Creative Business Events seminar on 24 June at the Cornwall College Business Space in Plymouth. Delivered in partnership with Cornwall College Business, the seminar will look at a range of business events and activities, considering how to maximise their impact for your business or organisation and the impact of your attendance and involvement. It’s only £15 per person and tickets are available from www.creativeeventplymouth.eventbrite.co.uk.
Working in Arts Education – A one day seminar for artists of all disciplines who want to work in education settings
This seminar will give you tools to help you through the complexities of working in education including marketing to schools, planning your workshops, Child Safeguarding, and insurance. It will include practical elements to get you started, and information about the current landscape and opportunities in Cornwall. You will also hear from an artist who works successfully in schools about their practice.
Led by Amanda Harris and Helen Reynolds of Kernow Education Arts Partnership, the seminar is suitable for practitioners with little or no experience of working in education, but with an interest in doing so.
Tea & Coffee will be provided, please bring your own lunch.
Date: Thursday 3rd October 2013
Time: 9.00am to 4.30pm
Venue: Chacewater Village Hall
Cost: £30 (including £15 non refundable booking fee)
To book, please email karen@creativeskills.org.uk
The Fidelio Trust offers grants of up to £5,000 in support of the Arts, in particular the dramatic and operatic arts, music, speech and dance. The Trustees aim to help individuals and groups such as Colleges, Arts Festivals and other arts organisations who would not be able to carry out a project or activity without financial support. Funding is available for tuition or coaching; to participate in external competitions; to be supported for a specially arranged performance; and to receive support for a special publication, musical composition or work of art.
The next closing date for applications is the 1st October 2013.
Drawing – An exploration of materials and mark-making
This is an inspiring course which aims to explore and experiment with a variety of materials and processes. The course aims to free up predetermined ideas of drawing and sets out to investigate the relationship between materials and mark-making through an open and imaginative exploration, both hands-on and through discussion about drawing. The use of materials will include large scale paper and card, charcoal, pencil, ink and paint.
Date: Monday 8th July to Thursday 11th July 2013
Time: 10am – 4.30pm (6-hour session with 30 min lunch break)
Tutor: Clementine Neild
Duration of course: 4 days
Cost: £190
Painting – An exploration of techniques and materials
A wonderful discovery of surface, colour and abstraction. This course delivers a lively approach to the examination of painting and colour through dialogue and the exchange of ideas. Decorative patterns, musicality of colours, abstraction and personal consideration will contribute to a rich and stimulating time. Working in an enjoyable atmosphere with support and guidance, we will explore colour, shapes, ideas, feelings and personal interest to develop a body of work.
Date: Monday 8th July to Thursday 11th July 2013
Time: 10am – 4.30pm (6-hour session with 30 min lunch break)
Tutor: Marie-Claire Hamon
Duration of course: 4 days
Cost: £190
Printmaking – An exploration of mono printing, collograph and drypoint
This dynamic course offers spontaneous and inspiring methods to transform sketchbook ideas or photos into personal imagery. With simple but highly effective techniques we will create plates from which we can produce a range of colour prints. All themes from abstraction, landscape and figure can be explored and it will suit those new to print as well as the experienced printer. It benefits from sharing ideas and will result in a large body of work suggesting a wealth of new directions for your artwork. We will also look at artists’ prints in Cornwall and beyond.
Date: Monday 8th July to Thursday 11st July 2013
Time: 10am – 4.30pm (6-hour session with 30 min lunch break)
Tutor: Jesse Leroy-Smith
Duration of course: 4 days
Cost: £190
Photography – Black and white photography and darkroom printing
Throughout this course you will learn how to shoot negatives, process them and create black and white photographs in a traditional darkroom setting.
We will be using a 35mm film camera applying a variety of techniques and using the full range of camera settings to produce a set of black and white negatives. You will learn how to process your negatives and make contact sheets to assess their quality developing a critical awareness to evaluate your images for further use. In the darkroom you will learn the basics of darkroom printing involving traditional dish processing and enlarging negatives into final prints.
Date: Monday 15th July to Thursday 18th July 2013
Time: 10am – 4.30pm (6-hour session with 30 min lunch break)
Tutor: Martin Jackson
Duration of course: 4 days
Cost: £ 190
Textiles – A creative and inspiring response to machine embroidery
This course will cover creative free-machine embroidery for all levels of experience, from the basics of setting up a machine, to confident and experimental stitching based on your own designs and sources of inspiration. You will learn design skills based on colour, line, texture, and you will explore a variety of materials and techniques. By the end of the course you will have a portfolio of samples, notes, research and designs.
Date: Monday 8th July to Thursday 11th July 2013
Time: 10am – 4.30pm (6-hour session with 30 min lunch break)
Tutor: Hazel McGregor
Duration of course: 4 days
Cost: £190
Fashion Design – Illustration techniques
Throughout this course you will learn how to develop your own original figure templates, using them to create fashion illustrations that show garment detail and fabric, mood and style. We will explore mixed media techniques, traditional drawing and computer aided design to allow you to develop your illustrations and story boards in exciting and creative ways.
Date: Monday 8th July to Thursday 11th July 2013
Time: 10am – 4pm (5-hour session with 1 hour lunch break)
Tutor: Natalie Bennett
Duration of course: 4 days
Cost: £190
Graphic Design: Working with Design Software Photoshop
In this workshop you will learn about design processes and how to develop and manipulate artwork and ideas using the design software Photoshop, the course will teach you about layers, filters and effects that will enhance art work and photography.
These skills can be used for many applications, such as designing your own promotional material, posters, game covers, T-shirt, book covers or just to earn these skills for personal development and have fun.
Date: Monday 8th July to Thursday 11th July 2013
Time: 10am – 4pm (5-hour session with 1 hour lunch break)
Tutor: Ali Hoswell
Duration of course: 4 days
Cost: £190
Mixed Media – An exploration of materials and techniques
This course will allow you to work creatively with a range of mixed media materials; these will include different types of paper, card and tissue as well as a range of media such as graphite, ink, charcoal, paint, wax, glue, plaster and latex. The course aims to develop ideas through a spontaneous response to imagery taken from photographs or sketchbooks into new interpretations. Throughout the course there will be the opportunity to review the work that is created and share ideas. If you have any images of current work that you would like to use please bring these with you.
Date: Monday 15th July to Thursday 18st July 2012
Time: 10am – 4.30pm (6-hour session with 30 min lunch break)
Tutor: Lisa Downing
Duration of course: 4 days
Cost: £190
Constructing Textiles- A variety of approaches to felt-making
This hands-on course will teach the creative processes needed to make 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional felt from both colourful and natural sheep fleece. It will also include the use of a variety other fibres for surface decoration and for the construction of silk paper, which can then be incorporated into your felt pieces as part of a design. As well as the practical exploration of felt making techniques, we will cover design work, colour mixing, line and surface texture.
This course would combine well with the stitch course below, as the samples made could then be worked into using free machine embroidery.
Date: Monday 15th July to Tuesday 16th July 2013
Time: 10am – 4.30pm (6-hour session with 30 min lunch break)
Tutor: Hazel McGregor
Duration of course: 2 days
Cost: £95
Textiles – A creative and inspiring response to machine embroidery
This course will cover creative free-machine embroidery for all levels of experience, from the basics of setting up a machine, to confident and experimental stitching based on your own designs and sources of inspiration. You will learn design skills based on colour, line, texture, and you will explore a variety of materials and techniques. By the end of the course you will have a portfolio of samples, notes, research and designs.
Date: Wednesday 17th July to Thursday 18th July 2013
Time: 10am – 4.30pm (6-hour session with 30 min lunch break)
Tutor: Hazel McGregor
Duration of course: 2 days
Cost: £95
Beginning chair restoration and upholstery
During this course you will be able to bring in your own dining chair (or similar) with a drop-in seat. We will strip the existing finish back to bare wood and refinish with layers of shellac and wax. We will then remove the upholstery from the seat frame and learn the traditional methods of reupholstering a drop-in seat to a high standard. You will be able to work at your own pace in a safe and relaxed environment and at the end of the course you will be able to take home a restored piece of interior.
Date: Monday 15nd July to Thursday 18th July 2013
Time: 10am – 4.30pm (6-hour session with 30min lunch break)
Tutor: Kym Accleton
Duration of course: 4 days
Cost: £190
Fashion Design – Garment construction techniques
This course will give you an insight into a range of techniques involved in garment construction, including how to create different types of boning, inserting zips and sleeves for different purposes. You will gain technical skills that will enable you to construct garments.
Date: Monday 15nd July to Thursday 18th July 2013
Time: 10am – 4.30pm (6-hour session with 30min lunch break)
Tutor: Natalie Bennett
Duration of course: 4 days
Cost: £190
Printmaking – An exploration of mono printing, block printing and screen printing on textiles.
During this course you will learn how to work creatively using textile print in a free and exploratory manner. This course will cover the basics of working in a textile studio from studio safety and how to mix printing dyes and follow through a range of techniques and materials. These include block printing, stencil printing, mono printing and drawing onto an open screen to print. We will also look at artists and designers who use stencil printing both old and new. By the end of the course you will have built a technical sketchbook of inspirational ideas and processes, designs and samples.
Date: Monday 15nd July to Thursday 18th July 2013
Time: 10am – 4.30pm (6-hour session with 30min lunch break)
Tutor: Clementine Neild
Duration of course: 4 days
Cost: £190
An Introduction to Polymer Photogravure (Non-toxic Intaglio Printmaking)
Develop your drawings and digital photographs into polymer photogravure intaglio prints. The course includes image preparation, plate making, inking and intaglio printing. This is an acid free intaglio printmaking method with many creative possibilities.
Starting with drawing and photography from your own portfolio or sketchbook you will develop your ideas onto photo-polymer plates through to inking and printing the etching in the studio. Weather depending we will also experiment exposing plates using the sun. This process produces etchings for both photography and drawing with deep tonal qualities.
The photo-polymer gravure process uses light sensitive plates, using drawings and positive imagery. The intaglio plate is usually printed as with etching but can also be printed as a relief plate too. It is an acid free process.
Date: Monday 22nd July to 24th July 2013
Time: 10am – 4.30pm (6-hour session with 30min lunch break)
Tutor: Jacqui Knight
Duration of course: 3 days
Cost: £ 190
Web Design
This course will teach you how to use web design; the course is designed for beginners and will outline the basics of web development from the idea to the screen. The course will also teach you how to use Photoshop and Dreamweaver to create the pages of a website, how to edit photos and optimize images for the web and social media sites. The course will help beginners as a stepping stone to more advanced courses, while helping business owners to get more control and insight into their websites or simply to build their own and be able to maintain it for themselves.
Date: Monday 22nd July to 25th July 2013
Time: 10am – 4.30pm (6-hour session with 30min lunch break)
Tutor: Quiche Smith
Duration of course: 4 days
Cost: £ 190
For further information and booking onto a course please contact:
Shana Price on 01209 616369 or email:
Shana.price@cornwall.ac.uk
The Arts Council has commissioned CFE, an independent research organisation, to undertake research examining the extent to which existing arts GCSEs are fit for purpose. Creative & Cultural Skills are managing this project on behalf of Arts Council England. As part of this research we need views from as many teachers, tutors and lecturers of art & design, drama, dance and music in England, on the strengths and weaknesses of current arts GCSEs provision.
Your views and the views of your fellow colleagues are a vital component of this important research. We would, therefore, be very grateful if you could complete a short online survey and share the link with colleagues who are also able to offer a view.
To begin your survey please click on the link below or copy and paste it into your internet browser.
http://www.snapsurveys.com/swh/surveylogin.asp?k=136984180258
Students
As well as your views, we also want the views of students who are currently undertaking an arts GCSE and those who have recently studied for one. This survey of students is very short, and should take no more than five minutes to complete. It looks to understand the motivations of young people in choosing to study an arts subject at key stage 4.
We would be grateful if you were able to circulate the following survey to students within your school or college who have current or previous experience of studying for an arts GCSE.
Each school or college that receives responses from students will be entered into a prize draw to win £500 worth of book vouchers.
http://www.snapsurveys.com/swh/surveylogin.asp?k=136981698395
By circulating the link you are consenting on behalf of your students to take part. For more information about this and to view a copy of the survey:
http://cfe.org.uk/our-work/key-stage-4-arts-gcse-research
If we receive any completed responses from students at your school or college, your school or college will be eligible to be entered into a prize draw to win £500 worth of books or equipment.
Both surveys will close at midnight on 2nd July 2013. Please submit your survey and encourage your students to submit their views by this time.
If you have any questions about the research or experience any technical difficulties completing the survey please contact Guy.Birkin@cfe.org.uk. Thank you for your time and co-operation.
Kind regards
Arts Council England, Creative & Cultural Skills, and CFE
Falmouth University invites you to take part in the 2013 Professional Development Summer School programme for practitioners working in the performing arts and event industries. All of our summer schools are led by internationally recognised companies and take place in the world class facilities of The Performance Centre. There are a wide range of opportunities to choose from, so whether you are a professional dancer, musician, theatre maker or event organiser, we hope you will find a summer school that will help you to develop your practice.
*Our 2013 bursary scheme enables eligible practitioners based in Cornwall to attend our summer schools opportunities for as little as £5 per day (full price £150). Limited bursaries are available so please download the BURSARY FORM from here. Application deadline is Friday 21 June.
STREET SUMMER SCHOOLS
EVENT MANAGEMENT – WALK THE PLANK
Wed 24 – Fri 26 July, 10.00 – 17.00
Spend three days with Walk the Plank learning about outdoor event management and production. From the closing ceremony of the 2002 Commonwealth Games to the opening of Turku 2011 European Capital of Culture in Finland, Walk the Plank create powerful events with mass appeal.
Turku 2011 European Capital of Culture Opening Ceremony, created by Walk the Plank.
This Street Summer School is open to all professional practitioners working in the field of event management.
MUSIC – JASON SINGH & LAURA HOWE
Wed 24 – Fri 26 July, 10.00 – 17.00
This professional development opportunity will enable you to spend three days exploring music forms rooted in urban street culture. Explore beatboxing, singing, experimental vocalisation and DJing with Jason Singh and Laura Howe. Working together you will create a number of songs and vocal pieces. Jason Singh is a prolific beatboxer, vocal sculptor and sound artist who has worked with Nitin Sawhney, the V&A and the BBC amongst many others. Laura Howe is a vocal artist, choral director and composer.
This Street Summer School is open to all professional practitioners working in the field of music.
DANCE – ZOONATION
Wed 24 – Fri 26 July, 10.00 – 17.00
Learn a variety of Hip Hop dance styles.Award-winning Sadler’s Wells resident Company ZooNation are renowned for creating pieces of hip hop dance theatre such as ‘Some Like it Hip Hop’. The Company has performed at numerous major events including the 2008 Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Handover Ceremonies.
This Street Summer School is open to all professional practitioners working in the field of dance.
THEATRE – BLAST THEORY
Wed 24 – Fri 26 July, 10.00 – 17.00
Spend three days working with internationally renowned company Blast Theory to explore how technology can be used to create site specific, participatory performances and interactive art.Blast Theory is known as one of the most adventurous artist groups using interactive media, creating ground-breaking new forms of performance and interactive art that mixes audiences across the internet, live performance and digital broadcasting.
This Street Summer School is open to all professional practitioners working in the field of theatre.
Freefall Dance Summer Intensive
Thu 4 – Sat 6 July
Join Freefall Dance for three days of intensive training; technical classes and creative choreographic workshops led by nationally acclaimed artists Yael Flexer and Helen Parlor. Aimed at performers, practitioners, independent and emerging dance artists, the classes aim to refresh on-going physical, and creative training in a supported atmosphere.
Tickets £149 for 3 days or £50 per day
FREEFALL DANCE SUMMER SCHOOL BURSARIES
Two bursaries available for Cornish based applicants (eligible for practitioners and graduates only.) Each bursary will cover the majority of the Intensive, a £20 contribution from the applicant is also required. Contact: Tamsin Godfrey on tamsin.godfrey@falmouth.ac.uk
Two bursaries available for SW based applicants. Each bursary will cover 50% of the intensive, with the remaining 50% required from the applicant. Contact: Freefalldance@hotmail.co.uk
Freefall Dance
Falmouth-Yamaha Jazz Summer School
Mon 12 Aug – Fri 16 Aug
World-class tutors, state-of-the-art facilities, beautiful Cornwall: Falmouth University and Yamaha have come together to create one of the hottest new jazz summer schools in the country. The course enables you to choose your own programme of study, work with top jazz musicians, form your own bands and record your music, all in our brand new, purpose-built Performance Centre. Whatever your previous experience, we aim to further your skills, your understanding and your appreciation of jazz, all in a relaxed and friendly environment.
Special guest YolanDa Brown will be hosting a workshop and performing in concert on 14 August at Falmouth-Yamaha Jazz Summer School.
Tickets £299
FALMOUTH-YAMAHA JAZZ SUMMER SCHOOL BURSARIES
We will be offering five non-residential bursaries of £299 to attend the Jazz summer school. The criteria to apply for these are:
Age 16-19 Cornish students in full-time education
Falmouth-Yamaha Jazz Summer School
First Cornwall Festival of Improvisation
23 Aug – 1 Sept
The Festival welcomes experienced performers, students and the curious wanting to develop solo skills in improvisation and creating original and new work. The Festival brings together two leading international teachers Rosalind Crisp and Andrew Morrish in a series of modular workshops allowing you to develop and practise your improvisation and solo performances.
Tickets £380 – To book email catherine@pindroptheatre.com
Two bursaries are available, one for Cornish based practitioner and one for a current Falmouth University student. Bursary recipients will pay only £5 per day.
Pindrop Theatre
FUEL: STREET SUMMER SCHOOLS for young people aged 16 – 19.
Mon 22 – Wed 24 July, 10.00 – 17.00
We are also offering FREE bursaries places for students aged 16-19 interested in music, dance, theatre or event management to attend
FUEL: Street Summer Schools with Blast Theory, Jason Singh & Laura Howe, Walk the Plank and ZooNation.
For more information visit FUEL or for an application form please email outreach@falmouth.ac.uk
KARA DONS YOUTH DANCE SUMMER SCHOOL 2013. Ages 5 – 11 and 12 – 18.
Mon 19 – Thu 22 Aug, 09.00 – 17.00
Cornish dance company Kara Dons Dance Theatre introduce two workshops for young people at The Performance Centre.
For more information contact karadons@hotmail.co.uk
If you would like more information about our Summer Schools please feel free to get in touch.
Box Office: 01326 255885
Email: boxoffice@falmouth.ac.uk
Online: www.theperformancecentre.org
The Performance Centre, Falmouth University, Penryn Campus, Penryn, TR10 9LX
The Penzance Literary Festival is a festival for everyone who enjoys words – the written word, the spoken word, the recited word and the sung word too. It aims to inspire everyone who attends with the joy of reading, writing and performing, and of watching, listening and discussing with other people. It is committed to providing a litfest that is inclusive, local, affordable and distinctive.
We always have talks by prize-winning authors and by people with a deep knowledge of subjects special to West Cornwall. We have ’round table’ discussions, authors in conversation, and workshops on writing, self-publishing, poetry etc. Performance and entertainment feature prominently in the evenings. 2013 will be our fourth Festival, and to go by our experience in previous years a tremendous ‘buzz’ is guaranteed!
The 2013 Festival will again be based at The Acorn theatre in central Penzance. Our other main venues – the Morrab Library, Penlee Coach House, Open Shed in Causewayhead, the Lost and Found Cafe in Chapel Street, the Admiral Benbow, The Exchange gallery, The Old Dairy and The Edge of the World Bookshop – are all close by. Because most of the Festival’s venues are small, it’s easy for members of the audience to ask questions and contribute to discussions, making for a very informal and lively atmosphere. Festival-goers tell us they have learned a lot and thoroughly enjoyed themselves too. If you enjoy words, do come and join us!
For more information go to: http://penzance-literary-festival.org.uk/
TRURO and PENWITH COLLEGE
TRURO CAMPUS
Monday 15 and Tuesday 16 July 2013
10.00am – 4.00pm
Maximum 8 students
£125.00 (all materials supplied)
The workshop will be held in the new ‘open space architecture’ of the White Building, Truro College’s new Art & Design facility with a purpose designed photographic darkroom and studio.
Day One:
Explore traditional darkroom printing techniques using raw chemical developer recipes made in the studio.
Required: 35mm or medium format camera negatives
Day Two:
Learn the basics of early nineteenth century photographic contact printing processes including:
Cyanotype;
John Herschel’s 1842 iron based process;
Fox Talbot’s 1830 Salt printing and toning using silver, gold and platinum
Required: Please bring to Truro College, White Building reception either a CD or memory stick (clearly labelled with your name and email contact address) containing 3-6 images as med size jpegs – at least 2 weeks prior to the start of the course, to allow time to produce the digital negatives that will be used in the process.
Medium and large format negative can also be used. Please bring these along on day one of the workshop.
Book you place on-line at:
www.truro-penwith.ac.uk/success/tasters
or telephone: 01872 267502
We would like to invite you to a FREE Educational Conference to be held on Tuesday 18th June and a series of Visual Thinking workshops to be held on Wednesday 19th and Thursday 20th June, 2013 at Falmouth University, Penryn Campus, Penryn, Cornwall TR10 9EZ
These sessions will be led by Falmouth University Associate Lecturer Oliver West.
The Oliver West’s Footnotes Program is ideal for learners of all ages who would benefit from alternative strategies to traditional classroom ‘linear-lexical’ teaching methods. Learners of all ages from pre-school to university often see dramatic breakthroughs in the development of their communication and learning skills, as they develop their visual strategies as an aid to understanding and internalising verbal and written cues, as well as presenting in all forms of communication.
Oliver West will be delivering a series of specific strategies from the Footnotes Visual Thinking Program. The program has been developed over the past fifteen years drawn from his experiences as a dominantly visual, multi-layered thinker and as a practitioner within the field of educational and behavioural support. This series of workshop sessions will equip those wanting to open up the world of personalised strategies for living and learning in an ever changing and challenging society.
‘Footnotes’ has also helped many individuals to overcome the day to day frustrations of being mis-understood and feeling isolated because of their way of thinking and associated behaviour. The main focus of this one day workshop is to offer ‘equipping strategies’ and to highlight the need for a greater awareness of individual thinking styles and the consequences of living in a society that has for decades overlooked the very great potential of visual and multi-layered thinkers.
The conference and workshops are fully supported by Falmouth University and as such are offered FREE of charge. The University is very keen to establish links with those colleagues who have a desire to pioneer the use of their strategies in their own field of work.
We will be capturing written / video feedback to encourage those in the wider community who may not yet be aware of the importance of these support strategies that are available to many.
Event format:
Tuesday 18th June – Equipping visual and Multi-layered thinkers
The all-day event is aimed at Adults, Learning Support, Teaching Professionals, Staff Trainers, and anyone else who works within a student lead capacity. The structure of the day’s event will also suit individuals, parents and support workers wishing to know more about how Visual and Multi-Layered Thinkers actually think.
The morning session entitled: Unlocking unique visual learning skills for good! – Strategies which enable us to facilitate not lead.
The afternoon session entitled: Empowering personal behaviour skills – encouraging self-empowered strategies for lasting behavioural change.
Wednesday 19th June –
The morning session will look at Primary Schools Educational support workshops with young people. This is open to anyone working alongside Primary aged school children and as the select teacher or support worker you are more than welcome to bring along with you up to two students.
The afternoon session will look at Secondary Schools Educational support workshops with young people. This is open to anyone working alongside Secondary aged school children and as the select teacher or support worker you are more than welcome to bring along with you up to two students.
Thursday 20th June -
The morning session will cover ‘Schools Related Behavioural Support’. This is open to Teaching Professionals, Staff Trainers, Learning Support and anyone else who work in conjunction within a student lead capacity.
The afternoon session will cover ‘Behavioural Support’ for those not in Education. This is open to anyone from a non-teaching or educational background.
The structure of this session will suit individuals, parents and support workers wishing to know more about understanding behaviour and encouraging self-empowered strategies for lasting behavioural change.
If you are interested and want to know more about the conference and or the workshops please contact Oliver West, direct on:
E: oliver@oliverwestfootnotes.com
M: 0777 521 820
P: 071326 710677
To book a place on the conference or workshops please contact Jo Ellis:
E: Joanne.Ellis@falmouth.ac.uk
P: 01326 259413
Exploring Art & Science
Strange Things in Jars
Monday 23rd September
@ Grampound Road School
• Practical Art Workshops
• Art in the New Primary Curriculum
• Art Coordinator Workshop/OFSTED expectations
• Arts Award and Artsmark information
• Presentations from Galleries & Museums
• Stalls –suppliers, artists
To book your place contact olivia.gray@keap.org.uk
Fee for the day £75 including lunch from Peppercorn Kitchen and masses of cake