welcome to scenestirling

Written By Kevin Harrison
New logo for SceneStirling, Stirling’s Place Partnership for the Arts and Culture.

New logo for SceneStirling, Stirling’s Place Partnership for the Arts and Culture.

We are delighted to announce the next phase in the delivery of Stirling’s Place Partnership Project, SceneStirling.

SceneStirling will be managed on behalf of the Place Partners by Artlink Central. The first meeting of partners has taken place and Artlink Central have presented an approach to taking forward Stirling’s Place Partnership programme which included:

Strand A – Structure

Building an agreed strong, clear and transparent structure for cultural partners and the project to work from. This will link Scene Stirling and the Place Partners to future cultural strategy development.

Strand B – Commissioning Artists

Creating a range of targeted and open funding opportunities for Stirling’s creatives and organisations to action the priorities of place partnership. This aims to include: residency projects, place focused commissioning and micro-grants to offer more responsive small funds to enable artists to deliver for the place partnership.

Strand C – Pathways and Creative Economy

Developing a programme of professional development for our cultural and creative sector that builds on existing expertise and experience offering capacity building and strengthening local artists’ ability to deliver on more ambitious and high quality commissions and projects now and in the future.

Strand D – Communities 

Ensuring Place Partnership opportunities reach our communities more effectively, taking a neighbourhood and community building approach. This builds on the work developed in the city centre by Creative Stirling in Year One with formation of 44 King’s Street as a cultural hub, as well as work with other cultural neighbourhoods such as Dunblane’s creative community. We will work for nine months in targeted communities with artists, venues, organisations, businesses and residents to grow cultural access and opportunities. The first area to be targeted is the Eastern side of Stirling including Bannockburn, Cowie, Fallin and Plean.

Strand E - Visibility

Working with Stirling PR we will use SceneStirling as a platform to share our progress, and to make more visible the richness and diversity of Stirling’s arts and cultural offer to encourage more collaboration and ambition for Stirling, to celebrate our combined achievements and to connect us all.

More information will be published on the programme as it evolves and is adapted following the significant impact of Covid-19 on planned project delivery.

For more information please follow us here and on social media.

Kevin Harrison
Kevin Harrison is the Director of Artlink Central, a charity and social enterprise designing creative experiences in conjunction with artists, public bodies and led by disadvantaged or marginalised people particularly in health, social care or criminal justice contexts. . Kevin joined the organisation five years ago and was previously Arts and Wellbeing Manager with Sense Scotland since 2006, supporting a Scotland-wide participation in the arts for disabled people with communication needs. Kevin managed the development of a range of arts projects including Threads and Found in Translation, projects exploring cultural diversity and disability, and Leaving New Craigs, a life history project in Inverness for people leaving the last long stay hospital in Scotland. He managed a national arts and wellbeing team and supported the establishment of a strong creative programme in the TouchBase, a new inclusive base for people and communities supported by Sense Scotland in the south side of Glasgow. Kevin who has a degree in theatre and film from Roehampton University and who undertook postgraduate studies in Arts Management and Policy at Birkbeck University of London is also a trustee for Scottish Prison Arts Network, chair of Dementia Friendly Forth Valley as part of a Dementia Services Development Centre (DSDC) programme. Previous posts include freelance editor and administration roles with key national disability arts organisation, Shape Arts and public sector roles in Arts Development and as Business Manager, Creative Academy, Slough Borough Council, supporting a multi-million pound EQUAL creative industries inclusion programme . He also has experience of managing Music 4 Slough, a Youth Music Action Zone.
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