The Makers Gallery & Bistro is Recruiting

Our trading arm The Makers Gallery & Bistro has opened up recruitment for 2 posts.

If you are interested please click here to be taken to the recruitment page where you will find all the necessary information to apply.

For more information please Contact Us.

Newsletter Oct – Nov 2012

FORTHCOMING WORKSHOPS

 

OCTOBER 2012

Mon 1	Tues 2	Wed 3	Thur 4	Fri 5	Sat 6	Sun 7
8	9 11am bracelet weaving with Gemma. 1pm-3pm Glass beading with David. 1pm-3pm Valerie Storytelling Workshop	10 12pm-2.30pm Stained Glass with Petra	11 12pm Member’s brunch. 1pm-2.30pm Fused Glass with Petra	12	13	14
15	16 11am bracelet weaving with Gemma. 1pm-3pm Glass leading with David. 1pm-3pm Valerie Storytelling Workshop	17 12pm-2.30pm Stained Glass with Petra	18 12pm Members brunch. 1pm-2.30pm Fused glass with Petra	19	20	21
22	23 1pm-3pm Valerie Storytelling Workshop	24 12pm-2.30pm Stained Glass with Petra	25 12pm Members Brunch. 1pm-2.30pm Fused Glass with Petra	26	27	28
29	30	31 Halloween tea and quiz in Reachout base 12pm-3pm

 

 

 

• Our drama volunteer Valerie Rutherford will sadly be leaving us at the end of October. Valerie is still working with members on the 9^th 16^th and 23^rd October 1pm – 3pm with anyone working towards a story for our storytelling event ‘Once upon a Time’ in collaboration with Clackmannanshire Storytelling Festival 27^th October – 4^th November. Anyone wishing to take part in this Reachout events please contact Kristiane.

 

• We will be holding our Annual Jingles Christmas Craft Fayre on Saturday 24^th November in St Mungos Roman Catholic Hall. Tables will be £10. Anyone wishing to book a table please contact Kristiane.

 

• Any members wishing to enter any craft work in to the Tingles Smith Christmas Craft selling Fayre please make sure work is handed in to Kristiane with prices by Thursday 1^st November.

 

• Reachout will be starting a weekly column in the Alloa Advertiser. This will cover events and news from the base. Anyone that would like to contribute to the column please contact Kristiane.

 

• Reachout will be exhibiting as part of a Forth Valley Exhibition in collaboration with Artlink Central, Resonate Art House & Delta Studios 5^th Nov – 18^th November. This is a great opportunity for Reachout to Exhibit in Falkirk. 3 Space is a national charity providing short term free space for arts activities and have secured an empty shop in Falkirk Town Centre. Reachout has floor space (no wall space for exhibiting) therefore showcasing our Reachout DVD and information with our banner would be great to let people know about Reachout. Please let Kristiane know if you are available to help or man the exhibition.

 

 

• ‘Make A Splash’ participants have been invited to showcase their work in the Garden Lobby of the Scottish Parliament 28^th October – 2^nd Nov. This is a collaborative exhibition of artworks completed across Scotland. This exhibition is not open to the local public however Voluntary Arts Scotland hopes to produce an online publication to accompany it. Please see Kristiane for more information.

 

• Members are invited to attend the viewing of the new media room ‘The Learning Lab’ at Stirling Castle at 11am on Friday 2^nd November. Members will have the opportunity to view the space and discuss with Kirsten woods, Educational

 

Officer regards any future workshops in partnership with Historic Scotland. Please let us know if you able to attend.

 

• Action for Change and DAG (Disability Awareness Group) have developed a proposal to create a sensory garden in the sunken garden at Gartmorn Dam. Reachout have been invited to lead in creating an artistic element in the garden such as a mosaic pathway, a living sculpture or transient exhibitions. Enid Trivett, Action for Change is looking for members who would like to participate. This project would commence early next year.

 

And finally………

 

We have secured funding to recruit a young cleaner through Community Jobs Scotland. The successful person will also be supporting members fundraising. So get you ideas ready as we aim to employ early November.

 

Thanks to everyone who continues to contribute towards providing delicious food for the weekly member’s brunch, helping clean and keep clean the studio. This is a constant job as some members are not cleaning up after themselves and frustrating for those coming in after, and having to clear a mess before starting any kind of artwork.

 

Huge thanks also to all our volunteers who, with the members develop exciting projects and events, and offer much appreciated support in the studio.

 

Please note it is not Kristiane’s job to work weekends to plan and facilitate car boot sales. She has been happy to do this with Chris but please support this great fundraising opportunity as all monies raised go straight to members studio budget. Thanks.

 

 

 

Social Enterprise Development: Reachout developed Art’n’Mind Social Enterprise – ‘The Makers Gallery & Bistro’ to both meet people’s needs and become sustainable beyond increasingly vulnerable grant funding.

 

The Big Lottery granted an award of £575,492 revenue costs October 2011 to fund 4 new posts and overheads over a five year period 2012–2017.

 

Hopefully you will have had the opportunity to meet Art’n’Mind staff:

Sally Cameron Bistro Supervisor, Tracey Alexander Catering Assistant, Grant Williams Trainee Coordinator, Anna Wharfe Enterprise Coordinator and Hannah Ford Artist in Residence/Enterprise Coordinator.

 

In the first five years the project aims to work with approximately 300 local adults across Forth Valley who are experiencing mental ill health and furthest removed from the labour market in a creative nurturing environment.

 

Art’n’Mind will establish the first mental health specific work club in Forth V alley supported by Job Centre Plus and Clackmannanshire Integrated Mental Health Team. The Gallery and Bistro will be a commercial bistro open to the general public.

    

The key principles of The Makers Gallery & Bistro are:

 

Creativity – Reachout utilises the creative art as a means of social inclusion, improving confidence, self-esteem, motivation and aspirations as a route to recovery and eventual return to the work place for adults disadvantaged by mental ill health. The Arts are well documented in aiding recovery; this will be the underlying ethos in The Makers Gallery & Bistro.

Progression & Employability – All services delivered within The Makers Gallery & Bistro will be focussed on lifelong learning & progression, with sustainable employment as the ultimate end goal. All trainees will be supported to progress along an ‘Employability Pathway’ from early stage positive activity, through to in-work support. Personal development planning will be absolutely central to this aim.

Enterprising – This is twofold in that the project will aim to become sustainable over the long term through enterprise (trade generated from the Bistro & Gallery). The project will also support trainees to develop their own enterprising initiatives by selling produce, artwork and leading workshops to the community.

 

 

We are almost ready to launch

‘The Makers Gallery & Bistro’

 as our first phase of building work is becoming complete.

Watch out for our launch date

Christmas Menu & Gallery Programme.

 

  

 

Sally and Tracey are finalising the menu, Hannah is creating an artistic programme, Anna is creating a network of local and national artists to exhibit and showcase their work in the gallery and Grant is working with agencies identifying trainees to work on the Employability Programme.

 

If you would like to contact the team please email:

 

Sally email: bistrosupervisor@makers.gallery.co.uk

Tracey email: cateringassistant@makes.gallery.co.uk

Anna email: enterprisecoordinator@makers.galery.co.uk

Hannah email: artistinresidence@makers.gallery.co.uk

Grant email: traineecoordinator@makers.gallery.co.uk

www.makers-gallery.co.uk

Tel: 01259 214951

 

        

The Makers Village secures Capital funding to develop the site into the premier creative and expressive arts venue in Forth Valley.

Creative Scotland announced this week The Makers Village, Alloa as one of the sixteen chosen projects across Scotland to benefit from Stage 1 funding and provisional Stage 2 monies to create an eclectic cultural hub of workshops, gallery and performance space to develop skills and talent available to all. 

The vision, as part of this exciting project, is to provide Creative opportunities for Everyone to participate in the arts, have the correct environment to work from and provide the essential support mechanisms to deliver success for respective creative businesses.

Reachout with Arts in mind have a proven track record of developing the arts in Clackmannanshire and the neighbouring local authority areas using art as the means of developing self-confidence and group work to assist people back in to employment.  This has recently been further developed with the “Big Lottery Life Transitions Programme” funding which has helped develop the Maker’s Village Galley Bistro, scheduled to open in the next couple of months.

Lesley Arthur (Arts’n’Mind) said “The Capital funding from Creative Scotland allows the vision to become a reality and over the next couple of years we hope to deliver a local and national centre for the arts that others across the country aspire to achieving.”  “Central Scotland already has many leading Scottish artists and we hope to work with both them and the community to develop our vision.”  Lesley concluded “exciting times ahead!”

“The Makers Village” was developed as part of the Clackmannanshire Council town centre regeneration project, “Imagine Alloa” providing workshops for creative businesses in partnership with the Mulraney Group converting the old Claremont Infant School into an arts hub.  Alex Brown (Mulraney Group) commented “the Makers Village has breathed new life into a Victorian school complex that now has, with this funding, the potential again to become a centre for learning as well as a thriving business community.”

Imagine Alloa, was the catalyst for a number of Art businesses establishing at the site, those business owners already came with a national and international reputation, and include Newfangled Glass, Elin Isaksson Glass, Mandy Tait, and George Lammie. 

Craig Machan (Kingscavil Associates) added, “the pivotal part of the site and its success has been the development and vision of Reachout with Arts’n’Mind who have worked on the principal that Imagine Alloa was only the start of something, something that potentially could be a leading example for creative industries.” He continued, “putting the right facilities and supportive infrastructure in place that artists require is fundamental to them building a successful creative business. The building should be inspiring, welcoming, and functional, providing space that the community wants to use time and time again.  This project ticks all the boxes.”

The project will build on the wealth of knowledge and experience across Forth Valley allowing for inclusion and supported projects but also further developing the artistic experience that sits on the doorstep across Stirling, Falkirk and Alloa.  The support the project intends to deliver, in addition to creating and better utilisation of existing space is an Arts Coordinator, mentoring support, utilities savings through an energy efficient building, collective marketing and advertising, and book keeping assistance.

The project will be delivered in partnership with Creative Scotland, Mulraney Group, Kingscavil Associates and Arts’n’Mind.

A Premier Creative and Expressive Arts Venue coming to Forth Valley, SOON!

Car Boot Sale/Craft Fair

We will be holding another Car Boot Sale/Craft Fair in the car park at The Alloa Makers Village (Old Ludgate School) on Sunday 7th October.

Cars will be welcomed from 8am and it will be £10 per table/car

The Makers Gallery & Bistro will be serving piping hot coffee and tea to keep us all warm

Please Contacts Us for more information

Music Workshop

Following the great success of our drama workshops with Valerie we have been lucky to welcome Paul into our volunteering team to incorporate Music and Songwriting into these workshops.

They will be on a Tuesday 1pm – 3pm in the Reachout Studio starting 10th July.

If you would like anymore information please Contact Us.

Donating to Us

We are now able to accept donations online.

We prefer this method as it allows us to collect gift aid which helps to boost our funding.

If you would like to donate to us then please click here.

So what was she doing?

See the first part of this story here. 

Wondering why I’m wearing a bag on my head? Well the answer is plain: to stop the packet racket by showing my support for plain packaging of all tobacco products. we’re not trying to stop people from smoking, but to give millions of kids one less reason to start.Please sign your name to help prevent a new generation of smokers. Sign up here. Westminster here I come!!  Rosa Macpherson

What is she doing?

Here is one of our Directors, Rosa MacPherson, with a paper bag on her head.

The only thing is, what is she doing?

Click here to find out

Reachout DVD by Alva Academy

3 Pupils from Alva Academy came into Reachout to work with members to produce a DVD while making the Contours of Us canvas.

Here is the DVD they created. Please feel free to leave comments and thoughts.

Members Meeting

There will be a members meeting held in the Reachout Studio on Tuesday 12th June at 12pm.

All members are welcome to come along and have their say on the future workshops and events that are run in the studio.

For any more information please Contact Us.

Our Exciting New Look

Hi,

Please feel free to look through our website, facebook and twitter pages as we are having an overhaul of our branding. New logos and colour schemes have been designed to modernise the company image.

Feel free to let us know what you think.