"Creativity Thirst": business awareness for those with skills in the Creative Industries.

The Strule Arts Centre, Omagh is also hosting the “Creativity Thirst” programme in the autumn. For further information, please go to:

https://wea-ni.com/creativity-thirst-omagh/blog

Following on from other highly successful programmes, this project is a result of collaboration between the Workers’ Educational Association and other partners across the province. The programme is offered FREE, and is made possible by the Creative Industries Innovation Fund which is supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the Department of Culture Arts and Leisure (DCAL).

This opportunity is to help those who have skills in the Creative Industries and are considering the options of setting up their own businesses or making extra income. Programmes start in early September. Interest is always high for this programme, so if you’d like to know more or would like to apply, you’re recommended to contact Carole Kane on ASAP!

"Creativity Thirst": business awareness for those with skills in the Creative Industries, set to run in Armagh.

Following on from other highly successful programmes, this project is a result of collaboration between the Workers’ Educational Association and other partners across the province. The programme is offered FREE, and is made possible by the Creative Industries Innovation Fund which is supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the Department of Culture Arts and Leisure (DCAL).

The Market Place Theatre and Arts Centre, Armagh is hosting another run of the “Creativity Thirst” programme in the autumn. For further information, please go to:

https://wea-ni.com/creativity-thirst-armagh/blog

This opportunity is to help those who have skills in the Creative Industries and are considering the options of setting up their own businesses or making extra income. Programmes start in early September. It’s not too early to apply, in fact, if your interested now is the time to contact us.

Contact Carole Kane for further info and application forms. .

There are still some parts of the conference report to complete but in the mean time here are a number of the presentations to download:

Two students who completed the "Creativity Thirst" programme funded by Belfast City Council in autumn 2009, have had their work upgraded to Level 3 at External Moderation.

Congratulations to Sue Cathcart and Darren Nash who submitted their Business Enterprise Level 2 portfolios for their final assessment. Geraldine Boden who tutored the class, recommended that their folders should be presented at a higher level, due to the strength of their ideas and the high quality of the work produced.

You can read more about Darren, Sue, their business ideas and info about their peers by going to the project section of this website and look under "Creativity Thirst" Belfast.

Congratulations to Sue and Darren!

"Creativity Thirst": business awareness for those with skills in the Creative Industries.

“Workforce Training Organisation” and the Worker Educational Association Community Relation/ Development Officer Maura Kavanagh planned and delivered a series of Diversity Workshops to coincide and highlight Community Relations week.

Since 2002 the WEA have held many Principled Negotiation Skills course with groups dealing with community disputes.  This model of negotiation drawn from the seminal work of Roger Fisher and Bill Uri challenges the traditional way of conducting Negotiation and rather than win/lose it finds ways to build mutually beneficial agreements which gave rise to the name Principled Negotiation.

Drama is a wonderful medium to present stories from the community, to value their stories and indeed to present them to others. Last year a group of women under the Learning Age Project chose drama as their medium for continued learning. This has led to a body of work far beyond the groups imagination. Mainly hailing from the "top of the hill, Gobnascale" they called themselves "TOP WOMEN".

North Belfast woman, Maria McCarthy was presented with the coveted CCEA Creative Crafts Learner of the Year Award at the "Being the Best" ceremony in Belfast last week.

WEA Chairperson, Ann Osborne, was presented with a special award last week by the Dept. of Employment and Learning. Ann, who works for EGSA (Educational Guidance Service for Adults), was named Essential Skills Champion in recognition of “the outstanding contribution by an individual to the Essential Skills agenda.”

Colin Neilands (WEA Director) says:

“Ann has been a tremendous advocate for Essential Skills for many years now and richly deserves this recognition. Everyone at WEA is very proud that she has been given this public recognition for work that is too often unheralded.”