The Falkirk Council Arts Team consists of a team of experienced arts practitioners specialising in the areas of:
- performing arts
- visual arts and crafts
- film and media
- creative engagement
What we do
Support local communities/voluntary sector and independent artists/practitioners from Forth Valley area but also across the central belt.
Commissioning
- Annually through HippFest – music/audio commissions for silent film
- 10 years managing Big in Falkirk (commissioning festival for street arts)
- Pacemaking/public art commissioning primarily focussed on town centres regeneration but also some local housing initiatives and the Helix
- Curation of year round temporary exhibitions including retrospectives (Alan Davie, Dame Elizabeth Blackadder; Fabrizio/ Alex Rotas, Barbara Rae, etc)
- creation of touring exhibitions – Julia Donaldson illustrators + supporting emerging artists locally – Neil McTavish Opera Singer/Dawn Wright textile artist
Operating cultural venues
Hippodrome, Callendar House, Kinneil Museum) and also pop-up hubs (arts flat in Langlees as part of Arts and SIP project; various pop-up studios for creation of artworks for the Helix Day (the opening of the Helix); and more recently the arts/ heritage hub in the Howgate (initially for Falkirk Townscape Heritage Initiative and then latterly for our NLHF funded project Great Place).
Events/ activity management
- One-off community/ creative celebrations (Home – the official opening of the Helix)
- Cultural programmes as part of national and international events (Queens Baton Relay – Commonwealth Games; Torch Relay – London Olympics 2012
- Local seasonal events – Fireworks/ Christmas/ New Year, etc and one-off 'pop up' celebrations – Grangemouth Children's Festival/Creative Writing project/Summer Schools
Performing Arts programming
- FTH programme
- Supporting young people (Falkirk Youth Theatre, Reaction)
- Providing support to voluntary and independent arts groups in the area
- Co-productions - with voluntary sector
- Classic Music Live!/ Imperial War Museum
- Battle of the Somme/ composer Laura Rossi
- Working with professional theatre makers ie Imagine Theatre, 3 years of panto and Starcatchers Children's Theatre Company.
Contacts