Aberdeen 2017 – Illuminating the North (Workshops)
May 22, 2013
We need your help
in 2017 Aberdeen will have a year long celebration of arts & culture. We may even be the UK City of Culture… but, Even if we are not, we will have an incredible year. The sort of year that can change the City forever.
Help Shape the programme for Aberdeen in 2017 by joining us at SEVENTEEN on Belmont Street on these dates :
- Saturday 15th June 11am – 2pm
- Thursday 20th June 11am – 2pm
- Wednesday 26th June 11am – 2pm
- Monday 1st July 5.30 – 8.30pm
- Saturday 6th July 11am – 2pm
Aberdeen 2017
@aberdeen2017
facebook.com/Aberdeen2017
City of Culture Hackathon – Eventbrite
May 17, 2013
City of Culture Hackathon
Aberdeen2017
Saturday, June 29, 2013 at 9:30 AM – Sunday, June 30, 2013 at 7:00 PM (PDT)
Aberdeen, United Kingdom
As may know, the initial bid document has now been
submitted to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. In this document we outlined why we felt Aberdeen should be UK City of Culture and we detailed some of the city’s key resources.
Now we have to prepare for what happens next.
In the middle of June (we think around the 17th) we’ll discover if the judging panel have shortlisted us and if we then have to prepare a second, much more detailed bid document.
If we are not shortlisted there has been a commitment by Aberdeen City Council to press on with 2017 as a year of culture.
Whatever happens we have the opportunity to make Aberdeen a more cultural city and a city where the many talented people who live here and create here are recognised.
We would like you to be involved and we’d like to talk to you about the possibilities of Aberdeen being UK City of Culture.
The bid team would delighted to meet at a time suitable to you. This could be a conversation between two of us, or the team could prepare a presentation for you and any colleagues or friends or partners.
We can tell you about our plans and you can tell us what you want to see happen in Aberdeen.
Email us hello@aberdeen2017.com to set something up.
full news post : News from Aberdeen’s bid to be UK City of Culture 2017.
Culturing our Creativity
May 15, 2013
Culturing Our Creativity is about the environment we create that will allow arts and culture in Scotland to flourish
An AmbITion Scotland seminar, webcast and open-space one-day event in partnership with Missions Models Money, Arts & Business Scotland and the Cultural Enterprise Office exploring the current context for culture and how we might change it.
Date: Monday 17 June 2013
Location: [venue TBC], Edinburgh
Seminar : 10.30 – 12:30
Webcast: 10:55 – 12:30
Open space: 13.15 – 15.30
Cost: £20 + VAT*
Ben Cameron from the Doris Duke Charitable Trust, a thought leader on culture and the arts in the United States will be the key note speaker for the day along with contributions from:
David Watt, new CEO of Arts & Business Scotland
Eleonore Belfiore, leader of the #culturalvalue initiative
Shelagh Wright, Missions Models Money
Bob Last, Cultural Enterprise Office
Hannah Rudman, Rudman Consulting and AmbITIon Scotland
Chaired by Roanne Dods and featuring storyteller Donald Smith from the Scottish Storytelling Centre to energise the open-space session, the day promises to be enlightening and engaging.
Culturing our Creativity is driven by three key questions: What conditions are needed for individuals and organisations working in arts, culture and the creative industries in Scotland to flourish on our finite planet? How can we ensure their presence? What more could they contribute to our common wealth if we did?
Individuals and organisations working in arts, culture and the creative industries in Scotland are faced with a rapidly changing external operating environment that is increasingly uncertain. Many, especially those working in small practices, micro businesses and SMEs, face continuous obstacles to achieving their full potential, especially in relation to accessing the right kind of human and financial resources to help them adapt and build their resilience.
Whilst we know a lot about the conditions needed to enable cultural and creative activities to flourish at different points in their lifecycle, they’re not present across the whole ecosystem. They’re not connected up. Most importantly, we don’t fully recognise the different kinds value they create, and what impacts these values have on our increasingly challenged economy, society and environment.
*If price is a barrier please get in touch – we don’t want anyone to be excluded based on ability to pay.
Not Another Fair – summer bazaar
May 14, 2013
Saturday, 15 June 2013
11:00 until 16:00
Lethenty Mill, AB51 0HQ Inverurie, Aberdeenshire
Adding to the growing list of wonderful fairs in the North East, Nina’s Apartment squeezes in another one, this time with a retro summer theme.
Get kitted out for the holidays with fabulous vintage clothing, over-sized sunglasses, vintage luggage and cameras and filled-to-the-brim picnic hampers.
There will also be upcycled garden furniture, yummy food, refreshing drinks and free activities for children.
Don’t worry about the weather – just put on those flip-flops and come down to Lethenty’s own beach club. Groovy!
Admission free of course and parking available on site.
Online treat store is now open for applications
May 11, 2013
Following Fife Contemporary Art & Craft’s successful treat pop up experience in November, in association with Craft Scotland, and the brand’s official launch by Philip Long, Director of the V&A at Dundee, it is now time to take our unique offering online.
The treat store will showcase the very best emerging and established Scottish talent, offering customers the chance to view curated exhibitions online and provide them with the opportunity to browse our web exhibitions and shop for the best in contemporary craft. The treat store delivers from the maker straight to the customer’s door.
To apply to be one of only 10 Scottish-based makers selected by treat, a representative from the V&A at Dundee and a guest judge, please email:
• a short statement about why you wish to take part
• a copy of your CV, including a list of current stockists and press, awards or celebrity activity
• 5 digital images of the work you are looking to retail on the treat store site (.jpeg only)
• the recommended retail price for the 5 items
• please also state which of the items, if any, you can offer to treat exclusively for 6 months
Closing date for applications: Monday 3 June 2013 at 5pm
Applications should be emailed to: info@treatstore.co.uk
For any queries, please contact Fife Contemporary Art & Craft, 01334 474610.
via Creative Scotland: Online treat store is now open for applications.
AB+ AGM news & nomination form
May 10, 2013
The meeting will take place at Arts Centre & Theatre, Aberdeen on Thursday 23rd May from 6pm – 8pm with registration from 5.40pm.
During the event there will be a time of formal business, some presentations about AB+ and from invited speakers as well as a time for networking and refreshments.
As part of the formal element of the programme I will be talking about some of the future plans for the organisation especially about how we are working with the 2017 UK City of Culture Bid team and also about a series of events we will be running from the autumn called “cultural conversations” where we want to look at some of the most important topics facing the sector. There will be an opportunity to give some input into the planning of these events during the networking sections.
Also during the A.G.M business we will be electing the board of AB+ for 2013/14. Any member can stand for the board and also for one of the office bearer roles. The board has a maximum number of 12 members and at the moment meets about every six weeks as well as some smaller project group meetings such as planning for the cultural conversations events.
We would welcome nominations to the board as a general member or as an officer (Chair, secretary or treasurer) as we are very keen that the organisation truly represents the breadth of the membership and has a cross section of cultural organisations, individuals and other interested parties represented.
If you would like to nominate yourself for the board can you please download & fill in this form or send the information in an email to our address –aberdeen.postive@gmail.com by Tuesday 21st May at 5pm. If you have any questions about joining the board or the organisation then please email and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
As well as the formal elements of the event we will be having some presentations from artists and speakers as well as opportunities to ask questions during the main event and the networking time.
We are also keen for people to use the occasion to promote their work so please bring leaflets, pictures and examples of work, as you wish and we will have some tables available in the café area for these to be displayed.
The A.G.M is also open to people who are not yet members of AB+ but are interested in the promotion and raising the profile of the creative and cultural industries in the North-east of Scotland. People are welcome from all parts of the community and the membership is not just limited to artists or people working in the industry. Please encourage people to attend and there will be an opportunity for them to sign up on the night. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions please get in touch through the email Aberdeen.positive@gmail.comor our online site http://positiveaberdeen.wordpress.com. Please join, participate and share to help make AB+ a strong collective voice of the cultural sector in Aberdeen and the North-east.
Yours sincerely
Stewart Aitken
Chair, AB+
Let’s Talk About…Cultural Tourism – GANE
May 10, 2013
Let’s Talk About… Cultural Tourism
Date: Monday 20th May 2013
Venue: Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen, Ab10 1OS
Time: 12.30pm – 4pm
We are pleased to welcome Nicola Kenny and Ros Lamont from The Audience Business in Edinburgh and consultant / facilitator Abigail Carney to talk to us about their experiences of increasing tourists and visitors engagement with cultural events.
Tickets in the City
Ros Lamont is Chief Executive of The Audience Business, and Nicola Kenny currently works as Project Manager for the Edinburgh Portal Project. They will share with us their experiences of setting up a world-first, city-wide ticketing portal, and talk about the challenges they faced in setting up, developing and putting the Portal into action. This is a great opportunity to hear about this project and to consider how this case study could inform our own approaches to ticketing for Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire.
Design in Action Launch Aberdeen – Eventbrite
May 9, 2013
Design in Action Launch – The Smart Gallery, Aberdeen 15th May 6.00pm – 8.00pm
Design in Action is a Knowledge Exchange Hub funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Based within Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design at the University of Dundee, the project is closely-partnered with The Glasgow School of Art; Edinburgh College of Art University of Edinburgh, Gray’s School of Art Robert Gordon University and the Universities of St Andrews and Abertay Dundee. Our remit is to encourage and research Design-Led Business Innovation through a series of workshops, lectures and events. The project is officially launching the week beginning 13th May with events all over Scotland. The Aberdeen function will encompass the Design in Action theme of participation, innovation, fresh thinking and networking and will give attendees the opportunity to hear more about this exciting project whilst networking with representatives from industry, design and academia A finger buffet and refreshments will also be supplied.
