May 2021
Summer Young Composers: Online Course
Our Young Composers scheme consists of termly composition workshops, in which you will be guided and given tuition in writing for a classical ensemble, and hear your compositions tried out by the musicians. The scheme is FREE and will end in a final showcase of your works-in-progress or final pieces where they will be recorded, edited and sent out [...]
April 2021
A Free Music and Cross curricular resource for Primary teachers this summer
Rumpelstiltskin the Opera - Not just a sparkling yarn with a moral Created with young people and schools in mind Rumpelstiltskin the opera, true to form, tells a story of magic, wily deception, careless lies, comedy, sorrow, self-discovery and a crushing moral dilemma. The materials and content are perfect for keystage 2 classes but equally they are adaptable so [...]
Soundworks sessions to be LIVE STREAMED this Summer
Soundworks is our regular music-making workshop held at St David’s Hall for adults who have numerous special needs. The sessions are attended by adults with a variety of physical and learning difficulties and it enables participants to explore and create music in an enjoyable and accessible manner. During the sessions the fundamental building blocks of music are explored and [...]
March 2021
Things to Make and Do – a New Initiative
A number of Food banks within central south Wales become a creative hub for young people! “Things to Make & Do” is a new initiative from Arts Active Trust for Spring 2021. In the last year we have all become aware of just how important opportunities to be creative are to our basic wellbeing. We know that food is [...]
Happy St David’s Day
Wishing you a wonderful St David’s Day from us all here at Arts Active
February 2021
A very busy Spring so far…
What a great start 2021 has been for all of our projects and we are really pleased that we can keep running all of these great opportunities through online formats. We wanted to give you a quick update on what each of our projects has been up to.... Our International Concert Series Extras programme so far has shared new [...]
January 2021
International Concert Series Extras Spring Programme
We are excited to announce our Spring programme for our International Concert Series Extras. We have lot's of exiting things coming up including monthly podcasts, a young composers course, exciting live streamed classical music talks, education packs and a project to support well-being and mental health within care homes. A little bit of something for everyone. [...]
December 2020
Happy Christmas from Arts Active
This December has been filled with lot's of fantastic creative things to do with out Advent Calendar of events. Have you seen it? There was a little treat behind every door from 1st - 25th December. You can still take a look at it up until the 31st December 2020 so if you haven't checked it out yet - [...]
November 2020
Upbeats Podcasts
Our podcast seasons have been going down a treat in our Braving the Stave podcasts. We kicked things off back in June 2020 with more detailed podcasts that dove into the classical music that was programmed to be performed at St David's Hall. Then, the Summer saw a season all about music and nature taking you though some of [...]
October 2020
International Concert Series Extras Autumn & Winter Programme
We are excited to announce our Autumn and Winter programme for our International Concert Series Extras. We have lot's of exiting things coming up including monthly podcasts, a young composers course, exciting live streamed classical music talks and education packs. A little bit of something for everyone. Using an E-Reader? Click here to download a HTML [...]
ArtWorks Cymru is seeking a freelance Partnership Manager
ArtWorks Cymru is a partnership of Welsh organisations who are developing practice, supporting training and career development, and advocating for participatory arts in Wales. ArtWorks Cymru is project funded and creates programs of work led by different partners to further its aims. The 2019 – 2021 ArtWorks Cymru program is focusing on the further development of the ArtWorks Cymru Quality [...]
Autumn Young Composers: Online Course
Our Young Composers scheme consists of termly composition workshops, in which you will be guided and given tuition in writing for a classical ensemble, and hear your compositions tried out by the musicians. The scheme is FREE and will end in a final showcase of your works-in-progress or final pieces where they will be recorded, edited and sent out [...]
Soundworks sessions to be LIVE STREAMED this Autumn
Soundworks is our regular music-making workshop held at St David’s Hall for adults who have numerous special needs. The sessions are attended by adults with a variety of physical and learning difficulties and it enables participants to explore and create music in an enjoyable and accessible manner. Usually our sessions take place at St David's Hall in our Lefel [...]
September 2020
Criw Celf Online Exhibition & What’s Coming Next This Autumn.
What a busy Summer we had, full of exciting workshops, tutorials, podcasts, quizzes and lot's more. This September saw our Criw Celf Exhibition set up in the Cycnon Valley Museum with artwork from the artists who taught on the Criw Celf Summer School this year. Due to Covid-19 the annual A2 Criw Celf Summer School became a two week [...]
August 2020
Criw Celf Summer School
MON, 17 AUG 2020, 10:30 – FRI, 28 AUG 2020, 17:00 Brighten up your summer with the Criw Celf Summer School, a two week online programme of artist led activities With creative workshops including textiles, painting and drawing, the Summer School, brought to you by Arts Active, provides sessions for 11-19 year olds to get creative and learn new [...]
July 2020
Out of Doors – Digital Arts Festival
"Out of Doors” - An exciting new online digital arts festival. 18-July - 15 August 2020 With all of our Summer activities not able to take place in person we have devised a new online digital arts festival, “Out of Doors” that will inspire all to get creative, and encourage us all out into the fresh air. This digital [...]
June 2020
Education Packs & Learning for You!
We have been working hard behind the scenes on all our different project strands. One of the things we have been developing are quizzes, info sheets and education packs which are available for all ages. We have been focussed on music mixed with cross curricular activates to support this learning and we would love for you to download our [...]
May 2020
Have you seen all our latest updates?
We hope you are all keeping well and staying safe during this strange time. Have you seen all the great new interactive content we have been uploading over the last few weeks? We are trying to keep you entertained and busy with lots of videos tutorials, quizzes, fact sheets, playlists and podcasts and we are still continuing to update [...]
April 2020
NEW Podcast – Braving the Stave
If you have attended an International Concert Series performance at St David’s Hall in recent years, you may be familiar with Jonathan James’ fascinating pre-concert talks. Braving the Stave – Live is an excellent and insightful new podcast series hosted by Jonathan James, and the first episode is available now on popular podcast platforms including iTunes, Spotify, Google and many more. [...]
March 2020
Online content to bust those COVID19 blues
We are busy working away behind the scenes to create as much online and interactive content as we can for you all. This will include videos, podcasts, quiz's, playlists and so much more. This will all be coming your way very soon so keep an eye on our website. All will be available on our Interact Page! Stay tuned [...]
Bored kids? Online creative resources for our teacher, artist, creative community during COVID-19
We know that you’re experts in inspiring young people! But we hope this collection of links to online creative resources and activities may give you some new ideas. If you’d like to add any that you’ve spotted, please share them on our social channels or email us, and we’ll keep this updated: Art 10 university art classes you [...]