Events
AGM November 2023
Discussing the fantastic work being done in local communities, organisations, businesses, and more, the Artlink Central team welcomes you to our 2023 AGM. This is an opportunity to find out about the work we have been attached to recently, as well as the many exciting upcomming projects we have in the works. Now reaching our 35th year, Artlink Central has so much to share and this is the perfect time to do so.
Find us on the 29th of November at 7:30pm in the McCallum Room at Stirling Baptist Church, 67 Murray Place, Stirling, FK8 1AU.
We will also be sharing the AGM on Microsoft Teams. To join remotely, contact us at info@artlinkcentral.org to get the details for our online meeting.
Make a stART
Come and view our exhibition of work-in-progress artworks created by participants at Artspace Young People
Scene Stirling Symposium
The Scene Stirling Symposium will be an opportunity to come together to share, celebrate and connect about creativity and culture in Stirling. We will discuss resilience and artists support, connections between rural and urban opportunities and wider collaborations, and capacity building for the local scene, as well as equity and access for the wider sector. Joining us on the day as speakers, coming together collectively for the first time since the beginning of the programme, will be artists and creatives who have been funded by Scene Stirling over the past years to develop and deliver a variety of projects, from Micro to Unlearning Grants, to community networks and climate change commissions.
The program will include artist talks, roundtable discussions, a pop-up exhibition, networking opportunities, and much more. Details of the full program will be published shortly.
Please note that the Symposium is a free event, however, due to catering, we kindly request your RSVP by 12pm on 15th June, which can by done via Eventbrite here.
Art Reach Open Day!
We are delighted to announce the return of our Art Reach programme, a members-led arts group for learning-disabled artists.
On Wednesday 3rd May we will be opening the doors of the Cowane Centre for a day of art, sound, movement, socialising and refreshments. We will be watching films from the Art Reach archive, making art and moving in a dynamic free workshop, planning for the future of Art Reach and meeting one another (or re-meeting!) in person, after a long break from the project. New members are welcome!
Stirling Uni Nursing Workshops
Are you a Student Nurse looking for a creative outlet?
Join us for a series of fun and engaging drop-in workshops led by MSc Psychology student Catherine Watson in collaboration with Artlink Central & Stirling University.
From April 25th to May 26th, we’ll be on campus to run drop-in workshops surrounding different mediums to explore the Student Nursing experience.
These workshops are designed to help you explore your experience through various creative mediums, and improve your reflective practice, holistic interventions, non-verbal communication, critical thinking, and overall mental and physical wellbeing.
REMEMBERING TOGETHER: STIRLING CREATIVES AUTUMN GATHERING
COLLECTIVE ACTS OF REFLECTION, REMEMBRANCE, HOPE AND HEALING
WITH COMMUNITIES ACROSS SCOTLAND
Are you a Stirlingshire-based artist and facilitator, working with communities in any artform?
Do you have experiences of practising and living as an artist in the pandemic that you would like to share and reflect on?
I would like to meet you!
I am Saffy, an artist commissioned by Greenspace Stirling and Scene Stirling to lead on Phase 1 of Remembering Together across the region. My brief is to research, imagine and generate ideas with communities, to inform the making of Covid Community Memorials in Phase 2 . This research project will last until January 2023. The aim is to co-create an artist’s brief for the memorials which reflects the multiple perspectives and places of Stirling. I am from a dance background, however my practice encompases a wide range of practices such as walking, writing, ecological practices, sensory exercises and working with materials.
I would like to invite you to a gathering, an opportunity to:
Meet new faces and catch up with familiar artists in the region over lunch
Share reflections on living and practising as an artist during the pandemic
Wednesday 19th October
11-2pm
Location in central Stirling (To be confirmed including access information)
A vegetarian and vegan lunch and refreshments will be provided.
Participating artists are offered a bursary of £75 to attend, and additional access costs are available. There are a limited number of places for this event. We will offer places to artists based on a spread of geography, creative practices and perspectives.
In addition we have a limited number of £50 Access bursaries available for participants requiring childcare or travel support to access the event. Please let us know if you require this in the online form.
To express your interest in attending, please complete the online form here by Midday, Thursday 13th October.
Artists will be notified on Friday 14th October.
Please direct any questions to hello@scenestirling.com
For more information about the project please visit the Remembering Together Stirling page.
My Visual Diary: An exhibition by Lauren Bremner
Lauren’s artworks are available for purchase here.
For purchase enquiries, email us at info@artlinkcentral.org
Camelon Celebrates
Join us for a celebration of the arts, creativity and community in Camelon this saturday!
CAMELON CELEBRATES
An afternoon to celebrate the end of the current Camelon Arts project, free and open to all, with cake!
Saturday 18th June 1-4pm
Camelon Community Centre
Abercrombie Street, Falkirk FK1 4HA
Camelon Arts is a town-wide community arts project based across Camelon and Tamfourhill. Funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, the project is managed by Artlink Central and the Co-Leads are Aniela Piasecka and Mónica Laiseca.
Over the last three years, Camelon Arts have invited different artists to facilitate participatory projects in the area, engaging with a range of local groups.
This final year of the current project we programmed:
- Local Wonders a community calendar created with photo submissions from local residents and designed by recent Forth Valley College graduate Jakub Bieganski
- Mum’s The Word a textile artwork made by mums in Camelon and Tamfourhill with Rebecca Livesey-Wright displayed at the Mariner’s Centre
- Is Like Waiting For A Bus a bus stop art intervention at Tamfourhill Community Hub with local children and Gallery Malmo artists Gregor Horne and Theo Christy
- All Games Allowed inviting local residents to explore their desired use of public of space through inventing their own games and building a collection of unique line marking designs, run by Mark Bleakley and now installed near the cages by Easter Carmuirs Park
Alongside many other local drop events and school/nursery workshops.
To celebrate the amazing creativity we have witnessed locally, both as part of projects we have run and/or co-run but also happening every single day in lots of special ways, we are organising a day of open workshops, displays of artworks, performances and demonstrations by local groups, and a screening of the community film we have made this year with artist Daniel Cook.
Anticipated highlights will be:
- FLOAT, a mural fur mariners: a workshop led by Camelon born artist Lewis Bissett making paper roses and recording memories to inform an artwork for Camelon Community Centre (workshops also taking place on Friday 10th June 2.30-5.30pm and Friday 24th June 2.30-5.30 at Camelon Community Centre)
- Climate Chaos: a screening of a new VR 360 degree film on the theme of climate change; storyboarded, acted, directed and soundtracked by Falkirk High students with Produced Moon artists Leonie Rae Gasson and Melanie Frances
- Freedom of Mind Community Choir performance: Tamfourhill-based choir created to spread joy through music
Lewis Bissett (project artist) says:
“Visually, culturally and linguistically, the working class community I was brought up within has played a massive part in my creative development as an artist. Spending my childhood in Kemlin, with this strong family connection still existing in the area, and being asked by Camelon Arts to be involved in creating an accessible, contemporary artwork alongside the community means more to me than being included in some dull-white-space-wine-from-a-box exhibition. I will be giving something back to a community I've drawn so much from.”
Commissioned by Funded by
Falkirk High students trying out VR headsets during a workshop with Produced Moon
(image credit: Aniela Piasecka)
For further information contact:
Aniela Piasecka
E: aniela@artlinkcentral.org
T: 07807900153
MAKE & CREATE DAY
Join us for some creative play within the CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service) department during May! No experience is necessary and everyone is welcome. Artist Robyn Woolston will be on-hand to help explore colour, shape, mark-making and more. All activities are free to attend!
DATES
〰️ 24th May: CAMHS, Stirling Community Hospital
〰️ 26th May: CAMHS, The Manor, Camelon
Submissions open for NHS Forth Valley staff artwork
Submissions are now open for artwork from NHS Forth Valley staff for an upcoming exhibition at Forth Valley Royal Hospital.
RE-CONNECT: A collective exhibition on the power of art to connect people throughout the pandemic
Showing at the Forth Valley Royal Hospital as part of this year’s Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
Forth Bridge Abseil
Are you up for a challenge?
Don't hang around!
Only 5 places left for the Forth Bridge abseil on 10th June.
Get in touch to book a place
Stirling Marathon
If you are planning to take part in the Stirling Scottish Marathon on Sunday 29th April 2018, then take note that registration closed on 29th January. And if yiu are running "Good luck!".
By raising funds for Artlink Central, Central Scotland’s leading participatory arts agency, you will help deliver hundreds of workshops and cultural events to children, adults and young people in schools, hospital wards, prisons, day-units and community settings.
Do something amazing!
30th Anniversary Concert
30th anniversary concert with Tenor, Kenneth Reid, Mezzo Soprano, Penelope Cousland and friends
Andrew Robson O.B.E. Bridge Teach In
Julie Edmonstone, Linda MacDougall and Mrytle Peterkin invite you to
Andrew Robson OBE
Teach IN
Albert Halls, Stirling
9.45 arrival and coffee
10.30 Tuition and Play
12.30 Sandwich Lunch
(Bar available for refreshments)
13.30 Tuition and Play
15.30 Depart
Partners not essential. Please feel free to apply individually
Tickets at £45 each on 1st come 1st served may be purchased from
Julie Edmonstone - Juliet@edmonstone.com
Linda MacDougall - linda.macdougall@btinternet.com
Myrtle Peterkin - mpeterkin29@hotmail.com
Artlink Central Annual General Meeting 2017
The Artlink Central Annual General Meeting will take place at the Stirling University Innovation Park on 22 November at 5.30 pm. All welcome. Please RSVP to info@artlinkcentral.org
Julia Donaldson's Story Safari
Combined tickets for the performance and for Blair Drummond Safari Park for the day are available at £22 for adults and £20 for concessions and children. Safari Park Members will pay £9 per ticket and £8.50 for children, in aid of Artlink Central.
Join Julia Donaldson and friends (including the Gruffalo!) in Blair Drummond Safari Park in Stirling, for an hour of entertainment and a day surrounded by stunning wild .
Julia will be acting out her stories and singing her songs, and the show will include a World Premiere preview of her new book with Axel, “The Ugly Five” which was inspired by a safari in South Africa where she saw the ‘big five’ animals – lions, leopards, elephants, rhinos and buffalos. However, she was more interested in 'the ugly five’ - the wildebeest, warthog, hyena, lappet-faced vulture and marabou stork - and wrote a story about these animals ‘reclaiming’ their uniqueness.
“Who's that singing on the savannah? It's the top-five ugly animals in Africa! The wildebeest, warthog, vulture, hyena and marabou stork swagger proudly across the savannah, rejoicing in their ugliness - and delighting their babies, who think they're perfect just the way they are.
Inspired by the real-life Ugly Five safari animals, Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's brand-new picture book is a jubilant celebration of animals who are often rather unloved.”
After the shows there will be book sales and signings.
An Evening with Artlink Central featuring Carol Kidd and arts auction and sale
Please support this gala event including a special performance by jazz legend, Carol Kidd, and an exclusive auction of work by talented and well-recognised artists, as well as an arts sale of original work, jewellery and craft. Wine and a light supper are included. Join us at the Bridge of Allan Parish Church Halls for a night of music, art and celebration where 'Every Picture Tells a Story.' 6.30pm on the 22nd April.
Recommended donation is £15 per person.
You can donate and reserve tickets here
https://secure.squarespace.com/commerce/donate?donatePageId=58bf8d0eebbd1aeaace47ff4
or you can send a cheque to Artlink Central with details of who is attending. Our address is Unit 8 - 9 Beta Centre, Stirling University Innovation Park, Stirling, FK9 4NF.