Partners

Deveron Projects is a contemporary arts organisation based in Huntly, Aberdeenshire. For over 25 years, we have connected artists, communities and places through creative research and engagement. The town is the Venue describes the framework in which we work and contribute to the social wellbeing of Huntly. This is to say we have no fixed venue. We inhabit, explore, map and activate Huntly, our place, through artist driven projects. Huntly’s small town context, its 18th Century streets and the surrounding Aberdeenshire countryside, offers an abundance of possibilities to work with. We have engaged with local people and their clubs, choirs, shops, schools, churches, bars and discos here since 1995. Our projects cover many different topics from employment to health, ecology to architecture, history to spirituality, migration to what it means being local. They bring people from all walks of life together and emerge as public gatherings, performances, film screenings, symposiums, forums, workshops, farmers markets, seasonal cafés, music events, walks, street festivals, slow marathons, gardening sessions, ceilidhs, conferences.

Summerhall is a venue for diverse programmes of visual and performing arts. It is a place for all kinds of events, parties, workshops, festivals, weddings and meetings. It is home to a varied community of creative artists and businesses, including a pub, café, brewery and distillery. Summerhall has fast become a key arts organisation in Edinburgh, at festival time and throughout the year. Its Edinburgh Festival Fringe programmes have “rewired the Fringe” (The Stage), winning multiple Fringe First and Total Theatre awards, and bringing leading theatre-makers to the Fringe. Our visual art programme presents a diverse and innovative programme of exhibitions, free and open to the public all year round. Exhibiting artists have included Liliane Lijn, Alastair MacLennan, Derrick Guild, Tamsyn Challenger, Haroon Mirza, Pester and Rossi. Summerhall’s year-round live music programme, Nothing Ever Happens Here… has become one of the best places to see exciting, live music in the city, bringing musicians such as Billy Bragg, Sun Kil Moon, The Sun Ra Arkestra, and Charlotte Church to Summerhall’s Dissection Room, whilst helping to provide a platform for young bands in Edinburgh to play with established touring musicians from around the globe.

The Irish Architecture Foundation is a vibrant and passionate organisation that seeks to champion the power of architecture to transform lives and improve the places where we live, learn, work and play. Through a dynamic programme of activity, we inspire people to understand and shape their world. Reimagine is a nationwide placemaking programme by the IAF, working with communities across Ireland to co-create and co-design solutions to problems or opportunities they’ve identified in their locality. Reimagine’s approach is characterised by celebrating the value of an area’s architectural and cultural heritage, supporting public involvement and partnership and nurturing local resourcefulness, resilience, enterprise and innovation.

Rosi Leonard is a youth arts practitioner with an interest in play and outdoor learning. During 2021 she has been the Youth Creative Engagement Worker with Ballyogan Pilot Project where she helped develop a youth garden and a make and build programme with local youth services. She is currently researching play space in the North Inner City as part of the CREATE AIC award and worked on creating Young DDR radio show for young people during the 2020 lockdown. She has previously worked as Playworker and Children’s Support Worker. She can be contacted at rosi.j.leonard [at] gmail [dot] .com.

Since 1994 Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council has taken great pride in developing and supporting the Arts. The Council views the arts as an important service that contributes to the quality of life for those who live in, work in and visit the County. It is extremely proud of its reputation as a supportive home for the arts and believes in their intrinsic value and the vital contribution that they make to the wellbeing and quality of life of the County. Over the last 27 years the Council’s Arts Office has commissioned and produced an exciting range of festivals, exhibitions, artist residencies, schools projects, arts and health initiatives and public art programmes in order to grow and sustain local arts development. dlr Arts Office provides an annual subvention to support the work of the Pavilion Theatre, Dance Theatre of Ireland and dlr Mill Theatre, and facilitates individual artists and arts organisations through the provision of annual arts grants and professional development opportunities. dlr Arts Office works in partnership with a range of community-based services in the County to support the cultural life of its residents of all ages. Working with Early Years Services, Schools, Youth Services, Community Organisations and Residential Care Settings as well as with our colleagues in the Council to develop the arts at local level for those that wish to attend and participate in cultural events. dlr Arts Office will support the Cultural Sustainable Prosperity project though current work based in Ballyogan, an extension of a previous place making project called Exit 15.