Public art and case studies
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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…
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23 April 2024
Culture Fund: Orkney Traditional Dance Association
Our aims were to promote, preserve and enhance the dancing heritage of Orkney. Our Summer Special & October Hoolie events achieved this.
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26 March 2024
Culture Fund: North Ronaldsay Community Association
We organised 10 Dark Skies Talks which included walks when the weather was suitable
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18 March 2024
Culture Fund: Storytelling Festival
We were very pleased with the way the Festival went. We organised eight events over four days, and using unusual and atmospheric venues, including the Old School Quoyloo, St Peter’s Church Sandwick,…
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8 March 2024
Culture Fund: George Mackay Brown Fellowship
Our project was to publish selected works of much-loved Orcadian writer Bessie Skea (known as ‘Countrywoman’) during 2023, the centenary of her birth.
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8 March 2024
Culture Fund: Orkney Traditional Music Project
We very much wanted to run a summer school. It has not been possible to do this for three years. We understand how much our pupils benefit from weeklong intensive tuition and from the specialist…
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1 March 2024
Culture Fund: Soulisquoy Printmakers
The funding was to support Soulisquoy Young Associates (SYAs) to develop and deliver a project of their own devising that would appeal to children and young people 12-18 year olds. Their project…
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14 February 2024
Culture Fund: Holm Community Heritage at St Nicholas Kirk
The event was a photographic exhibition of the building of the Churchill Barriers, which had never been viewed publicly before.
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5 February 2024
VACMA: Donna Eunson
My VACMA bursary gave me the opportunity to take part in a personalised one-to-one online mentorship programme and online masterclasses with professional glass artists.
