from Cathy Agnew
DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY INDEPENDENT ARTS SECTOR
OPEN MEETING
Monday 3rd October 2011 at 4 pm at The CatStrand,
New Galloway
Dear All
As you will be aware,
Dumfries and Galloway Council are working with key partners, including Creative Scotland to
devise a policy which will effectively and efficiently deliver art services in
the region. A key part of developing this new way of working across the region
is the Stakeholders Meeting on 28th
October in Dalbeattie. (details of the Dalbeattie event here)
The fact that Creative
Scotland is taking a keen interest in the region is to be warmly welcomed. However, arts providers will inevitably
continue to have to lobby and campaign for adequate resources for quality
projects and initiatives to be delivered across the region. In order to be more successful in both
securing funding and maximising the benefit from scarce resources in these
difficult economic times, it is vital that the region’s artists, arts
organisations, arts groups and communities can find effective ways of working
together collaboratively.
This
is obviously something that we are all talking and thinking about already and
it has been suggested that it might be a good idea for interested groups and
individuals to meet in advance of the consultation session in Dalbeattie to
start to develop ideas and share experience/aspirations without the pressure to
deliver a ‘result’ by the end of the day. For instance:
· ‘How
should arts development be delivered across the region?’
· ‘Should there be a centralised ‘voice of
the arts’ for D+G?’
· ‘Can we pool our marketing?’
· ‘How
can we co-ordinate programming…or should we?’
·
‘How do we cater for practitioners,
commissioners and audiences….separately, geographically or centrally?’
If you are interested
in the future of arts provision across the region, please come to this open
meeting in order to share and discuss your thoughts and ideas. There is
currently a great opportunity for us all to influence and help shape the way in
which the arts might best be delivered in Dumfries and Galloway over the next
few years.
For catering purposes
(tea and coffee) please could you email your acceptance to info@catstrand.com by Friday 30th
September.
Best wishes
CATHY AGNEW
on behalf of
Glenkens Community & Arts Trust (GCAT)
A Dumfries venue could be good sometimes..
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