Cultural Enterprise Office – Fashion Foundry
May 15, 2012
We are delighted to announce Fashion Foundry, an exciting new project to create a sector specific Designer Fashion and Textiles business incubator with a focus on the luxury goods market.
Fashion Foundry will accelerate the capacity and growth of talented micro businesses and individuals, focusing on developing clear routes to market through a physical and virtual incubator working out of South Block, a new four storey studio complex in the heart of Glasgow’s Merchant City.
Full programme and application details will be announced when applications open week commencing Monday 11 June 2012 so watch this space!
To be the first to hear when applications open e-mail fashionfoundry@culturalenterpriseoffice.co.uk
Led by Cultural Enterprise Office in association with Wasps Studios, Fashion Foundry is funded by Creative Scotland, with additional support from Scottish Enterprise.
Digital Storytelling: deepening participation and engagement through new forms of digital media | AmbITion
May 14, 2012
Digital storytelling: deepening participation and engagement through new forms of digital media
An event and webinar hosted by AmbITion Scotland and New Media Scotland
Date: Thurs 21 June 2012
Location: Inspace, 1 Crichton St, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
In-person: 1330 – 16:15
Live online video webcast: 14:00 – 15:45
Register: http://digitalstorytellingwebinar.eventbrite.co.uk/
In this webinar, Matt Adams of Blast Theory will introduce you to the core concepts behind interactive storytelling and explore their emerging potential within the creative, cultural and heritage sector. By attending the session either in person or online, you will learn the principles of digital storytelling, hear engaging stories of how organisations such as Channel 4 and Sundance Film Festival have adopted such approaches and take away practical advice on how digital storytelling methods can help you deepen participation and engagement of your digital audiences.
You’ll also learn about how as digital technologies become mainstream, we’re seeing interesting new patterns of audience behaviour around certain genres and formats. You’ll be introduced to Blast Theory’s interdisciplinary artistic practice and be given tips on understanding how your audience is curating their attention, and how to make artistic content work in these new patterns.
Hear more about the learning, networking and support opportunities that AmbITion Scotland can offer you in 2012-14.
Applications for the 2012 educational courses will be open in February 2012. All courses will run between the dates of July 31- August 11 with programmes running for a vairety of times and dates during this time. Please check the website regularly for updates.
One of the main aims of the festival is to provide an accessible educational scheme where young artists from the North east and around the UK can come together in a creative environment to improve their skills.
Musicians, dancers, pipers and singers are all encouraged to come along and experience our workshops and master-classes, carried out each year by some of the best tutors from around Scotland and Europe.
We are committed to nurturing and encouraging talent across the arts sectors with varying abilities, so that young people can learn from being a part of the creative process.
This year we have a variety of projects that young people can take part in, some are being offered for the very first time. So come along and get involved in one of the world’s foremost festivals of youth arts.
The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Opera & Song Residency & the Mary Garden placement
Since 2008, AIYF has delivered a residency in opera and singing in partnership with the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama Opera School.
via Aberdeen International Youth Festival: Educational Projects.
Claremont Gallery May / june
May 10, 2012
New Paintings by Tracey Johnston
Until Saturday 19th May
‘Easter Table’, ‘The Swallows Have Returned’, ‘Honeysuckle Still Life with Bird’ by Tracey Johnston.
Acrylic on Board and Acrylic on Paper, £280 each.
Next Exhibition
Doug Cocker and Stuart Mackenzie
Recent Drawings
Showing from Saturday 26th May to Saturday 7th July
Private View, Friday 25th May, 6.30 to 8.30pm
Forthcoming Workshops at Claremont Gallery
Wet Felting
Sunday 27th May, 10.30 to 2.30pm All materials supplied. £55
Booking essential for this Workshop as places are limited to 8 people.
Introduction to Watercolours
Tuesday Mornings 10.30am to 12.30pm
12th June to 10th July £150 for course.
Booking essential for this Workshop as places are limited to 6 people.
£50 deposit required to book place.
We are delighted to offer you a short course in Watercolour Painting with professional artist Jenny Hunter. Running over 5 weeks you will be introduced to the materials required and guided through traditional techniques including washes and mark making with comprehensive demonstrations. We will look at colour theory and composition and in the later stages introduce other media which can be used with watercolour.
Sunday Afternoon Watercolour Painting Group
2 to 4pm – Next meet Sunday 20th May £30
Discounted Rates for Block PreBooked/Paid Sessions
We host a Watercolour Painting Group who meet once a month to paint at the Gallery. Tutoring and refreshments supplied.
After School Art Club
Art Workshops for Children
Early Booking Deals
£20 per session. Block Booking of Three Sessions pre booked and pre paid Discounted to £45.
Second Child Discounted to £15 per Session.
Drawing, Painting, Printmaking and Craft.
Until 28th June
Tuesdays, 4 to 5.30pm for Children aged 7 to 9
Wednesdays, 4 to 5.30pm for Children aged 10 to 12
Thursdays, 4 to 5.30pm for Children aged 13 to 18
Booking essential. All materials supplied.
Summer Holiday Art Club Dates to be confirmed
For more information or to book contact Tracey or Lindsay at the Gallery.Tel 01224 596999 Email claremontgallery@aol.co.uk
Sambasupercollider – Samba Workshop
May 3, 2012
To book please contact Deveron Arts
01466 794494 / info@deveron-arts.com
Lighting Design Workshop « Citymoves Dance Agency
April 25, 2012
Citymoves Dance Agency in association with Aberdeen Performing Arts.
Citymoves Associate Artist Simon Gane will lead two workshops on lighting design for Directors and Choreographers.
Introduction to Stage Lighting (2 – 5pm)
Hands-on introduction to the basics of stage lighting, including:
Types of lanterns available and how they work, How to rig them safely and Options of accessories. This workshop is geared to towards Choreographers, Directors and Artists to help communicate with their Designer and or Technician.
Lighting Design for Performance (6 – 9pm)
The second session is aimed at Directors, Choreographers and Artists as an introduction to the potential of lighting to enhance your work. 3 Point lighting, side lighting, the 5 available variables and texture.
Simon trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and was venue based for many years including Technical Manager at the Lemon Tree. He is now Freelance and has Designed with many of theUK’s dance and theatre companies including Rosie Kay, David Hughes Dance, Company Chordelia, Freshmess, Random Aspects, Norman Douglas, X Factor Dance company, Dudendance, and many shows for Citymoves.
Date:
Monday 7th May
Venue:
Lemon Tree Studio
Booking:
You can attend just the first session, but you will need to have attended the first session, or already have practical lighting experience, to attend Session 2.
Cost: £15 per workshop. Book online at Aberdeen Box Office (www.boxofficeaberdeen.com)
Dancers / Choreographers booking this workshop are invited to attend free Professional Class at Citymoves Dance Agency, with Alan Greig (Nikolais) from 11.15 – 12.45pm before the workshop.
Bookbinding Weekend Workshop
April 24, 2012
Learn how to create your own stunning hand-crafted notebooks and journals, that make colourful and unusual gifts. The course will cover a range of styles, and enable you to learn the basics of this flexible medium.
Tutor: Michael Waight
Date: Sat 12 & Sun 13 May
Time: 10am – 4.30pm
Costs: £130/£95 conc.
Location: PVA
No experience required. Call 01224 639539 for more information and to book!
Introduction to Burlesque in Aberdeen
April 20, 2012
Saturday, 19 May 2012
16:00 until 18:00
That’s right I’m back in Aberdeen due to popular demand! This 2 hour class takes place at Cafe Drummond. Advance booking is essential- PM me or send a wee message to classes[at]wildcardkitty.com
A fun and flirtatious class using the basics of burlesque (with an emphasis on charm, charisma and comedy) to boost your sense of feminity and confidence.
As well as an introductory history of the Burlesque artform alongside the neo-Burlesque scene of today, the class will teach you the basics of peel and reveal (with gloves and boas) and how to tassel twirl (don’t worry, you don’t have to get naked!) Rather than being a performance class (there’ll be no public performance at the end of it), this is about boosting confidence and having fun alongside like-minded women.
Limited to just 12 spaces, everyone will get a fair amount of attention. Use of gloves, boas and tassels is included in the price of just £15. Please wear comfortable clothing to move around in.
Strictly girls only, this class is suitable for all women over the age of 18.
Learn – Designing Cultural Events Workshop
April 18, 2012
An event hosted by
Edinburgh Festivals Innovation Lab, AmbITion Scotland & WhiteNOISE
and delivered by Snook
Designing cultural events:
can we use the principles and processes of design to make our cultural events better for both our audiences and for our businesses?
That was the big question behind a new project that the Edinburgh Festivals Innovation Lab has been working on with leading Glasgow-based design agency Snook, and by attending this event you will discover the results.
The event will be an introduction to the power of applying design thinking to the arts & cultural context and will include the chance to have practical hands-on experience of the tools and techniques which can help you and your team bring a fresh type of innovation thinking to your work.
- What service design is and how it relates to Scottish cultural organisations/practices
- How to engage your audiences and your partners in improving what you do
- Practical ways to make the experiences you provide better for your audiences and better for you
- How to embed design into all aspects of your work
- How to involve customers in co-designing new services and improving existing ones
The content will be relevant and accessible for people from all types of cultural organisations – performing and visual arts venues, cultural events and festivals, heritage organisations or non-venue based cultural organisations. This is the third of a special series of events co-hosted by AmbITion Scotland and the Edinburgh Festivals Innovation Lab.
The Edinburgh Festivals Innovation Lab, or festivalslab for short, is an initiative of Festivals Edinburgh, the strategic umbrella organisation that comprises the twelve Edinburgh Festivals. It is an experimental and collaborative resource for the festivals to explore how they can use digital technology to create new value for audiences, artists, the city and the festivals themselves. Follow @festivalslab.
This event is supported by WhiteNOISE – a project designed and managed by Culture Sparks that is centred on defining and growing audiences for the visual arts in Glasgow. Underpinned by an extensive programme of research, WhiteNOISE also places a key emphasis on digital technologies and social media to enhance communications and create new conversations with visual arts audiences.
http://www.getambition.com/events/2012/05/designing-cultural-events-workshop/
Intellectual Property Office – Home
April 10, 2012
A NEW series of FREE business support events taking place across the UK
Join experts from the Intellectual Property Office and Companies House, who will help you understand Intellectual Property and your responsibilities as a first time director.
During each 3 hour seminar, you will…
Discover
What is Intellectual Property (IP);
How to protect and manage your businesses IP;
Identify ways to exploit your IP commercially, to grow your business.
Understand
What your responsibilities are when appointed as a First Time Director;
The incorporation process (setting up a new business);
How to search and use Companies House tools and information.
At the end of each seminar, refreshments will be provided for attendees who wish to stay for informal networking and 1:1 discussions.
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