The next event is at the Fountain Inn in Gloucester on Friday 9th March.
01594 544456
07772 053778
Wednesday, 7 March 2012
Cinderford Artspace Artists Bursary Scheme - applications from interested artists sought
From ARTSPACE – please contact them direct
Artspace are looking for more applications, unfortunately the deadline is only a week away, Monday 12th March 2012 at 9.30am.
Its a simple application process and artists can request up to £750, this can be for materials, or training/shadowing, or anything the feel could prepare them for working with children in FOD schools. Application form and further details are attached.
Support for artists to work in schools
Artist's Bursary Scheme
Between January and March 2012, Cinderford Artspace is co-hosting a pilot project to
support artists who wish to develop their skills to work in schools. This work is being
funded by Create Gloucestershire, and the project is running in two areas of the County:
the Forest of Dean and Stroud.
Artists will be able to apply to Cinderford Artspace for a bursary to support their
development and increase their ability to work effectively in schools. Guidelines are
included in the application form document. Artists are able to apply for up to £750 and may
choose to request funding for anything that they feel will enable them to progress in this
area (for example equipment/materials/training or mentoring).
Application is in writing via a simple application form (Please contact Cinderford Artspace on 01594 825111 ext4, or email: sally@artspacecinderford.org ) which will then be considered at a
panel meeting of lead professionals. Panel meetings take place in January, February and
March. Artists are expected to complete an evaluation of their involvement in this scheme
by early April. As this project is to benefit Forest of Dean schools, artists must work in the Forest of Dean.
Artist's Bursary Scheme
Between January and March 2012, Cinderford Artspace is co-hosting a pilot project to
support artists who wish to develop their skills to work in schools. This work is being
funded by Create Gloucestershire, and the project is running in two areas of the County:
the Forest of Dean and Stroud.
Artists will be able to apply to Cinderford Artspace for a bursary to support their
development and increase their ability to work effectively in schools. Guidelines are
included in the application form document. Artists are able to apply for up to £750 and may
choose to request funding for anything that they feel will enable them to progress in this
area (for example equipment/materials/training or mentoring).
Application is in writing via a simple application form (Please contact Cinderford Artspace on 01594 825111 ext4, or email: sally@artspacecinderford.org ) which will then be considered at a
panel meeting of lead professionals. Panel meetings take place in January, February and
March. Artists are expected to complete an evaluation of their involvement in this scheme
by early April. As this project is to benefit Forest of Dean schools, artists must work in the Forest of Dean.
Please contact Cinderford Artspace on 01594 825111 ext4, or email
sally@artspacecinderford.org
Suspiro flamenco will be performing at Star Anise Café and Open House Stroud
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Saturday 7th April during Flamenco Semana Santa fiesta from 7.00pm. Tickets £5.00 adults and children free. Tickets available from Star Anise Café or email Suspiro Flamenco - suspiroflamencouk@me.com
Many thanks
Vicki Clifford
Suspiro Flamenco
Summer Reading Challenge Workshops
South Gloucestershire Council Libraries and Arts Service are seeking an exceptional artist to lead a series of one off workshops in all of its thirteen libraries as part of the Reading Agency’s Summer Reading Challenge. The Summer Reading Challenge encourages children to read 6 books over the course of the summer holidays with fun charts and stickers to mark their progress. The theme for this year’s Summer Reading Challenge is ‘Story Lab’.
The Reading Agency’s draft concept statement reads, ‘Step into Story Lab, and you’re off on an imaginative adventure that knows no bounds. The brainchild of Prof Cortex, Story Lab is a five-sided hi-tech HQ that attracts stories from all over the world and sends them spinning throughout the city – and beyond! Here you can read, collect, share, create, transmit and broadcast stories. For the Summer Reading Challenge, Prof Cortex has asked the story Lab kids, Will, Rani, Evie and Lex to recover three lost items to boost the imagination of the Story Lab.’
The SRC has been accepted as a Cultural Olympiad Project. The link to the Olympics this year will be made by setting the Story Lab in a thriving metropolis “hosting“ the Olympic Games. The Olympic Games will be hinted at with illustrative references to stadia and sporting clues, rather than an iconic London skyline. The three stages of the challenge are divided into bronze, silver and gold with medals awarded at each stage.
This provides opportunities for libraries to use the Story Lab as a starting point to appeal to children’s imagination, and take their reading off into new directions. The Reading Agency gives a brief outline of how the challenge stages may be used by libraries as part of the cultural development.
Stage 1: the bronze coin alludes to the history of storytelling and the wealth of tales that have been passed down through the ages. Encompassing non-fiction, historical fiction, and legends through the ages, it makes a link between our past and present, and diverse cultures from all over the world.
Stage 2: the silver mirror represents the power of the imagination that flows through books and fairytales. Reflecting the true potential of the narrator in fiction, it draws a parallel between the world of fairy tale, fiction, myths, and the real world we inhabit today.
Stage 3: the gold medal is the ultimate achievement and celebrates the transformative nature of books and stories. Just as reading entertains and amuses us, it also affords us the opportunity to enhance and enrich our lives, to push forward personal boundaries and attain new goals. Like the Olympic ideal, it represents a dream within our reach.
It is envisaged that the Reading Agency may publish a special book featuring material (stories, poems, jokes and illustrations) generated by young people during the SRC.
The SGC library service runs a series of arts and crafts workshops to encourage children to come along to the library and participate in the Challenge. We are looking for an artist to provide an initial workshop in each of our libraries as part of this programme to give a real ‘wow’ factor. The library staff are extremely experienced in running craft activities so we are particularly keen to encourage applications from artists working in other artforms such as performance, writing or storytelling or artists who are able to extend making activities into other areas such as animation or performance. It is anticipated that the workshops would take place at the start of the summer holidays over the weeks commencing 23 July and 30 July. The workshops are drop in sessions lasting up to 2 hours each and, in the past, we have had anything from 20 to 60 children of all ages come in over the course of a session. Library staff will be on hand to support the sessions.
There is a fee of £1600 to cover all artist’s fees, expenses and materials, including a planning session with children’s library staff team, all the workshop sessions and evaluation. If you are interested in taking up the Challenge yourselves, please send a copy of your CV with images of your work where appropriate plus a covering letter showing why you think you would be suitable for this commission and an outline of your workshop proposal to Alison.catlin@southglos.gov.uk by Tuesday 6 March, 2012. (Please note: that the Council’s system will not accept emails larger than 10MB)
Create Glos Open Space Event - needs and aspirations of young artists, students and graduates
Dear all,
Please find below the flyer for the next Create Glos Open Space which will be at Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham on the 13th April 2012.
The focus of this event is the needs and aspirations of young artists, students and graduates. The questions we will explore are:
- how best do you go about making a living in the creative industries in Gloucestershire?
- what would help to support you as you get started?
- what are the barriers you may face in getting to the next level?"
The event is free but we need people to book so we know numbers for the catering. Travel bursaries are available for young people who may not otherwise be able to attend.
The event has roughly the same format as our earlier October event but the evening programme is music based. PAC have an open call for musicians who may want to perform. Details on the flyer.
Please circulate as widely as you can.
Thanks
Pippa
Wednesday, 29 February 2012
Xposed Club - Wednesday 14th March 2012
The next Xposed Club event will take place in the FCH Chapel (Francis Close Hall), an atmospheric setting for a night of films and specially written and improvised soundtracks.
Starts 8pm
Tickets £5 and £3 students and concessions are available on the door
(or reserve in advance from Stuart Wilding)
The main act is Peter Urpeth (piano) and Stuart Wilding (percussion) performing a live soundtrack to short films by Man Ray, L'Etoile De Mer (1928) and Emak-Bakia (1926).
Peter Urpeth (b Romford, Essex 1963) is a pianist, harmoniumist and composer working mostly in improvisation, jazz, theatre music and alternative performance art forms.
His work in the theatre and with film started with onstage accompaniment to Steve Berkoff’s ‘Fall Of The House of Usher’; in Perriere Award-winning shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with Donald Swann (Flanders & Swann) in the Fania Williams / Richard Crane Company; with award-winning writer/performer Leon Robinson and, most recently, in a series of collaborations with poet, film-maker, artist and storyteller, Ian Stephen.
Silent movies are in his blood as his aunt, Constance Urpeth, was a performer in cinemas throughout London
Favouring adhoc and loose long-term partnerships, Peter has, over the last 30 years, worked with some of
He has given performances at the Purcell Room (South Bank Centre, London ), and on British Council Tours in France , Belgium and Holland , as well as playing in the Czech Republic
As well as being a musician, Peter is a novelist and poet. His first novel ‘Far Inland’ was published by Birlinn Polygon in 2006.
Also the CIO will be playing live scores to a selection of short films including works by contemporary Russian artist Michael Basov.
You are welcome to bring your own drinks.
Hope you can make it,
stu
Come check me out at www.myspace.com/thexposedclub www.myspace.com/cheltenhamimprovisers www.myspace.com/theweekofsmallmiracles
Xposed Club was the monthly live music club at Pittville Studios The University of Gloucestershire Albert Road Cheltenham run by Stuart Wilding and features all types of music but is active in promoting alternative and experimental music. The Popular Music Degree at the college offered students a space to showcase their music.
The Pittville Campus has closed as we know but Xposed continues...
For more information on Xposed Club visit www.myspace.com/thexposedclub or contact the event organiser Stuart Wilding via email at swilding@glos.ac.uk
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