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Creative Conversations, Edinburgh – 29 October

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The first of Edinburgh CLN’s 2012/13 Creative Conversations is on Monday 29th October at 4 for 4.30 till 5.30 with wine and canapes afterwards (venue to follow with confirmation of attendance) with Frank Crawford as this year’s first Creative Catalyst.

Frank is a former Chief Inspector (HMIe), forward thinker, innovator and enthusiastic biker. He has been centrally involved in the development of Scottish education and remains at the forefront of thinking. Frank will take a creative approach, sketching out ideas about meeting the demands of external evaluation, handling inspections, what self evaluation should really be and how we need to think about change and innovation. Frank is in great demand internationally so this is a great chance to catch up with him in Edinburgh.

As with all previous Creative Conversations, David Cameron will facilitate the discussion and you are invited to continue the conversations afterwards with Frank, David and colleagues over wine and canapes!

This will be a popular Creative Conversation – please get back to Linda Lees directly if you would like to attend. She will send full venue details and confirmation of your place.

Email: linda.lees@edinburgh.gov.uk

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TESS features Creativity

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Creativity is the central theme running through September’s edition of TESS. Click on the following titles to view each article:

‘Creative sparks can fire up the curriculum’

Editor Gillian MacDonald highlights projects which are stimulating the imagination and encouraging new thinking in schools and local authorities.

Joan Parr

Joan Parr, portfolio manager for education, learning and young people, Creative Scotland is featured, talking about the national drive for creativity across learning.

‘Step Forth into the Creativity Portal’

The new-look Creativity Portal is reviewed, including an overview of its new features and feedback from teachers using the site.

‘Away with the Fairies’

Project Dream, is a collaboration between City of Edinburgh’s Arts and Learning Team, the Lyceum Theatre and Edinburgh schools in which teachers and pupils are coming off timetable to immerse themselves in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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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.

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Creativity in the Classroom films on the Creativity Portal

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Visit the Creativity Portal to view 13 examples of how teachers and community learning staff have used creative teaching in the classroom and community setting to deliver Curriculum for Excellence. From games design to storytelling, whole school strategy to pizza boxes these are small moments of creative inspiration that can be used to inform practitioners’ own work.  They provide CPD in how to take the challenges that Curriculum for Excellence poses and run with them.  The Creativity in the Classroom films are available now on the Creativity Portal.

http://creativityportal.org.uk/?q=creativity+in+the+classroom&c=%2Cvideos

Glasgow, Young People

Pilot project seeks young designers & journalists

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The Matter is a new programme which is aiming to help young people develop skills for work whilst telling the world what they think about important issues.

The project is seeking young people aged 16-24 who live in and around Glasgow, to take part in a pilot which will inform the development of a national programme.

Young people taking part will be designing and writing for a newspaper, raising awareness of issues that are important to them, and helping to change the world!

For further information on how to take part, download TheMatter-Jointhepilot!

Aberdeenshire, Creative Practitioners

Freelance Opportunity – WW1 Schools Resource

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Aberdeenshire Council supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund is seeking a freelance creative practitioner to develop a resource for schools in the field of heritage/arts/education. Submissions are invited by 1 October 2012.

Download the following documents for further information:

Final Cover Sheet (what the work is and how to apply)

Final FAQs

Illuminating Practice – evaluation format example

Final ITQ

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SLF presentations available on Glow TV

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A number of presentations taking place at this year’s Scottish Learning Festival are available on Glow TV, including Mike Russell’s keynote address on how practitioners are developing their creative teaching and learning as well as nurturing creative skills in learners.

You can log on to view presentations on creative approaches being used within a whole range of curriculum subjects and areas including maths, science and health and wellbeing.

For full details of these and other events 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).

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Moray CLN launches Artist Mentoring Programme 2012-13

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On Thursday 20 September, Moray  Creative Learning Network is launching its second Artist Mentoring Programme, a tailor made programme of training and support to help art school graduates based in Moray to kick start their careers in the creative learning sector.

The programme is facilitated by  Moray Art Centre and mentoring is provided by CLN members – artists, teachers and creative learning practitioners.

To find out more about the programme, visit Moray Art Centre’s website or download this document: MCLN Artist Mentoring Programme

Vist Moray CLN’s blog here: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/my/CreativeLearning/

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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.