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October 31, 2005
New Cultural Partner for the Ambassadors network
Stage to Learn is a new and exciting service available to primary schools, offering drama workshops for pupils from Key Stages 1 and 2.
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October 27, 2005
INSETs for Primary teachers at Tyneside Cinema
InSETs for primary teachers using moving image media in the classroom.
Starting Stories - KS1
Tuesday 8th November, 1.00pm - 4.00pm
This InSET session will offer teachers in Primary contexts a rationale for working with films as texts to develop language and literacy. Focusing on talk for writing and the development of shared writing, the INSET will give teachers confidence in using the Starting Stories resource, and techniques for exploiting the rich potential films have as texts in relation to literacy.
Story Shorts - KS2
Wednesday 9th November, 10.00am - 1.00pm
This InSET session is designed to show teachers how they can use moving image media in the classroom, promoting the development of literacy skills. It will use Story Shorts to show how short films can be used effectively to support speaking, listening, reading and writing, for example, by focusing on character, narrative and setting.
Course Fees: £70.50 per person.
Price includes light refreshments and an illustrated teaching resource pack.
For further information or to book a place on the course, please contact Holli McGuire on 0191 232 8289 x 107 / holli@tynecine.org
Posted by at 1:43 PM
Ice skating packages for schools at Life Science Centre
Get your skates on and come to Life!
The open-air ice rink opens on Saturday 12th November.
See this attachment for the schools offers.
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Posted by at 12:03 PM
The North East Regional Museums Hub
Here's an introduction to this interesting body, covering many of the museums in the north east of England.
The North East Regional Museums Hub is a partnership between Tyne and Wear Museums, Beamish Museum, The Bowes Museum and Hartlepool Museums and the North East Museums, Libraries and Archives Council. The Hub is funded by the DCMS through the Renaissance in the Regions Programme and managed by the MLA. The overall aim of the Hub is to ensure that more children, young people and families can benefit from the extensive and varied Museum collections around the North East region.
The Hub Education Team employs Education Officers specialising in Family Learning, Key Stages 3&4 and Literacy. In addition, two Cultural Entitlement Officers have recently joined the team. Their role is to promote Museum Education and the ways in which it can help school staff in the delivery of a rich and varied curriculum.
If you have any questions about Museum Education, or would like to have a chat about how Museums can help you, whatever age group or subject area you are interested in and whether in a formal or informal setting, please contact:
Sarah Allen
North East Regional Museums Hub
Cultural Entitlement Officer
Durham and Tees Valley
Telephone: 01429 284 348
Email: sarah.allen@twmuseums.org.uk
Deborah Hawthorne
North East Regional Museums Hub
Cultural Entitlement Officer
Tyne and Wear and Northumberland
Telephone: 0191 263 9860
Email: deborah.hawthorne@twmuseums.org.uk
The Hub already runs the INNOVART art teachers network. Look out for further teacher and school events from them in the future.
http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/hub/
Posted by at 10:43 AM
October 26, 2005
Gateshead's Cultural & Creativity Ambassadors AGM 2005
All CCAs in Gateshead are cordially invited to the 2005 AGM at Tyne View Primary School on the 22nd of November at 4pm.
RSVP to: Barbara-Ann Brown, Ambassadors Co-ordinator, on 0191 477 5380
barbaraannbrown@gateshead.gov.uk
Posted by at 4:52 PM
Forthcoming twilight CPDs for Gateshead Ambassadors
An art session on Thursday the 19th of January at BALTIC for Primary and Secondary teachers and a PHSE resource session in early February for Secondary teachers.
More details to follow.
Posted by at 4:45 PM
Wellbeing in the Workplace: whole day courses from Gateshead Council
Thank you to Jane Anderson, the Staff Development Co-ordinator in the Raising Achievement Service for letting Gateshead teachers know about the following attractive series of wellbeing courses, held in Saltwell Towers from October until March 2006.
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Posted by at 3:41 PM
Big Lottery Boost to Young Social Entrepreneurs
The programme will support a wide range of youth ideas from school-based enterprises through to larger scale, community projects (examples may range from a counselling helpline for young people, to a youth magazine, which raises awareness of racism). The programme will use strict assessment and monitoring criteria, including face-to-face interviews and follow-up procedures, to ensure that it reaches its target audience, including young people from deprived communities.
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Posted by at 3:14 PM
Education for sustainable development
From policy into practice
Friday 18 November 2005, London
International Week presents an opportunity to celebrate the benefits of international education in the context of sustainable development. This conference will provide an opportunity to bring together the different aspects and ways of engaging with the sustainable development and education agenda.
Read on for more...
Through adopting the innovative 'open space' format, the conference will enable participants to exchange views on sustainable practice and policy and engage in an arena of lively holistic dialogue with the aim of bringing together policy makers and practitioners to facilitate the development of policy at a local level.
Participants will have the opportunity to:
* Gain an overview and understand the concepts of sustainable development beyond the environmental issues.
* Engage in a dialogue around the implementation of sustainable practices.
* Identify effective quality indicators around sustainable practice.
* Explore sustainable development action plans to enable policy makers and practitioners to plan and devise working strategies to implement their plans locally.
The conference will host a marketplace with organisations supporting national and international development on sustainable development and poverty
To reserve a place using the Online Conference Reservation facility (OCR), visit:
http://www.niace.org.uk/Conferences/SustainableDevelopment05.htm
Enquiries to: Gurjit Kaur on Tel: 0116 2042833 e-mail: gurjit.kaur@niace.org.uk
Posted by at 3:09 PM
Grafitti and Stencil Workshops
Workshops Thursday 27th and Friday 28th October for 11-16 year-olds in the Market Hall in Gateshead Town Centre.
http://www.adobe.com/acrobat for update of Acrobat readers if necessary:
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Posted by at 3:00 PM
External funding bulletin from Gateshead Council
Funding via the Community Foundation:
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Posted by at 2:55 PM
WOMEX 2005 at The Sage Gateshead
WOMEX 2005 welcomes the world to NewcastleGateshead:
The countdown has begun to the globe's elite world music business expo event - WOMEX 2005 (26-30 October) and for the first time ever it's being staged in the United Kingdom. Delegates from all over the planet will flock to The Sage Gateshead in the North East of England - a region that is proud and privileged to be hosting WOMEX 2005. NewcastleGateshead is ready to stage the ultimate world music cultural experience, an event that will be remembered for years to come - with its ability of mixing business with pleasure.
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WOMEX 2005 is part of the 2005 Alive Festival of Music - a yearlong celebration of music across the North East and is supported by Arts Council England, One NorthEast, Gateshead Council and NewcastleGateshead Initiative's cultural programme.
WOMEX is a real pilgrimage for world music professionals. It consists of a trade fair, conference sessions, film screenings, day and evening Showcases and concludes with the WOMEX Award celebrations including a special award for Zanzibar's most famous cultural ambassador Bi Kidude. It's a dream opportunity for people interested in the flourishing world music scene as who knows when WOMEX will next grace the shores of the UK (for further details about WOMEX 2005 please visit www.womex.com)
WOMEX is the biggest world music business expo on Earth and it's a major coup for the North East to have The Sage Gateshead hosting the prestigious event. The Sage Gateshead has lobbied hard along with other key partners including Arts Council England to bring WOMEX to the region. Organisers started the Olympic-esque campaign over six years ago, long before the arrival of The Sage Gateshead with a pipedream that would cement the North East's reputation as being recognised as a true cultural force.
The creative heartbeat of The Sage Gateshead is to provide an international home for music and musical discovery, which is ultimately represented by the expectation and drive behind WOMEX 2005. The long-term benefits of staging WOMEX will be evident with the development of crucial international relations between regional representatives of the world music scene and their global counterparts.
Public Showcase events: WOMEX 2005 isn't only available to delegates the general public can also enjoy the electric world music vibe and experience this energy firsthand by attending the special WOMEX Showcase events. The 48 Showcases will take place over three nights of amazing entertainment - Thursday 27, Friday 28 and Saturday 29 October - at the hive of international music activity, The Sage Gateshead and the fabulous "Best of British" offWOMEX Showcase events will take place at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art on the Gateshead Quays. offWOMEX gives people the chance to experience cutting edge performances from some of Britain's most exciting young artists.
Music fans will be in awe of the talent on show with over 36 countries being represented by some of the hottest acts on today's world music scene. The variety on offer is second to none with performance styles ranging from: Afro-pop to Gypsy; electronic tabla breaks to reggae; traditional folk to jazz; Hip-Hop to Tango; and Asian Blues to GangstaFolk.
The WOMEX Showcase highlights include: Nitin Sawhney (UK); Hermeto Pascoal (Brazil); Cristobal Repetto (Argentina); Flook (Ireland/UK); DJ Scratchy (UK); Thandiswa (South Africa); The Unusual Suspects (Scotland/UK); Dele Sosimi (Nigeria/UK); Tiken Jah Fakoly (Ivory Coast/France) and Wang Lei (China).
The flavour reflects this year's WOMEX Focus, which is "A Common Wealth of Music" a theme to be enjoyed and investigated across the whole five-days.
The offWOMEX "Best of British" Showcase highlights include: Eliza Carthy (North Yorkshire / Edinburgh); The Eduardo Niebla Experience (Ripon/Birmingham/London); Jazz Jamaica (London); The Kathryn Tickell Band (Northumberland); Michael McGoldrick (Manchester/Glasgow/London); Principle 3 (NewcastleGateshead); bellowhead (South East England) and Shri Live Project (London).
How to book: WOMEX evening showcase tickets are priced at £18 (per night / per ticket) and are available from The Sage Gateshead by contacting (0191) 4434661, alternatively visit www.thesagegateshead.org (ticket-holders are free to move between performance spaces - The Sage Gateshead and BALTIC - capacity allowing).
WOMEX business trade fair delegate registration: People can still sign up for WOMEX delegate registration up until Wednesday 26 October full details can be found on the official website www.womex.com
Posted by at 2:38 PM
NEMLAC newsletter
Teachers can subscribe to the North East Museum, Library and Archive Council's e-newsletter via:
http://www.nemlac.co.uk/nemlac/page.php3?27
Posted by at 2:35 PM
Tyneside Cinema Education Newsletter Autumn 2005
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Posted by at 2:27 PM
Online commercial art gallery in the north east
A new era in art retail.
Art Evolution, an innovative new art retailer, showcases over 600 pieces of artwork produced by the North East's most talented artists. Art Evolution's affordable artwork is available to view through the innovative new online gallery that dispels the myth that modern art is only affordable to a minority with sale prices ranging from £25 to £2,500. The gallery offers you access to open, limited edition and original contemporary artwork across a range of mediums including photography, painting and sculpture pieces. Every piece is available for rent, as well as to purchase, allowing you to change your artwork on a short or long term basis in line with your décor or for a specific occasion. Art Evolution offer a highly personalised recommendation service tailored to your specific needs to ensure you find the perfect piece of art for your office or your home. As well as stocking over 600 pieces of exciting new contemporary artwork, Art Evolution offers: A commissioning service to produce a bespoke piece of artwork specific to your individual requirements and space. Art Gift Vouchers for special occasions or corporate gifts that can be redeemed against any piece of art on the gallery or to commission a new piece.
The 'Art Update' feature that ensures you are amongst the first to find out about new artists and work to become available on the gallery.
If you would like to discover more about the artwork available through Art Evolution visit the gallery at www.artevolution.co.uk
Victoria Anderson
Managing Director
T: 0784 005 6504
E: info@artevolution.co.uk
W: www.artevolution.co.uk
Art Evolution Limited Registered Office: 11 The Wynd, Gosforth, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE3 4LA. Registered in England and Wales no. 5268599
Posted by at 2:20 PM
Music teachers conference
The Guidlhall School of Music & Drama and the Barbican Centre present:
The Reflective Conservatoire
February 16th-19th 2006, London
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NB: Helena Gaunt is the contact at GSMD: her new email address is:
helena.gaunt@gsmd.ac.uk
Posted by at 2:10 PM
Film day for teachers (Northern Film & Media)
New Directions II: Factual Movie Making in the Community - A day of screenings, discussion and workshops.
Find out how to run a successful participatory filmmaking project in the community from the professionals including: The Community Channel; BBC; Calling The Shots (Bristol); Haltwhistle Film Project and other North East producers.
Date: November 15, 2005
Time: 10.00 - 4.30
Venue: Gala Theatre Durham City
To register your interest in this FREE event contact Lorna on 0191 2699210 or email lorna@northernmedia.org; further information and a booking form will be sent to you after October 10th. Places will be limited and early booking will be essential.
This event is produced by Northern Film & Media and kindly sponsored by Unity Trust Bank and Gala Theatre Durham City.
Lorna Partington
Audience Development Manager
Direct Line: 0191 2699210
NORTHERN FILM & MEDIA
Investing in People and Ideas
Central Square, Forth Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3PJ. Tel - 0191 269 9200, Fax - 0191 269 9213 www.northernmedia.org Company Registration No 4357249
Posted by at 1:58 PM
Travel ticket offer open to Gateshead teachers
Gateshead Council Corporate Travel Ticket Scheme
Join the Council's extended Travel Ticket Scheme. Not only will the cost be spread over the period of your ticket through salary deduction, you could also get a discount, and it will save you renewing monthly. See what's on offer:
Network Travelticket annual tickets
MetroSaver All Zones annual tickets
Go-Ahead Tyne & Wear and Regionwide 6 and 13 x 28 day tickets
Stagecoach annual Megarider and Megarider Plus
Arriva annual tickets
To get further information about the Scheme and an application form, with prices, terms and conditions, contact the Travel Plan Co-ordinator, Lorna Bell, by phone: 0191 433 3095, or by email: lornabell@gateshead.gov.uk.
The scheme is a Gateshead Council Travel Plan initiative.
Posted by at 1:55 PM
EUCLID seminars 2005
CulturEuro Seminars - EU Funding Opportunities for the Cultural Sector…
This invitation comes from Peter Mok, EUCLID's marketing executive:
EUCLID, the UK's official Cultural Contact Point is pleased to announce that our current round of CulturEuro Seminars across 19 major cities across the UK is underway! We will be visiting Carlisle on 26th October (The Fratry, Carlisle Cathedral) and Newcastle (Arts Council England, North East) on 24th November.
The half day seminars will highlight not only current and future EU funding opportunities but also ways in which cultural organisations can build partnerships, access other European sources of funding and deal with the challenges of EU rules and regulations.
The seminars will run from 13:30 – 16:45 and all participants will receive a full information pack with notes on the presentations and extensive contact details. The cost to attend is £70 (plus VAT).
For further details and access to the online booking forms please visit www.euclid.info/uk/seminars
Finally, I would be very grateful if you could please include this information on your website and in any publications and mailings. In addition, please do forward this information to colleagues you think would be interested in attending.
Many thanks
Kind regards,
Peter Mok
Marketing Assistant
EUCLID
12 Charlotte Street
Manchester
M1 4FL
T: +44 (0)7000 382543 (EUCLID)
F: +44 (0)161 245 3322
W: www.euclid.info
E: peter@euclid.info
Posted by at 1:49 PM
Free DDA Act seminars in November
Disability North are offering free seminars on disability access issues...
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Posted by at 11:17 AM
Transcription and talking publications from Gateshead Council AIRS team
For information in large print, Braille, audio cassette, CD or British Sign Language video, contact the Council's AIRS service.
There are well over 2500 residents in Gateshead who cannot read standard print. If your service users or staff need information in alternative formats, please contact AIRS (Access to Information and Reading Services) at Gateshead Central Library on 0191 433 8450. We are part of Cultural Services within the Community Based Services group and offer:
Professional transcription services - all kinds of printed information transcribed, such as Council News and service letters, plans and leaflets. Material delivered direct to clients on your behalf.
Translation into British Sign Language on video and DVD - we can also subtitle and edit existing videos.
Tactile maps - new service enabling visually impaired people to feel the detail on floor and site plans and office layouts. Competitive rates and professional quality binding and presentation from a nationally recognised service - AIRS won RNIB's Accessible Information Award in 2004. Free four-times weekly AIRS talking newspaper and audio magazine service for Gateshead residents - publicise your services and events to hard to reach people.
Help and advice about making your services and information more accessible for visually impaired and Deaf clients and staff.
To contact us, e-mail airs@gateshead.gov.uk or for estimates, ring Janice Holmes, AIRS Production Manager, on 0191 433 8458.
Posted by at 10:59 AM
ExploreMusic scoops award
Rachel Peacock, Reference and Information Manager for Gateshead Libraries tells us that ExploreMusic (situated inside The Sage Gateshead) has been highly commended in the Public Library Building Awards 2005, in the category of Partnership.
The Awards ceremony was held at the Public Library Authority conference on Wednesday 19th October.
The award follows submission of a video application, and a visit from a panel of judges earlier this year. Set up in 1995, the awards recognise libraries that lead the way in building design, and reward the very best in new and refurbished library development across the UK and Ireland. ExploreMusic were one of almost 70 library authorities to submit applications for the award.
Well done to Rachel, Julia Mitford and all the staff.
You can read all about their work at: http://www.asaplive.com/ExploreMusic/Home.cfm
tel :: 0191 443 4630 text :: 07624 804064 e :: exploremusic@gateshead.gov.uk
Posted by at 10:25 AM
October 25, 2005
International Links with Gateshead schools
This list gives a taste of how far afield our schools' international links are.
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Posted by at 4:53 PM
October 21, 2005
Grantfinder and External Funding through Gateshead Council
Gateshead Council now provides assistance via their External Funding Team to schools and other community bodies.
There is a free external funding search (Grantnet) at:
http://www.gateshead.gov.uk/externalfunding/grantfinder.htm
and news of current grants through the following link:
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Posted by at 6:40 AM
October 8, 2005
Pause for thought...
There will be further postings on this site after the 17th of October 2005.
Thank you.
Posted by at 10:52 AM
School meals audit and extended schools (The Guardian)
Thanks to Will Woodward and staff.
This first piece by Polly Curtis from 3rd October and the second by Ruth Kelly on the 5th:
http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,1583913,00.html
http://education.guardian.co.uk/policy/story/0,15572,1584581,00.html
Posted by at 10:27 AM
October 2, 2005
Tyne & Wear Museums supplement
These two items are supplements to the TWM news sent in the e-bulletins to Gateshead Cultural & Creativity Ambassadors over the last two weeks.
The first is the KS1&2 Literacy, History and ICT courses for children: 'Every Object Tells a Story'. They can take place either at Discovery Museum or in school:
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and the second is the KS1&2 Nature and Art days: 'Plant Patterns' at Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens from the
10th - 14th of October.
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Posted by at 9:32 PM
Northern Stage's September teachers newsletter
Lots of news, including the new Chief Executive appointment and the next teachers' meeting on the 19th October.
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Posted by at 9:18 PM
Dance City canvassing interest
If your school in interested in a service-level agreement with Dance City, then send this attachment to their office...
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Posted by at 9:06 PM