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Welcome to our May newsletter. If design in one of its many forms is your
thing then you might want to come along to our free "Creativity Works - Dorset"
seminar on 26th. May in Weymouth where you can hear industry experts
on delivering creative excellence.
There's an invitation with more information attached to this
message.
Listed below are also a number of training
and commission opportunities - please do take them up and do get in touch if
there is anything you think I can help you with.
Dominic Tambling
Director - Creative Dorset
01305 755613 Mobile: 0798 361 8 361
SURVIVE
& THRIVE LEARNING EVENT
Tuesday
8 June 10 - 4pm
Ancient Technology Centre, Cranborne,
BH21 5RP
£10 (bursaries available) Space for 40 participants.
Dorset's cultural sector needs to collaborate
to survive a challenging economic climate and rapidly changing cultural scene. AMONITE
and Dorset Loves Arts are holding a stimulating and unusual networking
day where cultural providers and practitioners can find new ways to work
together.
Dorset's extraordinary Ancient Technology
Centre features authentic recreations of Neolithic, Roman and Saxon
buildings and are opening and a brand new (!) Viking Long House. This important
day event involves making, baking, talking, eating, uniting and sustaining.
We will decide and debate how to collectively survive and thrive.
Not a flip chart in sight!
Smelting ammonites is just the start....
Ros Fry and Chris Huxley
West Mead Creative
01308 423360
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'On Inspiration' a Residential
Workshop - How do Artists find inspiration for their works?
'On Inspiration' is a residential workshop hosted by The Strange Names
Collective and the University of Winchester. Running from 11-17 July 2010.
How
do artists find inspiration for their works? And how can an artist initiate,
sustain, and reinvigorate this process over an entire career? By exploring a
range of practices, processes and contexts this workshop will explore these
issues whilst encouraging participants to share, expand and define their own
sources and processes of inspiration.
Contributors:
The workshop will be delivered by Philip Stanier from the Strange Names
Collective with major contributions from guest artists Frenchmottershead,
Propeller, Alex Kelly (co-artistic director of Third Angel), and Kira O'Reilly.
Cost:
The cost of the workshop will be £249.00, which will include accommodation and
breakfast for the week.
Applications:
The deadline for applications is Friday 21st May 2010.
Applications
should consist of an email/letter outlining your practice and reasons for
wishing to attend the workshop, a current C.V., and optional documentation of
practice.
Applications
or enquiries should be sent to
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Any
postal applications to: Philip Stanier at
Faculty of Arts. University of Winchester.
Winchester. SO22 4NR
MA
in Contemporary Peformance
The Arts University College at Bouremouth is pleased to announce a new MA
pathway in Contemporary Performance beginning in October 2010 (subject to
validation) for further information on this and other postgraduate arts
opportunities please see www.aucb.ac.uk and go to
courses.
The Bridport Prize
2010 - International Creative Writing Competition for Short Stories and Poems
The
Bridport Prize is the richest open writing competition in the English language
-with £5,000 first prize for a short story (of up to 5000 words); and £5,000
first prize for a poem (of up to 42 lines). This year we are delighted to
launch a new category of Flash Fiction - there's £1,000 to be won for the best
short story, of under 250 words.
The
Bridport is also known as a tremendous literary stepping stone - the first step
in the careers of writers such as: Kate Atkinson, Tobias Hill, Carol Ann Duffy
and Helen Dunmore. Anyone can enter - so long as the work is previously
unpublished.
It
costs £7 per story, £6 per poem or £5 per flash fiction and the closing date is
30th June 2010 Each year the prize is judged by well known writers - this year
we are delighted to have Zoë Heller judging short stories and Michael Laskey
judging poetry.
The
2009 anthology of winning entries is available for just £12 or £15 overseas
(including postage and packing). The 2008 and 2007 anthologies are available in
limited numbers for £7 and £5 (£10 and £8 overseas) Enter online at: www.bridportprize.org.uk Or download an entry form: www.bridportprize.org.uk/entryform.pdf
Or
email for a pdf entry form:
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Or send an SAE for an
entry form to be posted to you The Bridport Prize, PO Box 6910, Dorset, DT6 9BQ
Creative Writing Workshops -
Spring - Saturday
22 May (10.15
am to 1pm) £10.00
The venue for this creative writing
workshop is one of Poole's hidden gems: Chestnut Nursery by Poole Park.
What better place to explore the subject of spring than amongst new green
shoots and nature's abundance of textures and light. The session will consist
of fun and practical exercises. No experience necessary. Limited
to 8 places.
Scribbling Senses
- Saturday 19 June (10am to 1pm) £10.00
What do you see when you hear
someone read. Does it touch you? Can you smell or even taste
it? This workshop gives you the opportunity to tune into your senses and
hopefully produce some creative writing which will touch the senses of
everyone. No experience necessary.
Short Story Improvers Group - 20 May and 17 June (7-9pm) £8.00
This is a small group for people who are
writing short stories but feel they would like some constructive help on how
they could be improved. This is particularly useful for those wanting
feedback before they send them off to competitions etc.
All courses are held in Poole
in fully accessible buildings and there is free parking. The price
includes tea/coffee/biscuits.
For a booking form please contact Monique
Munroe
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0776 6581134 or see www.1stwrites.co.uk
PERSUASION & PRESENTATION TRAINING
Tuesday 11 May 10 - 4pm at Creative Dorset
Prospect House,
Peverell Avenue East.
Poundbury.
Dorchester DT1 3WP. £40 Space for 8
participants
Led by Ros Fry and Chris Huxley. Challenging and enjoyable.
Learn techniques, practice presenting, analyse your communication style,
learn from each other. Feel the fear and do it anyway!
This even is open to everyone taking part in AMONITE, the Dorset Loves
Arts (Misty Vision as was) and others involved in creating, enabling or
managing culture in Dorset. Feel free to
forward to positive people in your networks.
For further information please contact : Ros Fry and Chris Huxley www.westmeadcreative.org.uk
www.amonite.org.uk
www.dorsetlovesarts.ning.com
Pride of Place
Award 2010
The
Dorset Design and Heritage Forum are now inviting parish and town councils and
local community partnerships to apply for this years award valued at £4,500 and
will allow them to work with an artist to further a scheme or project. For
further information and application forms please e-mail Dominic (
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Deadline for entries is 2 July 2010.
What activities are
going on in my village hall? Where can I hold an art class, an event or an
exhibition?
www.dorsethalls.net is a new website, launched earlier this
year by Dorset Community Action and the Dorset Village Halls Association,
dedicated to Dorset's village and community
halls. It provides residents, businesses and voluntary groups with a number of
services including a venue finder to track down the right place to hold
functions, with details of facilities and capacities. For those wanting to find
out what's going on in their nearest hall an activity finder is being
developed. There is also an events listing for the county.
NHS
Dorset Arts & Mental Health Strategy
ART
TASTER SESSIONS FOR PEOPLE WHO USE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
Brief
for Artists - Introduction
NHS Dorset has commissioned an arts
strategy as part of a capital project for a new facility at 30 Maiden Castle Road in Dorchester. The strategy aims to involve people who use
mental health services in the delivery of the strategy and in the development
of artwork for the new facility. The overall theme of the project is ‘Growing
Nature'. There will be a number of opportunities for artists within the
strategy including some large scale public art commissions. Artists for the
large commissions will be recruited via open submission in June/July. This
brief is for artists for taster sessions which we are offering in June.
Applying for the taster sessions does not preclude you from applying for the
large commissions when they are advertised.
If you would like a copy of the strategy please contact
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TASTER
SESSIONS
We are planning three ‘taster sessions' to
engage participants and provide us with an opportunity to get feedback on the
way we involve people. The aims of the taster sessions are to:
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Provide
participants with a positive and creative experience
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Identify
potential barriers to participation and practical challenges
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Link
the main participating organisations in joint delivery
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Identify
individuals who would be interested in getting more involved as the projects
develop and the full strategy is delivered
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Introduce
the evaluation process
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Raise
awareness with staff and engage them in the process
Participants: The sessions will
be open to anyone who uses mental health services and advertised through units
and organisations in Dorchester and Bridport.
Numbers may vary but a maximum number will be agreed with the artists.
Artform: Each of the
taster sessions focuses on a different artform: Photography, 3 Dimensional work
& 2 Dimensional work.
Support
for artists:
At each session the artist will be supported by a mental health support worker
or therapist. Artists will also attend a preparatory session prior to
delivering their workshop, with art therapist, Lesley Moore.
Session
1. Whitfield Activity Centre, Dorchester
Date & Time of workshop: Thursday June 17th
10am
Artform: Photography
Session
2. Forston Clinic
Date & Time of workshop: Thursday June 24th
10am
Artform: 3D
Session 3. The Gallery, Durngate
St
Date
& Time of workshop: Thursday July 1st 10am
Artform: 2D
FEES
: Artists will be paid £300 for a
workshop to include the half hour training session and travel. There will be
additional funds available for materials.
Artists will be contracted by NHS Dorset on
a free lance basis and are responsible for their own tax and national insurance.
REQUIREMENTS: Applicants should have experience of
working with people who use mental health services. Artists must have had CRB clearance in the last six months and be
able to show the paperwork to prove this. Artists must have personal and public
liability insurance.
Please submit a CV
which states your relevant experience and write a letter of application
explaining why you would like to do the taster session and how you would
approach it. Please make it clear which taster session you are applying for
(Photography, 3D or 2D). This letter should be no longer than 2 A4 sides.
Please send your application with 4 images of your work, or of work made in
workshops you have led, to:
Alex Coulter, Arts Coordinator
Dorset County
Hospital, Williams Avenue, Dorchester
DT1 2JY
e.mail:
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tel: 01305 255144
The
deadline for applications is 5pm on 17th May 2010
Interviews
will be held at The Gallery, Durngate
St, Dorchester on
May 28th 2010
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