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Research and Policy
Skills Investment Plan for Scotland’s Creative Industries sector
The influence and impact that the Creative Industries sector has on Scotland – both economically and culturally – is deep and varied...
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Research and Policy
Coffitivity
A team of researchers, led by Ravi Mehta at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign tested the effects of varying levels of noise on participants’ creative thinking skills, proving that moderately loud background noise boosts creative thinking...
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Creative Partners
Live Music Now
Live Music Now is a charitable arts education and outreach organisation which believes that everyone should be able to access, participate in and enjoy the benefits of live music of the highest quality...
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Creative Partners
National Theatre of Scotland
Our mission is to make exceptional, audacious, collaborative theatre that represents the complexity of modern Scotland, and to take that theatre to our communities and to the world...
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Research and Policy
99 Percent
99% is a think tank that focuses on what happens after inspiration - researching the forces that truly push ideas forward...
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Creative Partners
Cumbernauld Theatre
Cumbernauld Theatre is a thriving arts centre developing a range of high quality creative programmes throughout the year including in-house productions and co-productions, touring productions, educational and participatory projects, youth theatre, summer schools and inter-generational work...
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Creative Partners
Scottish Dance Theatre
Scottish Dance Theatre (SDT) is one of the UK's leading contemporary dance companies...
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Creative Partners
National Youth Choir of Scotland (NYCOS)
We provide opportunities for young people, teachers and choir directors to support and develop choral singing across Scotland, though National Choirs, Regional Choirs and an extensive Creative Learning programme...
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Creative Partners
Dunedin Consort and Players
Dunedin Consort is one of the world’s leading Baroque ensembles, recognised for its vivid and insightful performances and recordings...
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Creative Partners
Craft Scotland
Craft Scotland is the national development agency supporting makers and promoting craft...
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Creative Partners
Traverse Theatre
The Traverse is a hub that celebrates everyone's creativity...
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Creative Partners
GENERATION
GENERATION is a major, nation-wide exhibition project showcasing some of the best and most significant art to have emerged from Scotland in the last 25 years...
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Creative Partners
National Library of Scotland
The National Library of Scotland is one of the great libraries of the world...
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Creative Partners
Resilience Through Creativity from Comedy & Confidence SQA Training Centre
Resilience Through Creativity™ training the trainer program...
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Creative Partners
The Necessary Space
The Necessary Space was created to continue the work that Simon Sharkey pioneered as one of the founding directors of National Theatre of Scotland...
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Research and Policy
Creativity and Tackling Prejudice
Powerpoint Presentation by Stephen Bullock, Development Officer for Creativity with Education Scotland, delivered to the Education Scotland & Renfrewshire Council national event: Tackling Prejudiced based bullying & Promoting Equality and Diversity It argues that the creativity skills, especially open-mindedness, are central to tackling prejudice and prejudice based bullying and are a means of embedding this agenda across the curriculum and challenging prejudice at its root, in the habits of mind of the individual...
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Creative Partners
Making Music
Making Music is the UK’s membership organisation for leisure-time music, with over 3,600 groups representing around 200,000 music makers across the UK...
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Research and Policy
Creativity: A Choice, a Gift, and a Mission
Edutopia article by Karine Veldhoen on the pleasures and benefits of being creative and how it applies to educators...
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Research and Policy
Understanding How to Frame Your Creative Expertise
Again and again I see talented people with ideas they want to share – books they want to write, talks they want to give, businesses they want to launch – holding back because they think they "don't know enough" about their topic...