Other examples

Profiting from CreativityLynn Molleson

#DTAS16

• COSS is part of the Development Trusts Association for Scotland (DTAS)

• COSS is a Scottish government funded programme, adviser led across 32 LA areas, set up to :

– help community-based groups take ownership of assets for community benefit .

– support local authorities and other public bodies to transfer assets in to community ownership

www.dtascommunityownership.org.uk

The Earth without Art is just ‘Eh’

This workshop will focus on:

- What a community owned arts and community hub looks like.

- How to create ‘destination’: using art to inject vibrancy and new community connections.

The sum of small things….

• We will look at the practical and explore how we can use these ideas in our own communities.

• What we bring to the table will complete the meal.

Coming Together

Buckhaven Beehive

• Vibrant arts based community organisation in Buckhaven, Fife.

• Challenging the perceived elitism of art, the organisation work to harness the skills and creative energy in their community.

• The Beehive took over the ownership of the building in 2013 and run arts classes, linking particularly with the local high schools, competitions and creative based projects.

A Dream : one step at a time

Since taking ownership of the building in 2013 through an Asset Transfer from Fife Council, the organisation have been working to consult, design and fundraise for a purpose built creative community space.Planning permission was granted for their design in July 2016.The café, new heating and exhibition space will be created first.

We could be vibrant

In August 2008, Edinburgh Palette

successfully negotiated for several floors of

St Margaret’s House – a vacant, ex-office

building. By spring 2010, Edinburgh Palette

had leased all the remaining floors of St

Margaret’s House and filled all 200 studios

with budding artists, crafters and

community organisations.

Today, Edinburgh Palette remains 100%

occupied with a waiting list for space. It

also houses community arts spaces, a

theatre, rehearsal spaces, a cinema room,

printmaking studio, ceramics studio & kilns,

recording studio, martial arts dojo, library,

swap shop, meeting rooms and more than

11000ft2 of gallery space.

We could transform our community

West Kilbride Craft Town

• West Kilbride Mid 1990s, 21 out of 40 retail businesses were closed, the remainder at risk. A public meeting in 1996 agreed to map community assets and create a community plan . Tourism acted as driver for regeneration, with the specialist theme of crafts. The West Kilbride Development Trust was formed in 1998.

• The Moffat Charitable Trust purchased and refurbished the first two studios for the Trust, currently eight studios, a contemporary exhibition gallery and a gift shop operate from the town.

• Town centre revitilisationwith only £15k of public money; rest the Trust have earned from space rental, collecting and selling furniture, holding events and fundraising locally.

• Barony Centre: dedicated Craft Exhibition and Activities Centre. Opened May 2012. Houses studios, café, community space, exhibition space, retail area

If we can get hold of assets…..

• Working since 2013 to find a use for the old Madelvic car factory HQ. Currently owned by an ALEO.

• A community event in 2015 led to a series of pop up events – a cinema, Made in Granton historic exhibition, Re-made in Granton, visiting artists and craters.

• New partnerships with the National Museum for Scotland.

• Pop up café, play and exhibition space for community use.

• Staged approach to Asset Transfer – initially leasing 2 rooms to turn in to studios and one larger multi-purpose space.

Or a completely different approach

• Deveron Arts is a contemporary arts organisation based in Huntly, a market town in the north east of Scotland with a population of 4,500.

• Deveron Arts has no building, instead the town is the venue; acting as studio, gallery and stage for artists of all disciplines invited from around the world to live and work here. For this they use spaces throughout the town and its surrounding areas: supermarkets, churches, garages, bothies to name just a few.

• Deveron Arts places

local issues within the

context of global

perspectives and

situates national and

international topics within the locality

How do we profit from Creativitylocally?

Arts as the foundation or part of the whole

• This guide covers the basics to consider when designing your community space to be able to run cinema, theatre, exhibitions etc.

• We have included information on licenses and technical considerations.

• We have mined for case studies covering community cinema, eventing and arts centres.

• We hope you will find links to everything else you need.

Getting the context right

• The Orkney Folk Festival and Leitham Nights are 2 very different and hugely successful events, bringing people and money in to their communities.

• The rise in community cinemas (film clubs) gives opportunities to come together and a chance to promote local services and sell some food and drink.

• All successful creative ventures are based on good research on that core community action principle –what does my community want/need creatively and culturally?

My cultural audit

Any Questions?

Community Ownership Support Service

0131 225 2080

www.dtascommunityownership.org.uk

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