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Joanna Scott
Planned budget increases
1. How should planned budget increases for the culture portfolio in Budget 2025-26 be prioritised to support improved cultural outcomes?
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Work with skilled arts participation practitioners in the cultural sector creates not only participation opportunities in arts, but an understanding of ones own heritage, health, feelings, environment .
Arts participation through theatres, libraries, museums, sports venues, outdoor spaces, nature and unexpected places brings learning and understanding, relaxation and even social prescribing, that could be of huge benefit to the NHS and the wider community.
Priority should be to integrate arts and culture in tandem with NHS provision for social prescribing, bring arts to people who need to express themselves. In this I am suggesting visual arts, theatre making, craft making, writing, dance and a connecting up of those disciplines to bring communities together through larger projects so that participants can meet others, see and feel their contribution to the project and take ownership of the work.
Arts participation through theatres, libraries, museums, sports venues, outdoor spaces, nature and unexpected places brings learning and understanding, relaxation and even social prescribing, that could be of huge benefit to the NHS and the wider community.
Priority should be to integrate arts and culture in tandem with NHS provision for social prescribing, bring arts to people who need to express themselves. In this I am suggesting visual arts, theatre making, craft making, writing, dance and a connecting up of those disciplines to bring communities together through larger projects so that participants can meet others, see and feel their contribution to the project and take ownership of the work.
Culture Strategy Action Plan
1. To what extent does the Culture Strategy Action Plan deliver the Committee’s recommendation that it should “provide a clear and strategic sense of how the Scottish Government is working to ensure a more sustainable future for the sector”?
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Use of qualitative and quantitive information gathering should be absolutely necessary when using public funds and successes and failures should be reviewed to inform the best use of funding. This in turn should inform how the government allocates funds to the sector and measured growth in the arts, increased opportunities and increased wellbeing should be the goal.
Progress on innovative funding solutions
1. What progress has been made in the last 12 months on taking forward innovative funding solutions?
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I can't answer this as I've not lived in Scotland for twelve months.
Creative Scotland’s Multi-Year Funding Programme
1. How successful has the process of implementing Creative Scotland’s Multi-Year Funding Programme been thus far in delivering longer-term clarity and confidence for the culture sector?
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I'm not sure over the eight months that I've lived in Fife that I can see much clarity in arts organisations or funding. Arts seem to be broken into richer areas paying to show their art at arts festivals like Pittenweem, not entirely fair to artists to pay £800 per week to show their work in a non gallery space. Poorer areas like Levenmouth seem to have no arts strategy that is desperately needed. At the moment this seems to come under the remit of tourism, but arts provision should be there for everyone, not just tourists. OnFife seem to be doing a great job with providing workshops as does Silverburn Park. However an over arching arts development policy is needed to grow the area culturally.
I don't know how Creative Scotland's multi year funding programme has impacted Levenmouth as an area but I can see very little being implemented in terms of high value arts experiences.
I don't know how Creative Scotland's multi year funding programme has impacted Levenmouth as an area but I can see very little being implemented in terms of high value arts experiences.
Fair Work
1. What progress has been made in delivering fair work across the culture sector and what should be the priorities for further progress?
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Across Levenmouth and East Neuk there are definitely organisations that follow the Scottish Arts Union fair pay strategy for artists and arts practitioners. ONFIFE being really good at this on hourly rates. Silverburn park are fantastic at paying practitioners too. However there are some organisations in Levenmouth who are looking to get artists to work for low pay or nothing at all, not even living wage and that is causing a disparity.
Good quality arts provision and growth in the sector can only be achieved by paying artists appropriately and fairly for their time.
Priority must be to inform all organisations about fair rates of pay for artists, through visits, leaflets, YouTube, socials and meetings.
Good quality arts provision and growth in the sector can only be achieved by paying artists appropriately and fairly for their time.
Priority must be to inform all organisations about fair rates of pay for artists, through visits, leaflets, YouTube, socials and meetings.