Useful Links, books and resources
Useful links, books and other resources. If you’ve found something interesting please email it to Helen Reynolds on helen.reynolds@keap.org.uk
Free Musical Futures resource materials
Musical Futures brings non-formal teaching and informal learning approaches into schools. It aims to make music learning relevant to young people, connect in school and out-of-school experiences, and find ways of engaging all 11 to 18 year olds in sustainable music making and learning. Musical Futures: An Approach to Teaching and Learning guides teachers and practitioners through the ethos and approach of Musical Futures, providing practical advice and a range of resources.
Order your free copy now (£5 postage and packing) at www.musicalfutures.org.uk/c/teacher+pack
For more details, email Abigail D'Amore, National Coordinator, at abigail.damore@googlemail.com
Young People’s Writing Squads new website
The Young People’s Writing Squads have been developed over the past decade by Academi in association with the local authorities in Wales. They aim to locate gifted young writers – in both English and Welsh – in each authority region and introduce them to some of Wales’ leading writers and teachers of writing. The brand new website offers information in one place about the Writing Squads and is aimed at Squad members, organisers, teachers, parents, writers or anyone interested in the Squads. The website holds information on what squads are and what they do, where they are and how they work. There is an overview of writers who have worked with squads and there are many examples of work from squad members.
www.writingsquads.org / www.sgwadiausgwennu.org
Foundations for Excellence
The first ever first-stop shop for information on health and wellbeing on young musicians and dancers.
I hope you will find this a useful resource. Just visit www.foundations-for-excellence.org
We have also launched a publication from the Foundations for Excellence Conference 2009. This is available for free download from this site and also to buy for £14.95 + p&p.
Plain English guide to data protection
A guide to data protection law accredited by the Plain Language Commission has been published by official regulator the Information Commissioner's Office. ‘The Guide to Data Protection’ gives practical advice to those with day-to-day responsibility for data protection, taking a straightforward look at the principles of the Data Protection Act and helping organisations safeguard personal data.
View online or download the PDF file at www.ico.gov.uk/for_organisations/data_protection_guide.aspx
StartaTheatreCompany.com
StartaTheatreCompany.com – an essential online guide to starting and developing a performing arts company. StartaTheatreCompany.com is an e-learning course with six comprehensive modules, covering all you need to know about how to build a successful and sustainable enterprise. Learning is through fortnightly video and audio lessons including ‘traditional’ business areas such as Business Planning and Budgeting and also features newer areas of interest such as Open Source Software and Social Media Marketing. Modules 1 and 2 are ready to access on the site now.
Tate online course in artists’ techniques
The Artists' Techniques and Methods course will introduce you to a number of key works in Tate's collection and examine the techniques the artists used to create their work. You will look at a range of techniques from drawing, watercolour, collage and oil painting. The course is divided into six units. Each unit examines different artists in Tate's collection and looks at how they created their work. The units contain video clips and step-by-step guides to using the techniques to create your own art works at home.
The course costs £20 and is available through the Tate website at www.tate.org.uk/learnonline/onlinecourses/artiststechniques
Working For A Charity's online course
New starters in the voluntary sector can now enrol online for the 2008 NCVO Working For A Charity online course, which will give them an overview of working for a charity and a to boost their career. The course, Effective Voluntary Sector Management, is aimed at people who have recently joined the voluntary sector or who are looking to make a career move into it.
More information is available on the Working For A Charity website at www.wfac.org.uk/training/online-learning-course.html
Floodlight training courses in Cornwall
This is a really useful site for finding courses in Cornwall, just type in the search bar what you want to study and it will bring up courses for the whole county including all adult education centres, colleges and more. Floodlight is your local guide to courses in Cornwall. Whether you are looking for a fun evening class, or want to advance your career - Floodlight has the right course for you!
http://cornwall.floodlight.co.uk/cornwall/courses-classes-lessons/subject/qualification/study/region/16180339/220706/100/domain.html
A Guide to copyright licensing in schools
You will be aware that each school is responsible for ensuring that all necessary copyright licences have been obtained to cover its activities. The purpose of this leaflet is to help you and your colleagues identify some of the main activities which need to be licensed and to direct you to the appropriate organisation for further advice and guidance.
New website devoted to young cellists
Launched in January 2009, www.littlecellist.com is a brand new website designed specifically for children learning the cello. With downloadable resources, videos, games and details of classes and workshops, this colourful website has a range of inspirational materials presented in a fun and informative way.
New poetry project – Likestarlings
Likestarlings.com is an ambitious new website that gets poets talking in poems. Poets who don’t know each other – and who may be very different – are paired. They begin with a poem by one of them and then write poems back and forth, each responding to the last, until there are two new poems by each poet, and a conversation of five. Poems are published on the site as they are written. The organisers would love to hear from those who are interested in taking part. Submission instructions are on the website at www.likestarlings.com
Info sheet: National resources for writers and literature professionals in the UK and Ireland
This info sheet has been compiled to give you an idea of the wide range of resources that are available
to support writers and literature professionals across the UK and Ireland. It does not claim to be in any
way a definitive listing.
The info sheet can be downloaded here
Guide to buying musical instruments
The Music Industries Association (MIA) has launched a useful guide to buying quality musical instruments. Budding instrumentalists or parents buying instruments for their children can get advice on all the most common acoustic instruments, plus the electric guitar and keyboard.
The free guide covers all the basic questions you might want to ask, with lots of information about the specifics of particular instruments and the benefits of music-making in general.
The booklet is available from www.mia.org.uk/docs/quality_instruments.pdf
Connecting with People by David Aynsley
David Aynsley, who started TR14ers, the amazingly brilliant dance group in Camborne, has published a book about his work - Connecting with people:
The issue of connecting with people is at the core of all public services or should be so. It is the
basis of partnerships for co-creating, designing and delivering responsive and effective services and
provision of care. Many organisations are adept at creating systems and processes for meaningful
engagement as a basis for shaping and delivering as well as measuring outcomes of services. But
a lot of this is dependent on the passion, values and commitment of the people that are tasked
to provide such services. It is the through the efforts of individuals and teams that meaningful
engagement and quality service is achieved.
Through six set of stories, David Aynsley has brought to the fore the :
• Pressing need to develop competences to connect with people
• Role of critical self and service appraisal
• Value of relationships and storytelling
• Importance of valuing people and of trust in engaging local communities.
Order form can be downloaded here
Artsedsw
Ten arts education partnership organisations, funded by Arts Council England, South West and working across the region to support children and young people's quality cultural opportunities.
ArtSprouts Early Years Arts Resource Book
Story, Music and Art and Craft activities for 2 – 6 year olds
The ArtSprouts resource book has been two years in the making and includes creative music and arts activities interlinked with a story featuring the Eddystone lighthouse, a mermaid and the Lord Mayor! The resource is a result of repeated requests from people working with young children who felt unsure about how to use music and the arts with toddlers and children under 6.
Artsprouts is a 58 page, full colour, illustrated ring bound book with card covers, printed on substantial ‘wipe clean’ paper. Each of its 6 chapters begins with a section of the ‘Simon and the Lighthouse’ story followed by 5 Tiny Tunes music exercises (including warm up and wind down exercises), and a Crafty Creations art activity related to the chapter. The book also includes tips on making instruments, linking the curriculum and medium-term planning. Each copy includes a song CD (clipped into the back cover) to support one song-based activity in each chapter.
Artsprouts is available from Amazon and other on-line booksellers or may be ordered directly from Plymouth Music Zone on 01752 213690 and at info@plymouthmusiczone.org.uk
Everybody Writes online resource for writing in education
Everybody Writes is a web-based resource that offers classroom teachers innovative ideas and practical resources to get primary pupils and secondary students excited about writing.
Tate online course in artists’ techniques
www.tate.org.uk/learnonline/onlinecourses/artiststechniques
The Artists' Techniques and Methods course will introduce you to a number of key works in Tate's collection and examine the techniques the artists used to create their work. The course costs £20 and is available through the Tate website link above.
Resources for Funding Advisors
www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/sfp/?id=3992
The NCVO's Sustainable Funding Project has produced a toolkit series on funding and finance designed for frontline organisations and the advisors who support them.
SANe, the Social Arts Network
SANe, the Social Arts Network, exists to facilitate communication between people who are interested in the development of socially inclusive arts practice, services and productions.
http://socialartsnetwork.ning.com/
Creative steps
http://www.creativesteps.org.uk/FirstSteps?theme=0
information and guidance for young people about arts courses currently on offer at Further and Higher Education institutions across the South West
Arts on the move
providing creative information, advice, resources, support
how2fundraise.org
Free on-line resource for the UK's 16 million volunteer fundraisers, from the Institute of Fundraising.
AccessArt
A registered UK charity working across the UK aiming to further visual arts education through innovative online resources
AccessArt Family Learning
http://www.accessart.org.uk/making_matters/index.php
A new initiative aimed at promoting creativity through a grassroots programme of sculpture workshops, the collaborative creation of online family learning resources, and the development of AccessArt Family Learning Groups nationwide.
Making Matters
http://www.accessart.org.uk/making_matters/index.php
Aims to promote, encourage and enable making through highlighting and creating excellence in practice, and offering advocacy, support and resources. We envisage working with partners who share our aim in creating more opportunities for making/or makers.
GrantsExpert.co.uk
A website which can help you find grants under a whole range of headings including Business, Education, Environment, Family and Home.
Cultivate
A first-of-its-kind approach to developing culture in Cornwall, Cultivate aims to trigger cultural activity from the ground up through communities and young people.
Shy Drawing, Loud Drawing- Drawing Resource
To coincide with the Big Draw 2007, AccessArt is launching a new online drawing resource called ‘Shy Drawing, Loud Drawing - 12 ways to trigger a drawing’. The resource is aimed at all ages and a variety of users. Individuals, parents and home users will enjoy the resource and will be able to modify the ideas for younger users. Teachers and workshop leaders will also find the resource useful in inspiring their teaching.
Writing Together
This site is an extension of the Writing Together project which, for over five years, ran a series of conferences and workshops for teachers and writers to facilitate the use of writers in schools. The work of Writing Together is continued here by providing information and resources to a wider audience of teachers. Download a step by step guide to working with writers.
The Writing Centre
The Writing Centre is designed to be a resource for writers across all genres in Cornwall and the South West. It aims to offer a single source of information about writing in the region, to encourage writing and writing-related projects, and to provide a platform for writers and people interested in writing to share information and find opportunites to develop and market their skills.
Talented Young People website
Are you aged between 13 and 24 years of age? Have you got a talent you want to share with the world? Have you run out of ideas on how to progress your talent any further? Do you want to know what it would take to achieve your dreams? If the answer to any of these questions is yes then help is finally on hand. Talented Young People, the brainchild of Adam Sibley from Cornwall, is a free to use online resource tool for young people to further their talents. The website is jam packed with useful information and guides on how to further or pursue your talents. As well as a tips and advice section there is also an ask an expert section where each week viewers on the website will be able to put their questions to an industry expert.
LabforCulture
LabforCulture, the dynamic, new interactive website aimed at all those in arts and culture who collaborate, create, share and produce work across borders in Europe, is now live. The site is a vast source of current information and debate on European cultural cooperation, from case studies and inspiring stories of trans-border collaboration to the latest online cultural news and newsletters. Information is available on how to fund a project as well as links to key cultural organisations and networks. There is an extensive resource section and research information includes topical cultural trends and debates in Europe.
Artsplan training & publications
Artsplan is Artswork's dedicated training and publications department, promoting professional development opportunities for professionals and volunteers currently using, or looking to use the arts in their work with young people, especially young people at risk. Artsplan offers training including workshops and distance learning couurses; useful publications such as guides to planning and budgeting; and guidelines in specialist areas like diversity and young people at risk. Youth Arts in Focus- 6 Guide collective now available!
Ideas Explorers
www.ideasexplorers.com
Ideas Explorers search for opportunities that encourage innovation and result in positive improvements for their organisations, seeing their ideas through from the moment an opportunity is realised to bringing those ideas to life through their actions.
Animation for Education toolkit
http://animationforeducation.thewhole.co.uk/
A new link to a fun site giving teachers more information about the Animation For Ed toolkit.
Film Street
www.filmstreet.co.uk
Film Street is a website for six to nine year olds, designed to unlock imaginations and encourage expression through film making. Created for both school and home use, Film Street will help children enjoy and understand film through a unique and inspiring creative experience.
Demos
www.demos.co.uk
Demos is the think tank for everyday democracy. Its publications are all free to download from the website, and include articles on their 3 main areas of work: arts and culture, public services, science and technology, cities and public spaces, global security and public communication.
Arts Council England
Visit www.artscouncil.org.uk and click on publications
Arts Council England has several publications and information sheets available for download including Disability access: a good practice guide for the arts, introcduction to copyrights, how to pay artists, how to write a press release and many more.
Cornwall Children Young People and Family Services Directory
http://cornwall.childrensservicedirectory.org.uk/
This is an online version of the Help Booklet providing information on a range of services and activities across Cornwall. There are separate sections for chuildren, young people, families and carers, and practitioners.
Directory of Social Change Publications
www.dsc.org.uk
The DSC publishes a wide range of books with advice on fundraising, communication, law and management.
artscape: the national directory for arts in education
To register on artscape as an artist or organisation go to www.artscape.org.uk
artscape is an online directory which features organisations and individual artists who undertake educational work.
Practical Funding for Schools newsletter
This is a newsletter which contains case studies on how schools obtained funding for various projects, articles on raising money through various schemes and lists various awards and grants that are available for primary and secondary schools. Subscription costs £49.50 for one year or £89 for two years.
Contact Step Forward Publishing on 01926 420046.
Spoken/Written Bulletin S.W. – Live Lit. & Word Art e-newsletter
serving artists, promoters & venues in the South West & beyond.
To subscribe to this e bulletin contact bulletin-editor@blueyonder.co.uk
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