This is a celebration of the official launch of the new organ and tissue donation memorial sculpture - Everyone Everyday Evermore on Monday 23rd September 2024 in the atrium of Forth Valley Royal Hospital. The sculpture will be officially unveiled at 2.00pm with opportunites between 1.00pm and 3.00pm to meet the artist and speak to representatives from Artlink Central who have worked closely with the Organ and Tissue Donation Committee on the planning and installation of the new sculpture.

There will also be other opportunities during Organ and Tissue Donation week (23rd – 29th Sept 2024) to view the sculpture and speak to staff involved if you are unable to make it to the launch event and you can visit the atrium at any time to see the new sculpture in the future.

In order to coordinate arrangements, we are asking everyone to confirm if you plan to attend on 23rd September 2024 by emailing Artlink Central at info@artlinkcentral.org by Friday 13th September 2024.

Organ & Tissue Donation Sculpture – Background & Inspiration  

Drawing from a public engagement day in Forth Valley Royal Hospital and conversations with families of donors, transplant recipients, patients awaiting transplant and hospital staff, artist Hans K Clausen developed the idea of a ‘floating’ translucent artwork. The ‘cloud like’ sculpture is formed from signatures and hand-written names collected from across the healthcare community and from individuals whose lives have been affected by organ and tissue donation. These are enlarged and laser cut from fluorescent acrylic. The sculpture, entitled Everyone Everyday Evermore, aims to recognise the life changing contribution that local organ and tissue donors have made and raise awareness of the value of organ and tissue donation to the people of Forth Valley. It is based on several themes including reflection and contemplation, individuality and inter-connectedness, strength and fragility, gratitude and joy, outward and upward looking, uplifting and life affirming.

The sculpture is made up of 366 signatures or first name representing a person for each day of the year (including leap years). Signatures and handwriting like fingerprints symbolise our individuality but signatures also represent the agreements, contracts, commitments and bonds we create with other people. Sculptor Hans K Clausen aimed to produce an artwork that is both a memorial and a celebration, and one that will enhance the hospital environment for years. He hopes the final sculpture will do justice to all the people, stories and experiences that have contributed to its evolution and that it can communicate a narrative and legacy of generosity and hope.

Hans K Clausen is a graduate of Leith School of Art and Edinburgh College of Art. On graduating in 2012 he won London’s Degree Art Prize for Sculpture and an Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop new graduate award. He has exhibited nationally and internationally and has a strong interest and reputation for collaborative and socially engaged art. He is also a hospital exhibitions curator for Tonic Arts/ELH.

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.

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.

Join us for a celebration of the arts, creativity and community in Camelon this saturday!

 www.camelonarts.co.uk  

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

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!

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

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

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.