Newsletter: January 2013
  
Greetings! 

 

A new year and we're delighted to officially unveil SHIFT//SE�L - a major new programme of permanent and temporary public art projects for the River Ness. Delivered on behalf of The Highland Council and informed by public consultation, ongoing interaction with local groups, businesses and stakeholders, these projects will be the main focus over the next three years.

SHIFT logoRiver Narratives is the first SHIFT//SE�L project to get underway; a text-based commission that expands on the Street Texts in the Old Town and will enliven the new flood wall, bridges and surrounding streetscaping while engaging with the river's ecology, stories and history. For more info about the programme click here.

A+DS Schools Participatory Project
A+DS at Culloden High School

Young people will actively shape SHIFT//SE�L. Hannah Douglas & Sam Cassels (pictured) from A+DS, will be working with us to involve students from Inverness High School and Culloden Academy in a mapping process. Read our first schools blog from Inverness High School teacher Carol English.

Feedback: Sublime Film by Emma Dove

Sublime Residencies 2012
(click the image to see Emma Dove's film)
The Sublime programme concluded last November with a truly memorable evening in the atmospheric St Andrew's Cathedral. Filmmaker Emma Dove has captured the story of Stephen Hurrel and Mark Lyken's residencies at the Lighthouse Field Station. The film collages the visual landscape of Cromarty with the artists' observations and engagement by the public.
 
From the Black Isle, Emma studied film & media at the University of Stirling and her graduation film, On Another Note, has been shown at short film festivals internationally. The Sublime documentary is premiered at The Lighthouse in Glasgow until 13th February. For more details click here. 
Lastly Diarmaid Lawlor (Head of Urbanism, A+DS) and myself have co-authored an article about being imaginative and flexible with public space. The piece will shortly appear in Canadian magazine CURB, but you can read it here first.

Susan Christie
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SHIFT//SE�L will be delivered in collaboration with The Highland Council's River Ness Flood Alleviation Scheme. Funded by Creative Scotland, Inverness Common Good Fund, The Highland Council and Highlands & Islands Enterprise, under the governance of the newly established Inverness City Arts Working Group.

IOTA is dedicated to engaging the public and bringing contemporary art to the Highlands of Scotland. IOTA creates and brokers opportunities for public art projects through forging unexpected alliances across diverse situations and supporting work about and in response to the Highlands.

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