Artsplay Highland Training Days will be held on 27th and 28th September 2006 at Charleston Academy Community Complex in Inverness.

Artists/Arts Organisations

Clayground with Deborah Carter – Artist with Artsplay Highland and Magpie
Storytelling and Creative Writing with Cynthia Rogerson from Moniack Mhor
Elemental Music with Alpha Munro – Community Musician and Organiser of Music Trains
Printmaking with Brian MacBeath – Artist and tutor with Highland Printmaking Studios.

These training workshops are delivered as hands-on practical experience in the arts for people working with children/young people/disabilities across all ages – community, education or care settings.

Anyone from around the Highlands can attend. A group of childcare and early years organisations will receive follow-on workshops for the year thereafter.

Clayground –Deborah works with clay in an experimental way..showing processes rather than end products, and adding materials which would appeal to all ages. It is possible to create anything! She has worked with children in early years and primaries across the Highlands and collaborates with other artists on large-scale projects.

Creative writing and storytelling - Cynthia is joint-director of Moniack Mhor, Scotland’s Creative Writing Centre at Kiltarlity near Beauly and will share her knowledge of working with groups of children and young people to help create stories/poetry and how to tell stories too.

Elemental Music with Alpha Munro – Alpha has worked with the Feisean movement for many years, and tutors the Kiltearn Fiddlers. Alpha has also worked extensively in the arena of disability. She has co-ordinated Music Trains for the last 3 years, and is responsible for instigating interest in the Orff method across the Highlands. Alpha combines Orff with world music, song and movement to create a workshop which is highly enjoyable to take part in, and is accessible for everyone.

Highland Print Studio – Brian will teach printing methods accessible to all ages, with simple tools which can be accessed by groups and schools. Creating both pictures and words in print – ink and blocks will help to create the effect, and simple framing techniques will show how your work can become a piece of art!

We are opening these training workshops out to Highland community groups, schools and individuals who feel that they can learn from the direct hands-on experience of the teaching artists providing the sessions.

Music Trains will be back in the Highlands in May 2007 with Doug Goodkin returning from San Francisco, and more workshops organised by Alpha.

We will also be running training days in January with different artists and different experiences.

Artsplay Highland will be doing workshops for kids at The Highland Games in Inverness this year, and we will be at Tartan Heart Festival leading the procession: The March of the Drum Dragon.

If you would like to attend please fill out the attached form and send with payment of £20 per day per person to Artsplay Highland by Friday September 1st 2006. Places have already been provisionally booked, so please submit your application as soon as possible. There will be no refund on cancellations – but you can attend the January days for the same fee.

Artsplay Highland is a registered charity (SCO34648) and company limited by guarantee (252241). We deliver training days and workshops to community groups and schools primarily in Inverness, but also throughout the Highlands.

For more information contact Jelica Gavrilovic, Project Co-ordinator on jelica@artsplayhighland.org.uk