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Awards for Creative Practitioners

Antonio — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:59:09 +0000

Of the many points of discussion at the Soapbox event on Tuesday one that took my interest was the idea of having some sort of awards. I think having awards for ‘best practitioner in x category’ would be a great way for us to better ourselves, but more importantly to actually give some way to measure what actually makes a good workshop leader. The question now is who would set up such an award?

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Soapbox

Antonio — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 01:37:00 +0000

Something that I saw some time ago on the artsjobs mailing list but forgot to post. It’ll be great for workshop deliverers and anyone else involved in learning (perhaps you, Bobbie?):

Supported by Black Country Creative Partnerships: Soapbox is an informal space where creative practitioners who work in learning can meet up with each other to:

question, ponder, debate and wonder

get inspired, irritated, encouraged, creative

connect up, catch up, talk through what’s up and simply meet up

Soapbox is a space for creative practitioners who work in learning to share and learn from each other in an open and honest way. It’s a space to reflect upon our own creative thinking and practice. It’s about us doing something for ourselves and it will run for as long as it proves useful to sufficient numbers of us to keep it going.

To suss out if it’s something for you, come along to our first session on:

TUESDAY 8TH APRIL (6.00-8.00pm)
Atticus Bar, 113/114 Three Shire Oak Road,
Bearwood, Birmingham, B67 5BT (Google map)

This session will be started by Noel Dunne, freelance producer and creative agent who’ll be exploring the question: ‘Do we know our own value?’

Confirm your attendance by e-mailing Janine Millington on janine.millington@wlv.ac.uk. See y’all there!

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Flying Start

Antonio — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 16:07:10 +0000

Here’s a image from a workshop I delivered as part of a group on the topic of Culture in relation to Birmingham. It was a big project, so we decided to collaborate online, which proved very useful!

Flying Start is now over and, due to a lack of funding, looks like it will completely end after five years It’s a real shame that funding has affected what is quite an essential course for budding community artists. The only other one I’ve seen is one at Staffordshire University but, unlike Flying Start, you have to pay for it.

The course has been of great benefit to me! Prior to it I had just graduated and had only done a bit of work in schools thanks to the Student Associates Scheme. Thanks to the course I now feel a lot more prepared to work in schools and the community on small and big projects! Check out more information on my workshops here.

Also, for all you budding workshops deliverers, here’s a useful pdf booklet about delivering workshops

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