IdeasTap -are your students missing out?

The £10,000 Edinburgh Festival funding has just been announced, and many more opportunities are being offered by the IdeasTap site. Have you given your students access to these resources through an induction or sharing? 

Autumn Production Days update

The Autumn Production Days programme is well under way, and as well as the bonus addition of dates to see Rammstein, you may have the chance to see Coldplay in rehearsal. Read more

Royal Opera House Design Challenge update

The La boheme Design Challenge has been launched with new categories and resources. Deadline for applications is 23 March 2012.

Olympic opportunities

There are two must have activities surrounding the Olympics for your students and tutors to be part of.....

20 12 Olympic Map -the new brief has been loaded onto the site and your first films need to be ready for 12 December 2011.

Opening and Closing Ceremony Roles - Founder College students have been invited to apply for roles as part of the ceremonies from Props to Casting.

Live Sites - As part of the Summer coverage (scarily only 8 months away) the Short Films Festival and Live Nation have screens to host original work. If you have sport related films under 5 minutes and want them on a large screen contact us

Creative insights -take your pick

With the current success of Offstage Choices, your students have the below added opportunities to inform their pathways:

Theatre Craft is on 28 November. If your students can travel down, are they booked on?

White Light Open Day is on 27 April. calling all Production Arts tutors

Trade Show Insights, will have its next one on 17 and 18 April. Calling all Production Arts tutors

As always getintotheatre and getintolivemusic are the websites developed for your early students

Creative Choices is your doorway to progression routes once trained.

SPACE Software

The SPACE software is now FREE to download and we are working with our industry partners to upload stage dimensions. Are your students using it?

Calling tutors to steer your dream projects!

As we look ahead, there are a number of areas we need tutor support on.

Project steering groups - Calling all tutors

Backstage Images Gallery - Would you like a brand new photographic exhibition in your college?

Artsmark

Where are you with the Artsmark? The deadline is just over 2 months away and we are primed to help!

Annual Industry Conference

The date has been set as 6 and 7 March, and here is all you need to know as a Founder College.

A look back at October

Our MOBO Bloggers went up to the Awards in Glasgow last month.

The steel frame is now up on the new Backstage Training Centre.

We are looking for Founder College representives on our Stakeholder Working Groups.

We have just finished the first round of Industry Events and will be announcing this week the selected regional leads from our call out last month.

There has been much change for Apprenticeships, so here is the lowdown.

News from our Partners

Here are some opportunities that you may be interested to take up:

Arts Inform's music seminar Keys to the Future on 23 November

Take advantage of a Stage Lighting, the Technician's Guide Founder College discount

News from elsewhere

The Next Brit Thing Awards - applications now open

Helena Kennedy Awards - the next round of applications open in January to support student costs

Is that all......

This Newsletter will now be produced every other month, with the next update being sent in the second week of January. If you have anything you would like to add please contact us.