Your Creative Ideas

Coming to a new topic on the site, with many pages of comments, you have to read them in reverse order.
Would it not be much more intuitive to list them chronologically?

No disrespect (I'm a big fan of a couple of the folk writing the provocations), but why "commissioned from the international creative community"? Was there none available/valid from anyone in Scotland? Also, it doesn't feel like a 'discussion forum' when all one can do is post comments to a 'provocation', IMHO.

Intentionally provocative (& too many characters to elucidate)

Dissolve CS apart from the element which supports Foundation Funded Organisations and pass the remaining allocation direct to Local Authorities to manage, based on an accepted nationwide policy for funding individuals/projects/groups at a local level.

SAC 09/10
£57.65m arts funding & development
£3.41m operational costs

The youth work team in Moray have been working in partnership with a secondary school and Moray Arts Centre to pilot the Trinity Guildhall Arts Awards for young people. The pilot has been a great success with 17 young people recently recieving their bronze award. In a recent learning community inspection by HMI it was also hilighted as an example of good practice. As the Arts Award is now becoming popular in Scotland, would CS consider supporting it?

I agree with almost all that Jennie said, but (just to illustrate, like) I wanted to add that moderation with a light touch is no bad thing - call it facilitation if you like - but of course I can't do that without submitting a new 'idea'

How about Creative Scotland makes digital Arts start-ups possible.

SAC won't fund cos you might make a profit, SE will fund but only 50%, which the private sector won’t match cos they see Arts as a marketing not an investment opportunity. Worse - the new digital fund at Scottish Screen won’t match SE funding and Amb:IT:ion is for existing organisations.

If people are going to use words like innovation and enterprise, with integrity, there must be a strategy for start-ups. Where is it?

Excited to hear about this site, disappointed to find how dated its functionality is. The web has moved on... Please can we have an online forum where creative practitioners can start threads on the topics that are important to them and talk about them like adults without moderators trying to control all the discussions? That would promote the accessibility, participation and international activity which CS wants.

Arriving at the site for the 1st time, I am struggling to relate to it. The site is dry and academic - contrary to my experience of the SAC Dance dep.
The idea of writing a comment here is intimidating. I don't know who every one is or what they do. Is there a way to see people's profiles? If the idea is to encourage and welcome artist's ideas and honest comments then please make it more welcoming and friendly. How about a policy of non-anonymity too?
Ind' Choreographer. AD Bodysurf Scotland.

At the moment every time we apply to the SAC it's as if it was the first time. Huge efforts wasted on both sides. Why can't every applicant to Creative Scotland be given their own online account, which can be readily updated by the applicant and CS? Huge reduction in paperwork and retyping of the same information over and over again. Client information readily available to all CS staff.

At the moment every time we apply to the SAC it's as if it was the first time. Huge efforts wasted on both sides. Why can't every applicant to Creative Scotland be given their own online account, which can be readily updated by the applicant and CS? Huge reduction in paperwork and retyping of the same information over and over again. Client information readily available to all CS staff.