The Vision

RAISING HORIZONS –
FULFILLING DREAMS


The Mission:

Fablevision places cultural resources, people and creativity at the heart of planning and policy to effect real transformation in communities

During 2009, Fablevision celebrated 25 years of supporting communities to identify the positive in themselves and their place and to build creatively for the future – raising horizons and fulfilling dreams.

  • 25 years of reaching out to young people, people with different abilities, ethnicities and skills levels
  • 25 years of working in partnership to create inspirational projects in communities
  • 25 years of developing networks and sharing stories
  • 25 years of experimenting with creative approaches in the area of skills training towards employability
  • 25 years of delivering new ways of linking and sharing

Dream Garden Project 2010

Sharing begins at home base – with the new Fablevision “group” of companies who share an ethic and an ethos. The group encompasses Fablevisions own companies like the Cultural Planning Institute, and Transform TV as well as our many partners and collaborators like Cran Theatre Company, SAT, Norman Douglas Associates, East End Endeavour, Royston Road Project, Bolt FM . Fablevision group members also include our network partners likethe Arts and Communities Association and the Cultural Planning Forum. This collaborative is collectively known as the Fablevision “Group” with Fablevision group members and partners supported for their business development and administration needs by the Fablevision Business Support Unit and by Fablevision Studios for production support in web, film, editing and graphics. The social enterprise model is the best and most sustainable way of to deliver creative solutions in communities, test new approaches and share our learning as widely as possible

Our Five Year Plan

With a major contract for the Cultural Olympiad with Gerry Hassan’s Scottish Wave of Change, January 2010 will see the Fablevision group setting off on our “Voyage of Dreams”

In partnership with ProjectScotland, Govan Old Church, the Pearce Institute, the GalGael Trust, East End Endeavour, Cran Theatre, Friends of Rosshall Park, SURF SCVO and Job Centre Plus we are taking our inspiration from the symbolism of the Olympic Torch.

Cran Tara burning torch or cross

In the ancient Celtic tradition of the Cran Tara where a burning torch was carried from community to community warning of danger or inciting rebellion, young people will sail around Scotland with a fiery story of their work in Govan. They will share their stories with other communities around the country and, indeed, around the world and each host community will give a gift of their story in return. Where they are too far for our ship to reach, they will send us a message in a bottle.

Our journey will encompass the Olympic Games in 2012 and will end in 2014 – back in Glasgow for the Commonwealth Games here in our home city.