Kintyre Cultural Seminar on Sept 27th

[IainJ]

The Kintyre Cultural Forum (KCF) will be holding a Cultural Seminar on Thursday Sept 27th in the Campbeltown Heritage Centre. The Seminar will give members of the public an opportunity to hear from people working in the cultural sector in Scotland whilst also giving attendees a chance to air their views and join in the workshops in the afternoon. Representatives from the Scottish Arts Council, Argyll and Bute Council, the Heritage Lottery Fund, Careers Scotland HIE Argyll & the Islands, amongst others will be present to answer your questions.

Presentations have already been confirmed from Dr Donald Smith (Director of the Storytelling Centre / Netherbow Arts Centre and Vice Chair of the Edinburgh Cultural Partnership) as well as Jenny Carlile representing the Campbeltown Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme (CARS). The seminar will include short presentations followed by question and answer sessions in the morning and breakout sessions in the afternoon to hear the views of members of the Forum and people interested in the cultural sector in Kintyre.

The KCF hope that your views will contribute to a plan of how the Forum should develop and move ahead with topics ranging from what members and attendees would like from a proposed web site to looking into the possibility of creating an Arts / Cultural Centre in the area. They would like to also encourage as many groups, organisations and businesses involved in cultural activities in the Kintyre area to attend with their own stand/stalls. They feel this is an excellent opportunity for the culturally active people in the area to meet up and discuss future cultural activities in Kintyre and also to help give feedback towards the future projects of the Kintyre Cultural Forum.

They have also recently launched their online forum that can be accessed by contacting Iain Johnston, their Project Worker, on kintyreculturalforum@hotmail.co.uk or phone 01586 552034. They would welcome your views and ideas on the upcoming seminar and any other ideas and issues that affect the cultural sector.

The event starts at 10am and finishes at 3.30pm and attendees can either drop in when they can manage or come along and enjoy the whole day. For further details contact Iain Johnston at 01586 552034 or email kintyreculturalforum@hotmail.co.uk

A running order for the day will be posted up at the start of the week giving times for the morning presentations and afternoon workshops.

We would like to see as many members of the public and of the KCF at the seminar. We are interested in what people in the area have to say on culture both nationally and in the Kintyre area and this is a perfect opportunity to air your views.

Hope to see some of you there.

IainJ

[IainJ]

Just a quick update with an outline of the days programme

Cultural Seminar

Programme

10.00am – 10.30am Start
10.30am Introductions + ideas & comments
11.00am Dr Donald Smith (Edinburgh Cultural Partnership) Presentation + Questions
11.30am Jenny Carlile (Campbeltown Area Regeneration Scheme) Presentation + Questions
12.00am General Questions

12.30am Lunch

1.15pm Summarisation of morning and comments
2.00pm Breakout session 1

1. Workshop on Art/Cultural Centre (facilitator S Paterson)
2. Workshop on KCF web site (facilitator TBC)
3. Workshop on cultural career opportunities (K Johnston)

2.30pm Breakout session 2

1. Workshop on Art/Cultural Centre (facilitator S Paterson)
2. Workshop on KCF web site (facilitator TBC)
3. Workshop on Burning issue of the day (K Johnston)

3.00pm Summarisation, evaluation and final questions
3.30pm Finish

The panel at the question ans answer session will be Deirdre Henderson (Chair Kintyre Cultural Forum), DR Donald Smith (Edinburgh Cultural Partnership) Caroline Docherty (Scottish Arts Council) Jenny Carlile (CARS) and Douglas Philand (Argyll & Bute Council)

There will also be loads of stands by local groups and organisations, so it should be an interesting day.

Try and pop in for a visit

IainJ

[Malky]

How did this go Iain?

Malky

[IainJ]

It went very well Malky.

We have a lot of information to sort out now and the reactions from everyone who attended were very positive.

There will a follow up get together probably in a few months and some interesting developments could come out of the day.

The turn out of exhibition stands from local organisations was fantastic and very creative, a big thanks to everyone who put in a lot of effort towards this.

The representatives from the various funders and Council departments were very impressed with the spread of people who came from music, literature and art to architecture backgrounds who attended and the opinions that they had.

We hope to hold another full Seminar again next year and also some focus meetings on specific topics throughout the year in the run up to it.

I will post up more info once we have it.

Iain