creative torbay

Great opportunities ..............................

creative and cultural entrepreneurship/support for uwe course

Check out the great courses you can access at South Devon College...

The Torbay Council website has lots of great content and links..............

Adult and Community Learning

New Courses Jan 2009

Fancy learning a new skill?

For all the details click this link.......

adult and community learning

Adult and Community Learning offers both qualification (accredited) courses and recreational courses. 
We respond to need by offering a wide range of recreational courses such as watercolour, stained glass, cookery, Indian head massage, yoga & singing as well as first-step classes such as beginners computers, digital imaging, French for beginners & writing for pleasure. 

Qualifications offered include CLAIT, NCFE level 2 Working with Children, National Pool Lifeguard, ABC (Level 1) in Spanish and German and GCSE Spanish and French.

Each of the 3 ACL centres produces an annual brochure which contains details of their qualification and recreational courses.  A shorter brochure is produced just before the start of the Spring and Summer Terms with updated details of the courses being offered.

The brochures include information on how to enrol, payment methods and prices, including information on fee reductions and discounts available to those in receipt of certain means-tested benefits.  To receive a brochure, contact the relevant centre on the following  numbers: 

 Brixham ACL 01803 853302 Paignton ACL 01803 403007  Torquay ACL (including courses in Newton Abbot & 
 Teignmouth) 01803 316930

 Skills for Life

We also offer Skills for Life (SfL) courses and English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) courses throughout Torbay.  These courses enable you to improve your English and maths (reading, writing and number skills) in small, friendly groups.  Each centre offers a number of courses aimed at learners with disabilities and learning difficulties (learning network groups).  For all SfL, ESOL and learning network groups, please contact the centres listed above.

Tutors are always needed to extend our day and evening class programme. If you have a skill to offer, please ask for an application form.



01/10/2008

The University of Bristol in partnership with ArtsMatrix have developed an exiting new course designed to help creative individuals to achieve their business goals. You will create your vision, learn new marketing skills, get information on legal structures, finance and intellectual property rights and leave with everything you need to help your business develop and grow.The course starts on the 8th Oct and runs every Wednesday from 7.00pm – 9.00pm for 10 weeks.For more information please contact Isobel Pierce on 01179545471 or by email: Isobel.pierce@bristol.ac.uk

 

Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship/university of Bristol

This course for creative people will provide you with information and skills to help get you started on developing a successful business whilst retaining your artistic integrity. Run by experienced professionals including Julie Ellison, MBA, it will provide you with the opportunity to pool solutions to shared issues, and enable you to think creatively about the most fruitful direction for your talents. A collaboration between ArtsMatrix and the University of Bristol Department of Drama.

Fee: £100.00
Isobel Pierce,
Department of Drama,
University of Bristol,
Cantocks Close,
Woodland Road,
Bristol BS8 1UP.

For further details and to book:

tel: 0117 954 5471
Email: isobel.pierce@bristol.ac.uk

Your creativity is what drives you?
You want your ideas to earn you a living?
Department of Drama - Lifelong Learning
10 Wednesdays 7:00pm to 9:00pm starting 8 October 2008

26/09/08

 

Support for UWE Course

Dear Friend

We need your help - An exciting new development in the sector of Community Arts/Media and Creative Education is happening across the South West – and you can be part of it!

Here at UWE (University of the West of England) we are developing a postgraduate–level course for freelance artists/facilitators working with communities and within education settings to expand their skills, meet other like-minded people and increase their employment opportunities. It will be using a cutting-edge e-learning tool (with online video streaming and interactive modules) to allow students to learn at their own pace and at times to suit them to fit around work or other commitments. You don’t have to live near Bristol either to benefit from the course as the face-to-face aspects of the course could be held across the South West in key Higher Education Institutions. The key is you are able to learn at your own pace, progressing through each module in turn and taking however long you need

The course is flexible, non time-constrained (it will run all year round), affordable and recognizes previous experience in the sector – it is a great opportunity for freelancers who are currently working in the sector to broaden their skills and fill any gaps they feel they have (working with different types of communities etc.) as well as arts/media graduates with little or no experience choosing to work in the community arts/media or creative education sector and gaining the skills required. It will act as a quality benchmark and increase freelancers’ employment opportunities with wider communities across the South West, as well as giving arts project employers confidence in the skills of their freelancers.

The course students, past and present, will also have the chance to feed into a community arts practitioner online ‘hub’ for peer to peer support and networking/problem solving to give ongoing support to the sector’s professionals.

We are looking for support and advocacy from the sector for this course in the development period and will be staging a high-profile campaign to launch the course in Autumn 2009. With strong support from yourselves we hope to create a new quality mark for Community Arts/Media that will be fully adopted by the sector and allow people to establish themselves as recognized professionals with the right skills for promoting creativity, inclusion and cultural democracy.

Please could you promote to any freelance artists you work with, or have contact with, that this course is available to them, and we are looking for ‘guinea pigs’ to test the modules in Spring 09 (tbc), as well as taking initial bookings for the full course starting in Autumn 09.  We are hoping to gain support from arts sector employers, like yourselves, who can corroborate this course by suggesting it to the freelancers you work with and using it as a selection tool for your projects in the future.

I am always open to feedback and would really appreciate your thoughts about how best to develop this course, its content and delivery, as well as your needs. If you have any pressing ideas or concerns please email me and we could set up a meeting. To make this work well for everyone it needs us all within the Community Arts sector to pull together, recognize achievement and quality practice where it is due and demonstrate that we have the means to make a huge impact on cultural democracy and validate our professionalism.

The aims of the course are to:

Provide the freelancer with the necessary  Higher Level Skills (postgraduate level) to give them the tools to work  effectively and efficiently on future projects; 
Create a recognized benchmark of quality  that is accepted by the community arts/media and creative education sector  that ensures the standard of the freelancers’  delivery; 
Offer flexible delivery whilst  acknowledging and accrediting the freelancers’ previous experience;  and 
Create a cost effective funding model  that will encourage buy-in from freelancers and the community arts/media and  creative education agencies, organizations and charities thus allowing the  programme to self-sustainable by the sector.

Provisional Course Outline (subject to changes)

  • Module 1 Participatory Arts: Teaching Methods 1
  • What is Community Arts? Political,  historical and contemporary contexts; 
  • Understanding Communities;
  • Legislation & Ethics;
  • Creative Teaching Practice – methods and  content

Module 2 Participatory Arts: Teaching Method s 2

  • Administration, budgeting and planning;
  • Creative Teaching Methods;
  • Dealing with challenging behaviour;
  • Health & Safety – regulations and  policies

Module 3 Entrepreneurial Skills

  • Creative project initiation and  management;
  • Marketing;
  • Financial and business  planning

Looking forward to hearing from you

Kindest regards

Sam

Samantha Williams
Project Co-ordinator
Professional Skills Programme for Community Arts/Media & Creative Education Practitioners
(HERDA Higher Skills Project)
Faculty of Creative Arts
University of the West of England
Bower Ashton, Bristol BS3 2JT
 
My Normal Working Hours:
0830-1600 Mon-Tue, 0830-1330 Wed