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Opportunity: Artist Residency – NW Edinburgh Partnership Centre

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North Edinburgh Arts seeks to engage two visual artists to undertake a socially-engaged residency for an initial period of 13 months from March 2015, this will be extended pending all funds being secured to 26 months in total.

This project will specifically provide opportunities for artists who hold both excellent engagement and communication skills and a very strong artistic practice, wishing to work within an unusually open and innovative brief.

This opportunity aims to engage the local community, and those who will work and visit the new North West Edinburgh Partnership Centre (NWEPC) to be built in Muirhouse from March 2015, and to root the new partnership centre within the local cultural fabric of the area. The NWEPC is led by NHS Lothian in partnership with City of Edinburgh Council.

This programme will create an opportunity for existing and emerging communities to work together to create something personal to them, resulting in an enhanced sense of pride and ownership and a real sense of place and belonging within a continually changing environment.

Each artist in residence will work, initially, with a minimum of 2 community/ patient groups each, resulting in 2 temporary interventions/ events to be sited in and around the partnership centre, adjacent to North Edinburgh Arts. Once all funding is in place this will be extended to include a further 2 community/patient groups involved in a further 2 temporary interventions/events.

For further information and to apply, please visit the opportunity listing on the North Edinburgh Arts website, located here.

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

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New Case Study: Glass Workshop Improvements

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North Lands Creative Glass was established in 1995 to stimulate the growing interest in glass as an art form. The centre’s facilities include a general & mould area, hot shop, kiln room, sand-blasting room, air powered grinding tools, a lamp-working station and a cold working and finishing shop. Truly a hub for creative glass innovation, North Lands Creative Glass has also made various improvements to the workshops that benefit the artists using them, as well as the environment.

Read more from our latest case study to find out:

  • How to manage equipment safely and efficiently
  • Which workshop improvements are worth the investment
  • What technology is available for operating a more sustainable workshop

More information about North Lands Creative Glass can be found in our most recent resource, located here.

Image: Bruno Romanelli. Ida. 2013.

 

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

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GAI Summer Festivals Report 2014 published

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The Green Arts Initiative (GAI) is a simple accreditation scheme designed to give venues and organisations the advice, support and tools they need to become greener and let audiences and the public know what they are doing. This year we offered temporary membership to all those venues and visiting companies that operate exclusively during the busy summer festival season. Festival-specific venues and companies require unique advice and resources, and our collection of data from these organisations will better inform Creative Carbon Scotland of where these needs exist.

GAI-coverClear areas of focus for the organisations involved in the 2014 Summer Festivals season include minimising waste production, improving recycling programmes, increasing energy efficiency and better managing of travel, energy and water use.

Click on the image below to read our GAI Summer Festivals Report 2014, which includes synthesis of the actions accomplished during the summer months of 2014 and inspiring initiatives from our temporary GAI members.

Other resources compiled from the Summer Festivals season include GAI Spotlights from Saughtonhall Drama Group, Out of the Blue, Gilded Balloon, Puppet Animation Scotland and Gin and Tonic Productions, as well as highlights from various festival shows, exhibitions and events, all part of our 2014 #GreenFests campaign.

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

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Sustainability and Film: Creative Scotland Film Strategy 2014-2017

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Creative Scotland has recently published their Film Strategy for 2014-2017. The strategy includes the context and ambitions of contemporary Scottish film, alongside Creative Scotland’s role in implementing a strategy to better support the industry in meeting these ambitions.

Amongst the key priorities mentioned in the report, sustainability has gained a growing role in the industry. Priorities included in the report involve the establishment of a sustainable film studio and an economically, socially and environmentally sustainable future for the industry in Scotland. Creative Carbon Scotland is identified as a partner in helping to “raise awareness of environmental and sustainability issues affecting the screen sector“.

Natalie Usher, Director of Film and Media at Creative Scotland, says of the strategy- “This is an ambitious Strategy for film in Scotland. It sets out our aim to make Scotland home to a vibrant, culturally diverse and commercially-competitive film sector.”

To read the entire report, please visit the Creative Scotland website.

Our website offers various tools and resources for those in the film industry to start devising and implementing sustainability strategies- click to access “Making Screen Sustainable” for standards and resources on the topic of greening film and screen.

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

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Green Tease Glasgow: Govanhill Baths with artist-in-residence Ailie Rutherford

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Join us 16th December from 4-6pm at the Govanhill Baths in Glasgow with artist in residence Ailie Rutherford for a teatime discussion about the future.

During her residency Ailie has been hosting a series of discussions about the future. These discussions will inform the creation of new a artwork, Future Archive, for Govanhill Baths. To coincide with the Baths’ Centenary Ailie’s residency is focussing on the next 100 years, looking at what role the Baths will play as a central hub and how local community might develop by 2114.

Building on previous discussions, Ailie will lead us to consider themes of community ownership, communal living, resource consumption and how new technologies might alter the way we live.

We hope you can join us for tea, coffee and mince pies to see off 2014!

Please RSVP to gemma.lawrence@creativecarbonscotland.com

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

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Opportunity: Lead Artist/Sculptor for FANK project

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Comar is a multidisciplinary arts centre and commissioning agency on the Isle of Mull. We are looking to appoint a sculptor to produce an artwork that will be integrated and permanently installed at the site of a large dry-stone enclosure deep in Lettermore Forest.

Initiated by artist Emma Herman-Smith, the project FANK will see the restoration and repurposing of a derelict sheefold (or ‘fank’ in Scots dialect) on the Isle of Mull. Work is already underway to rebuild the structure. Once complete the site will link the island’s landscape and social heritage to its cultural present.

The successful artist should have experience of working on public art projects of a similar scale. Ideally they should also have experience of working with schools and community groups.

FANK is supported by Creative Scotland, Heritage Lottery Fund, and Historic Scotland.

BACKGROUND

Scattered across Mull are the remains of crofting settlements that speak of the island’s history prior to the clearances, a time that saw the population reduce to a third. The remnants of the fank one can see strewn in Lettermore Forest exemplifies the large-scale sheep farming that replaced these communities. Yet that time, too, has passed.

The Forestry Commission land on which the project will take place is currently being harvested, further altering the familiar landscape of the past 50 years.

FANK acknowledges the culture of changing land use whilst providing a venue in which to encourage social engagement and to celebrate Scotland’s natural heritage.

ARTIST’S RESPONSIBILITIES

• To produce an artwork to be permanently installed at the site of the project, Lettermore Forest, Isle of Mull.
• To design and deliver a series of practical workshops with young people from schools on Mull.
• To work collaboratively with Comar’s Exhibitions Team on the preparation and delivery of a programme of events.

To learn more about the opportunity, including how to apply, please visit the Artist Opportunity page on Comar’s website here.

Image: Comar

 

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

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New Resource: Waste Management for Cultural Organisations

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A new guide, “Creative Carbon Scotland’s Guide to Tackling Waste,” is available in our resources section that addresses strategies of waste management for cultural organisations. The report includes advice that adheres to the Waste (Scotland) Regulations 2012, which came into action in January 2014.

The guide provides advice on a variety of topics, including:

  • How to incorporate the Waste Hierarchy into your organisation
  • What the Scottish Government means by ‘high-quality’ recycling
  • The Reasonable Excuse, and what qualifies an exemption from the regulations
  • The responsibilities of your waste contractor and questions to ask to ensure your waste is treated properly
  • Key information on Waste Transfer Notes

To download the full report, please visit the resource page here.

Image: Steven Depolo, Bottle Caps: Material Afterlife. 2009.

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

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Green Tease Reflections: Guddling About

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A few weeks ago our monthly Green Tease group gathered in the cosy surroundings of Tchai Ovna teahouse in Glasgow’s west end to talk about water. We were joined by artists Minty Donald and Nick Millar who led the group in a session around our current understandings of water and how we might develop new ‘tactics’ for engaging with this dynamic non-human force.

In 2013 Minty and Nick travelled to Calgary, Canada to undertake a residency with the city’s Water Services department. In the context of a flood that swept the city in June that year, costing £5 billion worth of damage and repairs, the artists were plunged into a complex context in which to respond to the city and its inhabitants’ changing relationship with the Bow River in Calgary.

Bringing it back home, the artists invited Green Tease to undertaken a series of performative experiments on the nearby River Kelvin which they had devised in Canada named ‘guddling about’. This term, Minty explained, was chosen for its onomatopoetic qualities as well as its reference to a playful, childlike activity which they hoped to achieve through the series of actions.

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As the light faded we stomped down to varying points along the riverside to undertake the experiments instructed to us on a series of white cards:

#1 Water Carry,

#2 Water Borrow,

#3 Where Water Goes

Each experiment asked us to perform a different action – carrying the water in our palms for as far as possible; transferring the water of one puddle to another (using a turkey baster); and throwing degradable materials into the river to watch them float away. These seemingly simple acts on paper became more complex when we were confronted with the wet weather, the rushing pace of the Kelvin after heavy rainfall and the lack of easy entry points to the river from the park. This contrast of written instruction versus the lived experience served to highlight what Minty and Nick call ‘vital materialism’ – unveiling the agency of non-human entities such as water, weather and the climate.

Back in the teahouse we heard more about the Calgary residency and some of the key issues it raised for the artists. One area which caught their attention was the politics around the representation of water and natural resources more generally in Canada. Nick highlighted the global perception of Canada as a country boasting an abundance of clean resources and energy sources. In his understanding, however, the cleanliness of the Bow River in Calgary, in which the city and its residents prided themselves, was partially sustained by energy income generated through Alberta’s tar sands industry.

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The evening’s discussion finished with the question of what role, if any, Minty and Nick saw themselves playing as artists in relation to moving towards a more sustainable society. Minty emphasised that their approach is to set out to try and understand stuff rather than necessarily being ‘effective’. Nick added to this, stating his cynicism towards some of the ways in which environmental issues are currently tackled. He identified the important role of questioning which artists can play when faced with the challenges of resource depletion or climate change, rounding off the session with an open-endedness which chimed with the unpredictable and dynamic qualities of the evening’s early activities.

To learn more about Green Tease click here. If you wish to be added to our Green Tease mailing list please email gemma.lawrence@creativecarbonscotland.com.

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

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Emergence Releases Arts and Sustainability Report

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“Encouraging, example-packed and comprehensive this gets to the heart of the question ‘why arts and sustainability?’ This report articulates both the need and the possibility for embedding sustainability in the arts, which it becomes clear are the same need and possibility for embedding the arts in society. Just like art, sustainability is not something to add to our lives, it is inherent in our lives.” -Ben Twist on Culture Shift

The report draws attention to how a growing number of artists are leading a paradigm shift in values and relationships around access to future resources, with the aims that the work conducted by these artists will be able to inform the future of policy-making. Working as a comprehensive review of innovative research as well as a call to action, Culture Shift is a valuable resource for redefining the possibilities of art as a major social influencer.

More information is available on the Emergence website. Click to view the report in both English and Welsh.

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

Go to Creative Carbon Scotland

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New Case Study: Engaging ECA Artists with Sustainability

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Following our involvement with the Edinburgh Art Festival’s major exhibition Where do I end and you begin, Creative Carbon Scotland hosted a workshop with students from the Edinburgh College of Art in-situ at the City Art Centre.

Read our latest case study to find out more about-

  • Sustainability engagement methods for practicing artists
  • Sustainability engagement methods for student artists
  • Sustainability workshop implementation methods
  • Visual Arts research projects at large

Further reflections on the workshop can be found on our blog.

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

Go to Creative Carbon Scotland

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