CCS trip to the DCA June 26th
May 28, 2012
Creative Cultures Scotland are planning to run some busses to galleries & events “out with” Aberdeen & Shire as a service to help practitioners access a wider context to cultural provision.
We’d like to offer you an opportunity to join us in a pilot trip to the DCA (Dundee Contemporary Arts) to view their next exhibition (“Infinite Jest”). We have a limited number of seats (32) and we are offering a seat at a subsidised rate of £10. If you are interested, we will operate on a first come first served basis – where payment must be received 1 week before the trip (no refunds). More details will be sent if you are interested.
We plan to leave Aberdeen at 10am from outside the Aberdeen Art Gallery, and returning to Aberdeen for 5pm. Attendees should bring their own refreshments & food.
We will be providing some pre-visit materials, so we can get some discussion & critical framework for the visit. During the visit to the DVA, we’ll be collating & creating documentation of our visit, and plan to present this – and extend the discussion in a later Networking Night.
full email : trip to the DCA June 26th.
Scotland’s Modern Apprenticeship Awards 2012 will showcase those who have, through their involvement in Modern Apprenticeships, demonstrated initiative, enterprise and outstanding commitment to the improvement of skills development for the Scottish economy.
This year, the awards ceremony will take place in November 2012. Each finalist will be a VIP guest at the ceremony and each winner will receive a specially designed trophy. The Awards will be profiled in national and local media and promoted through Skills Development Scotland.
Categories
We are now accepting entries in the following categories:
Construction and Production Apprentice of the Year – Open to those individuals aged 24 and under (at the start of their apprenticeship) who have completed or are due to complete their apprenticeship by 30th September 2012 or who were certificated no earlier than 1st October 2011. The apprenticeship must have been in one of these frameworks.
Service Apprentice of the Year – Open to those individuals aged 24 and under (at the start of their apprenticeship) who have completed or are due to complete their apprenticeship by 30th September 2012 or who were certificated no earlier than 1st October 2011. The apprenticeship must have been in one of these frameworks.
Adult Apprentice of the Year – Open to those individuals aged 25 + (at the start of their apprenticeship) who have completed or are due to complete their apprenticeship by 30th September 2012 or who were certificated no earlier than 1st October 2011. The apprenticeship must have been in one of these frameworks.
Small Employers – For businesses and organisations who have less than 50 employees
Medium Employers – For businesses and organisations who have between 50 and 249 employees
Large Employers – For businesses and organisations who have 250 and over employees
Partnership – Open to partnerships who can demonstrate their commitment to Modern Apprenticeships by showcasing their combined achievements in developing sustainable activity to support the Modern Apprenticeship programme
Best Business Newcomer – Open to those companies (of any size and across any sector) who have, within the last two years (since April 2010), shown a new commitment to Modern Apprenticeship training. This award will recognise organisations that have invested in a new apprenticeship programme.
Please read the entry rules carefully to ensure your entry proceeds to the judging stage. Entries must be fully compliant with the entry rules to be considered for entry.
via Scotland’s Modern Apprenticeship Awards 2012 – Skills Development Scotland.
Communities and Families Fund
May 28, 2012
The Communities and Families Fund is a grants programme funded jointly by the Scottish Government and the Big Lottery Fund in Scotland. The fund will support local projects that help families and communities give children the best start in life.
Organisations can apply for a grant of between £250 and £10,000 for a 12 month project that will meet at least one of the following outcomes:
Improve the quality of life of children (pre-birth to 8) through greater access to early learning, play and child and maternal health support
Enable communities to shape and deliver support for families.
We are concentrating funding on projects that benefit children, or parents and families of children, who are eight years and under. Examples of the types of local projects that we want to fund include:
Parenting support and development projects
Community play projects
Projects that support better nutrition for young children
Community-based family support and childcare projects.
We can fund up to 100 per cent of project costs including materials, training costs, overheads and sessional staff. Full details of eligible costs are in our guidance notes
Anita Inverarity’s exhibition continues until the end of June (Saturdays & Sundays 2pm-4pm)
Framed originals, unframed & mini originals as well as prints and cards available for sale.
Look out for blue dot sale items and Anita will be giving 10% discount on all works to facebook friends.
The Inkling- Anita Inverarity
Heritage Hall- Peterculter
Station Road East
26th May- 24th June
Saturdays & Sundays
2pm-4pm
via “The Inkling- Solo Exhibition- Anita Inverarity ” by Anita Inverarity | RedBubble.
CEO: Dundee – Planning Your Time & Project
May 27, 2012
Thursday 21 June 2012, 13:00-17:00
Meeting Room, DCA, 152 Nethergate, Dundee DD1 4DY
This Cultural Enterprise Office workshop will help you set a goal, plan a project and identify the resources you need to make it happen.
“Planning of project from current position to end goal really helped solidify my aims and clear up grey areas.” Planning Your Time & Project workshop participant
What to Expect
You will explore your use of time and be provided with tools to help you to get the most out of it. Having established your goal, you will have the chance to develop a plan and the opportunity to share your plans and ideas with other participants.
“Listening to feedback and presentations from the group was inspiring and provided valuable objective viewpoints.”
Planning Your Time & Project workshop participant
What You’ll Get Out of It
Alongside discovering your preferred ways of working, you will:
1. gain simple time management tools to help you put everything in order
2. identify what you are trying to achieve
3. learn ways of plotting the steps to your goal and the resources you will need to achieve it
4. get time to develop and share your plans
5. discover different formats for presenting ideas
Most importantly, you’ll have a plan to work to and the tools to help you stay on track.
“It helped me realise what is really important to me and that I can achieve it.”
Planning Your Time & Project workshop participant
How to book
This workshop is free. Spaces are limited so booking is essential. For availability of spaces please check our website.
This opportunity is available in: Dundee City
For further information, please contact events@culturalenterpriseoffice.co.uk, or call 0844 544 9990, or visit http://www.culturalenterpriseoffice.co.uk/website/default.asp?menu=events&page_sel=events. The deadline is Thursday 21 June 2012 at 13:00.
via Creative Scotland: Dundee – Planning Your Time & Project.
Creative Scotland: Shifting Landscapes Conference
May 27, 2012
‘Shifting Landscapes: Changing Standards in Accent Training’, hosted by The Centre for Voice in Performance at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in collaboration with The Central School of Speech & Drama and supported by the Scottish Drama Training Network, has been initiated in response to last year’s highly successful conference on Accents and Dialects held in London at the CSSD. A plethora of themes emerged that demanded further attention:
• Should RP RIP?
• Are phonetics necessary?
• Do we begin to incorporate the Generation X dialects emerging from the influence of Rap, Hip-Hop and street culture?
• How do we respond to the demands of the film industry particularly where the training of children is involved?
• Will the extraordinary advances in Neuroscience change our understanding and teaching of the relationship between the brain and voice?
Key speakers include John Tiffany (National Theatre of Scotland), Jan Haydn Rowles (co-author of ‘How to Do Accents’) and Dr Patricia Bestelmeyer (University of Bangor, Psychology).
‘Shifting Landscapes’ seeks to provide a forum in which we – actors, directors, voice coaches, educators, scientists, anyone and everyone interested in the possibilities of the human voice – can share our knowledge and experience to critically examine the future of accent and dialect training in the 21st Century.
In addition, the Centre for Voice is offering a one day introduction to the Nadine George Technique.
We hope you will join us to participate in what promises to be an extraordinary day of debate and provocation.
The conference takes place at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow on 29 – 30 June 2012.
£65 for day one, £110 for both days (conference and one day intro to Nadine George Technique)
This opportunity is available in: All Scotland
For further information, please contact a.jordan@rcs.ac.uk (Amy Beth Jordan), or call 0141 270 8221, or visit http://www.rcs.ac.uk/aboutus/research/centreforvoice/ShiftingLandscapes.html. The deadline is Tuesday 26 June 2012 at 09:00.
Creative Scotland: Hamburg Vending Machine
May 27, 2012
HAMBURG VENDING MACHINE
KUNST ALTONALE HAMBURG 2012
MARINA MORENO & ART-E-MOTION
Invite Visual Artists to participate in our next exhibition
An Installation of 100 INTERNATIONAL Artists
15 /16/17 of JUNE 2012
Deadline for delivery of work: 8th of June 2012
Opportunity for 100 INTERNATIONAL visual artists to create small scale work and be part of an installation sited at a prestigious location in Hamburg as part of the Kunst Altonale, one of the biggest and most important art festival in Germany, responding to the theme of Visual Stories.
The work, in any media, maximum dimension 9cm diagonnally will be packaged with the artist’ name and contact details in one of 220 tranparent plastic spheres. These will be placed in the vending machine and will be available through random selection by the viewer & operator of the machine.
ARTISTS MAY ENTER UP TO 3 PIECES OF WORK.
Artwork can be either original or a limited copy of a work.
Work must have been produced within the past three years.
ART-E-MOTION will transport & install the work, market & promote the artist. The work will be curated and catalogued online.
A £10 administrative fee is asked upon entry of the works.
For further information: info@hamburgvendingmachine.com subject line; Hamburg Altonale
Or visit: www.hamburgvendingmachine.com
contact: Marina Moreno: cell +44 (0)7873 927 110
http://www.altonale.de/KM_Vendingmachine.html
© ® 2012 ART-E-MOTION & Marina Moreno
This opportunity is available in: All Scotland
For further information, please contact info@hamburgvendingmachine.com (Marina Moreno), or call +44(0)7873927110, or visit http://www.hamburgvendingmachine.com. The deadline is Friday 08 June 2012 at 17:00.
2 June – 22 July
“Where dwells the soul, great silence within, where falls the light.”
An exhibition of selected artworks by Alan Paterson
Projected in the Belmont Bar?
May 25, 2012
Projected in the Belmont Cinema Bar?
We’ve been asked by the Belmont Cinema to provide content for a new rolling slide show, projected in “the Bar Below”.
Would you like to be a part of it?
If you would like your work shown on a constant projection loop in the Belmont Cinema Bar, and you have a CCS Profile, please let us know – and we will create (from a template) a slide of your work & statement, which will appear with other members & images of work produced in the North East of Scotland.
If you’d like new work shown, either upload new images to your profile, or send images to us (no smaller than 500kbs, no bigger than 3mbs), and we’ll do the rest!
If you think others would like to participate in this opportunity, simple get them to create a CCS directory entry (if they don’t have one) and pas son this email!
A big thanks to David Jane (Belmont manager) for this opportunity, we’d be daft not to take it up!
yours,
the CCS Team.
RICK REDBEARD + ADAM STAFFORD + DEBUTANT
May 25, 2012
Saturday, 23 June 2012
Cellar 35, 35 Rosemount Viaduct, Aberdeen AB25 1NQ. Phone (01224) 640483
Doors 7.30pm
Advance Tickets £6 / £8 on door
Available from One-Up Records, Belmont Street, Aberdeen. Phone (01224) 642662 or online http://www.wegottickets.com/event/170939
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