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News from November 2020

Funding Information & Advice

Arts Fundraising have launched their Autumn/Winter season of training, with courses to help you bounce back and raise funds in today’s ever-changing landscape. Find out more and join them online: https://artsfundraising.org.uk/courses

British Art Show 9 Arts Award Fund: Open to West Midlands secondary schools, colleges and FE settings. Applications close: Monday 16th November 2020.

Arts Connect are offering to support 10 education settings from across the West Midlands through providing training, funding, and support to embed Bronze or Silver Arts Award accreditation within their British Art Show 9 inspired creative programmes. We want to enable teachers and creative educators to build exciting learning and progression opportunities for their students using Arts Award framework. The British Art Show 9 Arts Award Fund includes-
•           Bronze and Silver Arts Award training for one member of staff- Online January 2021.
•           £250 to support the planning, delivery and assessment of Arts Award programmes.
•           A guided tour of British Art Show 9 and a practical workshop led by Wolverhampton School of Art (University of Wolverhampton.)
•           Opportunities to showcase students work and access Arts Award specific support, networking and CPD events.
 
The British Council is inviting applications for creative commissions that bring together art, science and digital technology and offer innovative responses to climate change. Apply by 13 December 2020 for a grant of up to £50k. Collaborate with international partners and realise your creative idea The commissions will be part of the cultural programme in the build up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26), which the UK is hosting in Glasgow in November 2021. They are inviting collaborative applications from individuals and organisations in the UK with partners from eligible countries and states overseas.
•           Information Surgery 1: Tuesday 10 November, 10.00 – 11.30 GMT
•           Information Surgery 2: Wednesday 18 November, 16.00 – 17.30 GMT
•           Information Surgery 3: Monday 23 November, 14.00 – 15.30 GMT
Apply by 13 December 2020 . Visit the website for more information. https://www.britishcouncil.org/arts/opportunities/open-call-creative-commissions
 
The Gulbenkian and Kings College have announced awards relating to Covid response for publicly funded arts organisations. - https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/award-for-civic-arts-organisations
 
ACE -#NationalLottery Project Grants is open! - New to the fund? Read the new guidance  https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/national-lottery-project-grants/applying-national-lottery-project-grants-three-steps What's changed? We're focusing on supporting more individuals, to complement the investment made through government's https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/news-and-announcements/NLPG-whats-new
 
Information, Guidance & Resources
Arts Connect – Only Connect: One Stop Shop – call for resources
Don’t forget to visit our One stop Shop!
We are looking for resources that represent the very best of what we can offer to children and young people in the West Midlands. If you would like to submit resources please email us at artsconnectwm@wlv.ac.uk
 
Arts Council Launch - The Way I See It, a new online collection in collaboration with Google Arts & Culture and five partner organisations which celebrates children and young people’s creativity.   The Way I See It showcases art made by children and young people and their creative responses to lockdown and life after lockdown. From painting to poetry, drama to dance, music to stop-motion animation, their creativity is boundless; they are artists. This collection is the result of a collaboration between Arts Council, Google Arts & Culture and five organisations: BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Company Three, Dancefest, English National Opera and Heart n Soul.
Help us share the project! - make sure you tag @ace_national, @googlearts and use #HereForCulture to help us share The Way I See It and celebrate these young artists. 
 
Registrations are now open again for the Artsmark Award! At Artsmark we recognise the powerful and positive impact the arts and creativity has had in lockdown and we want to help you harness that power to support pupil and staff wellbeing. Artsmark’s flexible framework allows you to embed arts and culture across the curriculum, so you can stay committed to cultural education whatever new challenges you face. We value the importance of high-quality art education for every child and strive to improve access and inclusion within our programme so we can reach as many young people as possible regardless of background. Put creativity and wellbeing at the heart of your curriculum with Artsmark.
 
For schools who are already on their Artsmark journey, we have the following support sessions in the Autumn term. All of which will be delivered digitally and can be booked here
  • 25th November 2020     9.30 – 3.30pm   Development Day. The first step on your Artsmark journey.
  • 2nd December 2020      3.45 – 5pm       General support session. An opportunity to ask our Artsmark Associates any questions you have about you Artsmark journey
  • 11th December 2020     3.45 – 5pm       General support session. An opportunity to ask our Artsmark Associates any questions you have about you Artsmark journey
If you require any information or help, please contact Helen Frost, Senior Programme Manager
M: 07779773188 or E: helen.frost@wlv.ac.uk
 
Hello from ENO!  I'm Bradley and I work for English Touring Opera and I head up the Learning & Participation department.   We have developed a new online, curriculum-based show for KS2 audiences about the physicist Ibn al-Haytham, and his discoveries relating to light due to be released in January 2021.    The show will be provided with a teacher's pack and lesson plans for Key Stage 2 teachers.  See attached flyer for more details of how to book.
£30 plus VAT per school (schools with 25% pupil premium can request the show/ pack for free)
Please contact Bradley Travis at bradley.travis@englishtouringopera.org.uk for more information and to book.
To find out more about our education work please see http://englishtouringopera.org.uk/education/
 
CPD, Webinars, Seminars & Meetings  
The Commonwealth Games Team have a number of drop in events about the cultural programme in November. Please share these and also if you are interested please attend one. https://www.birmingham2022.com/news/event/ round table events in November
 
Moonbeams Workshop - ‘No Toilets for Tigers’ – A Practical Workshop on Story-Making
and Drama Approaches for early years
Date: 21 November Via: Zoom Time: Log on and welcome from 9.45am. Session starts promptly at 10am – 12pm Cost: £10 Book: https://bit.ly/37smGmT
Peter Wynne-Wilson was the drama worker on the first Moonbeams project in 2002, and he
brought his skills and ideas developed in a career as a theatre writer and performer. He has
found many of those same approaches are naturally at home in early years. In this practical
online session, he will share his approaches, using drama techniques and story-making to
develop language and creativity with and for early years, including 0-5-year olds.
Please bring with you a ‘moonbeam’ memory to share – one funny/memorable/creative thing
that you have heard or seen from, or by, a baby or young child. No experience is needed; it will be an engaging and practical workshop and open to all abilities and backgrounds.
For Additional Information Contact Gemma Corden, gemma.c@wlv.ac.uk
 
#STARTS Staffordshire Teachers ARTS Network Saturday 7th November 11-1pm On Zoom Guest Speaker: Belinda Latimer is an Artist and CEP member who specialises in Creative Coaching and Development. Formerly a Secondary HOD and now a practising Artist, based in Cornwall, she is an advocate for participatory arts and their therapeutic benefits. Join Artist, Belinda Latimer, for an online Creative Wellbeing session focussing on the benefits of tea-drinking, creating art using tea as inspiration and to read the precious leaves. A 2-hour session to make, create and relax with tea.
Who is it for? - Primary School Teachers and arts & cultural organisations.
Cost? - £5 includes the live CPD session and ‘Elevenses’ goody bag.
 
ARTS MARKETING FESTIVAL 1st — 2nd Dec 2020
AMA Members get free Festival Tickets!
But if you’re not an AMA Member, you don’t have to miss out on the fun…
 
Centre for cultural value announce their conference – What Value Culture? 2-13 Nov 2020 -Join us in November for a vibrant 10 days of discussions, debates, practical workshops, and future-shaping conversations, with a dynamic line up of contributors from the cultural sector, universities and policymaking organisations. See the full event programme  https://www.culturalvalue.org.uk/events/
 
Vamos Theatre two-hour webinar- full of drama and devising exercises and ideas taken straight from Vamos Theatre’s professional rehearsal room. Exercises have been adapted in line with COVID-19 restrictions and can be taken straight back to the classroom and applied to your own work, whether in mask theatre or the devising process of any non-verbal characterisation and storytelling. There’s no need to make notes, as we’ll provide a comprehensive pdf resource pack to support the webinar. When: There are two webinar dates to choose from:
Thursday, Nov 26th, 2020: 18:00-20:00
Saturday, Nov 28th, 2020: 14:30-16:30
Cost: £40 pp. To book: https://bit.ly/3jR7Ed4
 
EXTENDED DEADLINE - Creative Learning Producer/Partnership Manager (Freelance) Deadline: 16th November 2020 (10am) Duration of post : (36 months) December 2020 – December 2023 Fee: £75,000.00 for further information see  www.sandwellcep.co.uk For all enquiries about this opportunity, please email Jerrel Jackson (Chair of SCEP/Director of CAN) on chair@sandwellcep.co.ukusing the subject line “Enquiry CLP-PM”
 
CALL FOR ARTISTS/ARTS ORGANISATIONS with Fashion and textiles specialisms. -
Arts Ambassador Schools’ Network Commission - £7,500
Deadline: 30th November 2020 (no later than 12.00 noon)
We are looking for artist/s or an arts organisation to work with two primary schools and three secondary schools across Telford, all members of the Community Academies Trust (CAT), to deliver a programme of high-quality fashion workshops focusing on eco-fashion and ‘upcycling’. 
The fee is £7,500; based on the artist/arts organisation being responsible for own tax and NI on a freelance basis.
Application Deadline: 30th November 2020 (no later than 12.00 noon)
Notification of Interviews: no later than 3rd December 2020
Interviews:  9th December 2020 by Zoom
 
BRIDGE YOUTH VOICE INITIATIVE: A creative opportunity to promote high quality practice - Invitation to Tender
The national creative bridges are looking for an experienced individual or organisation to project manage and produce a short online digital magazine series that highlights elements of best practice around ‘youth voice’ in the context of creative and cultural learning for Professionals in the cultural, education and the youth sector from across England.
BRIEF Phase
1: Content Gathering & Development Phase
2: Platform research - cost, demonstrate & evaluate Phase
3: Production - compose, edit and regularly post content, varying style & treatment
HOW TO APPLY - Please submit a proposal describing your approach to this challenge (no more than 3 sides A4) Please submit completed proposals to Bridge@roh.org.uk by 5 p.m. on 9.11.20. 
For enquiries in relation to this tendering process contact sally.manser@roh.org.uk
 
British Art Show 9 – Call for Artists
Call for: A West Midlands based artist/arts organisation specialising in visual contemporary art to work with SEND school - Application deadline: Friday 13th November. The fee is up to £4,700, inclusive of travel and VAT.
We are looking for an artist/s or an arts organisation specialising in visual contemporary art practices to work with a total of 5 SEND schools in the Black Country. The schools will be part of the British Art Show 9 Partner School programme. The commission will begin January 2021 with the artist/arts organisation working with teachers and students to produce a range of visual artworks that will be publicly showcased May 2021. If you have any queries or would like to discuss this commission please contact Becky Thompson at R.Thompson6@wlv.ac.uk
 
Take part in CCSKILLS recruitment survey for this year.    https://www.ccskills.org.uk/news/what-does-recruitment-look-like-in-the-cultural-sector
 
Health & Wellbeing
Tackling harassment and bullying at work - This online module from ScreenSkills is designed to help you recognise and address harassment and bullying behaviours in yourself and others.
It builds on the principles and zero tolerance guidelines developed with organisations across film, television and games industries by the BFI and BAFTA in 2018 https://www.screenskills.com/online-learning/learning-modules/tackling-harassment-and-bullying-at-work/
 
 
Diversity & Social Justice

More Than A Moment: Action With & For Black Creatives to radically transform the West Midlands arts and culture sector. The More Than A Moment pledge is the West Midlands Arts sector’s promise to take radical, bold and immediate action, to dismantle the systems that have for too long kept Black artists and creatives from achieving their potential in the arts and cultural industries. Organisations who sign up to the pledge, wholeheartedly commit to ensuring equity, Investment in, and opportunities with and for Black artists and creatives within their organisation’s culture and work, and in doing so, becoming the change we all need to see.

This pledge and process was designed and created in Summer and Autumn 2020 by the More Than a Moment Working Group, in partnership with the Black Creative Workforce and West Midlands Cultural Sector, to be a promise for radical and permanent change. It was launched on 29 October 2020. To learn more about More than a Moment  - https://www.culturecentral.co.uk/mtam/

 
TES are proud to be in partnership with https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach , https://www.intofilm.org/ & https://theblackcurriculum.com/  to launch the Black Experiences hub. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/black-experiences-hub This hub is a collection of resources to better understand the experiences of black people, including black history, anti-racism, and the BLM movement.
 
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