End of Arts Award till next year

Yesterday was the last day of arts award till next year after christmas, We had to interview a lady called Fiona who worked in the arts but we didn't know which job she was working in so we needed to ask her ten questions each.

  It's a shame that arts award has ended till next year I was really looking forward to getting my Silver Arts Award done for this year but I can still work on it next year when it starts.

I'll still be posting odd little bits about my progress in my guitar playing and singer but this blog will slow done till arts award starts up again but still keep checking up on it because their will be short little posts some days :D

Just a little update on my progress of my arts challenge

Thursday before last I went to Olive's Bar it was quite hard to find but that was because it had moved, well not moved but instead of it being downstairs and much bigger it is upstairs over a take away food place, can't remember what it is called.


Olive's Bar is really nice, lovely decoraction, it had christmas decoractions on it which made you get into the christmas spirit quickier, it's smaller then other bars I've been in but that's fine because it had the cosing atmusver which I have never felt before in a bar or pub. The stage is not to big and not to small just the right size and it isn't really a stage it's more like a sitting area turned into a stage which was really nice to see and made a defference from seeing proper stages.


The open mic night started at 8:00, Stevie Jones (The organizer) started off the mic night with a few of his songs that he has on his albums, he's a really good singer and guitarist. We stayed to watch four acts because it was getting late and me and mum were very tired we both had a very busy day that day and it sort of took it's toll which was a shame because I really wanted to see the pros perform.


I was aming to do my workshops finished before christmas but unfortunaly I found out that Arts Award is finishing for christmas this tuesday so I can't do my workshops this year or my performance at Olive's Bar which is a bit of a bummer but oh well I don't mind, I'll just have to finish my silver arts award next year.
 

Two Thursdays before last I went to drumming on fosse road and asked Cally (my drumming tutor) If I could borrow five drums from him for my workshops, because I can borrow the drums from my local scrap store but only that one time because I'm not a memeber and if I wanted to borrow them again then I would have to become a member which I don't really want to do and I don't think I could either because I'm only 15, and Cally said that it was fine that I could borrow them for my workshop.

Finding my pathway

A few weeks ago on Tuesday Diana (My arts award leader) Gave me a sheet with all the arts jobs that people done and she said that I needed to research two of the jobs, I choose to do Education Officer and Youth Worker because they are the pathways and careers that I want to venture into myself, I have a friend called Amy Wale that works as a Education Officer at The Y Theatre with older teens in Inter-ACT The group I used to go to before I started going to Monday Drama at Herrick Road, I E-mailed her and asked her a few questions.

What Qualification did you need to have to do your job?

I have a 2.1 Degree in drama.

What's your average work day?

I don’t have an average working day – every day is different. Most weeks I will at some point visit a school for a meeting or to observe a creative activity, attend a meeting for another project that I may be involved in, liaise with artists and/or teachers, deliver a drama workshop and do lots of planning and paperwork

What do you like about your job?
I like that I don’t have an average day. There is a lot of variety in my job, one moment I can be slithering along the floor with a group of 5 year olds pretending to be snakes and the next minute I can be leading a creative consultation with victims of crime. Either way I am adhering to The Y’s mission of developing communities and people through the arts which is something I am passionate about.

What inspired you to take this work?
I always knew I wanted to study drama, ever since I can remember. I never intended to become a professional actor when I was at university, however my first job after graduating was acting in a Theatre in Education tour in Wolverhampton. I quickly realized that working with children and young people was something I enjoyed and was good at. I continued to be involved in various other tours and workshop leading roles as a freelance artist until I found out about the vacancy for Education Officer at The Y. My reasoning behind going for this job was that it would give me more security than my freelance work but I would still get to do the work I loved.

 

I would love to become either a Eduaction Officer or Youth worker and LIFEbeat Youth leader Because they love doing what they do and love their life. 

 

Youth workers have loads of jobs like;

Youth clubs.

Projects.

Outreach programmes.

Mobile projects.

Accreditation programmes.

Information, advice and counseling.  

 

To become a Youth Worker you need to have a Nation Youth Agency (NYC) or Higher Education awards in youth and community work, from 2010 all of the new qualifications in youth work will have to be at degree level or higher.

 

The qualifications that you can get with NYC are; NVQ (Nation Vocational Qualification) level 2 and 3, NVQs are accessible at HE (Higher Education) colleges often through employers.

 

Level 2 is equivalent to a GCSE

 

Level 3 is equivalent to a “A” Level

“Level 2 is for individuals working face-to-face with young people in supervised roles. Level 3 is aimed at those who are involved in direct face-to-face work with young people, but who work under their own initiative, and have additional responsibility for supervising other people, leading projects and developing their organization. Local Authority and voluntary youth services will normally expect you to gain level 3 NVQ, enabling you to create and implement your own work with young people with only minimal supervision.”I'm already working my way to becoming a youth worker and becoming a LIFEbeat Youth leader, (a youth camp that I go to)

Back in action and posting again :)

I know I haven't posted any reviews on here for a while but I wanted to leave the reviews for a bit and do Unit 1.2 Arts practice and pathways which I would like to get finished first and then get back to making my followers, you guys :) happy and still following with posting all my reviews.

For Arts practice and pathways I need to do;
Collect Brochures, leaflets and other inforation about local arts organisations and opportunities and scrap book them.
Wrote about what I found about the artists/Arts professionals
Make a summarty of what I found out about future career/training opportunities.
Gather Tickets, programmes and other information about event that I attended.
And Write my review and evidence of my sharing it.

I've been away for four days in Peterborough with my mum helping her out with the East of England Christmas Show so I haven't really been able to do any of my arts award work but I'm going to get stuck right into it tomorrow.

Good feedback

Great news I went to the Arts Award Group yesterday and Diana looked at my portfolio and said "Is it okay if I keep your portfolio and give it back to you while you're doing your dancing" I was really happy to hear this, I went to dancing whit I'm really, really enjoying now you can really express your feelings in the dance movements and really make them yourself, When I was practising one of the dances that I we were doing in the open class so that eveyone can see what we've been doing and how good we are.

   I saw Diana come in and waved to her, she then put my portfolio on the floor and then watched us for a few minutes then went.

  After dance had finished I picked up my stuff and walked outside and had a little laugh with dad because something funny happened to me and then when I got into the house I dropped everything on my sofa and looked through my portfolio trying to find the comment sheets and I was really surprised to see that everyone enjoyed my reviews I was so happy

Thank you Diana for doing that for me it's made me really happy :)

Marvelous Piano Duo

I knew there was loads of concerts playing at the R.A.C centre because I had been to a few last year and I really enjoyed them so I looked up on their website and found some lunchtime soundbite concerts that I am intrested in.

  Me and mum went down on Tuesday to see Gillian Butcher and Barry Collett two marvelous pianoists do a concert called Two Piano Recital, it was so great hearing two lovely pianos playing together, you could hear the rare talent that the pianoists had, they really enjoyed playing all the pieces.

First Session with Sophie :D

Yesterday I went into Herrick Road a bit before 5:00pm with my guitar because I didn't know if I could sing my song without my guitar, I waited in the main waiting room till it was five to five then I went to Sophies office which was shared with a other guy who works there, she knew that I was coming in the morning but when the morning dragged on and became day she forgot that I was coming.

   I helped out a little bit with the choir songs because every week they always come back mumbled and jumbled up, and every week just before choir practise starts Sophie has to put all the songs into their groups which must take a long time to do because there is about 25 to 30 girls in the choir, so she was very happy that I helped out sorting the songs.

  After I helped her finish putting the songs into their groups we walked around Herrick Road trying to find a room that wasn't being used, that was quite hard because it is a very busy music school but we finally found a room which wasn't being used and it was a balla room with a fireplace which I wasn't expecting a tall.

  Sophie is a great singing teacher, she's so joyful and happy all the time, she has her odd ways of helping you out with your singing but they work in their odd own ways :D the session I had with Sophie was a lot of fun I really enjoyed it and I hope there will be more sessions with her in the future.