Work Experience for Young People with the BBC (deadline 14.March 2010)

04/03/2010 No Comments »

Generation Gap on Teaching -Listen online

Series of programmes in which two people from different generations discuss a topic that reveals the changing nature of Britain.
The theme of the first five programmes is Respect.
Kevin Madden started teaching in a Catholic, inner-city Manchesterboys’ school in 1945. His grandson Patrick McMahon has just startedteaching in a mainly moslem school in Rochdale. They discuss thechanging nature of respect between pupils and teachers and how schoolshave reflected wider society.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qszyv

27/02/2010 No Comments »

Creative Use of ICT in Schools:

I would like to share a small project of one of my Change Schools New Invention Junior School:

Stop Press our eggs have hatched!… view the chicks on web cam at:

http://www.invention-j.walsall.sch.uk

follow the Egg Cam link on the main menu to view our chicks.

26/02/2010 No Comments »

An invitation to theatre practitioners in Birmingham and the West Midlands to meet informally with experienced creative producers, directors and programmers for free impartial advice, support and exchange.

“OnCall”

‘OnCall’ has been developed as an action research project following themid*point ‘Challenge of Change’ event in November 2009. For more informationabout ‘On Call’ and the people taking part: http://thechallengeofchange.toyoutome.net, click Theatre ‘Bob’ and follow the commentsat the bottom. Or Facebook group: ‘The Challenge of Change: On Call’

Pleaseemail orit@c-sense.uk.com toraise a question with a specific person or just turn up on the day

Thursday 25^th Feb

5.30pm – 7.30pm Birmingham Rep Cafe Bar

Geraldine Collinge (Creative producer andprogrammer: project development, artist development) , Gary Roskell (ChiefExecutive: funding, governance, running a company and a charity)

Tuesday 2^nd March

11.00am – 1pm Urban Coffee Co, Church Street, Birmingham

Helga Henry (Producer, facilitator and executivedirector: company development, fundraising, governance, training, local andregional networks), Paul Warwick (Director: artistdevelopment, artistic development, creative processes) Orit Azaz (Directorand facilitator: creative processes and collaboration; site and contextspecific; partnerships)

Tuesday 9^th March

11am – 1pm Hudsons Coffee House, Colmore Row, Birmingham

Laura McDermott (Creative producer/programmer:artist development, creation of new work, planning and programming festivalsand seasons within a venue ), Louisa Davies (Producer andprogrammer: fundraising, touring, artist development and marketing), SteveBall (Producer and programmer: Work for young people, statutory andcharitable fundraising, international brokering; local and regional networks )

Tuesday 9^th March

5.30pm – 7.30pm Birmingham Rep Cafe Bar

Noel Dunne (Producer specialising in creativityand learning: collaborations between artists, communities and agencies;partnership building; fundraising and project management); JennyStephens (Theatre director, writer and radio producer: new writing anddevelopment, board development and actor training);Elizabeth Tomlin (Lecturerin drama: setting up companies, getting profile, advice on practice based PhDsand university study, playwrights)

Thursday 11^th March

5.30pm meet at Birmingham Rep then go for something to eat

Amanda Roberts (Producer and Programmer: artistand company development, making things happen, collaborative approaches,fundraising, programming, project management); JanetVaughan (Artistic Director and Designer: artist development, creativeprocesses, making connections – Red Teapot) , Pippa Frith(Projectmanager and programmer: getting started and making things happen in Birminghamand the region)

26/02/2010 No Comments »