Arts

The Arts Service delivers a variety of projects, activities and services:

performing arts partnership: developing youth drama and dance provision and working with professional performers and companies;
a voice of my own: social issues film-making project, working with young people;
cultural co-ordinator: bringing schools and the arts community closer together;
traditional arts initiative: archives, recording, publishing and concert programmes to support traditional music, song and dance, and storytelling from the Scottish Borders;
literature development & community publishing: new work – poetry, prose and plays –by Scottish Borders writers.

fundraising: helping local organisations with funding advice and support;
arts marketing: secondments with local organisations to help them develop their marketing strategies and actions;
artstore: community equipment resource – lighting, cinema, exhibition systems and filmbank, film-making resource;
grants: grant schemes for local organisations.

touring consortium: bringing the best of touring theatre and dance to Scottish Borders;
get creative: programme of children’s theatre, dance and puppets and participatory activities;
national companies: supporting concerts, performances and education work by the national companies;
festival development: working with, seed-funding and promoting local festivals; e.g. storytelling festival and puppet & animation festival.

Eastgate Theatre and Arts Centre: supporting with and partnering new venue;
: progressing cultural quarter development;
Artists’ Studio Space: working with WASPS and developing St Mary’s Mill studios in Selkirk;
developing new, large-scale public art project for Scottish Borders landscapes;
creative arts business network: framework of business and marketing supports;
research and mapping: social and economic impact studies