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NEWS BULLETIN:
The information posted below may not be a Creative Canterbury initiative, so please make sure you get in touch with the person listed as the contact for further information. If you'd like to post your news here email arts@canterbury.gov.uk with the details
Culture Awards 2012 - Paid Commission opportunity £1500
The Culture Awards 2012 will be a high profile event with top industry sponsors and dedicated media coverage from the Kent Messenger. This is an opportunity to showcase your work to the East Kent cultural sector, business and wider public.
We need 10 award statues designed and produced that will be presented to the winners of each category on June 21 2012
Deadline Friday 2 March 2012
Animate Arts Company Work Placement
2012 – The year of your creative career?
We are looking for individuals who…
...are creative and imaginative
...Interested in working with children and special needs
... a team player and pro-active
... based in Kent
...wants to be part of Kent’s Cultural Olympiad 2012
... open-minded to working in all art forms
...Keen to learn from professional artists-in-education
...would like to inspire school through the arts
...and bursting with creativity!
Animate Arts Company is offering work placements on a unique project for schools across Kent. ‘The Garden of England’ project will be led by a team of experienced artists delivering a series of workshops to design and build a garden, made entirely from paper and card.
This project is part of a school programme by Kent’s Campaign for London 2012 (www.kentsport.org/london2012). Schools involved are located in three areas of Kent; Maidstone, Ashford and Herne Bay. This placement offers an opportunity to work in a range of different schools (secondary, primary and special needs) in one of these geographical areas, supporting a professional artist working with the teachers and pupils.
Workshop are currently being booked and planned with schools, so we are unable to list exact dates. However can advise that the placement will involve ten days of workshops, between January and March 2012. There are additional opportunities within the project for individuals to get involved with the ‘behind the scenes’ production of this project too.
The work placement artist will need a CRB check, valid within two years of issue (or agree to undertake a check, arranged and paid by Animate Arts). Although no fee is available, expenses for travel are available and we believe the placement will offer valuable experience and develop partnerships to work with Animate Arts in the future. To find out more about Animate Art’s work, please click www.animatecommunityarts.com
If you are interested in opportunity and would like to express your interest, please contact us on email@animatecommunityarts.com. Applicants will be invited to informally meet the team and discuss the opportunity. Dates can be negotiated with the applicant.
Macmillan Cancer Research 2012 Art Show
I‘m hosting an art show for Macmillan Cancer Support at the much sought after Georges House Gallery, Folkestone from Thursday 16th to Wednesday 29th February 2012. Regrettably, I'm not an artist and have no work of my own to sell. I urgently require the generous donation of a contemporary work, preferably (but not exclusively) on canvas, that will ideally sell at a premium. If sold, the charity takes no less than 50% of the proceeds, the artist, takes the rest. If unsold, it comes back to the artist. In the interim the artist and their donated work will get fantastic media exposure in addition to targeted leafleting, a dedicated website and much more.
If any of your members are interested, in the first instance please can they forward a J-PEG of the item of work they would like to submit, together with the title, medium (if not canvas) and dimensions and the price they anticipate the work will sell for (high and low price would be useful) – please note all prints will need to be limited editions and framed. In addition, please can they also confirm the amount of the sale they would like to donate to Macmillan Cancer Support if the work is bought (minimum 50%, maximum 100%). Finally, if there’s any additional information they’d like to forward about the submitted work, themself (a link to their own website would be fantastic) or why they’re donating, I’d like to know.
Unfortunately I have limited space so I won’t be able to exhibit every submission (likely to be no more than one per artist). The work to be exhibited in the Art Show will be confirmed no later than Sunday 22nd January 2012. Full details regarding the handing in (and collection of) work will be forwarded in due course. In the interim, please visit, like and share the facebook page I’ve set-up (link below) which will be regularly updated.
Anifest 2012
We are pleased to announce that the Short Animation competition is now open for Anifest 2012! Please enter your best British and International films now and we look forward to watching them.
Please follow this link for more details: www.canterburyanifest.com/main-competition/
Using the Arts with Young People
Wednesday 25 January 2012
Risk Intermediate Level – Accredited Training Course
TEN offices,3 Lakesview Enterprise Centre, Lakesview International Business Park, Hersden, Canterbury CT3 4NH
9:30 till 5pm.
This one day course explores what can be achieved when using the arts with vulnerable and disadvantaged young people. Starting with a detailed explanation of the benefits of youth arts this session will cover many of the practical issues involved in using the arts with young people at risk, including current CRB child protection legislation. Using a mixture of training techniques to help educate and inform, this course will take you all the way through project planning to project closure.
Trainers
Artsplan trainers have a wide range of excellent skills, experience and understanding developed whilst working within the Youth Arts sector, enabling us to deliver quality training courses which will benefit and enhance the roles of other practitioners working within this area.
Participants
This course is suitable for anyone currently using or looking to use the arts with vulnerable and disadvantaged young people, including youth workers, artists, arts venues, councils and other similar roles.
This course aims to:
Provide you with an overview of the benefits of using the arts to work with young people
Explore and identify various contexts of work using the arts with vulnerable young people, including formal and informal opportunities Identify the skills needed to successfully design, fund, manage and market an arts project for vulnerable young people
On successful completion of this course participants should be able to:
Demonstrate a variety of youth arts project management skills
Identify the issues to be aware of when planning and running a youth arts project with young people at risk
Demonstrate an understanding of the benefits of arts work with vulnerable young people
Demonstrate a knowledge of current child protection legislation and the confidence to ensure their youth arts project complies with recommended guidelines
Accreditation
Credits: 4 credits QCF Level: 3 Awarding Body: ABC.
Assessment Requirements: Participants will be asked to put together a portfolio of evidence for assessment. Participants will gather this evidence both on the course day and through independent work, following the course. This work will need to be submitted to obtain the accreditation for this course. Please contact Artswork's Professional Development Manager for further information.
If you are interested please email Lorraine at admin@aca-eastkent.org or call on 07917166912 for more details on how to book and gain your bursary placement.
The course is subsidised for any artist who is living in east Kent and who is willing to join the association which is free of charge to join. The idea of the association is to create opportunities for professional development amongst artists in East Kent so that artist can think about sustainable ways in which to engage within the community. Any artist who lives outside of East Kent but who would like to book may also join us at the higher rate.
Bursary placement for East kent artist £70 each including certificate and lunch. Normal price £120 includes certification/acreditation and lunch.
