Tarbert Arts and Leisure Centre
Argyll and Bute Council · 30 August 2023
Back to Mid Argyll, Kintyre and the Islands Area Community Planning Group — 30 August 2023 and its agenda
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TALC Templar Arts and Leisure Centre Harbour Street Tarbert, Argyll PA29 6UD info@talc.org.uk www.talc.org.uk www.instagram.com/talctarbert www.facebook.com/talcTarbert phone 01880 820135 The Templar Arts and Leisure Centre is a charity registered in Scotland, number: SC029453. TALC was founded in 2002.
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Timeline TALC’s Creative Arts, Technology and Education Programme (founded in 2014) Since 2014: – TALC offers CPD training for artists – School & youth group art workshops & projects in 9 High Schools in Argyll – Drop in sessions for over 60’s (at TALC) in Digital Textile Design and Digital Crafts – Summer programme at TALC (except in 2021) Since 2015, ongoing: – TALC delivers weekly art workshops to approx. 350 individual young people per year outwith schools – Annual exhibitions of young participant’s work (2015 TALC’s Art Fair in Tarbert, 2016 TTS in Glasgow & Ignite Walking Exhibition in Lochgilphead, 2017 Kilmartin Museum, 2018 Ignite Festival Lochgilphead & Rockfield Centre, Oban, 2019 Maryhill Burgh Hall, Glasgow and Rockfield Centre, Oban, since Covid 2020: changing Window Showcase at TALC, 2022 Creative Communities Showcase Event, Glasgow, 2023 Craignish Village Hall - Solo Show of TALC’s Trainee’s work). Since 2016, ongoing: – TALC delivers art & digital art workshops to approx. 650 individual young people per year outwith the curriculum – TALC is running a paid Young Artist scheme – TALC’s programme is set up as a Youth-led collaboration with TALC’s artists – TALC invites Travelling Gallery to visit different venues in Argyll two times a year (only once from 2023) – Edinburgh Art Festival visit with young people on an annual basis (except 2022) – Introduction of Dance workshops during TALC’s summer programme Since 2017, ongoing: – TALC is offering work taster days for young people in artist studios and within the creative industry (Timourous Beasties, Glasgow & Karen Beauchamp for textile design, Darnton B3 architects, Glasgow and Argyll & Bute Council Planning Department for Architecture, Glass artist Muranero Di Niang Moulaye, Venice/Murano and Inspiring Scotland) – CPD training for teachers (in collaboration with Argyll & Bute Council and Creative Learning Network) on a regular basis across Argyll and Islands - will change in 2023 due to the cut of post of Cultural Coordinator in A&B Since 2018, partly ongoing: – TALC delivers 110 art workshop days to1500 individual young people per year outwith the curriculum – TALC increases offers for sound workshops – TALC offers a paid traineeship for the first time – Trip to Berlin with young artists – Collaboration with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra for workshops and events in Campbeltown – Year of Young People Activities (with Engage Scotland, funded by Education Scotland) – School workshops in response to the Argyll Collection in collaboration with Argyll & Bute’s Cultural Coordinator 2019: – Two of TALC’s trainees participate in the Professional Development programme for Scotland + Venice, both at Cove Park and Biennale exhibition in Venice Italy – Two young people join TALC’s Management Committee 2020/21, ongoing: – TALC’s artists develop a range of art packs. TALC’s in-house manufactured and partly individually customized art packs were used in hubs and schools during lockdown/Covid-19 pandemic for 650 children – Introducing weekly dance workshops as part of the regular programme – Introducing metal smithing workshops with recycled metal 2022: — Introduction of a Professional Development programme for art school graduates 2023: – Introducing a dedicated Crafts programme for TALC, Tarbert (silversmithing, ceramics, glass casting) – First Solo Show curated for one of TALC’s young artists/trainee
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TALC’s Creative Arts, Technology and Education Programme Collaboration Partners over the past 9 years: – Argyll & Bute Council – Artmap Argyll & Ignite Festival, Lochgilphead – BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra – Cove Park, Helensburgh – Craignish Village Hall, Ardfern – Inspiring Scotland – Edinburgh College of Art, Architecture Department – Engage Scotland – Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh – MAYDS, Lochgilphead – Mid Argyll Youth Forum – Phoenix Project, Lochgilphead – Rockfield Centre Oban – SAMS (Scottish Association for Marine Science), Oban – Scotland & Venice – Scottish Forestry Commission – Scottish Canals – Tramway Glasgow – Travelling Gallery, based at City Art Centre, Edinburgh TALC’s Artists so far Karen Beauchamp (Wallpaper Design, Printing), Stefan Baumberger (Kinetic/Interactive Sculpture, Photography, Digital Art & Design & Sound, Lead Artist), Ken Coburn (Writer), Grace Carroll (Communication Design, Printing), Sarah Duncan (Ceramics, Glass Casting), Anna Dawton (Metal Smithing, Editor), Nicola Derevyankin (Dance: Ballet, Jazz), Lynne Girdwood (Life Drawing), John Grant (Composition), Nicole Heidtke (Sculpture, Digital Art & Design, Lead Artist), Wilma MacKenzie (Glass Engraving), Tony Mills (Contemporary Dance & Physical Theatre), Sian MacQueen (Painting, Sculpture, former Lead Artist), Karen Liversedge (Fashion Design), Breege Smyth (Fashion Design), Adam Staff (Sound Programming), Isaac Stanesby (3D printing with clay), Rosemary White (Sewing, from Quilter’s Guild). TALC’s Creative Arts, Technology and Education Programme’s Funders (Main Grants) Creative Scotland’s TTS. Digital 1 + 2 for sparks, drifts and rain, Clore Duffield Literature Award (no other Scottish Organisation has ever been given this award), Young Start Big Lottery for (de)code landscape, Creative Scotland’s Open Funds for the projects land under water (2018/19), dust (2019/20), growth: wild card (2020/21), ambience: green (2022/23), Engage Scotland’s Celebrate Art, YMI grant for soundjects and resonant spaces, Heritage Lottery Fund for clock lodge vibes and Inspiring Scotland’s Creative Communities Fund for My World in a Box (2021) and Growth: Seed (2022). All funding is project-based. TALC offers opportunities, focussing on young people, which are unique in Argyll. TALC brings on average more portfolio students into art school than any other organisation offering portfolio training in Scotland. TALC’s paid young artist scheme, traineeship and work tasters are not offered from any other organisation in Argyll (and it is rare in Scotland). Nicole Heidtke is Area Rep for all Highlands and Islands for Engage Scotland, based at TALC, Tarbert. TALC is the only organisation who is not a top-ranked Art School who was invited to sent young people to the Professional Development Programme of Scotland + Venice. TALC’s programme delivers workshops in areas of art, design, technology, media and interdisciplinary projects, which can’t be offered at school and also deliver CPD training for teachers. The evidence for the need is documented in the school evaluation carried out by Argyll and Bute Council with TALC in 2020.