June 2011
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Early years artist, Manchester Art Gallery
I don’t often post job ads here, but this one is close to my heart being early years, Manchester and visual arts. NB I am not involved, please don’t contact me about it, I know nothing! Contact details are given below… NB closing date Fri 17th June We’re looking for an artist with some experience working with 0-5s to help faciliate our monthly mini art club. You’ll...
May 2010
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April 2010
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Zine workshop leader wanted in NW
UPDATE: THIS ROLE HAS NOW BEEN FILLED, THANKS FOR YOUR INTEREST Are you someone, or can you recommend someone in the NW who runs zine making workshops?
I’m looking for someone who can do the old fashioned cut+paste style with nothing but paper, photocopier, scissors and sticky. Would also need to include the book making / paper folding element, and be based on music (taking Joy Division as...
March 2010
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“Artists going into schools take part responsbility, part magic.”
– HN, Artist, Manchester
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Interact - applications and information →
Cornerhouse and Full Circle Arts are looking for young refugees and asylum seekers aged 14 – 18 to take part in a creative media arts project called Interact. Interact is a one-off Mediabox funded project, involving a series of workshops focussing on: • animation, • gaming • sound recording • character design (drawing and sculpting) Young people who take part will work...
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“Teachers are trained to answer questions. Artists are trained to side step them”
– HN, Artist, Manchester
October 2009
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suddenly you see it everywhere
I was with a student on Tuesday who reminded me of that old phenomenom - when you learn a new word you suddenly see and hear it everywhere. We’d just finished a TV Production masterclass by a wonderfully inspiring Producer called Jayne Brierley who I brought into a project I’m managing for a group of 14 year old Creative & Media Diploma students. Emily’s word was...
September 2009
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New funding for Manchester creatives
Umbro Industries is a new initiative from Umbro geared towards giving potential Manchester based creators the financial backing they need. “You know how it is: you’ve a great idea for an exhibition, a gig, a club night or project, you’ve got the contacts and you need to make it happen, you just need a little helping hand. That’s where Umbro Industries comes in. If your...
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August 2009
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100 Best Curator and Museum Blogs →
The chances are, if you need an opinion on something, or have some time spare to see what other people are doing, you’ll find it in this list.
July 2009
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About Social Media
As part of some training I’m delivering about Public Engagement, I’m putting together a handout about where people can reach ‘the public’ and want to include some notes on Social Media. It’s likely this willl be a new area to many of the workshop participants so I want to give enough information to be useful, but not so much as to be overwhelming. Also it’s...
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Learning by Doing: Social Media →
I fully believe in the benefits of social media. Working with rather than ‘at’ or ‘to’ people is one of the things that makes me tick, and social media does this in spades. The doing social media blog covers a few of the pros and cons but also includes a lot of contributions by people actually learning about social media as they’re picking it up. People who run...
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Quality
The past couple of weeks I’ve had a few conversations about quality. There have been times I’ve been in involved with projects where this hasn’t been thought about enough. However when asked people agree yes quality is important.
And then I ask them, “so what exactly do you mean by quality?” And all goes quiet. For a very long time.
And then they admit that really,...
June 2009
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A business case for Public Engagement
I’ve recently been reading the 80 Minute MBA by Richard Reeves and John Knell. Not an immediately obvious source for thoughts on public engagement but by chance here’s the passage I was reading yesterday from the chapter on what used to be called Marketing, and what they have down as Conversation (pp108-110)…
“The internet and new forms of social software and social media...
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Defining public engagement
As part of all the ponderings below I have been creating a list of what definitions of Public Engagement might be. Since this is specifically for some training I’ve been commissioned to create it seems only right that it stays wrapped up until it’s been used for its intended purposes. However once that’s done, and with the permission of those who contracted the work, I’ll...
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Public engagement meets social media
Found this idea about how to intertwine a ‘collection’ - in this instance of the Blue Plaques with Flickr, Twitter and potentially Wikipedia. The project is called Open Plaques and here’s a bit of a techie explanation but if you don’t mind a bit of that (or can skip through it) you’ll see that the concept is a really accessible and potentially limitless (yet...
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click :: tumblr comments →
For anyone wondering how I managed to add comments to this blog, which isn’t a standard feature of tumblr, click on ‘click’ above and you will find a hack which tells you how to include extra code into your tumblr template. It’s easy enough for anyone with a basic level of tinkering with such things, could be a bit tricky if you’ve never adapted anything online...
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Great tips for creative consultation / evaluation →
An introduction to evaluation with some examples of how to avoid too much form-filling and tick boxing - thank goodness.
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Public Engagement
Image:Jan Stadtmann from ‘Quatre Mains’ Andrew Dawson & Sven Till for ‘The Articulate Hand’, Wellcome Trust public programme In order to create and lead some workshops / training about Public Engagement, on behalf of Flow Associates, I put a quick call out to the GEM (Group for education in Museums) list which came up trumps with a wealth of resources streaming in from...