Category Archives: Opportunities

CPD, Teachers, Technologies

One Day Digital for Teachers

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Digital Creativity CPD

Nesta, the UK’s innovation charity, are running a day’s CPD on digital creativity for teachers so they can teach young people the digital skills they will need in the future. Teachers can learn website development, computer animation, character design, video editing, app development, visual programming and how to design and print 3D objects. Teachers will get support materials on the day so they can use the skills they have learned back in the classroom with their pupils.

Nesta are working with a range of partners including CoderDojo, Mozilla, RunRev and Maklab to make sure that teachers attending get a real feel for how these technologies work and get a chance to work hands-on with them over the day so they are able to pass that on to their pupils.

The event is on Saturday 23 November at the University of Edinburgh.  For more information and to reserve place go to onedaydigital.eventbrite.com

Dance, Opportunities

Get Scotland Dancing!

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Get Scotland Dancing encourages more people to get active and get involved in dance.

For the most up to date news, opportunities and information on dance in Scotland, visit the Get Scotland Dancing website, and if you’d like regular updates, you can subscribe to a monthly newsletter.

Get Scotland Dancing

The 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and 2014 Commonwealth Games, provide an unparalleled opportunity to raise the profile of dance as a creative, participative and physical artform. In support of this Scottish Government policy, Creative Scotland will invest £1.5 million across a four year period, creating an inclusive celebration of dance across Scotland, linking into the wider UK and marking Scotland’s place in the world.

Working with Scotland’s key dance organisations, Get Scotland Dancing will bring together professional and amateur dancers of all ages to dance in public spaces in our towns, villages and cities – bringing dance to the people and people to dance. We want to strengthen opportunities to participate in dance and create a lasting legacy for communities throughout Scotland.

To get involved and help Get Scotland Dancing please contact James Allenby, Project Manager james@getscotlanddancing.org

Music, Teachers

Nominations now open for the Music Teacher Awards for Excellence 2014

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Taking place on the evening of 7 February 2014 in the Barbican’s newly refurbished Garden Room & Conservatory, the Music Teacher Awards for Excellence 2014 will celebrate the work of those in the music education industry.

Held in conjunction with Music Education Expo 2013, the inaugural event presented 9 awards to very deserving individuals
and organisations. Presented by Classic FM’s Margherita Taylor, the evening was a wonderful tribute to the hard work and achievements of those in the music education industry.

Categories

There are 11 award categories this year as follows:

  • Best Musical Initiative
  • Best Print Resource, sponsored by Rhinegold Publishing
  • Best Digital/Technological Resource
  • Best School Music Department
  • Hub Innovation Award, sponsored by the Musicians’ Union
  • Lifetime Achievement Award, sponsored by Black Cat Music and MusicPracticeRooms.com
  • Music Teacher Magazine Editor’s Award
  • Most Innovative Retailer
  • Best SEN Resource (special educational needs)
  • Excellence in Primary/Early Years Music
  • Best Classical Music Education Initiative, sponsored by Classic FM

To find out more about the criteria for each category, please visit www.musiceducationexpo.co.uk/award-categories

The winner of the Best Classical Music Education Initiative (sponsored by Classic FM), will be decided by a public vote on classicfm.com from mid-November.

Nominations

Nominations for the other 10 award categories must come from you, and we need all of you to participate! You all know somebody, or an organisation, or indeed product, worthy of winning one of these prestigious awards, so please, get involved and support music education’s best and most deserving recipients. It’s free, simple, and you’ve got to enter to have a chance of winning.

Nominations close on 7 November 2013, and the finalists will be announced on 18 November 2013 via the Expo social network sites and in the December issue of Music Teacher magazine.

To make a nomination, please visit www.musiceducationexpo.co.uk/nominate, download an application form and send the completed form to music.teacher@rhinegold.co.uk. Anyone is eligible to make a nomination; you can even nominate yourself!

Creative Practitioners, Literacy, Older People, Parents, Teachers, Young People

Inspired? Get Writing! Creative Writing Competition 2013/2014

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http://www.nationalgalleries.org/education/competitions-3740/inspired-get-writing-creative-writing-competition-20132014

Enjoy writing but need that little bit of inspiration and a goal to get started?

Why not enter this year’s National Galleries Inspired? Get writing! competition? You can write in prose or poetry about anything that has inspired you from our permanent collection: drawings; paintings; prints; sculpture; photography; installation. There are five categories for school pupils and adults. Four volumes of Inspired? Get writing! have been published, featuring winners from previous years, so you can check out the standard. For full details download the rules. There is also a resource pack which you might find helpful.

There are 5 categories:

•           Under 12 years

•           12 – 14 years

•           15-18 years

•           Adults prose

•           Adults poetry

Entries should be submitted by Friday 17 January 2014.  Results of the competition will be announced by Thursday 17 April 2014.

Creative Practitioners, Events

AmbITion Scotland: Digital Horizons Consultation, 24 September

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Join AmbITion Scotland to help co-design the next phase of

digital development and organisational support

We want to help you make the most of the changing digital landscape and take advantage of the opportunities to develop programme content; public engagement and revenues.

In this rapidly changing world, we’re offering a fun half day to work collaboratively with you to identify the digital development support your organisation or practice needs to thrive.

This is your opportunity to make sure that the next phase of digital development support from AmbITion Scotland addresses the needs and opportunities you predict.  We are open to all ideas & interests.  You know best what you need and what’s on your horizon for the next few years. What do you want to learn? What are you hoping to do?  How can you learn better & more efficiently from each other?

time: 1.30 – 5pm, 24 September 2013

venue:  Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Empire Rooms

who should come: people from the arts, cultural and heritage sectors who are interested in building digital capacity, confidence, creativity and capability in their organisation or practice.

Job opportunities

Job opportunity: Creative Learning and Engagement Manager, Macrobert, Stirling

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This is a new post within macrobert during an exciting phase of its

development. Over the past 2 years the organisation has undergone

significant change with the appointment of a new Artistic and Leadership

team and a change in the organisations strategic development and arts

programme. Over the next 2 years we will be consolidating our successes,

while also driving forward new ambitious strategies linked to audience

development, creative learning and equalities.

This new role of Creative Learning and Engagement Manager seeks to

maximise the impact of macrobert’s work by connecting with existing

and new audiences, increasing participation in the arts and enhancing

macrobert and the University’s relationship through creative learning.

The role is also an important development for macrobert in realising its

ambition of being a learning and reflective organisation.

For a full job description & candidate pack please apply to Karen

Somerville, Macrobert, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA or

email jobs@macrobert.org<mailto:jobs@macrobert.org> Applications to be

received by Friday 27th September -12 noon.

Interviews will take place on Friday 4th October. Candidates should be

available on this date.

Alice McGrath

Director of Creative Development, Participation and Research

macrobert arts centre, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA

T +44(0)1786 46 7159

F +44(0)1786 46 6600

E: alice.mcgrath@macrobert.org

To browse our programme and book tickets please visit

www.macrobert.org<http://www.macrobert.org>

Artists, Dundee, Events

ArtWorks Scotland Conference 2013

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The ArtWorks Scotland Conference website is now live.

The ArtWorks team will continue to add information to the site as the programme develops, but in the meantime you can:

We look forward to seeing you there!

All the best

The ArtWorks Scotland Team

artworksscotlandconference.com

Art and Design, Young People

Pupils challenged to design a building for cancer charity

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http://www.dailywhat.org.uk/2013/06/pupils-challenged-to-design-a-building-for-cancer-charity.aspx

A leading charity is challenging school pupils to design a building to help treat people with cancer.  Maggie’s is known for its visually striking centres where people with cancer, and their families, can receive support.  The charity has now launched a nationwide architecture competition to inspire a new generation of architects.

East Dunbartonshire, Events, Parents

National Parent Forum of Scotland – Annual Conference on Health and Wellbeing

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The National Parent Forum of Scotland’s Annual Conference for parents/carers will be held on Saturday 5 October 2013 at Bishopbriggs Academy, East Dunbartonshire.

Theme: Health and Wellbeing – this includes everything that helps our children and young people to lead healthy, happy and fulfilling lives.

Keynote Speaker: The Scottish Government’s Minister for Children and Young People, Aileen Campbell MSP, will outline the Government’s plans for Scotland’s children and young people.

Register your interest with LindsayJane.Murray@educationscotland.gov.uk

East Dunbartonshire, Job opportunities

Arts Development Officer Post – East Dunbartonshire

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Arts Development Officer (Temporary)
Grade 7
Closing Date 11 June
An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and committed person to develop arts provision in East Dunbartonshire for a 12 month period.

As a member of the Cultural Development Team you will be responsible for the effective and efficient delivery of arts and events across East Dunbartonshire. You will be developing programmes which support and promote community arts participation. Partnership working is a key aspect of the role, and you will also be involved in supporting a range of key programmes for 2014, such as an inaugural John Muir Festival, and the Commonwealth Games

This post is temporary, until end of August 2014

Location: Trust HQ, William Patrick Library, Kirkintilloch

To discuss the post in more detail, please contact Frances MacArthur, Cultural Development Manager on 0141 777 3143.

For more information click on the following link:

Arts Development Officer Post, East Dunbartonshire