Training for Cultural Sector
Upcoming Arts Cafes
Pentabus Rural Theatre Company: working with young people developing writing and theatre making skills.
Tuesday 19th January, 6-8pm
Pentabus Theatre Company will talk about their approach to Pentabus Young Writers and Pentabus Young Company, we will explore how to recruit and work with older young people and through practical exercises share ideas to enable young people to develop their writing skills and theatre practice. There will be hands-on practical advice and workshops activity to help you take back skills to your own setting.
Venue: Virtual via Zoom. Please email alexa.pugh@shropshire.gov.uk to book your place.
Sal Tonge: Body Before Business, wellness and self-care in the Arts sector.
Tuesday 2nd February, 6-8pm
We are the givers, the generators of ideas, the listeners, the responders, the collaborators, the connectors and performers. The last year has left many of us emptied, tired, under stimulated and weary.
As the first signs of spring emerge and we start another year, it’s a great time to turn over a new leaf and make some positive changes to our self-care and resilience.
This session will be delivered by Sal Tonge, a Shropshire storyteller and community musician, who trained in her late forties as a fitness instructor. Sal’s work focuses on functional fitness and well-being for real life!
Participants will get moving from the comfort of their own homes. Sal will explore aspects of fitness and relate them to artist’s lives and practice. She will take participants through a short simple set of 4 moves which can be carried out every day during desk breaks.
Venue: Virtual via Zoom.
MediaActive Projects: Adventures with Archives, using archive film creatively with children and young people.
Wednesday 24th March, 6-8pm
Using the Hidden Treasures of local, regional and international film archives MediaActive Projects has, over many years, worked with children and young people on award winning film productions, cross artform events and visual arts exhibitions. Our current BFI funded programme brings together archive film content and new music/spoken word for event based screenings, exhibition install and cinema. The Cafe will present an opportunity to enjoy some examples of archive film based work made by children and young people, in and out of the classroom, and hear about opportunities to access, exhibit or work with Adventures in Archives content and programme. No experience is needed within digital practice!
Venue: Virtual via Zoom
Pentabus Rural Theatre Company: working with young people developing writing and theatre making skills.
Tuesday 19th January, 6-8pm
Pentabus Theatre Company will talk about their approach to Pentabus Young Writers and Pentabus Young Company, we will explore how to recruit and work with older young people and through practical exercises share ideas to enable young people to develop their writing skills and theatre practice. There will be hands-on practical advice and workshops activity to help you take back skills to your own setting.
Venue: Virtual via Zoom. Please email alexa.pugh@shropshire.gov.uk to book your place.
Sal Tonge: Body Before Business, wellness and self-care in the Arts sector.
Tuesday 2nd February, 6-8pm
We are the givers, the generators of ideas, the listeners, the responders, the collaborators, the connectors and performers. The last year has left many of us emptied, tired, under stimulated and weary.
As the first signs of spring emerge and we start another year, it’s a great time to turn over a new leaf and make some positive changes to our self-care and resilience.
This session will be delivered by Sal Tonge, a Shropshire storyteller and community musician, who trained in her late forties as a fitness instructor. Sal’s work focuses on functional fitness and well-being for real life!
Participants will get moving from the comfort of their own homes. Sal will explore aspects of fitness and relate them to artist’s lives and practice. She will take participants through a short simple set of 4 moves which can be carried out every day during desk breaks.
Venue: Virtual via Zoom.
MediaActive Projects: Adventures with Archives, using archive film creatively with children and young people.
Wednesday 24th March, 6-8pm
Using the Hidden Treasures of local, regional and international film archives MediaActive Projects has, over many years, worked with children and young people on award winning film productions, cross artform events and visual arts exhibitions. Our current BFI funded programme brings together archive film content and new music/spoken word for event based screenings, exhibition install and cinema. The Cafe will present an opportunity to enjoy some examples of archive film based work made by children and young people, in and out of the classroom, and hear about opportunities to access, exhibit or work with Adventures in Archives content and programme. No experience is needed within digital practice!
Venue: Virtual via Zoom
Previous Arts Cafes
Dance delivery in the Virtual World: How can physical practice take place online?
With Rachel Liggitt, Co-director of Shropshire Inclusive Dance, (SiD) Dance Artist, Educator and Coach.
Digital practice can never replace face to face delivery but there are ways in which we can embrace it and use it positively with children and young people. In this Arts Café Rachel Liggitt (previous technophobe!) will share her insights, learning and discoveries following over 8 months of ‘delivering dance differently’.
The choreography of our lives has changed in ways we could never have predicted. Many of us have seen dance now taking place in the home, alone or in smaller groups, from safe distances and with masks or screens rather than through physical contact. However, new spaces and practices have emerged, with learning and participation evolving and finding new ways to safely connect with children and young people.
I-gnition and The Hive: Inclusive Practice: Removing barriers to inclusion within your organisation and/or practice. Positively engaging children and young people with SEND through arts and cultural practice and ensuring safeguarding for vulnerable young people.
I-gnition and The Hive provided guidance on the social model of disability with practical tips and techniques for making your own practice/organisation more inclusive for children and young people.
This Arts Café session was part of Culture Consortium Shropshire (CCS) and PACT Partnership Investment programme.
Dance delivery in the Virtual World: How can physical practice take place online?
With Rachel Liggitt, Co-director of Shropshire Inclusive Dance, (SiD) Dance Artist, Educator and Coach.
Digital practice can never replace face to face delivery but there are ways in which we can embrace it and use it positively with children and young people. In this Arts Café Rachel Liggitt (previous technophobe!) will share her insights, learning and discoveries following over 8 months of ‘delivering dance differently’.
The choreography of our lives has changed in ways we could never have predicted. Many of us have seen dance now taking place in the home, alone or in smaller groups, from safe distances and with masks or screens rather than through physical contact. However, new spaces and practices have emerged, with learning and participation evolving and finding new ways to safely connect with children and young people.
I-gnition and The Hive: Inclusive Practice: Removing barriers to inclusion within your organisation and/or practice. Positively engaging children and young people with SEND through arts and cultural practice and ensuring safeguarding for vulnerable young people.
I-gnition and The Hive provided guidance on the social model of disability with practical tips and techniques for making your own practice/organisation more inclusive for children and young people.
This Arts Café session was part of Culture Consortium Shropshire (CCS) and PACT Partnership Investment programme.