Creative Scotland is the public body that supports the arts, screen and creative industries across all parts of Scotland on behalf of everyone who lives, works or visits here. Join us for this visit to the Creative Scotland HQ to hear about the challenges and aspirations for Scotland’s creative industries – about partnerships and alignments across the public and private sectors, the development of evidence for effective policy, and how we try and help good stuff happen.
For your visit, with Clive Gillman, Director of Creative Industries, will give a presentation on how Creative Scotland is supporting the growth of Scotland’s Creative Industries.
Kings and Festival Theatres: http://www.edtheatres.com/about
Festival City Theatres Trust is the largest not-for-profit independent theatre management in Scotland. It manages three touring venues: the King’s Theatre, the Festival Theatre and The Studio (an extension to the Festival Theatre). The King’s (1,300 seats) is a traditional proscenium arch theatre built in 1906 and stages mostly number 1 touring drama, as well as hosting some local amateur dramatic organisations and the hugely successful annual Pantomime. The Festival Theatre (1,900 seats) underwent a major refurbishment in 1994; it stages predominantly lyric work, opera, ballet, dance and musicals, but is also the largest cinema in the UK. All of our stages host work from a number of Edinburgh’s festivals, including our Studio (160 seats), a recent addition to the portfolio built in 2013, which also acts as a rehearsal and learning space.
There are two options for your trip to Festival City Theatre Trust:
You can choose to visit the Festival Theatre which will include a short tour of the theatre and where you will meet Cerin Richardson, Head of Creativity and Diversity, who will talk about how we programme our venues according to which product will best fit which stage and, in the context of other venues in the city, how we compete for the market in a small conurbation.
You can choose to visit the King’s Theatre which will include a short tour if the theatre and where you will meet Duncan Hendry, Chief Executive, who will talk about how we are achieving our aim to become dementia friendly venues and how we stage relaxed performances for children with sometimes challenging multiple-disabilities.
Edinburgh Art Festival: https://edinburghartfestival.com/
Edinburgh Art Festival (EAF) is the UK’s largest annual festival of visual art, and a leading international platform for supporting the development, production and presentation of ambitious new work by Scottish artists. Each year, we work in partnership with Scotland’s visual arts sector, to present a rich and varied programme of exhibitions, publicly-sited commissions and events, the vast majority of which is free at the point of access. We are committed to sharing the very best visual art with audiences, locally, nationally and internationally; and to finding ways to present ambitious and challenging programme in a manner which appealing and accessible to general audiences. Partnership is at the core of our festival model, and critical to the development and delivery of our ambitions.
Your visit to their offices will provided an opportunity to hear from the director of EAF, Sorcha Carey. Her talk will focus on festival programming in a UNESCO World Heritage site and will explore the unique challenges and opportunities presented by programming contemporary art in a city renowned for its historical significance. Her talk will also look at how EAF commission invite artists to explore and transform the city, offering a very special backdrop for artists to experiment and develop ambitious new projects.
