Creative Skills - Practice and Pathways

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Welcome to The Electric Sunshine Project’s Creative Skills Programme: Part One
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The programme is designed for 18-25 year olds not in employment, training or education, offering new routes to realising creative potential, through a range of structured opportunities. It’s a safe place to take part in personal arts challenges and develop a self-defined arts leadership project and achieve a Silver Arts Award. 
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Activities will take place online and at The Old Electric, Blackpool’s newest community arts hub, and with evidence documented through the Blackpool City of Learning website. 
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Creative Skills: Practice and Pathways is your chance to develop your own arts practice and experiences and find out about career pathways in the arts. 
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The activities and tasks for this playlist guide you through recording and documenting your arts experiences, introducing your creative self, identifying and realising a personal arts challenge, reviewing arts events and experiences as the audience and discovering more about career pathways in the arts. 
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At the moment activities will take place online, but as soon as it’s possible to meet in person will take place at The Old Electric.

Activities to complete

Complete the following activities, earn badges and you will see your playlist progress updated

This is Me!

Mandatory

1 hour

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Grow Creative

Mandatory

2 days

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Creative Harvesting

Mandatory

2 days

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Art Critic

Mandatory

Unknown duration

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Creative Pathways

Mandatory

2 days

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Content

Learn more about artists, their careers and arts organisations by meeting local artists. You’ll get the chance to meet and interview a range of Blackpool based artists including Ruth Cockburn (Stand Up Comedian - Singer Songwriter), Gillian Wood (Film, Animation, Artist in Residence - Fleetwood), Garth Gratrix (LGBTQ+ Artist, Abingdon Studios.)

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Learn more about artists, their careers and arts organisations by meeting local artists. You’ll get the chance to meet and interview a range of Blackpool based artists including Ruth Cockburn (Stand Up Comedian - Singer Songwriter), Gillian Wood (Film, Animation, Artist in Residence - Fleetwood), Garth Gratrix (LGBTQ+ Artist, Abingdon Studios.)

You have to finish all tasks to get the badge

Tasks

Task no.1

Evidence verified by: one activity organiser

Keep a record of your meeting with the artist(s) and what you learnt about their career development and work.

Task no.2

Evidence verified by: one activity organiser

Do some research yourself into the career pathways for your chosen art form. Where can you study? What are the job opportunities at the end of it? Share examples of what you found out and where you looked. 

Task no.3

Evidence verified by: one activity organiser

Share a summary of what you found out about working in the arts and for arts organisations. Which artists did you look at and what organisations did you find out about?

Location

Springfield Rd, Blackpool FY1 1QL, UK

Skills

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#organise information

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#demonstrate curiosity

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#voice techniques

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#photography

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#set goals

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#achieve goals

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#set up sound equipment

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#self-promote

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#share information

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#movement technique

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#review artistic work

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#theatre methods

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#professional progression in an arts career

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#planning

Activities: 5

Started: 14

Completed playlist: 1

Time to complete: 6 days 1 hour

Organisers

The Electric Sunshine Project

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