We are aiming to start the community arts
professional training programme in February to April 2010 with 4 introduction
days which (funding pending) will lead onto the full programme. The aim of the
programme is to support the development of community artists in Warwickshire.
As well as attending these days your commitment would also include
keeping a journal, completing a basic portfolio AND prepare to work with others
to deliver a community arts workshop (for your Open College Network
accreditation aiming at ) OCN Level 3. And being prepared and able to travel to
different venues around the county.
We also want eventually to create a
standard of practise that should you complete the full training (subject to
funding) will give you a 'stamp of approval' for working for Warwickshire County
Council.
You will be expected to sign a commitment agreement for
this introductory training the cost per person equates to around £350.00 per
person of council tax payers money so...your commitment to starting and
finishing the training is essential.
If you are genuinely interested in expressing your interest in
taking part in the Introductory programme AND WOULD IN PRINCIPLE BE COMMITTED TO
THE WHOLE PROGRAMME, at this stage please send me an email - confirming your
interest. If you represent and organisation please state how many places you
would be interested in.
and available: Wed 24 Feb Wed 12 March Wed 24 March In the Easter hols participants will need to undertake a
group practical Wed 21
April
This Event is aimed at Black Country Schools that are in the Creative Partnerships Programme- if you are interested and are not from the area, please enquire with Bhavna Patel about a paid place:
Bhavna.Patel2@wlv.ac.uk
Birmingham Libraries are delighted to host an evening with Mobo awarding
rapper Akala, local poet Maryam Khan Shafique and former Birmingham Young
Poet Laureate Matt Windle. The event is part of the national MyVoice
project (MyVoice: is a project supported by the Dept for Communities &
Local Government, Creativity, Culture & Education and The Reading Agency.
The project was set up in 8 areas nationally to give young people the
opportunity to work with professional writers, poets and librarians to
offer them a platform to express their opinions on global issues of our
time). The project has been encouraging young people to explore complex
global issues through writing and each of the beneficiaries have been
paired up with a writer mentor to develop their writing skills and a local
librarian to broaden their reading experiences and knowledge of what
libraries offer.
The Birmingham MyVoice beneficiary was Maryam Khan Shafique and she has
been working with performance poet Akala on a collection of poems based on
the theme of identity. As part of the project, the three poets will be
using performance poetry to explore the theme of identity and
discuss/debate just 'Who are we in this new decade'. The event will be a
fresh, creative, and exciting space where young people can contribute and
get involved in the discussion about who they are and who we are! For more
details please contact: Nikki Bi (nikki.bi@birmingham.gov.uk/0121 303
2895).
Who can attend: 400 School Coordinators, teachers and creative agents from Change Schools,
Enquiry Schools and Schools of Creativity in the
Creative Partnerships programme. Places are limited to two delegates per
school.
What's on offer: This exciting conference will include headline speakers, Ewan
McIntosh and Professor Anne Bamford, as well as a
series of teacher and practitioner led workshop sessions, sharing experience
and effective practice. Workshop themes will include the Digital age; Families
and Family Capital; Progression and Assessment; Young Voices; and Social
Cohesion and Social Capital.
Further workshop sessions will be facilitated by a select group
of highly respected academics and researchers, focusing on the latest research
and evaluation around creative learning from both within and beyond the
Creative Partnerships programmes. These include: Enquiry
Schools; Change Schools;
History of cultural policy; Career progression; Co-mentoring programme; Poetry
in Animation; Find Your Talent; and the Prevent programme.
Turves Green Girls’ School and TechnologyCollege,
Northfield,
Birmingham, B31 4BP
We are
looking for a lead multi talented performance based practitioner with skills to
work with a group of 15-20 girls from year 8 on a project called :
“Tell me
the story of Northfield”
We expect
you to collaboratively work with the group to research the local area and
create a musical or performance based
event based on the findings.
We hope to
perform our project at the Northfield Carnival in July 2010
We would
like to raise aspiration through the project and engender a sense of pride in
the area. We are also hoping to increase engagement in literacy through the project.
We would welcome
female practitioners to apply for this.
Dates &
times for the project:
3.2.
planning with lead teachers & a pupil planning group:
Times 9-12.50 £130
8.2. full
day workshop £230
Every
second Thursday starting 11.2 -1.7.2010 times:11.50-16.30:
9 sessions
@ £130 = £1170
7.6. Full
day workshop £230
4.7. Northfield Carnival
£ 230
Additional
Planning & reflection, 1.5days £345
Total
£ 2335
There might
be an opportunity to bring in additional practitioners to support the project
team with additional skills.
Interview: 27.1. 2010
Time: 13.30-15.30.
We would
like you to prepare a short activity of 15min for the interview group(about
10-15 girls). Lead teacher &
Creative Agent will also be at the interview.
If you are
not successful we will reimburse you £50 for attending the interview.
To apply
you need:
-a
CRB check not older than 18 months
-10million
public liability
Please send:
A
CV ( no more than 2pages)
a short statement/ proposal ( no more than 1
page)
the date of your CRB check
Application to: Iris Bertz, Creative
Agent ibertz@gmail.com
Deadline Friday 22.1. 2010 at 5pm
You will hear from me on Monday the 25.1. 2010
in the afternoon at the latest, if you have been shortlisted.
Please do not apply if
you do not have a recent CRB check or are not available on the key full days.
This
project is part of an “Enquiry” project supported by Creative Partnerships
Kiran Bir Sethi
shows how her groundbreaking Riverside School in India teaches kids
life's most valuable lesson: "I can." Watch her students take local
issues into their own hands, lead other young people, even educate
their parents.
Craftspace
are working with Juneau project, East London Craft Guerrilla, Shane Waltener,
Richard Leighton, Trevor Pitt and Carolyn Morton to deliver a drop in event at
the gallery at the Custard Factory for young people aged 16-19 on Saturday 23rd
January 2010.
We
would like to invite you to attend this Regional Action Workshop for the West
Midlands and the East Midlands which is being jointly run by the National
Children’s Bureau and Sustainability West Midlands. The event will take place
on 27 January 2010 at the SWM Offices, Millennium Point between 10 am and
2pm.
From
the event we hope you will gain;
·Greater understanding of children and young people’s concerns and views
about climate change and sustainable living, and opportunities to consider what
these mean for your work ·Knowledge of the national policy context on sustainable living, climate
change and children and young people ·Ideas and examples of good practice on how to involve young people in
decision making, including local planning and delivery, to help achieve a
sustainable future for communities ·Information on where to get further help and support on engaging
children and young people
The
event is suitable for anyone wanting to involve children and young people in
their work including planners, policy makers/leads and practitioners working in
statutory, third sector and government organisations at a local and regional
level.
Refreshments
and lunch will be provided.
For
more information and to book your place, please contact Liz Zachery at lzachery@ncb.org.uk or
call 0207 8436330.
Sustainability West Midlands is the sustainability
adviser for leaders of the West Midlands. We provide advice, develop solutions
with our members from the business, public and voluntary sectors, and share
success through our communications.
exploring musicality as an
expressive language in early childhood education
A seminar for
musicians and educators in early childhood education
Saturday February
13th 2010, 10 – 3.30
NewcastleUniversity
Boyle Lecture
Theatre, ArmstrongBuilding, Department of
Music
An exploration of music, listening,
meaning-making and creative pedagogy.
We aim
to enable young children to become competent, enthused and empowered to use
music as a way of expressing their ideas and communicating with one another.
This day will feature focussed project work,
principles and visions for early childhood practice and leading international
research into young children’s perceptions and musicality.We warmly invite musicians working in early
childhood education, early childhood educators, managers and policy-makers to a
thought-provoking and illuminating day. The seminar will also launch
Sightlines’ new Youth Music-supported two year project ‘Sound Sense’.
Speakers
Professor Colwyn Trevarthen, who has recently co-authored the
groundbreaking work ‘Communicative Musicality’ will explore the dynamics of
children’s perceptions, senses and learning;
Nancy Stewart, Senior National Advisor for The National
Strategy Team (Every Child a Talker) will explore educational practice supporting
children’s vibrant communication.
Robin Duckett of Sightlines Initiative will
describe the pedagogical approach which supports the co-constructed work of
educators and musicians in project work - ‘Developing Environments of Enquiry’.
Catherine Reding, Musician, and Catherine
Worton, Headteacher Trimdon
Grange Nursery & Infant School, Durham
will present‘The Sounds of Leaping’, a project from the Youth Music-funded Drama of Sound project, in which various early
childhood settings and musicians worked with children’s ideas, and explored
different ways of exploring musicality.
We look forward to your participation, Robin
Duckett & Chris Holmes
The
Sounds of Leaping
This
work, with explores the reflective practice of a group of educators involved in
a particular research focus, exploring children’s use of music and movement as
expressive languages. It shows the evolution of children and adults thinking
and experience, in the framework of a reflective cycle, and is an excellent
tool for educators developing their reflective pedagogy.
“As
educators, we wanted to develop our own competencies …we know that children are
eager and ready to express themselves in many ways but that the language of
musical expression can often be overlooked. As a team, we share in the belief
that children are sociable and capable and full of curiosity and imagination.
We want the school to be a place where the children can explore, develop and
share their ideas to the full.
• How do
children relate music and movement?
• What
music can come from thinking, stories and movement?
• How
could children create their own music using their movement ideas as a starting
point?”
(This
work is also presented on DVD available through Sightlines web bookshop. It
will also be available at reduced cost to participants on the day.)
Communicative Musicality
explores
the intrinsic musical nature of human interaction: it focuses on the rhythm and
sympathy of musical expression in human communication from infancy. It
demonstrates how speaking and moving in rhythmic musical ways is the essential
foundation for all forms of communication, even the most refined and
technically elaborated, just as it is for parenting, good teaching, creative
work in the arts, and therapy to help handicapped or emotionally distressed
persons.
Colwyn
Trevarthen is Professor (Emeritus) of Child Psychology and Psychobiology at the
University of Edinburgh, where he has taught since
1971. At Harvard in the 1960s, he began research on infant communication that
led to the discovery of the innate capacities for human intersubjective
communication. His work at Edinburgh
in the 1980s on the development of mother-infant interactions pioneered a
theory of cultural learning. His published work covers neuropsychology, brain
development, infant communication child learning, and emotional health and
methods of education and therapy. He is interested in the natural motives and
emotions children have for learning in companionship, and how parents and
teachers may best support needs of young children. Colwyn is currently
contributing his specialism in child development, music and dance, neuroscience
to the Perception-Movement-Action Research Centre, Edinburgh, in addition to
world-wide consultancy and in discussing Communicative Musicality.
The Early Years Foundation Stage (England)
Expects
educating settings to develop reflective practice, seeing children as leaders
in their own exploration and learning, recognising that educational practice is
at its best when children’s ideas and dispositions are seen supported and
developed
Sound
Sense: Project Approach and Ethos
We will
work with the children involved in Sound Sense by observing their interests and
fascinations, and developing these ideas in a musical way. The children's ideas
will shape what will take place: we are particularly interested in enabling
children to express and develop their own ideas using music as a 'language of
expression'. Educators and musician–colleagues, supported by Sightlines
mentors, will work together to build new opportunities for the children’s
enquiries and expression.
Drama of Sound – Communicative
Musicality
Seminar, Saturday 13th February 2010
Application Form
(It is free to music leaders of pre-registered N.E.
Schools Music Services – enquire of your Music Service to see if they have
registered for ongoing CPD participation.)
Step 3: Print, sign, date and
send form to Margaret
Harding. (Please note we require a signed copy of the form
before we can process your application)
Please type in all required
fields marked by an *, and save a copy on your computer.
Personal Information
Title* Forename* Surname* Job Title* Other
Address
Address *
City / Town* County* Postcode* Please type and then confirm your
email address carefully as it will be used for correspondence. Email* Confirm Email* Telephone* Fax
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Procedures and Terms
·Your application will be processed
when we receive your signed form.
·Closing date for signed
application forms is 10th February 2010. Late applicants should contact
Sightlines Initiative directly to enquire of places.
Please
print and sign a copy of your completed application form and send/fax as soon as possible, and by 10th
February 2010 to:
Margaret Harding ,Sightlines Initiative, 20 Great North Road, Newcastle upon
Tyne, NE2 4PS
Fax 0191 230 5556
Please also email a copy of this
form to margaret@sightlines-initiative.com
The West Midlands
Centre for Advanced Training (CAT) is based at DanceXchange, Birmingham. The CAT course is
part of the national Music and Dance Scheme, and is designed for young people
between 11 and 16 who have passion, creativity, commitment, talent or potential
in Dance, but need support to pursue their desire and ambition. DanceXchange, in
partnership with sampad South Asian Arts, run the CAT course and offer high
quality training in Contemporary dance, and the South Asian dance styles of
Kathak and Bharatanatyam.
As part of the
Outreach Programme, the West Midlands CAT is offering free dance workshops to specialist schools,
youth groups and dance schools in the West
Midlands region. This will
involve a half-day taster workshop in the three dance styles (Contemporary,
Kathak & Bharatanatyam) that the West Midlands CAT offers. These workshops
are fully funded by the DCSF and are offered on a first come, first served
basis. The workshop will look to boost awareness and understanding of the CAT
course, and encourage gifted and talented students to audition for the 2010
programme.
To book a free dance
workshop, please contact Anita Srivastava, Project Manager (Outreach): anita@newdimensions-arts.com
YDE Stride! is an
annual leadership and development programme aimed at young people wishing to
explore the many career opportunities available within the dance sector. YDE
Stride! offers a rare opportunity to participate in an action-packed
residential, devise projects with skilled and professional guidance, and develop
experience and knowledge of the dance sector through a work placement and
support of a mentor, all of which aim to help participants get a head start with
their career in dance.
YDE Stride! is a
national programme delivered at a regional level by YDE Stride! 'hosts' who have
all planned various exciting activities, workshops and training sessions for the
YDE Stride! 2010 participants. Three hosts have been selected to deliver
the YDE Stride! 2010 programme: Dance4, Dance South West, and East London Dance
with Sadler's Wells.
YDE Stride! is for
young people aged between 14 and 19 years old*, with an entrepreneurial spirit
and creative problem-solving skills.
Applicants may or may
not have already participated in a YDE performance programme, but should be
seeking to extend their understanding and experiences of the dance profession
and be curious to find out what options they have for a future career in
dance.
To find out more, and
download an application form go to the YDE website: www.yde.org.uk
