More about perspectives
What it is?
Designed to engage the artistic and creative communities, this discussion forum is your chance to share your views on the emerging role of Creative Scotland, the new national development body for the arts, culture and creative industries.
It’s the place where ideas around Creative Scotland can be discussed, contrasted, compared and challenged. Perspectives is an evolving dialogue with Scotland’s creative communities which will strengthen the purpose of and ambition for Creative Scotland.
How will it work?
Perspectives will use the four priorities for Creative Scotland, as outlined by the Minister for Culture, Michael Russell, as a starting point for discussion. These priorities are:
- Encourage and sustain artists and creators of all kinds
- Ensure that their work is accessible to all
- Ensure that as many people as possible can participate in creative activities
- Extend and increase the wider benefits of arts and culture, including their contribution to the promotion and development of our unique national culture and its wider place in the international sphere
Over the next three months, each of these priorities will be introduced by an independent provocation commissioned from the international creative community to stimulate live discussion. These provocations are the authors’ perspective as they respond to addressing the Minister’s priorities. They are not the views of Creative Scotland, Scottish Arts Council or Scottish Screen.
This is to stimulate your ideas and contributions which will be summarised and drawn together in the new year and handed to Creative Scotland when it is formed through the parliamentary process in 2010.
Themes which generate continued discussion may be developed into live events in the first part of 2010.
The schedule of discussion is as follows:
5 October:
The Creative Practitioner
Hans Abbing
Visual artist and economist. Professor emeritus in art sociology at the University of Amsterdam. Author of: Why are artists Poor. The Exceptional Economy of the Arts. Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2002 (Fourth Printing 2008).
19 October:
Accessibility
Alice Taylor
Commissioning Editor, Education
Channel 4 Television
Alice has 13 years of experience working on internet-native projects. In September 2007 she took up her role at Channel 4, aiming to deliver cross-platform content for UK audiences aged 14-19. Previously she was Vice President, Digital Media for BBC Worldwide, Los Angeles.
Alice specialises in virtual worlds, videogames and playful experiences. She was a judge for the 2007 & 2008 Independent Games Festival Awards, the 2007 D&AD awards, the 2009 Indiecade awards, and more. She also contributes to many conferences and events, most recently Develop ‘09, Interesting ‘09, The Do Lectures ‘09 and MIPCOM ‘09.
Alice owns the gamecentric blog Wonderland (www.wonderlandblog.com) and has written about gaming for sites and magazines, including BBC News, The Guardian, Paste magazine, the New Statesman, and Kotaku.
2 November:
Participation
Diane Ragsdale, Associate Program Officer, Performing Arts, The Andrew W Mellon Foundation, New York.
Prior to her current post at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Diane worked as an arts practitioner (as an artist and administrator) for more than 15 years. She is a frequent speaker and writer on issues in the arts and her most recent article, “Recreating Fine Arts Institutions,” was published in the fall 2009 issue of the Stanford Social Innovation Review. Her viewpoints are personal and should not be taken to be the viewpoints of the Foundation.
16 November:
International
Git Scheynius, Director, Stockholm International Film Festival.
Git Scheynius is Festival Director and one of the founding members of the Stockholm International Film Festival. The festival is one of the leading competitive film festivals in Europe, with over 170 films from over 40 countries screened each year in November. Git has been rewarded several times for her creative edge and interactive work with the festival, including gaining the International Director Award at the International Film Festival Summit in Las Vegas in 2007.
Your Role
We want your perspective on the role of Creative Scotland within a national and international context. Share your views on the opportunities as well as the obstacles for the creative community, for the individual, for the public and for Creative Scotland itself.
Further Discussion
Independent facilitators are following the conversations closely and will draw a list of hot topics from your discussions. Do you agree with them? Tell us which is most important to you that needs further discussion.
