Our vision
Everything we do relates to our passion for creativity:
empowering young people from all backgrounds with the tools, skills and confidence to pursue future careers within the rapidly growing creative industries.
Our mission
To enable a greater number of young people to actively participate in projects that will uncover and nurture their creative talents and ambitions.
We approach this in 3 ways:
School programmes
Delivering creative and cultural programmes with industry links in primary and secondary schools.
Industry links
Partnering schools with local creative practitioners to help promote creative career pathways.
Community benefit
Re-investing our profits to fund free-to-access workshops in our most deprived communities.
This is us
We are 3 people with 6 hats.
We are qualified teachers with a passion for education and working with young people.
We are also experienced, successful and devoted creative practitioners in our specialised fields.
Darren Osborne
GSA Visual Communication graduate, Darren is an experienced graphic designer, production designer and actor. He is co-founder of BAFTA and BIFA nominated film production company 14c Studio, who released their first feature length film 'Super November' in 2018.
He is a qualified teacher of art and design (secondary).
Lydia Everitt
GSA Fine Art graduate, Lydia has exhibited in galleries such as Glasgow Print Studio, The Royal Scottish Academy, and Holyrood. She is currently involved in a community art and research group based in Govan called ‘SWAC’. Her work is part of the Scottish National Collection.
She is a qualified teacher of art and design (secondary).
Colm Keegan
BA (Hons) graduate in Music and the Irish language from University College Dublin, current Masters in Education student at Strathclyde University. Colm is an award-winning Irish singer, most notably known for the six years he spent as principal singer of world music group Celtic Thunder.
He is a qualified teacher of Music (secondary).
We do this
Because
We are passionate about creative and cultural education for many reasons.
Here are just a few:
To find out more about the theories and research that shape our programmes, visit our book shelf.
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