Festivals, Biennials and Public Engagement

engage and GI LEARN
4 March 2010
 

Recent years have seen an explosion of Visual Art Festivals and Biennials - according to the Biennial Foundation, over a hundred biennials of contemporary art currently exist globally, with new biennials constantly in development.

What opportunities are offered by this growth in practice? How do artists, educators and local communities engage with and respond to the Festival or Biennial format? In partnership with GI LEARN we are holding a FREE discussion event that aims to look at the kinds of possibilities such event-led Festivals and Biennials might offer in terms of education and public engagement and what potential there might ...

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Working with Schools Seminar
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Thursday 25 March 2010
An engage Scotland CPD event featuring local and national perspectives on the theme of Working with Schools, with particular reference to the Curriculum for Excellence, drawing on recent gallery and visual arts projects.
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Mapping and analysis of training opportunities for teaching artists in Scotland

BOP consulting have been appointed to undertake this research and Sarah Yearsley, engage Scotland Coordinator, is representing the visual arts and gallery education sector on the advisory group. Artists from across art form sectors in Scotland will be involved in the research phase.
Find out more about BOP's work at http://www.bop.co.uk.
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Contact

engage Scotland Co-ordinator, Sarah Yearsley, works all day Monday and Tuesday and half days on Wednesday and Thursday during school term time; and two days a week during school holidays.

T: 01738 787137
E: scotland@engage.org