Join us for an Imagination Symposium 4th Oct 12-1pm online, celebrating the power of imagination and its capacity to support young people’s learning. Dame Mary Marsh will be in conversation with Tom Doust Institute of Imagination Dr Penny Hay 🇪🇺🕊💙💚🌳🐝🦋🌹❤️🌈 Bath Spa University eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-symposium-…

📢Brilliant CPD offer here - October Learning with Technology Conference - a full day of workshops and speakers @ £10pp.

📢Artist callout. Interested in becoming part of a network of artists working in the community and with schools in Bolton? Bolton's cultural commissioners want to meet you and find out about your work!

Imagination is our super power. ‘What we cannot imagine cannot come into being … to be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.’ bell hooks

A brilliant opportunity for schools in Bolton to get involved in shaping the town’s cultural offer to work for and with their setting this October👇🏼. Book here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/672903160467.

We use a combination of play/exploration/curiosity/awe to spark creative responses to woodland environments + scientific inquiry, oracy and theatre projects to generate and present empathy-full and actionable responses to environmental issues. More here: boltonschool.org/news/2023-07-0….

“Read. Read as much as possible... Fill yourself with the beautiful stuff of the world… Get amazed. Get astonished. Get awed on a regular basis, so that getting awed is habitual and becomes a state of being.”

Nick Cave's advice on life themarginalian.org/2023/04/20/nic…

Creative Thinking Across The World
Bolton School Bolton School has embarked on an innovative journey to harness the power of creative thinking pedagogies. Click below to read further about how the school helps its students to flourish and thrive
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Very exciting to explore possibilities for young people and film in Bolton with the town’s BAFTA & BIFA accredited film festival and Creatives Now. Looking forward to supporting the festival in October with a morning of youth screenings and talks for schools.

… carried out cultural research to add social value, explored regional arts centres, contributed to world mental health day events and represented youth culture at the royal visit… We are very much looking forward to what the year ahead holds!

Let’s fill Bolton with artists!

A joy to review the progress of our youth arts collective and look to the year ahead. Creatives Now is a youth-led arts for social change, health and well-being organisation, facilitated by Bolton School and Bolton at Home, a CulturEdBolton project.

New report argues that cultural learning can play a role in improving youth employability culturallearningalliance.org.uk/policy-and-pra…
#culturallearning

At the end of the Summer Term, our amazing Shakespeare Festival drew to a close - inter-generational learning from primary to undergrads - funded by Arts Council England Rose Bruford College ALRA North Network Artsmark thx to Chris Payne for the photos. Review here:
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A great read about our exhibition with @scigallerylon, “AI: Who’s Looking After Me?”, on the The Guardian
We know we are biased, but we highly recommend it!
#ai #art ificialintelligence #machinelearning #technology#ethics #art #science
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Learn how we are reimagining learning experiences that grow children’s, learners’, and entrepreneurs’ capabilities and ideas towards regenerative futures with the Design For Life Awards. bit.ly/44pF3ng

Loving topically remote entertainment by audition tape submission from prospective cast for our production of Around the World in 80 Days.

As ever, supportive family members reading in to support pupil auditions with plenty of good humour. The show will be staged this December.

Thinking here on how academic progress can and should be allied to personal sense of self in world, health and well-being and ethically applied to civic/eco activities and potential future employment pathways in live learner-led, design-thinking focused, assessed opportunities.

Pleased to see to our developments in creative practices Bolton School featured in Global Institute of Creative Thinking’s summer newsletter. Read my article here: rethinkingassessment.com/rethinking-blo… and the Global Institute of Creative Thinking’s round up here: us18.campaign-archive.com/?e=b886464700&….

‘Creative engagement for all. It supports young people from underrepresented communities to be aware of the opportunities around arts and culture on their doorstep.’

Cf. Creatives Now; exciting new developments to share about youth and schools opportunities in September…

Brilliant to see young filmmakers trialling emergent AI tools to tell stories of change and departures of imagination, from their current experiences to divergent possibilities.