The Fablevision Charity
The Transform Learning Programme
Transform Gold
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Our Transform Gold cultural planning course (a partnership with the University of Strathclyde), is a year-long course delivered in an accessible format for public, private and voluntary sector employees and volunteers. The course is open for registration now for a start date in the autumn of the year (watch video) Projects developed from the course using cultural planning methodology are attracting awards and international recognition (link to linthouseurbanvillage.org; neilstondevelopmenttrust.org roystonroadproject.org.) and evaluation from participants is positive (link to evaluation report attached) A growing learning network of cultural planners, creating real live projects is spreading throughout the country – all sharing information and expertise via the national cultural planning forum (see www.ncpsg.org).
Transform TV Local
Transform T.V. gives young people who are furthest from education, training or employment opportunities to receive training and practical experience in all aspects of new media practice.
Topics covered include research skills, interviewing techniques, script writing, presentation/acting for camera, camera work, sound, lighting, and editing. Partnerships with further education colleges give opportunities for accreditation of modules covered. The product from their course work is broadcast on the Transform T.V. website.
Transform T.V. will form the network link point for similar initiatives throughout Scotland capable of exchanging ideas, discussion topics, local news, events and issues.
Transform T.V. course participants also feed into the delivery, documentation and evaluation of other Fablevision projects as part of their work experience.
View latest video blogs from participants on Transform TV
Short Bespoke Courses
Transform Bespoke training courses can be developed to suit your own local authority, community planning partnership, CLD partnership, Health Board, Local Enterprise Company, regeneration agency, education establishment or housing association. Bespoke courses for local authorities, for example, have been delivered to Norwich Partnership during 2007, Western isles Council in 2008 and the largest local authority in Scotland, City of Glasgow Council in 2009, giving a strong signal for the future as other local authorities up and down the country look at their own practice and start to follow suit. To enquire about or to book your own bespoke training course contact (info@fablevision.org).
Transform Research
Transform research is the practical application of learned techniques and processes gathered during 25 years of exploration. (See project archive) Our work has moved from highly successful ad hoc experimentation in areas like attitudes to disability (birds of paradise, Adult A team) or place making (ruchazie ruchazie) to the strategic application of cultural resources in different areas. Fablevision’s own work is an on-going quest for best practice models linked to different service areas like regeneration, planning, health, education and social services.. We are linking the activities and learning from our own projects with projects developed in partnership with others . (e.g. The Royston Road Project). We are linking learning from projects developed by other organisations (link to Gal Gael) to projects developed by students on the courses (link to neilston development trust etc) and we are linking all of this with other projects developed throughout Europe and the rest of the world.
We anticipate the findings of this research can inform a society that no longer “fixes its problems”, but avoids their creation in the first place.