Together We CAN Creative Symposium
Saturday 25th May, 10.30 am - 1pm, Duff House, Banff - booking essential at artsteam@aberdeenshire.gov.uk
Join us for this Creative Aberdeenshire Network event, a morning of keynote presentations, discussions and networking to explore how to create a more sustainable approach to culture and creativity in Aberdeenshire.
We've invited speakers with extensive experience who have been researching approaches that support and nurture creative and cultural activity. They will share insights into their areas of work, providing us with valuable learning within a rural and national context. We will also be joined by the Head of Place, Partnerships and Communities at Creative Scotland. Our team here at Live Life Aberdeenshire will reflect on the successes of the CAN activity that has taken place over the last two years to address and support the networking needs of the sector.
We want to hear from you too. Come along and tell us what you think, share common challenges, let us know about changing priorities. This event is for artists and practitioners, organisations, third sector, volunteers, and community-led groups in the cultural sector. Everyone is welcome.
Together we CAN celebrate the learning, shape new opportunities and connections, move forward together with greater confidence
- 10.30am: Connect with Coffee and Cake - opportunity for networking
- 10.45am: Welcome from the Aberdeenshire Council Cultural Services
- 10.50am: Live Life Aberdeenshire Arts Team - reflection and learning from CAN research and activity that has taken place over the last two years in Aberdeenshire
- 11.05am: Creative Aberdeenshire Network award recipient - celebration of community, creativity and connectivity
- 11.20am: How artists collaborate - research and mapping of artist-led activity in Scotland. Artist and collaborative creative producer, Chris Biddlecombe, will highlight elements of his recent research, 'One Shared Owner', exploring artist-led group activity in both urban and rural locations. He will share how organisations connect to their communities and are embedded within their localities, giving examples and reflections on how some projects operate and respond to needs and demands of the spaces they inhabit
- 11.30am: Community Contexts Over Solutions - observations from the Rural Arts Network Scotland. Kyla Tully, PhD Candidate and Researcher on Care and Professionalisation in Rural Arts Contexts, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh will present findings from a two-year action research project that explored sharing and learning between cultural organisations in rural and remote contexts through the creation of a Rural Arts Network
- 11.55am: Breakout discussions (attend one of two facilitated 25min workshops)
- A - Shared benefits: How can individuals and organisations work better together? What and who are the drivers for collective networking and support?
- B - Geography: Help or hindrance? With 50% of Scotland's arts sector living rurally, what can we learn from the differences and commonalities between urban and rural?
- 12.30pm: Feedback from breakout groups, reflections and discussions
- 12.55pm: Karen Dick, Head of Place, Partnerships and Communities, Creative Scotland
- 1pm: Close
