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Youth Arts Training and Workshops

Creative Scotland’s Youth Arts Training and Workshops are aiming to  support practitioners and organisations build up their skills and knowledge during the Covid-19 recovery period.  The sessions are funded by the Scottish Government’s Youth Arts Fund through with support from Youth Music Initiative and Time to Shine 

 Details and bookings for all the  courses can be found on Eventbrite Youth Arts Fund page.

 

Children in Scotland

Creating Inclusive Settings: Engaging Neurodivergent Young People   – 17 August

Creating Safety: Child Protection Awareness in the Youth Arts Sector – 8 September

Communicating with Children Who Have Experienced Trauma – 28 September

 

Youth Theatre Arts Scotland 

An introductory Evaluation 101 session on 25 August in partnership with Evaluation Support Scotland

A follow-up Evaluation Toolkit course in late September.

Y Dance

Monitoring and Evaluation  23 September 2021 Delivered by Catch the Light

Young People and Arts in Criminal Justice   1 October 2021 , delivered by Glass Performance and YDance

Engaging Youth Voice in Community Projects and Organisations
2 November 2021, delivered by Upstart Projects

Working with Young People with Emotional or Behavioural Needs
25 November 2021, delivered by HL Hall Ltd

Mental Health: Supporting Others
1 December 2021, delivered by SAMH

 Engage Scotland

Two Environmental sustainability sessions this September in partnership with Creative Carbon Scotland. 

Two anti-racism coursesthis September / October in partnership with Intercultural Youth Scotland.

 Imaginate

An anti-racist course this September / October in partnership with Intercultural Youth Scotland.  

 

 

 

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YMI Funding Opportunities

 

Creative Scotland have announced two new funding streams under the YMI programme , Access to Music Making and Access to Music Making.

The funds are open to all arts organisations and music educationalists and including tutors and freelancers.  The funds are not open for applications from schools, PTAs or local authorities

Access to Music Making

The purpose of the fund is to create access to high quality, music-making opportunities for children and young people aged 0-25 years. The fund is now open for applications. and is offering  grants between £1-30k for up to 1 year of activity. Creative Scotland will be running a funding support session on 11 August to support potential applicants with the new online application process.

https://www.creativescotland.com/funding/funding-programmes/targeted-funding/youth-music-initiative/access-to-music-making

Strengthening Youth Music 

The fund is also open for applications. The purpose of the fund is to improve the youth music sector infrastructure and services on offer for the benefit of children and young people. The fund is also open for applications and supports grants between £1-20k for up to 1 year of activity. Creative Scotland will be running a funding support session on 11 August to support potential applications with the new online process

https://www.creativescotland.com/funding/funding-programmes/targeted-funding/youth-music-initiative/strengthening-youth-music

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Small Grants Fund award

Small Grants Fund

The Creative Learning Network, which sits within the Education department has been successful in their application to deliver the Small Grants Fund on behalf of Creative Scotland. The £50,000 programme will support local musicians and artists to lead activities in music, visual art or moving image. The projects will take place in our schools and youth groups during 2021, with a focus on young people who often miss out on creative activities.

Working in partnership with YouthBorders and supporting local community priorities, the programme will fund around 10 projects across our 5 locality areas.

The Creative Learning Officer  stated that ‘The fund will  our young people to create and be creative; through a hands-on, practical approach, that reinforces confidence and develops their own voice through the arts and music. We hope the workshops will also encourage the young people to keep up their creative activity beyond the life of the projects, supporting positive wellbeing’

SBC is the only organisation in the south of Scotland to have secured this programme. We will promote the fund early in the New Year and work with YouthBorders to assess which projects to support. The programme will complement work delivered under the Education department’s Youth Music Initiative and YouthBorders YouthWork Recovery projects.

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Borders Youth Music Forum

The Borders Youth Music Forum has been going for a number a years under the project name SoundCycle. Funding and lockdown temporarily halted things for but we held a digital meeting this week via MS Teams to get the forum going again.

 

A good cross section of people attended representing music tutors and  providers, venues, music organisations and brass bands.

 

 

We had input from Kelsey Jubin,  Creative Learning Officer(YMI) at Creative Scotland, who talked to us about current funding opportunities. In summary the funds were the;

  • Targeted Fund for 20 key national organisations
  • Small Grants Fund for artist led activities, opening in January 2021
  • Youth Arts Access fund for individuals and organisations, with a deadline on the 12th of November.

Kelsey also highlighted the Nurturing Talent Fund overseen by Young Scot and a new Hardship Fund opening on the 26th of October. This was open to musicians, craft makers and visual artists and Kelsey suggested visiting  the Help Musicians website for more details.       https://www.helpmusicians.org.uk/

See this post for more details about  these funds.

 

Mae Murray from MEPG (Music Education Partnership Group),  talked  about its priorities and the new activities it was undertaking. Its primary roles were to be an advocate for music education, increase opportunities and reduce inequalities, bring together music educators and relevant organisations and to support the sector through training and advice.

Mae highlighted a new report, to be released shortly, about the levels of aerosol release from singing and instrument playing. MEPG also runs a very active youth Forum which is led by the young people.

During lockdown MEPG ran several digital projects including Doorstep Samba, Over the Rainbow, and the Hey Jude, Sunday sessions. Mae then introduced the training sessions that MEPG are going to be delivering over the next few months and details of these will be sent out in a further email. They are all available through Eventbrite and on the new MEPG website www.wemakemusicscotland.org.

Thanks for everyone’s input and we will keep you posted about the next meeting.

 

 

 

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Creative Scotland funding Opportunities

There are a number of funding opportunities currently available from  Creative Scotland.

Youth Arts Funding

  • The Youth Arts Access Fund is open to individuals and organisations for grants of £5-£30k.  It is set up to support for music making and wider youth arts projects with young people, especially vulnerable young people/young people who have been more adversely impact by Covid-19. The deadline 12th November.

 

  • The Youth Arts Small Grants Scheme will be open in January for applications to deliver artist led activities in schools and the community. It gives out grants of between £500 to £5000  with the activities delivered between March 2021 and March 2022.

 

  • The Nurturing Talent Fund is for young people (aged 11-25) to apply to directly, with £50 – £1000 available. The next deadline is 6th December. You can read about some past recipients on the CS website here.

 

  • The Open Project Fund  is open for organisations and individuals in the arts and culture sector; £1k – £100k; open all year round; The fund aims to enable individuals and organisations to explore ways of working that will help them to adapt and respond to the current changing circumstances.

 

 

To keep up to date with funding news sign up to the Creative Scotland newsletter.

 

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Hawick Common Riding 


 

A number of years ago the YMI team supported the production of a CD with
pupils from the five of the schools singing the well know songs. Working alongside musicians Alan Brydon and Darren Johnstone the pupils recorded some of the well know Common Riding songs. In addition to these recording of the pupils singing, song sheets, graphics and some videos where created during this summer project. 
We have reproduced all the recordings, videos, songsheets and music made during the project.
We have added an animated videos recordings by Burnfoot Primary School below and you can find all the others on our YMI YouTube Channel.

Audio Tracks

Listen to some of the recordings that were made during the project.

  • The Bonnie BannerBlue – St. Margaret’s, Trinity, Burnfoot and Stirches with Alan Brydon
  • The boy wi’ the flag – Burnfoot Primary with Darren Johnstone
  • The Mosstrooper’s Song – Stirches Primary with Alan Brydon
  • Up wi’ the Banner – Trinity Primary
  • And We Ride – Wilton Primary

Songsheets 

Below are three of the song sheets to download and you can access them all on our resource page. 

Addtional Resources 

For teachers and school staff with access to Glow the files are all accessible in our YMI Making Music Team.
If you have any questions get in touch. 
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Music for Enhanced Provision Units

Introduction

The YMI team have worked with pupils in our Enhanced Provision units for many years, as part of the Borders Youth Music Initiative funded programme. Since the lockdown the tutors have been producing video recordings of themselves singing and playing some of the pupils favourites songs.

We have added all of them to our GLOW Making Music Team for teachers to download and play at the hubs.  We have also also put them onto our YMI Borders YouTube channel.

Videos 

We have posted here a few of the videos Mr Lowthian and Mr Jacobs have made. To see lots more ask the teachers to share the videos from our Making Music Team on Glow or if you want to watch at home head over to our Playlist on the YMI YouTube Channel. The link is at the bottom of this post.

Words

We have song sheets that can be printed off for most of the songs.

To view the words online just click on the link. To download the files right click on the links and then select either:

  • Save Target As’ (PC)
  • ‘Download Linked File’ (Mac

Hello Song

There Was An Old Woman

You can download the words for all the songs in our posts on the following Learning Resource page.

Links

This the link to the Enhanced Provision Playlist so you can watch more at home.

You can subscribe to our YMI Borders YouTube Channel where we have playlists and learning videos from all the tutors.

For teachers and support staff you can access our GLOW Making Music resource pages. If you are not already member of the Team you can request access.

 

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Keyboard for Beginners

 

Introduction

YMI Tutor Mr Lowthian has been teaching the keyboard to beginners in classes at P6 and P7. He has made a series of videos and music sheets to help you learn the songs and exercises.

The song sheets can printed onto A4 sheets of paper and placed on top of the key or between the keys and keyboard controls,  giving a clear visual crib as how to play. Some of the sheets use just one hand and others both. They have been used with electronic keyboards in the classes but also work on a piano if you have one at home.

 

 

There are lots of songs to choose from. You can practice your scales and as you learn some of sheets are written with full notation.

Learning Resources

Open the pages below to see some more videos and download the song sheets

 Pop and Scottish songs

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scales and exercises

Christmas Songs

 

Do you want to learn your favourite song?

Mr Lowthian has made lots of tunes for you to try but if you have a special requests he might be able to make that song for you… if you ask him nicely.

Contact us here or ask your teacher .

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Creative Scotland Bridging Bursary Fund

On Friday 27 March Creative Scotland launched THREE new funds; a Bridging Bursary Fund for individuals in immediate need which is simple and non-competitive, Screen Scotland Bridging Bursary Fund, and a repurposed Open Project Fund: Sustaining Creative Development.

“Our aim is that these changes will enable individuals and organisations to sustain their creative work and practice in these extremely challenging times.”

The new COVID-19 Impact Funds

The Creative Scotland Bridging Bursary Fund will provide financial support for individual creative practitioners and/or freelancers who are most deeply impacted and disadvantaged by the cancellation of work due to the COVID-19 emergency to sustain their creative practice in Scotland.

The £2 million fund will offer one-off bursary payments of between £500 and £2,500 to help support the immediate needs. Applications to this fund opened on Monday 30 March.

A £1.5million Screen Scotland Bridging Bursary programme will provide one-off bursaries of £500 to £2,500 to freelance PAYE and self-employed screen sector workers who are experiencing immediate financial difficulty due to loss of income as a result of the Covid-19. Applications to this fund opened on Monday 30 March.

The Open Funding: Sustaining Creative Development (a revised approach to the organisation’s Open Project Fund) will support individuals and organisations to continue to develop work in the coming months. Applicants will be encouraged to use funding to explore how best to sustain their practice, and reimagine their work, during the current climate and in the months to come. Funds may also be used for the development and presentation of work. The £7.5m fund will support up to 12 months of activity with a maximum award of £50,000. Applications to the fund will open on Friday 3 April.

Visit the website for all the details: http://www.creativescotland.com/covid-funds

For any queries, contact: enquiries@creativescotland.com

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