Andrew Dixon’s first two months as Chief Executive Designate

Creative Scotland, 14 May 2010,Scotland

Andrew Dixon, in his first two months in post as Creative Scotland’s Chief Executive Designate, will be travelling around Scotland meeting artists and organisations from the arts, creative industries and screen sectors. He has already taken in the Dumfries Film Festival, travelled to Ullapool for the Book Festival, watched Peter Pan and spoken at an Arts & Business Dinner in Edinburgh.

His engagements in the second week of May included a talk hosted by the Royal Society of Arts and ‘A creative exchange’ with a 100-strong audience on the 13 May at the Imaginate Festival, the UK’s largest performing arts festival for children and young people. His tour then takes him to Aberdeen, Inverness and Dundee where he will visit cultural hubs and organisations, taking in the Degree show at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. It will then be back to Glasgow and Edinburgh with visits to The Tron and the Citizen’s Theatre.

The following week sees Andrew speaking at the fourth Creative Scotland dialogue session at The Briggait in Glasgow on the 25 May, attending a dinner at Cove Park, a centre for the arts and creative industries, touring Glasgow School of Art, Film City and meeting up with Scottish Ballet.

June begins with a visit to the Poetry Library in Edinburgh and then up to Skye for Sabhal Mòr Ceilidh – Traditional Gaelic and Scots song and music – and returning to Glasgow for the National Youth Music Forum on 4 June. The following week he will be back in Dundee for the crafts and creative industries symposium and then back to Edinburgh for the opening of the 64th Edinburgh International Film Festival. He’ll then be at the Borders Book Festival Awards, in Edinburgh for the Scottish Screen Reception at EIFF before heading north again to Orkney for the St Magnus Festival.

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