inspirational events.

For more information on what happened in 2011/12 visit http://www.moneyforlifechallenge.org.uk

How You Can Get Involved!

The following events will explain how to get involved, provide information about the funding available to enable people to get involved and showcase the excellent work developed by participants in 2011/2012.

For further information and to book online click on the dates below:

CfE, CPD, Events

Creativity across Learning: Rethinking the Future

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An article in TESS this week highlights the importance of creativity in art and science as an S4 physics class visit Glasgow School of Art’s product design engineering course and see that it is the combination of creative and analytical skills that are required to make great innovative products:

http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6268747

Connected to this theme, is a session at SLF on Thursday 20 September, a round table discussion with Dame Ellen MacArthur: Rethinking the Future: technology, design and business in the 21st century, which will focus on the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s research into the circular economy, an industrial economy that designs out waste, with strong links to many aspects of Curriculum for Excellence including: interdisciplinary learning, creativity, design, technologies, sustainability, economics, science, engineering, enterprise and skills development.

CLD, CPD, Events

Community Learning and Development at SLF 2012

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Making the connections between informal, non-formal and formal learning

This year, there will be a CLD village and CLD Fringe programme at the Scottish Learning Festival, sponsored by the CLD Standards Council. SLF 2012 hopes to attract a larger audience from the further education, youth work and community learning and development sectors than in previous years.

For more information visit the CLD Standards Council for Scotland website.

Download the CLD Village Fringe Programme and Exhibitor Guide here: CLD_Village_Brochure

CPD, Events

Developing Learners’ Essential Skills in Scotland, 25 September, 2012

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Education Scotland, in association with Scotland’s Colleges, is presenting this national conference on how well colleges and schools develop learners’ essential skills, building upon their prior experiences and preparing them for further learning or employment opportunities.

The keynote speakers will be Michael Russell MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Education, and Ian McMillan CBE, Director of CBI Scotland.

With Curriculum for Excellence as the focal point, the conference workshops will explore planning, and learning and teaching approaches to develop and recognise learners’ essential skills.

There will be 10 workshops exemplifying excellent practice in developing learners’ essential skills in schools and colleges. These include presentations from:

  • Ayr College
  • Education Scotland’s Inter Authority Skills Group
  • Govan High School
  • James Watt College
  • Glencryan School

Event details

Date: 25 September 2012

Cost: £75

Venue: Hilton Hotel

Location: Glasgow

Target Audience: Managers in schools, colleges and community-based providers, curriculum managers, local authority staff, employers, private training providers, employability officers.

How to apply: For the full programme details and to book online, see the event page on the Scotland’s Colleges website.

Online bookings close: 24 September 2012

Contacts: Ann Kirkwood (Tel: 01786 892131) / Dawn Brooks (Tel: 01786 892007
CPD, Drama, Events

Future Possible Theatre Symposium, Glasgow, 5 September 2012

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A symposium with the National Theatre of Scotland and Citizens Theatre

Wednesday, 5 September, 10.00am – 4.00pm

Citizens Theatre, Glasgow

The National Theatre of Scotland and the Citizens Theatre are inviting interested individuals to explore future possibilities in creating and sharing theatre across professional and community contexts.

Leading up to this event and in partnership with ArtWorks Scotland, The National Theatre of Scotland is taking 6 established Scottish Artists to Philadelphia to take part in a summer lab with People’s Light Theatre Company. Peoples’ Light have invested in a comprehensive training programme for their artists ensemble, teaching artists and staff to skill them up and expose them to creating high quality  professional work with non-professionals.

The Scottish artists working with the company in 2012 across a professional and community context are:

Simon Sharkey – Associate Director of National Theatre of Scotland

MJ McCarthy – Freelance Musician and Composer

Janice Parker – Freelance Choreographer and movement specialist

Rachel O’Neill – Freelance visual artist and lecturer

Martin Travers – Writer

Catrin Evans – Theatre director and activist

During the summer lab the Scottish artists have been asking the questions:

What factors are influencing quality in this work?

What skills am I learning?
You can keep in touch with their responses to  these question and the work on http://futurepossibletheatre.posterous.com/

If you are interested in requesting a place on this event which follows on from the summer lab please contact the Citizens box office on
http://citizenslearning.wufoo.com/forms/registration-form/

More About ArtWorks

ArtWorks: Developing Practice in Participatory Settings is a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Special Initiative with funding and support from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, Creativity Culture & Education (supported by Arts Council England) and the Cultural Leadership Programme. ArtWorks Scotland is partner funded by Creative Scotland.