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 Summer Newsletter 2006 First of all - new staff, staff changes, reminder of who's where and when If you are in the Penwith area you may already know that Jude Page has taken a year's sabbatical to go travelling. So in the interim we are delighted to be joined by Jane Pugh, who is well known to many of you as a writer and film maker. Jane is based in the Penzance office two days per week and one day in Redruth. Alison Sharkey is the Redruth Animateur who runs the Camelford and Liskeard surgery sessions once per month and Carole Lomas is our Redruth based Business Adviser. We are also soon to be joined in the Penzance office by an additional Business Adviser who will have responsibility for providing business advice in Penwith. The post is supported by Penwith District Council, who are very aware of the important role that the Creative Industries play in the economy of Penwith. Once appointed the Penwith Business Adviser will be in the Creative Skills Penzance office four days per week. If you want to make an appointment with any of the Creative Skills team, please call 01209 218879 for the Redruth office 01736 334680 for Penzance Next - A reminder and update of Creative Skills services The core seminar programme for 2006 -is enclosed and bookings for the autumn programme open on the 1st August. If you are planning to come along to the autumn courses, please double check the dates and venues, as some have been changed since the last core programme was published. The Skills Development Fund - is the part funding grant that can help you undertake your own professional development activity. These grants can support mentoring relationships, research visits, shadowing opportunities etc. Applications are considered at the end of each month and please note that, as from July, the percentage of grant payable will be 50% of the overall cost of the activity. Training Grant - if attending a course or gaining a qualification is the answer to your continuing professional development, you may be eligible for a Training Grant, which provides up to £240 to help you undertake a course. Applications are considered on a rolling programme, contact us for an application. Skills Development Programme - We are delighted that Creative Skills has been asked to deliver the Cornwall element of a new Skills Development Programme for the Creative Industries. The SDP is a regional initiative funded by the Regional Development Agency and the Arts Council in partnership with ArtsMatrix, the regional Continuing Professional Development Agency for the South West. This new programme means that we now offer the option of 3 hour long Professional Practice Reviews aimed at those who would like more detailed business support to achieve growth for their practice. The programme will enable you to:
If you would like to book a Professional Practice Review please call us at the Redruth office on 01209 218879. Of course the one hour Development Needs and Business Needs Analysis sessions will continue to be available in both Redruth and Penzance as well as at the monthly surgery sessions in Camelford and Liskeard. Forthcoming Events Tracey Emin Film The Salt Gallery, Hayle. 5th August - 7th September We are delighted to be able to support The Salt Gallery in bringing to Cornwall ‘Top Spot,' Tracey Emin's controversial autobiographical film. Appropriately taking its title from a teenage disco, the film draws from Tracey Emin's own experiences of growing up in Margate. Alongside this the film is also an evocative poem to Margate, as Emin mixes DV footage and Super 8 film into a lyrical montage. As with much of Emin's work, the biographical detail lends a poignancy and sense of sadness, lifted by the artist's own indomitable spirit. Shot in 2004 in Margate, London and Egypt, this is personal history at its most adventurously cinematic. Creative Skills Jumble Sale The Old Grammar School, Redruth. Saturday September 23rd, Open 10.30am - 2pm Clearing out your studio, moving house, tidying out your cupboards, want to get rid of those unfortunate Christmas presents? Then come and sell your unwanted equipment, bric a brac and treasures at the Creative Skills Jumble Sale. As an added bonus you'll get to meet lots of interesting creative people. This is your chance to get rid of it all and make a few pennies. Plus - Cake baking competition and raffle! It's £5 to have a table - there's limited space, so tick the box on the form enclosed to book your place. Cornwall Visual Arts Forum The Old Grammar School, Redruth. 24th October 10.00am The theme for the second Visual Arts Forum is ‘Risk Taking'. Confirmed speakers are; the artist Tessa Garland, who was one of the founder members of Penwith Artists Led Projects and has a wealth of experience in curating, arts in education and exhibiting who will be joined by her partner, Marcel Baettig, the Director of Bow Arts www.bowarts.org.uk . Conceptual artist, Sovay Berriman, will update you on how the EEK! Project was developed and run at The Old Grammar School. The afternoon will be a Talking Heads session between Sara Black, Director of ProjectBase and Clare Doherty. Clare is a curator and writer who leads ‘Situations' a research and commissioning programme, as Research Fellow in Fine Art at the University of the West of England in Bristol http://situations.org.uk . The programme is devised to investigate the significance of context in the commissioning and production of contemporary art. More recently, she has edited Contemporary Art: From Studio to Situation, a major new book on the shift from studio-based art practice to the 'situated' practice. From 1995-2000, she was Curator of Exhibitions at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; from 2000-2001 Projects Curator at Spike Island and from 2001-2004 Associate Curator at FACT (Foundation for Art & Creative Technology), Liverpool. In summer 2005 she curated the first Situations contemporary art programme in Bristol, Thinking of the Outside. Responding to the feedback from the first Visual Arts Forum, the Forum's planning group have designed the second event to be one where debate is actively encouraged between those presenting and those attending. It is envisaged that this will be the beginning of some challenging and groundbreaking discussions about contemporary visual art in Cornwall which will continue outside the arena of the Visual Arts Forum. If you wish to attend, please complete the enclosed booking form. Liverpool Biennial Trip - ‘Debate, networking and inspiration' September 14th - 17th 2006 Object of the visit - To provide an opportunity for 3 emerging / early career practitioners based in Cornwall with a professional interest in the visual arts, to go to an international visual arts festival. This includes writers, curators and artists. We envision the event developing beyond the trip itself. In collaboration with ProjectBase and other organisations, Creative Skills will aim for this trip to be part of a series of events inspired by the initial visit to Liverpool. Artists taking part in the trip will be expected to share their experiences in some way with other artists in Cornwall though the Visual Arts Forum. The Plan The trip will be over four days; Thursday, 14th September travelling up to Liverpool (details tbc) Friday 15th September will be spent going to exhibitions and events and attending the opening in the evening. Saturday 16th September continue spending time visiting events Sunday 17th September Travel back to Cornwall Selection Process The selection will be made by a panel made up Creative Skills representatives and ProjectBase. It will be guided by the importance of putting together a dynamic group that we feel will work together during the trip to maximise the level of debate and enable positive links to be developed on the group's return. Deadline for Applications Postal and e mail applications must arrive by midday Monday August 21st. . IF YOU WISH TO APPLY FOR AN APPLICATION PACK, PLEASE CONTACT THE REDRUTH OFFICE IMMEDIATELY . Cornwall Film Festival 16th - 19th November 2006 Princess Pavilion, Falmouth Plans are well under way for the 2006 Cornwall Film Festival from 16th - 19th November. Under the direction of Laura Hardman, this year looks set to be the biggest and best yet. The deadline for applications is 15th August 2006. In addition to the usual categories of Documentaries, Animations and Dramas of all genres, the Festival will also be holding a special screening for: 4 minute documentaries, student films, the young persons film festival, artist moving image and surf/skate films. The final programme of educational work shops, discussions and feature screening is yet to be confirmed, but the Festival will be holding practical workshops on Friday 17th November. For updates or more details visit: www.cornwallfilmfestival.com or tick the box on the enclosed booking form to register your interest Life Drawing Opportunity Dates & times tbc Venue tbc During the autumn there will be a chance to attend six days of life drawing in the new Arts and Media studios at Cornwall College Camborne, as part of their Higher Education programme. The six sessions cost £100 in total, but practitioners may apply for a CS Training Grant to fund their place. The sessions will be delivered as illustrated seminars examining a range of approaches to drawing and focusing on content and methods of expression/description. This will be followed by an intensive period of practice, designed to extend powers of observation and expression. Drawing will take place in the new studios and other appropriate locations. The dates and timing of the sessions has not been confirmed as yet. If you are interested in attending, please tick the expression of interest box on the enclosed booking form. Open Studios 2007 Following on from the success of this year's Cornwall Open Studios, in which 118 artists took part. The dates for the 2007 event which will be Saturday 26 May - Sunday 3 June. This year we were delighted to have ‘Inside Cornwall' as our media partner, which meant that the Open Studios brochure was distributed with the April edition of the magazine throughout Cornwall. We also achieved coverage in the Daily Telegraph as well as in the local press and media. The feedback from participants has been very positive, with the majority reporting satisfactory levels of visitors and sales during the event. If you are interested in taking part in Cornwall Open Studios 2007, please indicate on the enclosed booking form. We will send you an application pack which will be mailed to you during August. And Finally....Creative Skills E-bulletin & Website. If you are not already registered on our website, did you know that we send a weekly e-bulletin packed full of training information, vacancies and events? You can also download grant application forms and contact us. To register, go to... www.creativeskills.org.uk Creative Skills, The Old Grammar School, West Park, Redruth TR15 3AJ 01209 218879 ACT charity number 292138 |
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