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Get Creative at Home
We asked Kelly Donaldson, Communications & Engagement Manager at Voluntary Arts Scotland, to tell us all about Get Creative at Home, a campaign that highlights cultural activity in local communities and encourages everyone to get creative!
19 May 2020
Safeguarding Online Practices: Little Animation Studio
In part one of our series on safeguarding online practices, we speak to Simon Bishopp and Katja Frimberger of Little Animation Studio.
18 May 2020
Digital Pivot Support
We caught up with Suzy Glass, an Independent Producer based in Scotland, and Ashley Smith Hammond, an Officer in the Creative Industries team, to talk about the new Digital Pivot project they are offering.
12 May 2020
Submit Your Future Stories to the Scottish Book Trust
Scottish Book Trust's 'Your Stories' is a national campaign that gathers real life stories from members of the public. We spoke to Head of Reading Communities Programmes, Philippa Cochrane, about the journey the campaign has been on.
14 April 2020
Peacock Visual Arts - With The North Sea
With the North Sea is the culmination of work from the five Curatorial Fellows who took part in Scotland's first fully-funded Curatorial Fellowship for visual arts, run by Peacock Visual Arts in Aberdeen.
3 April 2020
The future will be livestreamed
With so many events and projects pivoting to virtual outputs in light of the coronavirus, we bring you a roundup of creativity you can see from your home.
26 March 2020
This year at StAnza, Scotland's International Poetry Festival
The annual StAnza Festival transforms St Andrews into a celebration of poetry in all its forms. StAnza Festival Director Eleanor Livingstone tells us more.
3 March 2020
Gaelic Showcase - Mairi Kidd, Head of Literature, Languages and Publishing
View the first in a series of videos from the Gaelic Showcase, where we speak to Mairi Kidd, Head of Literature, Languages and Publishing, about what the Gaelic Showcase is, and why the landscape of Gaelic music in Scotland is so exciting.
20 February 2020
Introducing the 2019 Nurturing Talent Fund recipients
Meet the 2019 recipients of the Nurturing Talent â Time to Shine Fund.
24 January 2020
A one-woman army - the solo performance of Antigone, Interrupted
Produced in association with Perth Theatre, Antigone, Interrupted re-imagines a classic story for a contemporary world through the body and the voice of a single performer, the classic story being that of Greek tragedy Antigone. Joan Cleville, Artistic Director of Scottish Dance Theatre, talks to us about the ambitious endeavour.
17 January 2020
Dreaming Big Dreams: Children's Literature in Scotland
Mairi Kidd is Head of Literature, Languages and Publishing at Creative Scotland. Here she talks about the landscape of children's literature in Scotland.
10 January 2020
How the SoundPlay Dome encourages exploration and experimentation through music
With support from Creative Scotland's See Learn Share Fund, Ellie Turner shares her experience of learning more about the Soundplay Dome. Ellie is a designer of interactive materials and objects.
23 July 2019
Playing politics in Scotland: The potential of theatre to involve people in the decisions that affect their lives
How can theatre empower people to have their say? With the help of Creative Scotlandâs See Learn Share Fund, Active Inquiryâs Artistic Director Gavin Crichton explores how participatory theatre can enable people to have a deeper say in the decisions that affect their lives.
18 July 2019
Digital technology and dance: Does motion capture offer an alternative to film?
With support from the See Learn Share fund, Julia McGhee and Fraser MacDonald have begun a new collaboration together and carried out the background work for a six month proof of concept project called Perception Experiments, which aims to use motion capture technology to map the movement qualities of young people who have learning and physical disabilities.
5 July 2019
Helping regularly funded organisations tackle climate change
From double glazing and thermal curtains to smarter travel and forming Green Teams, this guest post by Creative Carbon Scotland explores some of the ways in which the 121 organisations in our Regular Funding Network 2018-21 are working to reduce their carbon footprints.
31 January 2019
Martin O'Connor: Change anything that makes it better to play
Theatre maker and participatory artist Martin O'Connor reflects on ideas of risk and play inspired by the latest Creative Learning event from Creative Scotland. Tassos Stevens from Coney invites to play a series of games that asks us to question our own sense of playfulness, participation and rule-making.
28 January 2019
Imaginate's Paul Fitzpatrick: How IPAY put the spotlight on Scotland's work for young audiences
Imaginate's Chief Executive Paul Fitzpatrick reflects on the power of the Scottish presence at IPAY 2019 - the International Performing Arts for Youth showcase event in Philadelphia.
25 January 2019
Help us investigate radical approaches to childcare for creatives
We're inviting representatives from the arts and creative industries in Scotland to join us on a fully-funded research trip to Birmingham in April 2019 to explore innovative solutions to flexible childcare.
18 January 2019
Power in culture and the arts part two: Martin OâConnor reflects on new approaches in shifting the power balances
In November, our Creative Learning team hosted a professional development event in Perth, with Henrietta Imoreh and Liz Moreton from Battersea Arts Centre, who discussed how shifting power could have a profound effect on participants and organisations. Martin O'Connor reflects on the event.
7 January 2019
Who knows what's going to happen? Martin O'Connor learns how to take a risk in participatory arts
Writer and theatre maker Martin OâConnor reflects on ideas of risk and play inspired by the Decemberâs Creative Learning event from Creative Scotland.
7 January 2019