Training Archive : June 2007
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Comedy Writing Workshop
Organiser: Euroscript
Date: 02 - 03 June
Location: Bristol
Cost: see website
Email: fenellagreenfield@gmail.com
More info: Lectures about writing are like poems about swimming: they may be inspiring but they don't improve your technique. The only way to learn how to write is by writing. In this weekend workshop you'll participate in intensive, practical exercises that are designed to develop the basic skills you need to make your material funny in any format or medium you're writing for: film, television, radio, theatre, stand-up, or print. Working on your own, in pairs and in groups, you'll:
- write gags, quickies and sketches;
- create and develop comic characters;
- discover your own unique comic persona and write a stand-up monologue;
- write the outline for your own sitcom;
- and plunder the best source of comedy material you'll ever find - your own sad, lonely life.
Grammar Refresher
Organiser: Scottish Books
Date: 05 June
Location: Edinburgh
Cost: see website
Email: enquiries@scottishbooks.org
More info: Do you struggle with apostrophes? Are you confident when to use ‘licence’ and when ‘license’? And just how acceptable is it to split the infinitive – always assuming you can recognise one? This course for anyone involved in copywriting is specially designed to look at the common pitfalls and contentious issues of grammar, punctuation and spelling. It provides guidance on what’s right and what’s wrong and where it’s generally acceptable to bend the rules – always assuming that it’s right for your readership. Discussion and exercises will include: • does ‘good English’ have to follow grammatical rules? • Which can be broken in the interests of ‘plain English’? And what exactly is a split infinitive? • rules your readers are most likely to care about • avoid spelling and punctuation pitfalls • British English, American English – and house style
E-Marketing
Organiser: Scottish Books
Date: 06 June
Location: Edinburgh
Cost: see website
Email: enquiries@scottishbooks.org
More info: The almost limitless potential of e-marketing can be overwhelming. How do you begin to decide what’s manageable and integrate it within your other marketing activities? Emphatically not a course for ‘techies’, this workshop will not tell you how to build your own website but will help you to build web marketing naturally into your marketing plans and to feel more confident about realistic options available to you. Discussion and practical exercises will include: • Making the most of your company's website (and others too) in marketing • The e-marketing mix: integrating the web into marketing plans. Including author and association marketing, online review media, blogs and much more • E-alerts, RSS feeds, textbook websites…adding value to journal and academic marketing • Emailings and newsletters – mailing lists, copywriting • HTML vs. text-only format • Spam filters and the Data Protection Act • Viral marketing • E-marketing management issues • Round-up of statistics available, great sources of information, and the latest topical issues
Abstracting With Confidence
Organiser: CILIP
Date: 06 June 2007
Location: London
Cost: £350-250
Email: info@cilip.org.uk
More info: Information overload affects everyone, and there is an urgent need for people who can extract the key facts and opinions from documents rapidly and reproduce them accurately. Within the library and information profession, abstracting and summarising techniques are essential for current awareness services, enquiry answering and desk research, as well as for preparing briefings and writing reports.
Introduction to Professional VIdeo Editing
Organiser: Aune Head Arts
Date: 06 June 2007
Location: Dartmoor
Cost: see website
Email: info@auneheadarts.org.uk
More info: You’ve spent a bit of time playing around with video, and you’ve probably already made your first video using one of the free or almost-free bits of software that you found lying around in your computer. Now it’s time to get real! This workshop introduces you to Final Cut Pro, which is an industry-standard video editing programme that will let you do just about anything. We’ll look at audio editing (just a little) and at titles (just a little), and take a look at some of the amazing flexibility that you just don’t get with the cheaper programmes. As with all AHA workshops, numbers are limited, you are guaranteed some hands-on experience, and you are taught by experienced artists.
Group Facilitation Methods
Organiser: ICA:UK
Date: 06 - 07 June 2007 Location: London
Cost: £195-£425
Email: top@ica-uk.org.uk
More info: www.ica-uk.org.uk
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”How can I have more purposeful & productive conversations, bring out the wisdom of a group, encourage feedback between people, and reach shared awareness in meetings? How can I generate and weave together a diverse range of ideas, develop creative solutions and build a group consensus?”
This course provides a structured introduction to the Focused Conversation and Consensus Workshop methods, which form the foundations of the Action Planning method, Participatory Strategic Planning and other applications. The course presents the two methods in a practical and participatory way. Each method is first demonstrated, then analysed and discussed, and then practiced in supportive small groups with guided reflection & feedback. Finally, participants plan how they will apply each method in their own situations. It is scheduled back-to-back with the 1-day Introduction to Group Facilitation and Action Planning courses, to allow from one to three days of training at once.
Voice Training With Jane Boston
Organiser: Mansfield Palace Theatre
Date: 09 June 2007
Location: Mansfield
Cost: £55 - 65
Email: 01623 633133
More info: Jane is currently Senior Voice Consultant at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (R.A.D.A) and has worked as Head of Voice at the Central School of Speech and Drama for many years and Visiting Lecturer in Voice and Directing at Roehampton University, the Rose Bruford College MA programme, the University of Oklahoma and the University of Illinois. Jane has also worked in a freelance capacity for clients in both theatre and business, including the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain, The National Youth Theatre of Tel Aviv, and training schools in Tokyo, Buenos Aires, and London. Jane will be bringing her vast experience to Mansfield’s Palace Theatre to enable performers and practitioners to explore voice training techniques for performance and delivery of speech (Friday) and assist participants (Saturday) to discover how best to use their voice either in a work role or in day to day life.
Study Day on the National/Transnational in Hispanic and Latin American Film
Organiser: Institute of Germanic and Romantic Studies
Date: 09 June 2007
Location: London
Cost: ?
Email: margaret.andrews@sas.ac.uk
More info: The extent to which elements of transnationalism and nationalism inform the themes, production and reception of nominally Hispanic and Latin American films is a key contemporary focus of academic debate. This Study Day draws on contributions from leading scholars in this area to make thought-provoking contribution to this debate.
Finding Funding
Organiser: Aune Head Arts
Date: 11 June 2007
Location: Exeter
Cost: see website
Email: info@auneheadarts.org.uk
More info: Learn about different methods for funding your creative ideas and bringing them to fruition. Although the workshop includes a hands-on session based around Arts Council England’s Grants for the Arts, this and other public funding is not the sole focus of the day. Discover how to be creative and inventive about where, when and how you look for ways to seed-fund your creative ideas and business. Taught by artists to artists.
Intensive Production Management Week Workshop
Organiser: Documentary Film Makers Group
Date: 11 - 15 June 2007
Location: London
Cost: £500 - 850
Email: 020 7249 6600
More info: Learn how to manage your own production or upgrade your skills to beocme a Production Manager
Work Safe: Health and Safety for Artists
Organiser: Aune Head Arts
Date: 12 June 2007
Location: Okehampton
Cost: see website
Email: info@auneheadarts.org.uk
More info: Explore issues of health and safety from an artist’s perspective (taught by artists for artists). Learn how to do simple risk assessments, and how to put together tender documents to commissioning bodies. Explore how safe working can enhance, rather than detract from, your own practice. Find out how to prepare a health & safety document to keep the most enthusiastic safety officer happy. Acquire the skills necessary to work in public contexts such as local authorities and universities. Open your studio to the public with confidence.
Moving On In MARC 21: Computer and Web Resources
Organiser: CILIP
Date: 12 June 2007
Location: London
Cost: £160-115
Email: info@cilip.org.uk
More info: This half-day course focuses on the bibliographic description of computer and web resources. Its purpose is to develop greater depth of knowledge by exploring the AACR2 elements of the topic alongside the MARC format requirements
Introduction to Group Facilitation
Organiser: ICA:UK
Date: 12 June 2007
Location: Derry
Cost: £105-£225
Email: top@ica-uk.org.uk
More info: www.ica-uk.org.uk
“How can I improve my meetings? How can I enable greater participation in decision-making? What is facilitation, really? How can I best build on what I already know, and what skills I already have?”
A facilitator needs to be able to design events, knowing which methods to use for what purpose, and how to use them. However, there is a range of skills that he or she needs to bring into play before, during and after an event, to ensure that the approach used is effective. This course provides an introduction to the practice of facilitation. It introduces key facilitation skills, their uses and practical considerations. It offers an opportunity for participants to develop and practice some of these skills in a supportive, learning environment. It provides an invaluable foundation for further training and development in our approach , and indeed any approach, to facilitation. The course will cover all or some of the following topics, tailored to some extent to those attending on the day
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- Key facilitation skills, including - listening, questioning, recording, planning & preparation, personal styles & group dynamics, dealing with challenges in a group
The course uses a combination of short, interactive presentations, practical exercises and supported facilitation skills practice with guided reflection & feedback. It is scheduled directly before Group Facilitation Methods to allow from one to three days of training at once
Getting Your Music Out There in the Digital Age
Organiser: BRAVE
Date: 12 June 2007 and 19 June 2007
Location: Bristol
Cost: £25
Email: angelat@brave.org.uk
More info: This one-day seminar, run by Eddie Martin, the internationally renowned Blues musician/songwriter and proprietor of Blueblood Records, introduces musicians to DIY marketing and selling tracks in the digital age. Topics covered include using MySpace as a business tool, constructing digital press kits and choosing and setting up the right selling/distribution option. In the afternoon there will be a workshop in our computer suite where you can work on your own digital press kit and/or MySpace page using audio and image software to create mp3s and publicity jpegs. To find out more or to receive a booking form please contact Angela at Brave on 0117 314 4610 or angelat@brave.org.uk
How To Construct A Thesaurus
Organiser: CILIP
Date: 13 June 2007
Location: London
Cost: £250-180
Email: info@cilip.org.uk
More info: The requirement for intelligent control of subject access to increasingly complex data is becoming more evident. This course will enable participants to work with thesaurus structures and make informed decisions about possible thesaurus requirements and design in their information environment
Group Facilitation Methods
Organiser: ICA:UK
Date: 13-14 June 2007
Location: Derry
Cost: £195-£425
Email: top@ica-uk.org.uk
More info: www.ica-uk.org.uk
”How can I have more purposeful & productive conversations, bring out the wisdom of a group, encourage feedback between people, and reach shared awareness in meetings? How can I generate and weave together a diverse range of ideas, develop creative solutions and build a group consensus?”
This course provides a structured introduction to the Focused Conversation and Consensus Workshop methods, which form the foundations of the Action Planning method, Participatory Strategic Planning and other applications. The course presents the two methods in a practical and participatory way. Each method is first demonstrated, then analysed and discussed, and then practiced in supportive small groups with guided reflection & feedback. Finally, participants plan how they will apply each method in their own situations. It is scheduled back-to-back with the 1-day Introduction to Group Facilitation and Action Planning courses, to allow from one to three days of training at once.
b.tween 07
Organiser: B.TWEEN
Date: 14 - 15 June 2007
Location: Bradford
Cost: £145
Email: info@just-b.com
More info: Are you a digital innovator directing a creative technology company? Are you convinced you could make more money from your ideas? If your answer to both was yes, b.TWEEN 07 is the event of the year for you.
Basic Proof-Reading
Organiser: Scottish Books
Date: 15 June
Location: Edinburgh
Cost: £190-200
Email: enquiries@scottishbooks.orgenquiries@scottishbooks.org
More info: This popular course is one of the best routes to becoming a confident and accurate proofreader. Through expert tuition and effective, well-structured exercises you will come to understand the job of the proofreader and learn many of the basic skills. This course does not require previous experience and will benefit anyone wishing to undertake or develop a career in proofreading. All delegates will be provided with the British Standards Institution Marks for Copy Preparation and Proof Correction. Discussion will cover: • the role of the proofreader • basic vocabulary • house style • the BS symbols and how to use them • types of proofs • understanding the editor’s marks
Copy Editing
Organiser: Scottish Books
Date: 15 June
Location: Edinburgh
Cost: £190-200
Email: enquiries@scottishbooks.org
More info: Readers can be easily distracted by careless errors and overall inconsistency within a publication. When producing any kind of printed material – books, journal articles, brochures or newsletters – the last thing you want is your audience concentrating on textual errors instead of content. This course will help you develop professional copy-editing skills to ensure that nothing detracts from your copy. Some experience of proofreading is desirable. Discussion will include: • the role of the copy-editor • useful reference materials • basic vocabulary • parts of a book • copyright
The A-Z of Organising an Exhibition
Organiser: BIRBECK COLLEGE ARTS MANAGEMENT SUMMER SCHOOL
Date: 18 - 22 June
Location: London
Cost: £120
Email: see website
More info: This intensive short course is aimed at those wanting to learn the key skills necessary to conceive and stage contemporary visual art exhibitions. Working on specific projects the course will guide students through all the stages of mounting an exhibition including; planning, budgeting, fund raising, marketing,writing a press release, and evaluation.
Safe and Creative Use of Lighting
Organiser: QLIGHT
Date: 19 June
Location: Manchester
Cost: £165
Email: see website
More info: This exciting, accessible course will equip participants with a clear understanding of how to use their own equipment effectively and safely to unlock the creative potential of the resources available to them - however limited! Throughout the day delegates will gain confidence and knowledge through hands on experience with equipment commonly found in schools and colleges. Only 15 spaces available to ensure maximum individual tuition and support
Making Marketing Work For Your Creative Business
Organiser: Arts Matrix/South West Arts Marketing
Date: 20 June
Location: Gloucester
Cost: £25
Email: glos@artsmatrix.org.uk
More info: This introductory course will cover from the definitions, to the theory, to the practical application of marketing for your creative business or organisation. It will look at the whys and the whos as well as the hows of marketing: Why it is important? Whose job it should be? What tools are available to achieve your aim? It covers the vital differences between marketing and audience development, looks at the elements of the marketing mix and runs through the marketer’s toolkit, discussing the implications of the promotional tools you choose. The second half looks at market segmentation, targeting your customer base, and the crucial issue of monitoring and evaluation. Who’s it for? Anyone wanting to start the process of understanding how to market their creative business more effectively, to understand marketing from basics and get the grounding to plan more effectively.
Advanced DVD Authoring
Organiser: Aune Head Arts
Date: 20 June 2007
Location: Dartmoor
Cost: see website
Email: info@auneheadarts.org.uk
More info: Not for the faint of heart, this is a hands-on session for those who want to create interactive DVDs for all kinds of uses, from automated kiosks to theatre screenings to interactive artworks. You’ll need to bring some material along to work with (preferably on CD or DVD) and you’ll also bring along your knowledge of basic DVD authoring, or at least some good solid computer knowledge. If you’ve never been near creating a video or DVD of your own, this is probably not the workshop for you. As with all AHA workshops, numbers are limited, you are guaranteed some hands-on experience, and you are taught by experienced artists.
Presence in Performance
Date: 20 June - 22 June
Cost: £80 - 35
Location: London
Email: emily.parrish@vayunaiducompany.org.uk
More info: Vayu Naidu Company is offering a 3 day workshop on creating your own narrative and integrating storytelling techniques in performance. The workshop is suitable for practitioners with some training or experience in live performance, who are interested in joining Vayu Naidu Company on some future site-specific projects. Musicians who are interested in working with storytellers are also very welcome to attend. The masterclasses will culminate in informal solo and ensemble performances. Places are limited so early booking is recommended.
Weekend workshop in the Feldenkrais Method® with Andrew Dawson.
Date: 23 - 24th June
Cost: £160 - 140
Location: London
Email: :Sara@shepparddawson.com
More info: Using Andrew's experience as a performer,director and theatre practitioner, the weekend will focus on enhancing your existing ability to move, and to bring about a greater sense of awareness and presence of yourself. This is particularly valuable to anyone working in theatre. It will increase your movement potential and break habitual habits, giving you a greater sense of the 360 degree self. No experience is necessary for the non evasive exercises, taught in a stimulating and enjoyable manner. Whether as a therapist, teacher, performing artist, athlete - or simply as a human being, The Feldenkrais Method ® offers people a simple, and yet a sophisticated and profound means for discovering resilience, strength, and self-possession
Documentary Film Making Course
Organiser: DARTMOOR ARTS
Date: 25 - 27 June
Location: Drewsteignton, Dartmoor, Devon
Cost: £180
Email: Visit http://www.dartmoorarts.com
More info: A three day introductory course to filmmaking with the emphasis being, where fiction ends and documentary begins. Day 1: A discussion about film using film clips as illustrations of the various approaches to filmmaking. Followed by a workshop on HDV cameras, getting the best filmic look from video and how to shoot for the edit and a workshop on sound and its importance. Day 2: Using the cameras and the locality of the Dartmoor Arts workshops. Three groups of three will go out and film either an event or a process that is going on. In the afternoon the footage (roughly 1 hour) will be ingested onto Final Cut Pro, the basics of the editing programme will be explained whilst the footage is ingested and a short editing script will be drawn up, with special attention to sound and music. Day 3: Workshops will be run on how to use FCP to cut a film. The day will be spent putting a scene together from the footage, with music, sound and titles. Video formats will be explained, as will making a DVD and putting a film onto tape. Finally: screening of final films and crit. Cameras and materials provided.
Analysing Popular Music
Organiser: BIRBECK COLLEGE ARTS MANAGEMENT SUMMER SCHOOL
Date: 25 - 29 June
Location: London
Cost: £120
Email: see website
More info: This module aims to develop an understanding of the key theoretical approaches to the analysis of popular music. Locating popular music as both complex cultural form and industrial project, the course encourages a critical exploration of the relationship between popular music and the audiences, performers and subcultures that surround it.
Experimental Exploration of Clay and Ceramic Materials Course
Organiser: Dartmoor Arts
Date: 25 -30 June
Location: Drewsteignton, Dartmoor, Devon
Cost: £199
Email: see website
More info: This five day course will be a process based and experimental exploration of clay and ceramic materials. We will aim to collect and process granites, feldspars, river-clay, clay from local pits and whatever else we can find to make ceramic objects. We will make and fire the pieces in as many ways as we can to explore how different construction and heat processes work with the properties of the material we have collected and used. The aim is to ask questions of the ceramic process and to encourage new ideas and attitudes to working with clay. Students will gain a closer understanding of the possibilities of making using unprocessed and unusual materials (as far as possible); some empirical but basic chemistry and an heightened awareness of the relationship between what we will make and where it comes from. Students will also develop, technical skills: processing the clays and materials (e.g. making glaze out of rocks), to make them useable and making skills 'handmaking', throwing etc. Students will have access to and gain knowledge of, firing in a variety of different kilns, including wood and gas kilns. Students will be introduced to other artists and makers who use clay in unconventional ways and to experimental approaches to making.
Clown Through Mask Workshop
Organiser: SHAMS THEATRE
Date: 25 - 29 June 2007
Location: London
Cost: £200
Email: see website
More info: A mask is magical because it reveals what is normally hidden. This intensive, playful week is an introduction to Richard Pochinko's pioneering Clown through Mask work: a synthesis of Native North American and European clowning traditions. Through making and wearing masks that personify different aspects of our self, we fully embody our humanity – both ridiculous and beautiful. The personas and worlds discovered then act as a guide to us when clowning, allowing us to go much further than we could alone. Over five days, we explore presence and colour, innocence and experience, with each person making, wearing and performing with their own mask. The course will benefit both younger and more experienced performers (no prior knowledge of clown needed) who are open to working through the body, voice and imagination. There will be the option for those wishing to complete the training process to do so in late summer or early 2008.
Introduction to MARC 21
Organiser: CILIP
Date: 26 - 27 June 2007
Location: Sheffield
Cost: £530-380
Email: info@cilip.org.uk
More info: Sound knowledge of MARC 21 is a key element in professional effectiveness when cataloguing in an online environment. MARC 21 is the only quality metadata format currently available and provides a model for how this area of work should be approached if consistent quality data is a requirement. This two-day course covers a range of formats (books, serials, videos and electronic resources) that present the MARC 21 Authority format.
The Power of Image
Organiser: ICA:UK
Date: 28-29 June 2007
Location: Manchester
Cost: £195-£425
Email: top@ica-uk.org.uk
More info: www.ica-uk.org.uk
"Do complex organizational situations challenge your creativity? Are the groups or individuals with whom you work in crisis or unmotivated? Do you search for new ways to inspire group interaction?"
We cannot control the behaviour of others, but we can learn to create the environments, context, and processes to facilitate purposeful and creative productivity. One of ICA's greatest contributions to the field of organisational change is work related to shifting images. Images or 'mental models' that we hold are the basis for choosing actions and making decisions as individuals and as organisations. The Power of Image introduces practical tools and methods for all those who use facilitation to assist or guide people’s learning or decision-making. The course covers ICA's theory of Image Shift – how our images shape our own facilitation practice; how our facilitation approach and design shapes groups' images; and how to design more powerful interventions using the ICA's Kaleidoscope Design™ methods. This methodology integrates the use of story telling, singing and art to unleash the full potential of the groups we work with. The course presents theory and methods in a practical and participatory way. You will learn by doing – by doing exercises to enhance others’ learning, by creating presentation aids and visuals, and by working in small groups to create solutions for a situation relevant to you. The course will reflect and validate your own personal learning journey, and will allow you to work through a process of shaping your own images for yourself.
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