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Draft
Programme
The
Steering Group are organising explanatory literature and an exhibition
in Ballater for Summer 2000 loaned from the Outlook Tower in Edinburgh
and from artists who appreciate Geddes' work. These activities are to help
raise awareness locally and further afield about Geddes' work, and events,
still to be planned, leading up to the Commemoration in 2004. Possible
additional
events include an Scottish Natural Heritage Activity Day at Burn 'O Vat
including Geddes material. The Project has already achieved the naming
of a street of new housing approved for Ballater in honour of Sir Patrick
Geddes.
Basic
Goals
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Patrick Geddes and his work.
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Art and Architecture of Geddes'
time and the present.
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The local environment and environmental
issues.
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Town Planning Issues.
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To create a higher profile for
Ballater and Ballater Environmental Education Centre.
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To increase community pride
in local history, co-operative working and environment.
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To increase residents' skills
in art, design and environmental stewardship.
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To produce information and education
materials which will contribute to lasting awareness of the Project and
its themes, and stimulate future activities.
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To commission contemporary artworks
in and around Ballater which relate to the principles of Geddes.
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The Environmental Centre in
particular seeks to:
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Add a further dimension to its
programme, particularly in the filed of lifelong learning and adult groups.
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Provide a focus for the Geddes
Project and exhibits in Ballater.
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Devise additional units of work
for its school courses.
Potential
Activities
Arts
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Research - involvement of local
historians and residents in collation of details, leading to production
of displays, pamphlets.
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Exhibitions - throughout Project,
display of project plans, interpretative panels, local workshop results,
artists' designs for project, contemporary and historical art from France,
India and Scotland. Potential venues include Ballater Environmental Education
Centre, Victoria and Albert Halls etc.
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Skills training - stoneworking,
environmental art and landscape design, architectural design, website design
and creation, videography, desk-top publishing, exhibition design.
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Hands-on experiences - workshops/courses
for all age groups involving above skills and themes or challenges which
suit the current phase of the project. Also, lectures in the Environmental
Education Centre, library or local halls, school projects and exchanges
with French, Indian Schools, intensive workshops with visiting artists
or experts, music and drama workshops, videography workshops.
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Art in the environment - create
temporary and/or permanent structures/plantings to recognise the project,
community and Geddes.
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Collaboration - to encourage
the local artistic community to work collectively in Ballater.
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Documentation - produce videos,
pamphlets, website, education materials to record the Project and inspire
further activities.
Library
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Displays of Geddes' writtings
and associated literature.
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Readings and lectures on appropriate
materials/topics.
Schools
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Cross curricular projects involving
art, science, geography, English; international exchanges via internet,
video diaries, letters; public displays and performances; outdoor projects.
Environmental
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Raise awareness and action via
creation of new walks, gardens, plantings, conservation measures.
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Create educational materials
for schools, rangers, and field centre use.
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Conduct workshops, walks, projects
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Develop Ballater Environmental
Education Centre as a focus for study of the life and works of Patrick
Geddes
Ballater
Geddes Project Launch Booklet
Goals
of publication:
1. to introduce Patrick
Geddes and his work to Ballater and its visitors.
2. to outline the Ballater
Geddes Project - general details, specific events through 2000.
3. to start viewers considering
their own environments/activities/societies along Geddesian principles.
4. to accompany/interpret
the art exhibition.
Geddes
Summer Exhibition 3-13 August 2000, Monaltrie Hotel, Ballater, Scotland
Goals
1. to introduce Patrick
Geddes and his work to Ballater and its visitors.
2. to highlight Geddes's
activities/interests in aesthetics.
3. to illustrate how contemporary
artists respond to Geddesian principles - aesthetic or otherwise.
4. to outline the Ballater
Geddes Project - possibly linking exhibits to related upcoming events.
5. to start viewers considering
their own environments/activities/societies along Geddesian principles.
6. The Exhibition will be
launched by keynote speakers. |