CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The thirteenth City Sketchers Symposium will happen in Poznan, Poland on August 20-23, 2025. We’re in search of proposals for Workshops, Lectures and Actions/Demos. The ultimate date to submit your proposals is November seventeenth, 2024 (10:59am UTC). Chosen Instructors shall be notified week commencing January 20, 2025.
HOW TO PREPARE A SUCCESSFUL WORKSHOP PROPOSAL
- Take into consideration the essential aim of your workshop. Are you able to summarize it in a single sentence: “On the finish of the workshop my college students will be capable of …” ?
- Break the principle goal of your workshop into 3-4 steps or smaller studying objectives. What do you could educate, present, and observe throughout the course of the workshop, in order that your college students achieve reaching the principle aim of your workshop?
- Take into consideration the suitable steadiness between presenting the data, doing brief demonstrations, and giving time for workout routines in order that your college students can observe what you might be educating. Create a plan, estimating the approximate variety of minutes every phase will take.
- Be sure to depart house and time for suggestions and questions. Plan to verify in along with your college students each individually and in a bunch setting a number of occasions all through the workshop.
- Be sure to don’t set an unrealistic schedule and objectives that might not match into the house of three hours.
- Take into consideration how one can allow your college students to reach the workshop– leaving them with a transparent sense of what they realized and need to proceed to attract and observe.
Be taught extra right here about tips on how to put together a profitable workshop proposal.
SOME DETAILS TO KEEP IN MIND WHILE DRAFTING YOUR PROPOSAL:
You’ll be able to suggest a Workshop for a particular spot or a common location. We suggest you to get to know the doable places earlier than you create your proposal, with the intention to match your concept with the town’s atmosphere. Use the checklist of urged places . These places present strolling distance from the principle Symposium hub. - All individuals shall be suggested to collect with their Instructors on the Assembly place, earlier than getting down to Workshop places.
- Workshop places are topic to alter, and the organizers reserve the suitable to make the very best preparations and combos of Workshops/Demos and places.
- Take note the climate: In August in Poland common temperatures may be 23.5C (75F). Dawn is round 6AM and sundown shall be round 8PM.
- Chances are you’ll suggest a number of Workshops, Lectures and Actions. Nonetheless, solely certainly one of your proposals in every class may be picked.
- You can be notified week commencing 20 January 2025 whether or not your proposal was chosen.
- The entire programming (workshops, demos, lectures, and actions) shall be introduced in English.
Workshops
Workshops are introduced as a extra formal instructional expertise with a smaller group (a most of 15 individuals), permitting for private interplay with college students. Instructors are anticipated to have 3-5 studying objectives and clear construction deliberate forward. Meaning having devoted time for explanations, workout routines and suggestions constructed into their workshop. They’re anticipated to verify in with their college students throughout observe time and have a bunch suggestions session on the finish.
- Period and Frequency: All workshops shall be 3 hours and taught three (3) occasions over the course of the Symposium.
- In case you are chosen as an teacher you can be requested to current a one-time demo along with educating a workshop. A demo doesn’t should be on the identical matter because the workshop.
- Compensation: Symposium instructors will obtain a free registration for the Symposium, free journey and lodging and can be capable of attend one free workshop taught by their colleagues. They may obtain an honorarium of USD$100. Native instructors will obtain $500 or lodging.
- We hope to extend the variety of new and native instructors. When you’ve got not beforehand taught at a Symposium, and you’ve got educating expertise, we need to hear from you.
Lectures
Lectures assist you to share your individual work, analysis, city sketching tales, the work of different sketchers, sketching historical past, or one other matter of curiosity to fellow sketchers. Lectures shall be introduced indoors and a slide projector shall be supplied. We’ll ask to your consent for filming your lecture, in order that we will share it on USk platforms.
- Period and Frequency: 20 minutes Lecture presentation, 10mins Q&A session and can solely be performed as soon as.
- Open to all individuals
- Compensation: In case your lecture proposal is chosen, you can be entitled to a free symposium registration (employees move) which incorporates ONE 1 free demo/exercise. Additionally, you will obtain an honorarium of USD$50 .
Actions and Demos
Main a Demo. Let the individuals watch you city sketch over your shoulder. You can even present them tips on how to use a selected instrument or approach, tips on how to construct a sketchbook or a conveyable instrument equipment.
Exercise is a hands-on presentation, the place individuals do one thing, not simply watch. Do you have a trick or a cool city sketching concept that you simply need to present and take a look at collectively?
We’ll ask to your consent for filming your presentation, in order that we will share this content material on USk platforms.
- Period and Frequency: 40-50 minutes presentation, 10mins Q&A session and can solely be performed as soon as.
- Most of 15 individuals
- In case you are submitting a workshop proposal: In case your workshop proposal is chosen you can be requested to do a demo as a part of your teacher obligations.
- Compensation: In case your demo/exercise proposal is chosen, you can be entitled to free symposium registration (employees move) which incorporates ONE (1) free workshop. Additionally, you will obtain an honorarium of USD$100 .
DEADLINE
All proposals are due by Sunday November seventeenth, 2024 (10:59 am UTC)
APPLICATIONS & PROCEDURES – USEFUL INFORMATION
- Candidates have to be in English utilizing the web submission type and template supplied. Proposals not following this format shall be rejected.
- Every particular person proposal shall be assessed by at the very least 3 members of the Training Committee. For workshop proposals, consideration shall be given to
- examples of labor supplied (train examples & your individual work)
- related educating expertise and your engagement to the USK Group
- particular studying objectives
- clear description of your educating course of and the breakdown of the workshop schedule
- After the evaluation course of, the Training Committee will shortlist their suggestions to the Symposium Committee.
- The Symposium Committee will choose a closing program for Poznan that goals to incorporate
- 20% new instructors, creating a singular alternative for aspiring educators to showcase their information and keenness
- a variety of topics and types, utilizing completely different methods and supplies, showcasing the unbelievable variety and ability throughout the worldwide USK group
- a steadiness of instructors from all all over the world
If you need extra data earlier than submitting your proposal, please contact schooling@urbansketchers.org
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