“The
Black Swans programme is a great way to get a much better insight into creative
teaching and creative partnership working.” 2009-10 Participant.
A
paid professional learning programme for new creative practitioners wanting to
work in education.
Due
to the success of the 09-10 Black Swans programme, Black Country Creative
Partnerships and Creative Alliance are running the programme again.
The
programme offers a paid training opportunity for people who would like to work
in education as a creative practitioner.
Practitioners
may be chefs, mathematicians, poets, visual artists, drama workers,
technicians: in fact anyone who wants to
share their unique practice with children and young people, and their teachers
and families.
At
one time everyone in Britain
thought swans were always white until someone went to Australia and
brought back a black one! Are you
someone who can help children and educators explore those possibilities and
question the obvious; make improbable connections and stretch imaginations?
Well
if you are, then the Black Swans professional learning programme could be just
what you need to develop the knowledge and skills to work within education.
As part of the Black Swans professional
learning programme you will receive:
•10
days work in a Creative Partnerships school to devise, develop and deliver a
project in line with the school’s enquiry question and an all inclusive fee of
£1000 to do this.*
•Five
days professional learning programme made of seminars, workshops and action learning sets led by experts in creative
learning.
•Mentoring
by some of the best creative practitioners and agents.
•The
opportunity to contribute to a promotional catalogue.
*The
enquiry question is the purpose for why a school is undertaking a Creative Partnerships programme
Here’s
what people on last years programme said:
“The
Black Swan's Programme has given me the confidence to… literally let children
go, give them a chance to discover things for themselves, decide when it is
appropriate to teach and when it is best to step back and facilitate learning.”
“My
Black Swan experience has clarified for me how I can adapt my practice to
ensure that the individual needs of each pupil / school are met.”
To apply
please send electronically:
•A
C.V. of no more than 2 sides of A4
•A
letter of no more than 2 sides of A4 outlining why you want to work in
education,
what
you can offer, and any experience you may have.
Please
do not exceed the 500 word limit and only electronically submitted application
will be considered. Please make sure the
CV and letter are in one attachment. If
you want to send images of your work one additional page of digital images can
be included in the attachment. Hard copies or multiple attachments with an
electronic application will be discounted.
To: Vicky Goodwin at Creative Alliance
Email:
vicky@creativealliance.org.uk
Deadline:
10.00am Monday 4th October
Interviews
will be held from Wednesday 6th October at Creative Alliance’s offices at The
Custard Factory, Gibb Street,
Birmingham, B9 4AA.
The
dates for all the seminar sessions are to be confirmed but we will start with a
whole day induction on Saturday 23rd October at Creative Alliance’s training
room at The Custard Factory.
At
this day you will have the opportunity to find out about the schools
participating in the scheme and to indicate the type of school you might like
to work in: nursery, junior, special needs or secondary and whether in a rural
or urban location. There are 10 schools participating in the scheme and
individual preferences cannot be guaranteed.
You
will need to have or willing to get an enhanced CRB.
The
dates of the work in schools will be arranged to suit individual practitioners/
schools.
After
the initial induction day, you will be informed of the dates of the rest of the
programmed across the autumn and spring terms.
This will include at least one other Saturday and evenings.
For
further information about the programmed please contact Noel Dunne
We have recently
become a Creative
Partnerships Enquiry
School, and as part of
that we are looking for a practitioner who is passionate about making literacy
exciting for young people.We are
looking for a practitioner who will inspire our children and staff with new
approaches to make our pupils read & write. We would also like to work with
our parents to support our children’s reading.
The staff at Edgar Stammers are committed to giving the
children the best education we possibly can. Through creativity and imagination
we can give them opportunities they would never experience through their every
day lives .We are all keen to participate in this project and the staff want to
learn alongside the children .
Our enquiry questions is:
How as a whole school
community can we develop our children's writing skills through original ideas
and actions which will impact on the standards of all pupils?
We are planning for the practitioner to work with a year 2
& year 4 class (separately), we have planned about 12 days contact time
over the school year. We are also hoping to run some CPD sessions for our
staff.
The project is to start after half-term and we are planning
a launch event in June 2011.
We would welcome to plan the details of contact time and
frequency in close collaboration with our Creative Agent & Lead Teachers.
We are looking for
an inspirational and dedicated practitioner who will help us develop the project.
We are hoping to learn strategies for our teaching and learning in how to
engage all our pupils better. We have left the brief deliberately open, so the
practitioner can form the project with the pupils and staff.
The project budget is up to £3,000 for practitioner fee (includes travel) with
a an additional small budget for materials and the launch.
We are not fixed on the practice of our practitioner but
would like you to inspire us with new ideas how we can make literacy enjoyable
& exciting.
So please surprise
us……is it printmaking, cooking, filmmaking, poetry, knitting, ceramics, drama
etc., or something we cannot even imagine-
surprise & excite
us with your ideas…….we are looking forward to hearing from you.
Here the details how to apply:
We are looking for
an exceptional creative practitioner who has:
-An
enhanced CRB disclosure (less than two years old)
- You will
need public Liability up to 5million
- An understanding of or an interest in how young people
learn
- A commitment to genuine collaboration
- An ability to reflect and communicate
- A willingness to learn and share skills
If you are interested please send us:
- A short
statement, explaining why you want to work with us (no more than one page),
please state clearly any technical requirements you will have.
-CV (no
more than two pages)
- Two
references
- Date of
your CRB check
-a link to
examples work or 6 images ( if applicable)
If you need
to send a DVD please get in touch.
Please send all documents in the old word
format or PDF, no docx please.
Selection:
For the
interview we will ask you to prepare a 30min activity to demonstrate your
approach to collaborative working, this will be followed by questions from
students & staff. We will pay an interview reimbursement fee of £50 to the
unsuccessful candidates.
Deadline: 13. October 2010 5pm
Interview date: 22. October 2010
If you
cannot attend the interview date please get in touch.
All
applications to be emailed to Iris Bertz, Creative Agent: ibertz@gmail.com
Grove Community Project, a small
independent nursery (for children aged 2-4) in Handsworth, Birmingham has just been
awarded a grant from Youth Music for a year-long early years music project. As
well as employing me as their Music Leader for 20 days they are also looking for
someone to work with me on a more regular basis at the nursery for 40 days
across this academic year. The person that we had in mind now has other work and
is unable to do it. At very short notice we are looking for someone to take up
this exciting opportunity.
My role will be to deliver CPD,
deliver some practical activity (both at Grove and the nearby nursery class of
James Watt Primary School), support the relationships between the music leader
and nominated early years practitioner, mentor the musician, support reflective
practice and documentation, and look at music provision across the
nursery.
We are looking for a musician who
would deliver the weekly practical activity at the nursery. It would suit a
musician who is open to child- initiated/adult responsive ways of working and
who maybe has some experience of this. It would suit someone who has experienece
of early years music but is maybe looking to build a longer-term relationship
with a setting and develop their practice. It would be extremely helpful if they
had Mondays or Tuesdays free. The fee is £175 per
day.
The project is managed by Sarah Wood
who is project manager for Grove Community Project.
Please send this to anyone you think
might be interested. If they are interested they should get in touch with me by
email in the first instance sending a CV or biog and a covering letter stating
why they would be interested in being part of the project. I'm also very happy
to for people to call me on my mobile 07786 736 861 if they want to know more
about the project
Apologies for the very short
notice - we would like to start as soon as possible and therefore ask that if
people are interested to get in touch asap.
I am looking for an artist
(any arts form) who has been developing their community arts practise over the
last year or two and has been successful and become experienced in running
one-off workshops, small-scale projects (maybe for other arts organisations),
experiencing in planning projects and fund-raising would be fantastic too - but
not essential.
The artist needs to consider
that they have some interesting insight in the value of networking and
developing links with arts/non arts organisations to help them start to forge
their career in this area of arts practise.
Must be available:
EVENT ONE
Date: 28th September 2010 Venue: Rugby Time: 4.30pm- 6.30pm
please forward to people that
you think may be interested.
Best wishes
Cathryn
Cathryn Ravenhall
Community Arts Officer
County Arts Service
Environment and Economy Directorate
Warwickshire County Council
Phone: 01926 412355
Fax: 01926 412641
e-mail: cathrynravenhall@warwickshire.gov.uk
Coming up ...
'KREATIVE KOLLECTIV'
An international arts exhibition celebrating the work of artists with learning
difficulties in Warwickshire and Stetten,
Germany
1st - 30th September 2010
Inhabit is
part of the Empty Spaces
initiative. It’s a programme of activity
part funded by DCLG to re-invigorate local high streets and raise community
confidence in local spaces. It aims to support local areas during the economic
downturn, reviving shopping centres by transforming vacant spaces into vibrant
places. As a result of further funding
from Arts Council England, we are able to offer further commissions.
Our approach
is to provide a pleasant place for people to meet, have a cup of tea, enjoy
taking part in creative workshops or simply talk and share stories about what
the local high street used to be like and how it could be in the future. The
activities will take place throughout 2010 and across Birmingham in Erdington,
Hodge Hill, Ladywood, Perry Barr and bringing everything together at the
Pavilions in the city centre.
Artists
Commissions
As part of Inhabit there are a small number of
artist’s commissions available. We have transformed
the first empty shop at 173 Hagley Road, Ladywood, into a local tearoom. Tea has shaped England’s national identity,
but was first brought to the country from India and China. Newer communities have very different
relationships to tea, and to the manner and space in which it is, and isn’t,
drunk. We believe that this provides us
with a route to draw individuals and communities out of their houses and into
the local tearoom. The tearooms
recognise this curiously English tradition but also its global roots.
The
commissions should therefore pick upon but not be constrained by the notion of
transforming space, community engagement and participatory led activity. At the core of the work should be a strong
concept but one that is easily communicated to those unfamiliar with the arts
sector and who may not have engaged with the arts in any depth. We expect artists to be committed to and
interested in how the arts can work as a catalyst towards social and community
development.
All artists
commissioned must regularly contribute to Hybrid’s forum/ blog on this
subject.
Artists will
be required to work across two shops, or for the inter-disciplinary commission
collate materials from all shops, with the final display taking place in the
city centre shop at the Pavilions.
Each of the
commissions (apart from the Open Brief commissions) has a budget attached to
enable ‘Mentoring Connections’. We will
therefore work with you to identify routes for development to explore how you
can further your professional and creative development.
The
commissions:
Promenade
(Fee £7,
500 to include all expenses, Up to £1, 000 mentoring connection)
Taking each
empty High Street space as a starting point, we wish to commission a promenade
performance that propels participants through the history and culture of the
local High Street. This could involve
using drama, theatre or audience engaged in exploration to see more of the High
Street. This may include other shops,
local buildings such as places of worship, public art in the vicinity as well
as activities and work in our Inhabit unit.
We want to surprise the participants, make them stop and think and in
essence encourage them to revisit the High Street after we have gone. Ideally this promenade would be aimed at a
mix of age ranges, we don’t want to exclude people who haven’t previously
engaged in promenade style work, the work must be accessible and consider how
to draw people on a learning journey – both about art and their local High
Street.
We are
interested in talking to artists who are excited at the possibilities that this
commission presents. We would seek to
have a promenade performance in at least two High Streets, with the potential
of applying the promenade to other areas.
This may mean having a template that is then adapted to each area. To complement the promenade we would like a
‘trail’ created that could be taken by families on their own (similar to those
created by heritage sites or museums) as those who are able to access the performed
promenade are likely to be limited in number.
Word
based
(Fee £5,
000 to include all expenses, up to £1, 000 mentoring connection)
We are
interested in exploring the possibility of drawing upon words/ text in the
spaces. We are including within this text/
language/ literature/ spoken word/ calligraphy/ typography. This commission needs to incorporate
community/ participant involvement. We
would like to add to the atmosphere of the tearooms, and develop its theme by
exploring the possibility of a commission that considers the written and spoken
word. The thinking behind this
commission are the conversations that were and are held in tearooms, what are
the topics of conversation today, what themes could or should be
encouraged?
We are interested
in hearing from performers/ writers/ visual artists who have created
contemporary work and have an interest in developing their practice in new
ways, keeping word/ text at the heart and working across languages. If you work in one area, you may wish to collaborate
with another artist to deliver this element.
Reminiscence/
Film / Animation/ Drama
(Fee £7,
500 to include all expenses, up to £1, 000 mentoring connection)
We are looking
for an artist, partnership, collaboration or group to deliver an inter-disciplinary
arts commission. The commission will
pick upon local residents’ stories and produce an audience experience that
draws together stories (could be verbatim), images, sound and music that
produces considerable texture. The work
may take inspiration from the stories that are collected within the programme,
producing new work, or it may be verbatim.
The work produced should connect with the overall theme and consider
past, present and future in its content.
There should
be a strong digital media presence, with at least some of the work web based,
for example through work in progress on youtube. The final work should also be uploaded onto
vimeo or similar.
We would
expect the chosen artist to engage with participants, residents and audiences
in all four wards but for the final work to be shown in the city centre. The commissioned artist will be responsible
for installation and technical maintenance as well as all technical/ production
needs.
Open
Brief
For the Open
Brief, we are open to and interested in new ideas and art forms, particularly
those that are not covered elsewhere in the artists’ commissions. We are especially interested in arts forms or
ways of engaging that are accessible to communities and individuals who haven’t
previously engaged with the arts.
There are no
guidelines for this commission beyond the information that is available in the
programme overview. This is deliberately
open as we wish to encourage artist’s own thinking and ideas on
engagement. We do, however, expect the
ideas to tie in with the overall vision of the programme and to have a strong
sense of how the work will engage audiences and inspire interaction. We are looking for artists who can engage
with the space to profile their own arts practice and alongside this, deliver a
few participatory sessions.
The
commissions provide a small number of artist’s opportunities to:
·Display/ produce work
·Hold performances
·Run participatory workshops
·Drop in sessions
·Demonstrations
·Show or develop work in progress
·Use the space for meetings
At the core of
your work should be a clear concept but one that is easily communicated to
those unfamiliar with the arts sector.
We expect artists to be committed to and interested in how the arts can
work as a catalyst towards social and community development. We are especially
interested in arts forms or ways of engaging that are accessible to communities
and individuals who haven’t previously engaged with the arts.
The fee for
these commissions is between £500 and £1500, however, you will need to be
responsible for:
·Transport
·Insurance
·Technical Needs
We will
be accepting applications for this element through till February 2011.
However,
the longer you leave it, the greater the competition is likely to be
How to apply
Please send us
the following information:
·An outline of how you would respond to Inhabit (max 500 words)
·A loose budget
·An up to date CV
·Images/ CD featuring your work
·How you would recruit and engage local residents (max 500
words)
·How much time you would spend working in the tearoom (max
200 words)
BY 5pm, MONDAY
20th SEPTEMBER
Feel free to ask
questions first.
We may have an open day
for artists, please let us know if this would be of interest to you.
We all love
Nuneaton & Bedworth - what sites do you love?
Significance -
Rare - Good looking - Well made - Something happened - Group
We want to prove
that there are good things about Nuneaton & Bedworth and help people appreciate
what we have and to see things in a new light. We also believe that we
shouldn't wait until something is gone or has been knocked down before we make
a fuss of it.
You are
invited to attend the launch of our celebratory exhibition at Nuneaton Museum
& Art Gallery, Riversley Park, Nuneaton. Come along to nominate and
celebrate the places important to you.
5pm - 7pm Friday 3rd September 2010 VIP Launch from 5pm, Speeches at 6pm - All Welcome! Celebratory Refreshments will be available
Our exhibition is open to the public 4th September - 24th
October 2010 at the following times: Tuesday - Saturday 10.30am - 4.30pm
Sunday 2.00pm - 4.30pm
Building Sights
is a Mercurial Arts Project, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund's Young Roots
Programme
and supported by Warwickshire County Council, Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery
and Abbeygate Shopping Centre
