Transcript by Peter Wilson
Uploaded Sun 11:19am

Transcript to be amended.

Peter (in studio)
Oh there we go. Have we got Govan?

Change above to:
Now let's see with some tv magic if we can go to Govan and Liz Gardiner. That's not Liz Gardiner. That's a test card. [Anchor presses ear piece] Have we got Govan? Well done team...yes that looks like the view from Liz's office - of the community of Riverside - where oor Ryan comes from, the site of the famous Harland Wolf ship yard and behind that you can see the new digital media quarter with BBC Scotland and the science tower - now can we get Liz in shot please? (camera pans from window to reveal Liz at her desk) thanks very much camera person, can you hear me Liz?

Liz
Yes I can

Peter
Ok Liz, what sort of week have you had?

Liz
An exciting week. I've been presenting to the Scottish Parliament, to a cross-party committee on culture and media about the role of cultural social enterprise in the context of cultural planning in Scotland.

Peter
What's happening next week?

Liz
I don't know - i'll have to look at my diary

Peter (new line from Studio version)
Ok camera person steady up a bit your making me dizzy.

Tell us Liz - what exactly is it that you do at Fablevision Liz?

Liz

Well I'm the Director so it's my task is to oversee all the different programme and projects, and coordinate all of that - make sure there are resources in place to deliver that, so that's really the bulk of my role. But I am also in charge of the training programme, the transform learning programme, the gold standard year long course that we do in partnerhsip with The University of Strathclyde, we've got students who are half way through that course now, learning about Cultural Planning, learning about these methods and also my task is to develop future projects for the company, so not only am I involved in strategically reorganising Fablevision at the momment, so we have the charity, we have trading arms, and we have the ability to be self sustaining in the long long term a ten year business plan is the next step but I'm also looking to the future in terms of new projects coming in for all these different strands. Sparr for example and stage 1 of Sparr, we're wanting to develop that now, the cultural heritage hub around the Pearce Institute and Govan Old we're working in partnership with Norrie Mackie there, the Pearce Institute, he's on the Cultural Planning Course and Tam at the Galgael - different folks based here in Govan and Frank Miller at Cran, Developing Cran Theatre Training Project for young people, working out in North of Glasgow with the Royston Road Project, carrying on with that work and talking to different local authorities about both Cultural Planning Training and different projects. So my job is really to make sure everything is running smoothly and that there are enough resources there for everybody to do what they want to do and what we want to achieve and to make sure that there's a longer term vision with the Board for the company.

Peter
Now one of the things I think people will find difficult to understand is what you mean by cultural planning. Imagine that someone has never heard of it before. Is there a way in which you think you could sum it up in some way, that a lay person could understand?

Liz
Well it's not planning for culture. That would be very soviet. We would not want to get involved in that at all. It's not arts and regeneration, it's a culturally sensitive approach to planning and policy that's what it is. A culturally sensitive approach to all planning and policy - so that covers regeneration, anti social behaviour, education, health promotion, if it's possible to take a cultural planning approach in all of these areas, we are the body who are investigating that, trying, testing the model in all the different areas. So Transform TV is testing the cultural planning model when applied to young people who are furthest away from the job market, the people we in here, you've been meeting them on the web log, some of them are out of training and employment and have been for many many years. Don't have formal qualifications, and are not in, they are under the radar for all the organisations, jobs and training prospects, so we're in partnership with Project Scotland, we're working with them, not to combat unemployment but actually identify resources and work with them positively in creative way, so that they are learning new skills building on their skills and talents and moving towards employment in a creative way and in way that inspires them.

Peter
Do you find any difficulty in getting funding?

Liz
There's a growing recognition that cultural planning methodology as I call it, these approaches are powerful and they work, and they deliver impact, outputs, they deliver transformation in communities, they deliver mixed sustainable places, they deliver vibrant sustainable communities, they deliver on the things that our government, local authorities and community planning partnerships are aspiring to achieve, but at the momment, the expertise in knowing the "how to" is not recognised as a discrete fundable activity. So there's an understanding of the "arts" and what the "arts" can do and can bring. But when it comes to cultural planning there is a missing link there at the momment - so it is our job to enrol and educate show people that the role of the cultural planner is vital in our communities.

Peter (rephrased for Studio camera)
Now looking at your website, it looks like your trying to attract other organisations/individuals who work in the socially engaged arts sector to your methodolgy, your courses, to work in partnerhsip with you- do you find it quite difficult to enrol these people, do you think they think Fablevision is competition?

Liz
That's an interesting question, We certainly see ourselves as championing the whole sector, particulary in terms of cultural social enterprise, because delivery of cultural planning depends on a critical mass of small scale grass roots locally based linked to the community organisations so for in Govan for example it is absolutely essential that Cran and Plantation Productions and the Kinning Park Centre and Artform The Pearce Institute, The Galgael it is absolutely essential that those organisations are all there, supported and linked and working together and that's happening through the Creative network, through Roots in the Community, they're already doing that. Govan is poised to be a tremendously powerful example of cultural planning in action and how a whole community can be transformed the Cultural Planning Process. So it's absolutely vital that not only are we not in competition but that we are actually as cultural planners, supporting the development and spawning of lots and lots of new cultural social enterprises.

Peter
Ok Liz, we've run out of time can you come back next Friday again?

Liz
I'll have to look at my diary

Peter
Right. Ok let's make that a date to catch up with how you got on with your week ahead. You are now our thematic webcam anchor for Cultural Planning in Scotland. We have one in New Zealand Di Jennings....there you can see that on our Transform cultural map of the world....Di is another person on the planet who is a cultural planner and she [punch caption up of Di New Zealand], although she is returning to New Zealand next month after her excellent stint here on Govan Sparr- we will be talking to her from the studio on a monthly basis and she will be joining our global discussions around cultural planning....

It's all good as Di would say...now if you would like to become a regular webcam anchor email me below. It's a chance to tell the world about what you are doing....we can make a short professional video elevator pitch about your organisation - it will cost you - but the beauty is that the money will go towards the good work that is done here at Fablevision..I've got work to do - see you next week! thanks for watching the Transform Tv Update...

ws cameras in shot

dim lights - anchor is in silohette

credits - "A Fablevision Studios Production for TransformTV Scotland"

Notes:
Identify cross party page on parliament site
Get a blog from Di on webcam?????