News / Making the remote central
MAREEL, Shetland’s new music and arts venue, is to stage its first conference next month when Shetland Arts and AmbITion Scotland host the Glo/cal roadshow and live webcast.
The event aims to demonstrate how those living in Scotland’s remotest corners can teach the country’s arts sector new digital ways of connecting with audiences.
The day-long event, starting at 10am on 18 October, includes workshops and several speakers as well as a live online video webcast.
Hannah Rudman of AmbITion said: “The practical advice on how digital tools can help the wider sector deepen participation and engagement with global and local audiences digitally, will be invaluable.”
Featured speakers include:
• Lucy Conway and Stef Lewandowski talking about Eigg Box – Making the Remote Central
• Cape Farewell Sea Change artist Stephen Hurrel on Mapping the Sea, Barra
• Gwilym Gibbons of Shetland Arts and colleagues from Sixty Degrees North on hosting in-house webcasts and considering how the digital platform for live traditional music can extend participation and engagement.
Since October 2011 Lucy Conway has been developing Eigg Box, based on the small Hebridean island of Eigg with a population of less than 100.
Planned to open in 2015, Eigg Box will act as a cultural enterprise hub, bringing together local creative businesses with artists from around the world.
Conway said: “Eigg Box turns on its head the notion that a centre of entrepreneurship and creativity needs to be at the centre of population. Eigg Box makes the remote central.”
As part of Cape Farewell’s Sea Change commissions, artist Stephen Hurrel has been collecting stories and gathering information from the older fishermen on Barra and capturing this process on film.
Meanwhile, Shetland Arts’ Gwilym Gibbons will talk about the collaboration developed with online radio/podcast producer Sixty Degrees North to maximise the reach, scale and accessibility of events held live in Mareel’s main auditorium.
AmbITion Scotland is a digital development programme run by Creative Scotland and funded the National Lottery. For full details and mailing list sign-up: www.getambition.com
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