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 May Newsletter 2004 Dear Arts Practitioner, It seems unbelievable that we are now fast approaching the middle of the year!!! There are some very exciting opportunities in this newsletter. Just a word of warning - the last round of seminars that we advertised were fully booked just ten days after the newsletter was sent out. So don't delay if you are interested in attending any of these events: SEMINAR PROGRAMME: PRESENTATION SKILLS A one-day practical workshop led by Ros Fry. For 12 people working within the arts who are planning to give a presentation and feel scared! One of the most nerve-wracking challenges we face is giving presentations. Some people do it brilliantly whilst others are terrible. This day-long workshop provides practical ideas on how to structure your presentation, how to use audio-visual aids and how to find enough confidence so that you actually begin to enjoy showing off! In a friendly, informal environment Ros encourages participants to collectively analyse their performances and develop ways to overcome nerves or perceived problems. Participants will be video taped in order to see how we all use our bodies as well as our words to communicate. This is a secure opportunity to experience the pitfalls of public speaking and discover ways to avoid them when it's for real. Ros Fry is an experienced arts marketing consultant and trainer who has run extremely well received training days for Creative Skills on Working with the Press, Marketing yourselves to art galleries and Arts Marketing Timeline. BECAUSE OF THE LIMITED NUMBER OF PLACES AVAILABLE ON THIS WORKSHOP, WE ARE OPERATING A SELECTION PROCESS. IF YOU WISH TO APPLY, PLEASE SEND A BRIEF OUTLINE OF WHY THE WORKSHOP IS RELEVANT FOR YOU, GIVING EXAMPLES OF PREVIOUS OR FUTURE PRESENTATIONS THAT YOU HAVE EITHER HAD TO, ARE OR GOING TO, DELIVER.
An informal illustrated discussion of creative approaches to Carnival, with the opportunity to see slides and video footage of Rio Carnival. This session will be led by visual artist, Amanda Lorens who spent time in Brazil this year looking at how Rio Carnival ideas and techniques could be adapted to working in schools and other participatory settings. (This is not a practical session) Who for - Makers, Teachers, Arts Organisations, Project Managers Why - For inspiration/ideas and to examine alternative approaches.
The three-day initiative costs £12 per day or £35 for all three days and aims to:
SATURDAY 10 JULY 10 - 5 Forget Sex and the City. Ibsen was not only ahead of his time when he was writing, he is still ahead of his time now. This workshop will centre on how Ibsen dealt with relationships between men and women. Participants will be asked to prepare specific scenes for practical work, and a basic knowledge of Ibsen's major plays is preferable, though not essential. Freelance director Sonia Fraser teaches at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and Drama Studio London. She directed Miriam Margolyes in Dickens' Women (Olivier Award nominated), and her most recent production Third Finger Left Hand is playing at the Assembly Rooms at the Edinburgh Festival this summer. SATURDAY 17 JULY 10 - 5 Comedy exists in every genre, and crosses every cultural and class divide. This workshop will explore the essence of comedy in a variety of styles. Participants are encouraged to bring material they would like to develop. Tony Howes co-starred with Paul Nicholas in Tommy Steele's National Tour of Singin' in the Rain. He has worked prolifically in theatre and TV for many years as an actor, presenter and comedian. SATURDAY 24 JULY 10 - 5 The practitioner has yet to be confirmed for this session, but we will be using a movement expert who has considerable experience of working with actors on physicalisation of emotion and character work. This workshop is a must for those who want to develop their understanding of physical acting.
On 2 - 4 September there will 'A Moveable Feast' at Falmouth College of Arts and this is your opportunity to request an application. 'Moveable Feasts' are workshops on workshop, for artists who run workshops. They are professional development and feeding for artists and the aim is simple: for artists to have a space and time to feed each other's creativity. The inspiration behind the concept of 'Moveable Feasts' is Tony Gee: "For some time I had thought it a ludicrous expectation that we should just go on churning out workshops and have our development dependent on the economic imperative of the next gig. It is my heartfelt opinion that what happens in workshops deserves more attention than that. It needs time-out to devise, rehearse, explore and change. Eventually, after many attempts, I gained support for my idea and this is it: A Moveable Feast. Workshop is a cauldron with three base elements: a leader, a group and the work. In combination, these elements release the other ingredients that can create transformation. How the potentials of all three elements in the cauldron are tapped is crucial to the motion and magnitude of the workshop. Some of those ingredients are:
These three days are not about saying: This is how you should run a workshop. They are about asking: What are the ingredients that make workshop so energising?" WHO RUNS IT? Each Feast is devised, led and documented by a team: Tony Gee, Martin Corbin, Debs Price and Ken Beagley. HOW MUCH DOES IT COST? It's free A LITTLE BIT MORE... This is the first Falmouth Feast. It is residential and will run from 10 am on Thursday 2 September to 6.00pm on Saturday 4 September. You will need to commit to the whole event. At this stage it is not possible to be specific about what is involved but it will include: Making, doing, moving, playing, eating, talking, laughing, drinking, thinking and collaborating. There will be music, colour and a lot of different art forms.
We are now taking bookings for places on the second delivery this year of MANAGEMENT FOR CREATIVE PEOPLE. This course will provide you with a range of skills that will help you to manage yourself, your practice or your business, projects and other people. Topics covered include: Problem Solving (recognising and developing the skills needed to analyse problems effectively), Time Management (techniques and systems to help you manage time more effectively), Negotiating Skills and Working to a Budget. The next start date for this course is 2 September, and it will be at the Lakeview Country Club in Bodmin, so that it is more accessible for practitioners from the north of Cornwall. It will run for one day per week for 6 weeks. Lunch will be provided and we will be able to pay travel and childcare costs for those who attend. This will be the third time that we have run this course. All the others have been fully booked and participants have graduated from it with flying colours! Early booking for the September course is therefore strongly recommended. We're expecting to send out our next newsletter in mid August. But in the meantime, you can contact us on 01872 273344 or on our new email address admin@creativeskills.org.uk By the end of June we hope to have our website up and running. At the moment there is just an information page, but if you'd like to have a look and see how things are progressing, just go to www.creativeskills.org.uk Also, the new Creative Skills publicity material will be out in the public domain during June, so keep a look out for it in galleries, performance spaces and other less likely places! Have a wonderful summer. Jane Sutherland Project Director |
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