The 2020 FANS Youth Team are excited to announce that our short film competition for 12-25 year olds is now open for submissions!
Submissions close on October 30th
We are accepting youth-made short films (up to 15 mins long) for inclusion in the 2020 festival programme and competition.
The festival is designed and programmed by a team of young people from across Scotland. We aim to celebrate the films and interests of young Scottish filmmakers and creatives. We have been working remotely throughout the Covid-19 lockdown to develop our team and work towards the festival in November.
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More information and submission details here;
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https://diyprojectsforteens.com/
This is a really good site if you are looking for projects to do and want some inspiration. Activities vary in difficulty and artform. If you keep looking you are bound to find something interesting.
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Hi Fructoseis an art blog that features new contemporary artworks that cover a range of art forms.
Topics include original paintings, drawings, charcoals, glassworks, sculptures, different styles of prints, and more.
Every Hi-Fructose blog post features a different artist and highlights one of their most recent contributions, some of which are on display at museums, exhibitions, or other public places.
If it’s original and clever artwork you’re after, Hi-Fructose will truly inspire and impress you.
The 2020 FANS Youth Team have set 3 challenges on the theme of TIME for young film enthusiasts to engage with.
1) Film- Making – the challenge is to create 3 minute films in any genre on the theme of TIME.
2) Story-telling – we want to hear your stories (for potential films) on the theme of TIME.
3) Design – the challenge is to create props, costumes and designs that fit into a film on the theme of TIME.
This is a competition with cash prizes and is open to under 25’s who are resident in Scotland. There are two age brackets; 15 years and under & 16 to 25 years. Submissions close 30th October.
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More information and submission details here;
Commarts is an art blog whose sole mission is to inspire artists and other visual communicators.
Topics include six major art disciplines: advertising, design, illustration, interactive, photography, and typography.
Blog posts commonly highlight featured artists, exhibits, and book reviews.
You can discover many other interesting reads by finding them in the blog’s ‘Gallery’ section.
To get the full story on an artist’s featured work, Commarts lets you scan through a slideshow of the artist’s related art projects at the bottom of some of the blog posts.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/
Colossal is an art blog that elegantly blends art, design, and visual culture together to present the works of both emerging and established artists from around the world.
Topics include fine arts, crafts, design, animation, photography, street art, illustration, and architecture.
The Colossal blog features one specific artwork before diving into the details revolving around the artist’s upbringing and unique education of the arts. After you learn a little bit about the artist’s background, the blog post dives deeper into Colossal’s own description and thoughts regarding the featured work before showing you even more of the artist’s related projects.
Canva is an art blog full of design tips and inspiration for everyone from beginners to professionals.
Topics focus on design, marketing, branding and photography.
This is a fantastic writing resources
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Writerz and Scribez CIC has been running for five years. We are founded on the belief that art changes lives, and as poets have worked with participants in a variety of settings; homeless shelters, refuges, residential homes, schools, churches, prisons and more.
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We put this pack together to inspire people to put their thoughts on paper, believe in the value of their story, and
shake the dust off their notebooks.
No matter where you start from we know you can write something beautiful!
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Artist Networkis an art blog whose sole mission is to inspire your creative side and teach you how to create amazing works of art.
Topics of the blog include a broad range of artwork tutorials taught by professional artists. You’ll gather most of your information from helpful how-to articles and videos, as well as live art demos for beginner and advanced artists.
There are lots of on demand videos that teach techniques and skills. Some of these you have to pay for but the Inspiration section has lots of free resources.