Scottish Government recruiting for Creative Scotland Chair and Board
1/03 2010- Category:
- Creative Scotland
- Recruitment
Recruitment is underway for the first Chair and Board members of Scotland’s new cultural development body, Creative Scotland. Creative Scotland will act as adviser, advocate, investor and broker across a spectrum of innovative and imaginative organisations, with artists and creativity firmly at its centre.
Creative Scotland Announces Its Chief Executive
12/02 2010- Category:
- Creative Scotland
Creative Scotland 2009 Ltd is delighted to announce that the Chief Executive of Scotland’s national arts and culture body, Creative Scotland, will be Andrew Dixon, Chief Executive of the NewcastleGateshead Initiative for the last five years. Andrew has 30 years’ experience of working in the arts media and creative industries.
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Sixteen projects shortlisted for Vital Spark awards
4/02 2010- Category:
- Creative Scotland
The worlds of fashion, astronomy, wrestling and artificial intelligence have collided with Scotland’s creative professionals as the Creative Scotland Vital Spark shortlist and external judging panel is unveiled.
Sixteen unique collaborations have been selected for this next round of the Creative Scotland Vital Spark Awards.
Experts in Product Design, Design Services and Performing Arts Gather
15/01 2010- Category:
- Creative Scotland
Creative Scotland today (Friday) announced a further three groups will provide expert advice on the issues and opportunities facing Scotland’s creative community. Ewan Brown, Chair of Creative Scotland 09 Ltd and Chair of the Scottish Creative Industries Partnership, confirmed the new groups during today’s open meeting held in Dumfries. READ MORE
Share your perspectives on Creative Scotland
4/12 2009- Category:
- Creative Scotland
We are delighted with the response to perspectives and excited about the breadth and quality of the debates that have been generated. Over the last two months, Creative Scotland’s online discussion forum has seen ideas around the creative practitioner, accessibility, participation and International discussed, contrasted, compared and challenged.
Experts gather to plan future growth of creative industries
27/11 2009- Category:
- Creative Scotland
Harnessing the potential of Scotland’s creative industries was top of the agenda over the last two days (Thursday 26 and Friday 27 November) following initial meetings of industry experts in film and music.
Chaired by Creative Scotland, these meetings focused on the film and music sectors and each agreed to a programme of work to identify and recommend actions that will develop and grow each sector.
READ MORE
Perspectives on Participation
13/11 2009- Category:
- Creative Scotland
Perspectives is the place where the challenges facing the new organisation Creative Scotland can be discussed, contrasted and compared. Perspectives is presenting and debating provocative ideas about realising Scotland’s cultural potential.
Over the last month, ideas around the creative practitioner and theme of accessibility have been discussed, contrasted, compared and challenged on Creative Scotland’s first online discussion forum with provocations essays from Alice Taylor and Hans Abbing.
Chief Executive sought for Creative Scotland
6/11 2009- Category:
- Recruitment
Recruitment begins today for an experienced and inspirational Chief Executive with a bold creative vision for Scotland to lead Creative Scotland, the country’s new cultural development body.
Creative Scotland will act as advisor, advocate, investor and broker across a spectrum of innovative and imaginative organisations, with artists and creativity firmly at its centre. Operating across the creative industries, the Chief Executive will require the credibility to lead a new national organisation, alongside excellent influencing, communication and negotiating skills.
Creative Scotland business model unveiled
23/10 2009- Category:
- Creative Scotland
Creative Scotland 09 Ltd unveiled its eagerly anticipated business model, setting out the structure and operational design of the new cultural development body, which is due to be formed in the first half of next year.
Ewan Brown, Chairman, Creative Scotland 09 Ltd, described the new organisation as demonstrably different from its predecessors, talent focused and hugely ambitious for Scotland and for Scottish artists. He stressed that Creative Scotland would work with, and for, artists and creative practitioners, reinforcing its role as a catalyst for the nation’s cultural ambitions.
Starter for 6 gets a £1 million boost from Creative Scotland
23/10 2009- Category:
- Innovation Fund
A pioneering programme to support creative entrepreneurs has received £1 million backing from Creative Scotland’s Innovation Fund to offer an extended service.
During the last three years, Starter for 6, which was set up by NESTA (National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts) has directly invested in more than 80 creative businesses, as well as offering business advice to over 200 emerging entrepreneurs.
- Category:
- Creative Scotland
- Recruitment
Scottish Government recruiting for Creative Scotland Chair and Board
Recruitment is underway for the first Chair and Board members of Scotland’s new cultural development body, Creative Scotland. Creative Scotland will act as adviser, advocate, investor and broker across a spectrum of innovative and imaginative organisations, with artists and creativity firmly at its centre.
- Category:
- Creative Scotland
Creative Scotland Announces Its Chief Executive
Creative Scotland 2009 Ltd is delighted to announce that the Chief Executive of Scotland’s national arts and culture body, Creative Scotland, will be Andrew Dixon, Chief Executive of the NewcastleGateshead Initiative for the last five years. Andrew has 30 years’ experience of working in the arts media and creative industries.
READ MORE
- Category:
- Creative Scotland
Sixteen projects shortlisted for Vital Spark awards
The worlds of fashion, astronomy, wrestling and artificial intelligence have collided with Scotland’s creative professionals as the Creative Scotland Vital Spark shortlist and external judging panel is unveiled.
Sixteen unique collaborations have been selected for this next round of the Creative Scotland Vital Spark Awards.
- Category:
- Creative Scotland
Experts in Product Design, Design Services and Performing Arts Gather
Creative Scotland today (Friday) announced a further three groups will provide expert advice on the issues and opportunities facing Scotland’s creative community. Ewan Brown, Chair of Creative Scotland 09 Ltd and Chair of the Scottish Creative Industries Partnership, confirmed the new groups during today’s open meeting held in Dumfries. READ MORE
- Category:
- Creative Scotland
Share your perspectives on Creative Scotland
We are delighted with the response to perspectives and excited about the breadth and quality of the debates that have been generated. Over the last two months, Creative Scotland’s online discussion forum has seen ideas around the creative practitioner, accessibility, participation and International discussed, contrasted, compared and challenged.
- Category:
- Creative Scotland
Experts gather to plan future growth of creative industries
Harnessing the potential of Scotland’s creative industries was top of the agenda over the last two days (Thursday 26 and Friday 27 November) following initial meetings of industry experts in film and music.
Chaired by Creative Scotland, these meetings focused on the film and music sectors and each agreed to a programme of work to identify and recommend actions that will develop and grow each sector.
READ MORE
- Category:
- Creative Scotland
Perspectives on Participation
Perspectives is the place where the challenges facing the new organisation Creative Scotland can be discussed, contrasted and compared. Perspectives is presenting and debating provocative ideas about realising Scotland’s cultural potential.
Over the last month, ideas around the creative practitioner and theme of accessibility have been discussed, contrasted, compared and challenged on Creative Scotland’s first online discussion forum with provocations essays from Alice Taylor and Hans Abbing.
- Category:
- Recruitment
Chief Executive sought for Creative Scotland
Recruitment begins today for an experienced and inspirational Chief Executive with a bold creative vision for Scotland to lead Creative Scotland, the country’s new cultural development body.
Creative Scotland will act as advisor, advocate, investor and broker across a spectrum of innovative and imaginative organisations, with artists and creativity firmly at its centre. Operating across the creative industries, the Chief Executive will require the credibility to lead a new national organisation, alongside excellent influencing, communication and negotiating skills.
- Category:
- Creative Scotland
Creative Scotland business model unveiled
Creative Scotland 09 Ltd unveiled its eagerly anticipated business model, setting out the structure and operational design of the new cultural development body, which is due to be formed in the first half of next year.
Ewan Brown, Chairman, Creative Scotland 09 Ltd, described the new organisation as demonstrably different from its predecessors, talent focused and hugely ambitious for Scotland and for Scottish artists. He stressed that Creative Scotland would work with, and for, artists and creative practitioners, reinforcing its role as a catalyst for the nation’s cultural ambitions.
- Category:
- Innovation Fund
Starter for 6 gets a £1 million boost from Creative Scotland
A pioneering programme to support creative entrepreneurs has received £1 million backing from Creative Scotland’s Innovation Fund to offer an extended service.
During the last three years, Starter for 6, which was set up by NESTA (National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts) has directly invested in more than 80 creative businesses, as well as offering business advice to over 200 emerging entrepreneurs.
