A Creative Residency to Boost English Skills
Most of the year, our language school shares Scottish culture, including artist studio visits with L2 English users seeking a culture-rich English learning holiday.
Then, every September, we mix things up.
September is Art Month
This means that instead of sharing art and culture with general English learners, we lean into our art skills to offer English learning immersion holidays built just for artists, designers, makers and creative thinkers, targeting English for Creative Careers in a unique practice-led holiday.
This blog is partly about this offer, and partly about what makes Scotland so good for any culture-based English learning holiday.
Why is Scotland Great for Art Immersion
If you studied art, you know the joke:
“What did the art student say when they graduated?”
“Do you want fries with that?”
Perhaps it used to be true, but here in Scotland, creative industries are booming (around 5% of GDP), and not just inside cities, as you might think.
Rural Scotland has lots of artists and makers.
Take a Creative Residency in English
Artist & Designer Takeover
This September, we support creative professionals by exploring Perthshire (visual arts & crafts) and Dundee (for Scotland’s Design Museum), and you can join the adventure.
Artists, designers, makers, architects, creative thinkers – join Blue Noun Language Hub for the Maker’s Takeover.
The Maker Takeover is £2,800 inc. accommodation.
3 places available
Discover Scottish Creative Culture
The whole of Scotland (and Perthshire in particular) is peppered with artists and makers living off their creative work.
Artists fill corners of the landscape, repurposing old buildings and using superb combinations of traditional craft and modern technology.
Their work sells worldwide.
👉 Dundee is the first UK-designated UNESCO City of Design.
👉 Perth (& Perthshire) is the first UK-designated UNESCO City of Craft and Folk Art.
This means they are remarkable for craft and design. (Which makes them well worth seeing and exploring as part of a language learning holiday – whether you are a professional maker or not).
It’s art first,
English second.
(Of course).
Wait… I Thought you Were a Language School
We are (albeit an alternative one!) but English for Creative Careers needs to be taught differently from general English.
Within this English learning holiday, we’ll thread a bit of personalised English coaching around your art/design practice into an otherwise art-filled holiday.
You get inside this culture, meet makers, discover the UK’s/Scotland’s independent creative culture, make connections, promote your work, find exhibition opportunities, meet peers, make work, take creative workshops, visit studios…
You get to show up as the artist or designer that you are.
This September, be an international artist in Scotland.
When your experience is memorable,
Your English is memorable.
English learning, differently!
How our blend of real-world English unlocks speakers,
one voice at a time.
Testimonials
British Council
The British Council listed our speciality Real-World English in its Top 2024 Language Teaching Innovations.
Quality Artists
Perth is the UK’s only UNESCO City of Crafts and Folk Art.
Friendly community
Perthshire was voted the Friendliest Region on Earth by Booking*com.
What more perfect combination could you need for an English conversation holiday?
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Further Information
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The Maker Takeover Mini Artist Residency
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