Arts Case Studies
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1 October 2024
Culture Fund 2024-2025 Key Client Case Study: Orkney Folk Festival
We’re delighted to report our 41st festival was once again a critical and financial success.
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29 August 2024
Junior Curators Case Study: Scapa Flow and North Walls Primary School
Pupils from North Walls Primary School were invited to the Scapa Flow Museum site in high vis vests and hard hats to see how the building of the museum was coming on and to be consultants on the…
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29 August 2024
Junior Curators Case Study: Kirbuster Farm Museum & Dounby Primary School
Dounby Primary School enjoyed their trip to Scapa Flow Museum and working with the Junior Curators so much that they wanted to become Junior Curators too. In 2024 the P3 Class worked with staff at…
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28 August 2024
Head Space - Twinning and Mentoring Peer Creative Leadership Development - funded by the Creative Learning Network
Funded by the Creative Learning Network
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27 August 2024
Case Study: Our School, Our Heritage 2022-2024
The pupils worked with photography artist, Martin Laird, to produce portraits of local community members who had been former pupils of the school.
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15 August 2024
VACMA: Molly Shearer
This funding allowed me to purchase weaving equipment and materials vital to the development of my creative practice. I was able to buy yarn for natural dyeing experimentation and weaving…
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2 July 2024
Culture Fund 2023-2024: Westray Connections
Westray Connections for 2023 was a remarkably successful festival. We built on the feedback of previous years, and ensured that each band had lots of exposure to the community and that tickets went…
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21 May 2024
Culture Fund 2023-2024 Case Study: The Connect Project
Initially we canvassed our young people about what ‘Culture’ meant to them to get their engagement with activities planned for their benefit over the year. The results mainly fell into 3 categories;…
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17 May 2024
Culture Fund 2023-2024 Case Study: Eday Community Enterprises
We invited and paid for the Orkney Camera Club to come to Eday for the day. The aim was to photograph cultural and natural heritage around the island and provide some workshops and learning for the…
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24 April 2024
Culture Fund: Orkney Arts Society
We hosted 5 music concerts as planned over the Winter Season, together with 2 visual arts events and 2 literary events in addition to the Summer Events. The Summer Events had attracted sell-out…
