Arts Live will feature the diverse and vibrant range of arts and entertainment that distinguishes Dumfries and Galloway all year round. To help to get new events and commissions off the ground, dgArts is calling now for applications to the Arts Live funding pot. Arts Live events will be featured here on www.dgarts.co.uk
Download the Arts Live Promoter Application Form:
Arts Live grant application form
If you have a great idea for an event or a piece of new performance or writing, then get in touch with dgArts’ Arts & Communities Officers. In the west of the region (The Rhinns, Wigtownshire and Stewartry) contact Winnie Cooper on [email protected] or call 07788 608248, and in the east (Nithsdale, Annandale and Eskdale) contact Louise Davies on [email protected] or call 07919 574 105. They will provide advice and support for your application.
If you have an artistic idea, commissions that specifically link to events planned by other organisations and local artists will be looked on favourably. We encourage cross-arts activities.
To discuss an idea for a literature event or new writing, please contact dgArts’ Literature Development Officer, Carolyn Yates: email [email protected] tel. 07833 477 728.
“Dumfries and Galloway Council has provided the funding for Arts Live,” said Director of dgArts Susan Garnsworthy. “We are very keen to include the highest quality events and projects that really showcase the talent we have here in Dumfries and Galloway. Recent years have demonstrated the positive impact of arts and events on the region’s economy and profile.”
Dumfries & Galloway Arts aims to get the money out to artists and performers as quickly as possible, and the deadline for applications is 9am Friday 29 October. The Arts Live programme will commence in January 2011.
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GaelForce is the doorway for the whirlwind of vibrant arts and entertainment that sweeps gorgeous Dumfries and Galloway all year round. GaelForce provides a small grant source for events and commissions in the region, which is administered by dgArts. All events and commissions which were successful in gaining GaelForce funding are tagged with the GaelForce logo on our Events page.
Explore GaelF orce for a rich diversity of festivals and events. The Eden Festival gets September off to a funky and family-friendly start. Or you can head for the hills up at Moniaive for the Michaelmas Bluegrass Festival. For book-lovers there’s the Wigtown Book Festival and for a big welcome to a small place head for fast-draw fun at the Creetown Country Music Festival.
A swinging Oc tober starts with Lockerbie Jazz Festival, but if your taste is renaissance, then The Galloway Consort will be making sweet music with viols, recorders and other medieval instruments. Poetry flows across the region with the arrival here of a succession of famous poets for Poetry Doubles.
And as the clocks go back put your best foot forward for Gatehouse of Fleet to enjoy The Fireside Hoolie. Finally, with the arrival of the winter, December brings The Feral Choir carolling in the villages.
GaelForce thanks its key funders, Dumfries and Galloway Council and Creative Scotland.
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