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Free * Fashion Courses for 16-18 yr olds during June Half Term
The Fashion and Textile Museum's hugely popular FREE* two day Fashion Fusion courses for 16-18 year olds are back for June Half Term 2012!
Whether it’s designing your own fashion magazine, developing a portfolio, using Photoshop to produce a mini-collection of designs, or finding out more about careers in fashion, there’s a Fashion Fusion course to get you started ...Read more
Talking to Shorty – free resource pack for teachers
This March saw the commissioning of the final installment of NYT’s trilogy of plays for schools, pupil referral units, youth offending teams and prisons.
Written by Royal Court ‘Super Writer’ Cat Jones, Talking to Shorty explored the perception of young women in gang related crime, the question of aspiration amongst girls and the complex choices and resulting consequences faced by young people. It was a huge success with great feedback from both students and teachers ...Read more
Full line-up for The International Student Drama Festival announced. Schools discounts available!
This June will see 9 jam packed days of theatrical inspiration and excitement in Sheffield as NSDF goes global as part of the Cultural Olympiad.
200 workshops on every aspect of theatre, film and TV from people like Ashtar Theatre, Forced Entertainment, Fuel, Inua Ellams, John Go ...Read more
HighTide Festival Theatre’s HighTide Academy, Suffolk
The HighTide Academy’s three-week summer programme at The Cut in Halesworth, Suffolk gives young people from the East of England the opportunity to work with professional practitioners and explore different approaches to performance, text and creating new work.
Each 6-day intensive masterclass focuses on a different area of performance and develops young people’s creative skills in a professional rehearsal environment. All courses end with a final performance and sharing of the work created during the week ...Read more
BFI Future Film in association with SCI-FI LONDON presents: To the Cinema and Beyond!
Learn how you can afford to create your own sci-fi VFX on a shoestring budget.
Ever wanted to make your own sci-fi film but thought it was only possible with a massive budget? Well, think again. Come and be inspired by some of SCI-FI LONDON’s top talent at our exclusive Q+A, check out short sci-fi movies made by other young filmmakers, and learn how you can afford to create your own sci-fi VFX on a shoestring budget ...Read more
Creative Choices Events & Activities
Creative Choices is dedicated to ensuring that every young person in the UK has access to the creative and cultural advice and guidance they need to make informed decisions about their careers.
This year will see a record 9,000 place made available for school children on Creative Choices events and activities. By attending, young people aged 13-16 will be able to gain an insight into the range of careers available offstage, in technical theatre and live music/event production, as well as an understanding of how to get into these industries ...Read more
FREE workshop day at The Old Vic including free tickets to see an Old Vic production
Why join the Barclays Capital Staging Success Programme? Because it can be difficult to gain access to leading industry professionals; all too often theatres are unwilling or unable to offer you the curriculum support you find so valuable.
The Barclays Capital Staging Success programme makes it easy for you. Simply choose one group of up to 30 students who you think will enjoy working with Old Vic New Voices (OVNV). They can be a mixture of Years 9-13 or an existing class. The one thing they should have in common is a love for the inner workings of what makes a production possible. In return OVNV will offer them and you the opportunity to discover the hidden side of theatre and how a play is produced, marketed and designed ...Read more
£500 for your community media story from the Media Trust
Media Trust wants to hear your inspiring stories from across the UK of how community media, citizen journalism and community reporting have contributed to positive change in local communities.
The top five stories will be awarded £500 each to further their work through digital media ...Read more
Teaching Shakespeare
The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) and University of Warwick join forces to offer teachers a new professional development route to help them transform the classroom experience of Shakespeare for young people across the world.
Teaching Shakespeare is a groundbreaking online professional development platform for teachers which has now launched online at teachingshakespeare.ac.uk
Teachers can register their interest there now and the first set of courses and resources will be available in autumn 2012 ...Read more
DESIGN CLUB is an after school club, free to secondary schools across the UK.
DESIGN CLUB gives pupils and teachers a unique insight into the working world of design; and an in-depth look at the processes used by the UK’s most creative designers.
It provides a forum for discovering and discussing design across all its disciplines ...Read more
IdeasTap launches new factsheets
IdeasTap's specially developed factsheets are designed to guide and inspire your students.
Since launching the education site in November 2011, we’ve introduced factsheets on ‘Writing your first CV’ and ‘Creating a project budget’, and there’s plenty more where they came from! We’ll be adding to the factsheets section over the coming months, so if there’s anything you’d particularly like to see covered, drop us a line at education@ideastap.com
The new factsheets can be found at the bottom of the resources section of the education hub.
International Student Drama Festival
The International Student Drama festival is the only place to be this June for anyone seeking in a career in Film, Theatre and TV as an actor, director, technician, writer, designer or pretty much anything else!
Massive names from the industry are signing up to appear at the festival and NSDF selectors are crisscrossing the globe choosing the very best, most inspirational shows created by the most exciting future stars to present at the festival.
Keep an eye on www.ideastap.com/nsdf for all the latest news, including some big announcements about who’s coming and the best way to secure your ticket ...Read more