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Hi All,
Welcome to the fifth edition of the CCS Connect e-news, we can’t believe we’re nearly in July. Hope you’re having a good week and you and your families remain well. There have been significant changes in the Government’s pandemic guidance this week, which we’re sure a lot of you will be working through in relation to your own work.
We’ve been putting loads of opportunities onto the CCS Facebook Page, thanks very much to those of you who have been ‘liking’ these, sharing them with your networks and tagging us into your posts.
Thanks to those of you who shared opportunities and information for inclusion in this e-news.
We’d like to invite you to the next CCS Arts Café on Wednesday 15 July, 5.00 to 7.00pm, via Zoom.
Inclusive Practice: exploring barriers to engagement in arts and culture for children and young people with SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities) and their families, in this current climate
Delivered by Ignition and The Hive the Arts Café will include:
- Practical tips and techniques for positively engaging children and young people with SEND, in arts and cultural activities being delivered online
- Considerations for making your own practice/organisation more inclusive
- Information, advice and things to consider around safeguarding and ensuring yourself, organisation and the children and young people you are working with are safe
- Networking opportunity with other arts and cultural organisations, artists and practitioners – through Zoom break out rooms!
Ignition and The Hive are members of the CCS Management Group and leading organisations in Shropshire in this field of work.
The Arts Cafe are FREE to attend and provide an opportunity to network, exchange ideas, information and learn new skills.
Please email Alexa Pugh to book your place: alexa.pugh@shropshire.gov.uk
Creative Wellbeing at Home – A new suite of online events and resources focused on wellbeing, balance, leadership and creative connection to help you through these challenging times is available here. www.anewdirection.org.uk/what-we-do/schools/creative-wellbeing-at-home
Please continue to send us your digital and online opportunities and we will share them in this fortnightly e-news and via social media. See below for details of how to do this.
If you want to see previous editions of the CCS Connect e-news, they are available on the CCS website - https://www.cultureconsortiumshropshire.com/ccs-connect--news.html
Take Care
CCS Management Group
 If you would like CCS to share the online and digital opportunities you have available for children and young people and their families, please contact Alexa Pugh, email, alexa.pugh@shropshire.gov.uk
We’re looking for local workshops, performances, film, animation, virtual tours, exhibitions, talks, mentoring, articles, CPD and resources etc. Content needs to be accessible and age appropriate for children and young people and their families.
The deadline for inclusion of information in the next e-news is Thursday 2nd July.
Please follow the government guidelines on COVID-19 when delivering activity. For updates, take a look at the NHS and Gov.UK webpages.
 Please tag us in events on Facebook and we will share them - https://www.facebook.com/cultureconsortiumshrops/
Twitter – Culture Consortium Shropshire @CultureShrop #spotlightshropscyp
Website – https://www.cultureconsortiumshropshire.com/
 Arts Award – Introducing Discover at Home
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Created in response to the Coronavirus outbreak, Discover at Home is an accessible, adaptable version of Arts Award Discover supporting families to be creative and learn about the arts at home. Discover at Home enables children to be rewarded for the creative activities they enjoy and supports them to connect with their local museums, theatres and arts activities online or at home, and explore new ones, until it’s possible to visit them again. A comprehensive, free resource pack is on offer for families with easy to follow guidance and lots of suggestions for arts, craft and creative activities. The Discover at Home pack contains guidance for Arts Award centres who may be looking to deliver Arts Award Discover in this way. Additionally, there is detailed guidance for parents & carers, along with suggestions of online activities and resources to complete. Download your pack now to start your Discover at Home activities or learn more about supporting families to run Discover at Home. If you would like to discuss this further please contact Becky Thompson – Arts Award Manager at Arts Connect - R.Thompson6@wlv.ac.uk
 Young Musicians Development Programme
Future Talent supports instrumentalists and singers from any genre of music: classical, folk or rock and on any instrument from violin to voice and drums to beat-boxing. We offer sustained support for all successful applicants + their families and provide valuable mentoring, career + general music development advice as well as bespoke performance opportunities, and a financial award. Financial support is primarily given to musicians from families whose household income is less than £30,500 per annum. We offer 3 awards: Worsley award For musicians aged up to 15. A financial award of £3,000 to be used over 3 years. Robinson Award For musicians aged 15-17. A financial award of up to £1,000 for 1 year. A financial award of £2,000 each year, until the recipient turns 18. See all the details online at: www.futuretalent.org/ Deadline: 30 June 2020
BBC Young Composer Competition 2020
A competition for 12-18 year olds across the UK who create their own original music. Winners participate in a tailored development programme working with a mentor composer on a project with the BBC Concert Orchestra to be performed + broadcast in a special young composers concert at the 2021 BBC Proms.
You may not think of yourself as a composer, but if you love to create your own original music, and are bursting with creativity, originality, and potential, then we're here to tell you that you are! We’re looking for musically-minded people aged 12-18 of all technical ability, backgrounds, and musical influences.
See all the details here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4mY3MbSJ5G2LvSbzZPbc85G/bbc-young-composer-2020
DEADLINE: 20 July 2020
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 The Play House theatre-in-education company
Have launched their Touring programme for the 2020/21 academic year. Check out their website for the full range of participatory workshops they will be touring, as well as their key messages and learning objectives, so that you can choose those that will best support your curriculum in a creative and engaging way. There's also plenty of information on other ways The Play House can support you, including through producing bespoke projects or providing CPD. Visit www.theplayhouse.org.uk
Bitesize Playwrighting
This is a new initiative and competition for schools from touring theatre company Tamasha, intended to support secondary school Drama teachers continue to teach their subject during the coronavirus lockdown.
As a physical art form, many Drama teachers are struggling to teach their subject remotely, but there is one part of the theatre-making process which can continue while we are all isolated, and that is playwrighting. www.tamasha.org.uk/education/bitesize-playwrighting/
All the Bitesize Playwrighting films are free, thanks to generous support from the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Garfield Weston Foundations, and will remain online permanently for teachers to use in years to come.
To motivate students we're also holding a competition! We're inviting all students who complete the course and write a 5-minute scene to send it to us for a September 2020 deadline. All plays we receive will get some tailored notes from one of our Tamasha Playwrights group, and our favourites will be offered some one-to-one mentoring and an invitation to complete a final draft for publication. We'll compile the winning entries into a digital volume celebrating young people's playwrighting, and make it available to all participating schools and for free download on our website.
We've been touched by the enthusiastic response to this initiative already, with some teachers asking if staff can enter the competition too. Our answer is a resounding YES! It will be really fun if you want to do some writing alongside your students as you all learn together. We are pleased to announce that we will create a separate category in the competition for staff plays, and include some in the anthology!
To take part, please email aitor@tamasha.org.uk to register your school, after that it's over to you! We are here to answer any questions which come up, and we might periodically check in with you, but we hope that everything you need will be in the films and resources – found here. The films are the ones which are ready now, and are enough to get you started. But keep checking back for new ones as more are still being made and we will upload them once they're ready.
All information and videos can be found here.
 Ignition Create CIC
Ignition have created a series of online sensory sessions for children with SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities) and their families. The sessions have been designed to enable families to take part in sensory art, dance, storytelling and singing/sign.
We have also developed a series of creative outdoor activities for families to do together.
These were created as part of our ‘All In’ offer - ‘Create Family Days,’ which usually run at Tickwood Care Farm and combine the arts and outdoor activity for children with SEND and their families.
The sessions will be available shortly via our website: www.i-gnition.co.uk
You are more than welcome to use the content with your participants, students or families and as this is a pilot for us we would appreciate any feedback you have.
Any other queries please contact: kate@i-gnition.co.uk
Rage Arts
Are busy creating exciting and stimulating activities for children to do during these times. These are available to download for free from our website www.primarytheatre.org.uk and we believe complement the Lets Create activity packs giving children a chance to be part of creating a production for them which we will be touring when it is safe to do so. www.ragearts.org.uk
New Arts Podcast for Children from Birmingham Creates
They have worked with local arts & cultural organisations to produce Sofa School, a weekly 20min arts podcast for children aged 5-11 to support creativity at home in this time of lock-down. Find the 1st episode here https://bit.ly/30597WU
 Meadow Arts - Bio Building - Instagram Live workshop
When: Saturday 4 July, 2pm
Finish Time : 3pm
Where : Instagram Live @meadowarts
Join artist Jamila Walker as she guides you through a fun, imaginative, family art workshop that focuses on the combination of nature and man-made construction.
Inspired by Alex Hartley’s In Ruins artworks and his new film for The Artist's Studio series, together you will work with the idea of bringing nature into our homes, through houseplants, attempting to control them and adapting them to our spaces.
On the Meadow Arts Instagram page, Jamila will demonstrate how to create your own small plant-sculptures using accessible art materials, card, paper, glue, and/or recycled materials following organic themes. Decorate your mini-plant replicas by adorning them with patterns that reflect buildings; brick wall patterns, cement air holes etc. to build pieces that marry nature with man-made construction.
The live art session will be sociable, and accessible, you are invited to ask questions, share ideas and be experimental.
Website link: www.meadowarts.org/events/bio-building
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Caldecott Festival Group - ‘The Little Artists Challenge’ – Monday 6 to Friday 17 July
Can you help? We need 1,000 ‘little artists’ to help create a ‘Natural World’ masterpiece!
‘The Little Artists Challenge’ is a project to team up 1,000 local children with local Shropshire professional artist, Sarah Evans, to encourage creativity and to produce a large-scale community art piece, inspired by nature, for local display (Whitchurch).
Children of all ages please look around you and help us by observing bugs, bees, flowers or any natural forms and produce a picture of them, using paint, crayon or marker pen. Send your picture to Sarah at: silknstuff@hotmail.com
Sarah needs colourful pictures of any natural form that you can see around you. Perhaps take a walk, explore your garden or simply look out of your window to find something that inspires you. It could be a single bug or creature, a flower or a leaf or a whole tree, it is up to you! It doesn’t have to be very detailed, just a bold, clear image works best. Pictures need to be A4 sized and clearly marked with your first name and age on the front.
Sarah Evans, is aiming to produce a multiple, patchwork style, canvas creation using images inspired by the art work of 1,000 children. The theme will be the ‘natural world’, the final pieces, which will include children’s work to be displayed locally (Whitchurch) for all to see.
Please complete your pictures by Friday 17 July and send them to Sarah at silknstuff@hotmail.com.
Facebook .com/caldecottfest
 Vagabondi - Puppet challenge
Videos on my YouTube channel on making puppets. + puppet show
Summer of Reading launched in Shropshire
Many of us have taken to getting stuck into a good book during the lockdown, whether that be a book from your shelf, your kindle or even the E-Library provided by Shropshire Libraries.
On Friday 12 June, the Shropshire Summer Reads’ challenge was launched. You can sign up for free and you will be asked to read and rate four books of your choice over the summer.
Thanks to library Friends groups, completed entries will be entered into a prize draw for book vouchers that will be redeemable at independent book shops across Shropshire.
You can sign-up by visiting Shropshire Libraries
Autin Dance Theatre launches new online puppetry and storytelling programme for children, young people and their families
 Autin Dance Theatre, based in Birmingham, are launching ‘Make Your Own Puppet @Home’ tutorial video on Saturday 13 June at 10 AM as part of ‘Out of the Deep Blue’ Web Series.
'Out of the Deep Blue' aims to raise awareness of the climate emergency crisis and other environmental issues with a series of short films featuring the sea giant puppet ‘Eko’ and 'Make Your Own Puppet @Home' tutorial videos released each week online.
This first tutorial video is a part of an online series inspired by the themes around the climate emergency crisis and other environmental issues. Autin Dance Theatre will be using mainly recyclable materials as part of these tutorials.
This digital project will be delivered online weekly throughout June and July 2020.
RSVP to our online event HERE - Subscribe to our YouTube channel
 The Art Fund charity launches Instagram museum treasure hunt
With museums currently closed, charity Art Fund wanted to give art lovers the chance to explore museums in a new way.
So creative agency Ralph created Art Find - a virtual treasure hunt around museums in the UK, exclusively on Instagram.
The hunt begins on Art Fund’s Instagram channel, with a series of clues leading followers around the Instagram pages of museums, starting with the Wellcome Collection in London. Cleverly, clues are hidden in backdated posts, so art lovers have to scroll through museum collections to find them, enjoying art as they go.
Everyone who gets to the end of the treasure hunt has the chance to win a goodie bag filled with items from the gift shops of the participating museums.
The campaign launched last week on @artfund
The launch post can be seen here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CBkt5JflyCo/
Art Fund recently conducted a survey around the recent challenges facing the industry, revealing that 86% of museums and galleries surveyed have increased their online presence and/or created new digital content.
Art Fund is continuing to support museums and galleries and is dedicated to bringing art to more people.
 Inclusive Practice: exploring barriers to engagement in arts and culture for children and young people with SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities) and their families, in this current climate
Wednesday 15 July, 5.00-7.00pm Via Zoom
Delivered by Ignition and The Hive the Arts Café will include:
- Practical tips and techniques for positively engaging children and young people with SEND, in arts and cultural activities being delivered online
- Considerations for making your own practice/organisation more inclusive
- Information, advice and things to consider around safeguarding and ensuring yourself, organisation and the children and young people you are working with are safe
- Networking opportunity with other arts and cultural organisations, artists and practitioners
Ignition and The Hive are members of the CCS Management Group and leading organisations in Shropshire in this field of work.
The Arts Cafe are FREE to attend and provide an opportunity to network, exchange ideas, information and learn new skills.
Please email Alexa Pugh to book your place: alexa.pugh@shropshire.gov.uk
 Public Health England (PHE) launches new e-learning on Psychological First Aid during COVID-19
This week PHE launches an updated Psychological First Aid (PFA) digital training module, aimed at all frontline and essential workers and volunteers.
ThE course aims to increase awareness and confidence to provide psychosocial support to people affected by COVID-19. PFA is a globally-recognised training in emergency situations and we have developed this new course as part of our national incident response, and in partnership with NHS England, Health Education England, FutureLearn and E-Learning for Health.
The course is free, and no previous qualifications are required. It takes around 90 minutes to complete and is also available in three sessions for the learner to complete at their own pace. By the end of the course, outcomes will include: understanding how emergencies like the COVID-19 pandemic can affect us, recognising people who may be at increased risk of distress and understanding how to offer practical and emotional support.
For more information and to sign up click here.
Managing self and others through this difficult time
12 Page PDF Document – if you’d like a copy of the PDF, please email alexa.pugh@shropshire.gov.uk
 One-Off Funding for Organisations that Employ People from Vulnerable/Disadvantaged Groups
In response to the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic, Social & Community Capital has launched a £1 million Coronavirus Response Fund to provide some support for social enterprises, charities and other not-for-profit organisations across the UK that employ people from vulnerable or disadvantaged groups.
The funding aims to bridge the income gap so that organisations survive the crisis and continue to have a positive impact in their communities. Grants can be used to fund usual business activities or help to adapt their delivery model to coronavirus constraints. These grants are unrestricted and can be used for any purpose, including core costs.
A total of £1 million is being made available with one-off unrestricted grants of between £5,000 and £50,000. The grant must not exceed 25% of the organisation's annual turnover or £50,000.
Applications will be open from midday on Monday 22 June and stay open for at least one week.
The deadline for applications is midday on Monday 29 June 2020.
Art Fund Launches Respond and Reimagine Grants
The Art Fund is providing Respond and Reimagine grants to help museums, galleries and cultural organisations respond to immediate challenges connected to the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis, and offer support to adapt and reimagine ways of working for the longer-term future.
These grants can provide practical support to fund what applicants need now. If an organisation is experiencing an immediate crisis with no alternative sources of funding, The Art Fund can consider offering emergency support to help organisations manage during this difficult period.
All public museums, galleries, historic houses, libraries and archives in the UK are eligible to apply.
Organisations that are a visual arts agency or festival are eligible to apply providing they can meet the above criteria and have a strong visual arts focus.
Grants from £10,000 to £50,000 are available. The Art Fund will consider offering 100% funding.
The next deadline for applications is 6 July 2020.
IUK Launches Young Innovators Awards 2020/21
The aim of the Young Innovators Awards is to find young people with great business ideas who have the potential to become future leaders in innovation and successful entrepreneurs. The Awards will support up to 100 young people by 2023 through annual competitions.
Young Innovators bootcamps will be held at the start and mid-point of an Award. The bootcamps are an opportunity to engage and network with both those providing the expert support available and other peers in the cohort, including an innovation champion. Innovate UK (IUK) expects applicants’ action plans to be agreed at the first bootcamp.
Applicants can apply for a share of up to approximately £430,000. Each successful applicant can claim for a £5,000 grant to cover project costs. These costs include travel to meet customers/partners, attending relevant training courses, equipment, hiring office space and IT support. Applicants will also receive a living allowance based on two days’ (15 hours) work per week as part of their Award.
IUK is looking for business ideas that are innovative, so they must address a problem, be different and significantly better than what is currently on offer including from existing businesses.
This competition is open to single applicants only. The applicant must be a UK resident who has the right to work in the UK, or will have the right to work in the UK at the time of the Award. They must be aged between 18 and 30 on the date of competition closing.
The deadline for receipt of applications is Wednesday 2 September 2020 (11:00 BST).
Young Entrepreneurs Invited to Apply for 2020 Varsity Pitch Competition
The Varsity Pitch Competition rewards UK students and recent graduate entrepreneurs who have enterprising ideas that they wish to turn into viable businesses; enabling participants to showcase their unique, creative ideas to the wider community.
The business/idea must be the entrants’ own idea and/or an idea that they are free to disclose. Additionally, entrants must be able to own and run a business or social enterprise in the UK and be at least 16 years of age.
Entrants must be either a current student at a UK university or college or an individual who has graduated after 2015.
Category semi-finals will take place later in the year. The final will take place during Global Entrepreneurship Week in November and the winner will receive £15,000 for their start-up.
The closing date for applications is Friday 24 July 2020 (12:00 BST).
BBC Children in Need Launches COVID-19 Next Step Grants Programme
BBC Children in Need is providing this grants programme as a separate programme to its Large Grants and Small Grants programme.
The funding is intended to benefit not-for-profit organisations working with children and young people aged 0-18 years who are disadvantage including illness; distress; abuse or neglect; any kind of disability; behavioural or psychological difficulties; or living in poverty or situations of deprivation. The funder has provided a list of children and young people identified as being particularly impacted by the coronavirus/COVID-19 crisis.
Grants of up to £80,000 are available to help organisations with more complex service adaption, including additional staffing requirements. It is designed to be as flexible as possible, covering a wide range of activities. Projects can last up to 18 months and need to begin in September 2020.
The deadline for applications is 1 July 2020. Applications will be assessed in the order received.
The Forces Communities Together programme
The People's Trust Active Communities funding programme
Open for applications across the West Midlands – The programme aims to support local people to use their skills and knowledge to make their communities better places in which to grow, live, work and age. Grants are available from £5,000 and can be for one or two years. www.peopleshealthtrust.org.uk/apply-for-funding/detailed-guidance?cic=1495
 Flexus Dance Collective – ‘EDUCATE’: A Digital Dance Platform celebrating Dance in Education. Streamed as part of ‘A Captured Moment’ Festival: Thursday 6th – Sunday 9th August 2020. CALL OUT FOR: TEACHERS / LECTURERS / STUDENTS
The impact of Covid19 resulted in a mass of unfinished, uncelebrated and unprofiled Dance works created in Education.
‘Educate’ online platform is an opportunity to showcase and celebrate the Dance Cohort of 2020 at Secondary/FE/HE level. For further details on how to apply, please see the attached call out. Deadline 26th June.
For further information and to request an application form please contact flexusdanceco@outlook.com
Iniva and RSA Academies: Three Artists for the Contemporary Art Space Project – Applications close 30 June. https://iniva.org/about/jobs/artists-for-contemporary-art-space-project/
Birmingham Museums Trust: Chief Executive – To play a central role in developing a new and transformative vision for these museums. Applications close 8 July. www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/about/careers/chief-executive-vacancy
BBC New Creatives is an exciting talent development scheme offering commissioning opportunities for emerging creatives to make new artistic works in film, audio or interactive media, designed for BBC channels and platforms. If you're based in the English Midlands, the New Creatives programme will be led by Rural Media. They are looking for emerging talent between the ages of 16-30 with strong creative ideas and drive, to develop their original concept into a professional short film, audio or interactive media work. They will provide training to give you the skills you need to bring your idea to life and get it seen by audiences. New Creatives content has the potential to be selected for an exciting new programming strand: BBC Introducing Arts, which will showcase and introduce new artistic talent from the UK across BBC platforms - BBC iPlayer, BBC Sounds, BBC television and radio. They will look to identify the best platform for each idea. This is an unprecedented opportunity for creatives to experiment and connect with BBC audiences and beyond. Applications are now open for Round 4 of New Creatives Midlands. Want to get commissioned? https://www.ruralmedia.co.uk/NewCreatives Deadline: 31st July 2020
Black Lives Matter Language Commissions – For Black creatives and People of Colour, aged 16-30, from Beatfreeks, Slanguages & Don't Settle. No deadline, programme will continue until the money runs out. www.beatfreeks.com/opportunities-list/blacklivesmatter-language-commissions
Supported Residencies with Talking Birds – For D/deaf or disabled artists with a creative idea you would like to take to the next level and Coventry/Midlands-based artists or companies with a new show that you’d like to develop. Open to artists working in any medium. www.talkingbirds.co.uk/pages/Nest_residencies.asp
Please forward this e-newsletter to interested parties. Apologies for any cross posting. If you have been sent this e-news by a colleague and would like to sign up to become a member of CCS and receive the e-news direct please email alexa.pugh@shropshire.gov.uk
Please note: this information has been forwarded to you because we think it may be of interest. We make every effort to ensure that any information that is forwarded is appropriate, however CCS (Culture Consortium Shropshire) can accept no liability for any inaccuracies or omissions contained in this e-news. Forwarding the creative sector opportunities does not represent any endorsement of projects or initiatives by CCS and readers should take their own steps where necessary to check the reliability of any organisations or projects featured.
If you are interested in any of the opportunities or events we ask that you get in touch with the relevant named persons, using the contact details within the text.
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To find out more information about CCS, please contact:
Alexa Pugh, member of CCS and Arts Development Officer, Shropshire Council. email: alexa.pugh@shropshire.gov.uk
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