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 (VOMO): 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

CABN: Creative Arts Business Network: dedicated support for the creative arts sector including training, funding and events
Eastgate Theatre and Arts Centre: supporting with and partnering new venue
Artists’ Studio Space: working with WASPS and developing St Mary’s Mill studios in Selkirk
Research and mapping: social and economic impact studies

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