Festival of Ideas
June – December
The Festival of Ideas will develop as an on- and off-line series of events to bring to the fore the best social innovations Europe has to offer. 10 cross-cutting themes will be presented to Europe’s citizens using private, public and third sector networks, as well as online websites. Hundreds of people, each one with different background and expertise, will submit ideas that will make Europe and the world a better place. The most promising ones will be developed through an online project collaboration platform. The process will culminate with 10 conferences in 10 European cities, each focusing on a different theme. An 11th event will capture the learning from the process to present policy recommendations to the Commission in the form of a People’s Manifesto that expresses how Europe can be more creative and innovative.
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What does creativity mean to you?
Deadline: 15 October 2009
Let us know how you perceive the role of creativity in education and you could win a trip to the European Union’s Creativity conference in Stockholm.
2009 is the European Year of Creativity and Innovation. A great number of activities have been taking place all year to discuss the role of creativity and innovation in the classroom and encourage teachers to explore new and different approaches to teaching and learning.
To better understand how teachers perceive creativity and innovation in their own teaching practice, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Education and Culture, in collaboration with the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) and European Schoolnet, has launched a new survey on teaching practices in Europe. We are interested in knowing your opinion and experience as a teacher.
Fill in the online questionnaire teaching practices and, if you so choose, include your name and email address to be included in a draw for 10 persons to attend the European Union’s closing conference for the European Year of Creativity and Innovation, hosted by the Swedish Presidency in Stockholm in December.
Who should fill in the questionnaire?
Teachers working in schools in any of the twenty-seven countries in the European Union, as well as Norway, Iceland, Turkey, Croatia and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
NB: all answers are anonymous. Should you choose to participate to the raffle, your answers will not be connected to your name.
The deadline to participate: 15 October 2009
FILL IN THE QUESTIONNAIRE
What about the results?
The results of the questionnaire will be presented at the closing conference in Stockholm in December and communicated on the eTwinning Portal.
We thank you in advance for taking part!
Electric December annual online advent calendar calling for entries
Online 1st - 24th December Shoot, Share, Show
Deadline for entry: Monday 12 October 2009
Young People Across Europe
Get ready – Electric December, Watershed’s original end of year online showcase of creative talent, is back, led this year by an international team of young people from across Europe.
We’re calling for all filmmakers under 21 from Europe that have made a short film or are thinking about picking up a camera for the first time to join us, get involved, and help us create the content behind our webby windows to wonderland.
Your films will be in good hands: Watershed has electrified the world’s imagination for over a decade producing Electric December. Every year, electricdecember.org receives thousands of hits from over 90 countries worldwide. In 2008, thanks to the support of the European Commission, Electric December showcased shorts by young people from across Europe for the first time in its 10-year history as part of the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue.
Work is already going on behind the scenes to make 2009 the best year ever, within the wider context of European Year of Creativity and Innovation. Young people from eShed.net, Bristol, UK and Skalvijos, Vilnius, Lithuania are working collaboratively to set the agenda for the project, thanks to the European Commission for their support through the Youth In Action programme.
The Bristol and Vilnius groups recently spent three days at Watershed working hard and playing hard producing trailers and posters for Electric December 2009 and soaking in the sights of the city. Later on this year this international steering group will regroup online to hand pick the 24 mini masterpieces that will be the content for this year’s calendar and to decide who the lucky winners are. They’re looking forward to receiving snappy shorts from other like-minded folk across the continent! Follow their diary online at: electricdecember.org/09/diary.
Adibah Iqbal, a member of eShed, said:
Working on electric December has been a wonderful experience, which has opened many doors for me. Having worked with young filmmakers from Lithuania, I have gained a very good friendship, and a deeper understanding of organising a film festival. Working with e shed was very fun and I hope to take part in other advents they will be holding in the future.
This is a unique opportunity for young people to get their work out there, viewed by their peers and some of the most influential people in filmmaking – not only online, but through the official Electric December DVD, the UK’s BBC Big Screens and at venues and festivals in the UK and beyond.
Last year’s winners received a travel bursary to attend BUFF Young People’s Film Festival in Malmo, Sweden and took part in workshops, met key people in the industry, screened their films in a cinema and generally had a fantastic film-filled weekend. We have similar treats in store for the eventual winners of Electric December 2009. For further information on how to submit film(s), log on to electricdecember.org.
Hurry, the deadline for entry is Monday 12 October 2009.
Increase the Peace – Changing Minds Showcase Event
4 September
Raising intercultural awareness and celebrating the diversity of young people in Gloucester.
This is the finale of a 6 week summer project for young people from 4 different cultural and ethnic backgrounds in Gloucester. During the project, run by EIL in partnership with Increase the Peace, the group will explore issues that affect themselves, their communities and each other. They will also meet with local influencers, advisors and policy makers to express their issues and hear from the experts.
Throughout, the project will be centered on creativity to promote imagination and encourage self-expression. This Showcase event is the culmination of the process and the group will perform cultural and cross-cultural music, drama and film acts produced during the project.
This Showcase is open to everyone and people are encouraged to come along and celebrate the diversity of Gloucester!
This project is funded through the Youth in Action programme.
For more details contact c.illingworth@eiluk.org
Artists303 – Festival of Art 2009
When? 19 September – 4 October 2009
Where? The Royal Bath and West Showground, Shepton Mallet, Somerset
What’s happening? A two week Festival of Art during Somerset Art Weeks, central to which is an Open Exhibition with two sections – one for practising artists and one for graduate/young artists. Over £2000 worth of prizes will be presented at the Opening Event on 19 September between 12 noon and 2 p.m. followed by an arty-party with live music, barbecue and family events. This is the largest and most ambitious project taking place in Somerset during Somerset Art Weeks, 2009. Over 300 pieces of contemporary art will be on display.
Why attend?
Family events every weekend include:
- Demonstrations of art materials
- Demonstrations of Eastern and Japanese Techniques of bookbinding and gold inlay
- Mini and taster activities suitable for all the family
- Aboriginal Raintube and Dream Workshop
- Demonstration of stone carving
3rd and 4th October Grand Finale Big Draw Event – the Big Somerset Draw featuring:
- The Big Somerset Draw – over 50 Somerset artists will help visitors create a visual map of Somerset.
- Balloon Drawing
- Life drawing for all the family
- Art from Trash
- A book signing and drawing demonstration by BABETTE COLE, internationally famous children’s author and illustrator.
By arrangement:
- Artist led tours
- Group visits
- School group visits
- Art Appreciation talks
Who will be there?
19th September – Festival opened by the Marquess of Bath. Live music by Tom Toomey and his wife pianist/singer Milly Riquelme
3rd October – Babette Cole
Representatives from:
- Education institutions (schools, colleges and universities)
- Arts and youth organizations
- Members of Artists303 group
- Practising artists
- Members of the public
- Family groups
- School groups
- Somerset Art Week representatives
- Supporters of the arts in the West Country
- Graduates and emerging artists
- Friends and supporters of Artists303
ARTISTS303 WILL USE THE FESTIVAL OF ART TO LAUNCH THEIR MENTORING AND SUPPORT SCHEME FOR GRADUATE/YOUNG ARTISTS AND WILL APPOINT 6 GRADUATE MEMBERS FOR A PERIOD OF TWO YEARS TO PROVIDE EXPERIENCE, SUPPORT AND MENTORING RELATIVE TO THEIR INDIVIDUAL NEEDS.
Register now at www.argists303.co.uk
Somerset Art Weeks Signpost Show at the Yeovil Innovation Centre
When? 19th September till 4th October
Where? Yeovil Innovation Centre, Barracks Close, Yeovil, Somerset BA22 8RN
www.yeovilinnovationcentre.co.uk
01935 385900
What’s happening?
South Somerset is taking an innovative approach to exhibiting the work of some of our prestigious and highly talented artists in this signpost show for Somerset Art Weeks.
Rather than the traditional gallery exhibitions, the work will be shown in our newly developed business innovation centre. This offers a business platform to arts practitioners and promotes a creative environment to new and developing small businesses.
An exhibition of paintings and craft in the main hall will be complimented by large-scale sculptural works in the central courtyard.
Why attend?
- View and buy a wide selection of international standard, contemporary arts and crafts
- Enjoy the opportunity to find out what the Innovation Centre can offer to new and developing businesses
- Schools and colleges can experience the synergy between innovation and creativity
Who will be there?
Representatives from:
- The Local Authority
- Somerset Art Works
Register now at
No need to register
The East Midlands Universities Association (EMUA)
22 September
East Midlands Universities Association (EMUA) represents the ten higher education institutions (HEIs) in the East Midlands Region; Bishop Grossteste University College Lincoln, De Montfort University, University of Derby, University of Leicester, University of Lincoln, Loughborough University, The University of Northampton, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham Trent University, Open University in the East Midlands. The EMUA Postgraduate Group endeavours to provide exceptional opportunities for the postgraduate students in the region to enhance their experience and add to the skills they acquire. The Beyond Boundaries Postgraduate Conference will:
- Showcase cross-disciplinary projects and opportunities from HE / SMEs / Public bodies
- Provoke postgraduates to think across disciplines and beyond traditional boundaries
- Encourage postgraduates to appreciate and be inspired by the opportunities available once they move outside their disciplines
- Challenge preconceptions about how disciplines relate and influence each other
- Actively support postgraduates to network across disciplines
- Ultimately develop a cohort of students who remain in contact following the conference
For more information please contact
martyn.bennett@ntu.ac.uk or l.m.ambler@lboro.ac.uk
Creativity: Luxury Or Lifeline? Survive And Thrive In A Changing Educational Landscape
When?
Wednesday 30 September 2009, 08:45am – 17.00pm.
Where?
National Media Museum, Bradford, BD1 1NQ
What’s happening?
CapeUK is running a one-day conference, Luxury or Lifeline? Survive and Thrive in a Changing Educational Landscape, an essential opportunity to consider how the government’s latest education initiatives, which will impact on everyone working in the sector can work for you. Given CapeUK’s partnership development expertise across education, culture and the creative sectors, we are uniquely placed to create a form where these issues can be rigorously explored.
We will be interrogating three key themes:
- creativity at the centre of learning for young people;
- partnership at the centre of practice;
- enquiry at the centre of professional learning
Why attend?
- Hear a combination of the best keynote speakers in the sector and attend targeted workshops to help you to find practical solutions tailored to your circumstances.
- An essential opportunity to consider how these initiatives can work for you.
- Be part of our bursary scheme, supporting creative initiatives, partnerships and lines of enquiry developed at the conference.
- Networking opportunity to investigate and manage the challenges with like-minded professionals in the sector.
Who will be there?
Practitioners, leaders and policy makers in:
- Learning, education and Children’s Services – across the age groups – Early Years, schools and other settings, extended services and Learning Outside The Classroom, Further and Higher Education – and into the world of starting work.
- the creative and cultural sectors – freelance artists, arts development agencies, digital and new media and the creative people in any industry or business
- enterprise and STEM – people who are helping young people have ideas and find ways of making them happen – in business and in sectors outside of the arts
- the research community in education and as practitioners – research and evaluation, practice based research and research based practice
The closing date for reservations is 31st July 2009
Register now at www.capeuk.org
