The Cultural Planning Institute
The Fablevision approach in communities is called cultural planning and Fablevision’s Cultural Planning Institute delivers applied research and learning in cultural planning.
SPARR continued during 2009 with the launch of the Heritage Lottery funded on-line learning resource and culminated at the celebration of 15 years of the Heritage Lottery Fund where Fablevision played a leading role.
www.pagepark.co.uk A Government funded Social Return on Investment Audit demonstrated return of £13.68 on every £1 invested in the work (SROI report). A partnership grew around the emerging cultural and heritage campus at the heart of Govan: Govan Old Parish Church the Pearce Institute the Galgael Trust and Fablevision have teamed up to explore the potential of Baile a’Ghobhainn - an eco village, Govan School and Heritage resource for Govan, the City of Glasgow and Scotland
The Cultural Planning Institute (CPI) delivered several formal and informal training courses during 2009. In partnership with the Universities of Strathclyde, Leeds Metropolitan and City of London, the CPI delivered the third and final year of a Continuing Professional Development course to employees in various sectors who wish to engage with creative approaches within their own policy areas. These included local authorities, cultural social enterprises, regeneration agencies and individual artists working in communities. The students received their certificates from Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon in June 2009 at the Scottish Parliament.
A Big Lottery Funded evaluation of impacts from three years of the cultural planning course was delivered by Fairplay and German post graduate exchange student Simon Pagany chose cultural planning as the subject of his theses, spending 3 months based with Fablevision studying the work, evaluating the processes and measuring the impact of the course.
Liz Gardiner took part in a BBC Newsnight Scotland report on Lottery Heritage Funding.
Video: BBC Newsnight Scotland: National Lottery Heritage Funding.
Glasgow City Council commissioned Fablevision’s Cultural Planning Institute to deliver cultural planning training to Community Planning Partnerships throughout the city and the Institute was invited to present at various conferences and training events from Edinburgh to the Western Isles in Scotland and Brussels and Lieges at the Banlieues d’Europe conference in mainland Europe.
FirstPort is the Government agency for developing social entrepreneurs in Scotland and Fablevision’s commitment to supporting new and emerging cultural social entrepreneurs was endorsed this year when Liz Gardiner was invited to be a First Port Agent with a remit to identify new talent in the field.
Liz Gardiner will visit New Zealand in 2010 to present on cultural planning at a global gathering sharing different approaches to community empowerment.
All of this work supports Fablevision/s mission to share experiences and build networks - from the National Cultural Planning Forum, the Cultural Social Enterprise Network and the Arts and Communities Association in Scotland to Banlieues d’Europe and QecEran within a European context.
During 2009 we developed partnerships with the SQA - applying for awarding body status - and with Learning and Teaching Scotland with a view to supporting work around the curriculum for excellence.
Video: Fablevision supporting work around the curriculum for excellence.
The next three to five years will see the development of “the Voyage of Dreams” a project in three parts that will involve every member of the Fablevision group and will create a demonstration model of cultural planning practice. :
Part 1 around Rosshall Park in Pollok
Part 2 around the cultural and heritage campus in Govan and
Part 3 a round Scotland sailing tour on East End Endeaavour - sharing the stories from Govan and Pollok and gathering other stories from the communities visited
Video: The Voyage of Dreams
