Guest speaker at the first Creative Conversations online session for artists involved in the Creative In Your Community project from Highland Youth Arts Hub, a consortium of arts organisations led by Fèis Rois.
“Emerging artists in the Highlands have been given funding and mentoring to support them during the pandemic. Highland Youth Arts Hub, a consortium of arts organisations led by Fèis Rois, is behind the effort which aims to alleviate some of the strain put on the arts world by Covid-19.
The Creative in Your Community Fund will provide £1,000 to 17 artists aged 16-25 as well as 12 hours of mentoring from professionals, including Gaelic singer Julie Fowlis, filmmaker Thomas Hogben, choreographer Robbie Synge, visual artist Joanne B Kaar, theatre artist and director Jenna Watt and Highland writer, Anne MacLeod.”
I was speaking to the following requested themes:
- The question of ethical interviewing - knowing how to conduct fieldwork interviews, drafting non-invasive questions, participant forms, GDPR responsibilities and how to store gathered information safely and ethically
- What do we want socially engaged art practices to focus on (e.g. themes, groups) in the future in the Highlands and Islands?
- Ways of celebrating and introducing more socially engaged projects in a Highland art practice