New Creative Commissions for the Cultural Tides project
Live Life Aberdeenshire’s Museums Service seeks to appoint socially engaged creative practitioners with experience of working in communities for the development stage of the Cultural Tides (Re-discovering, Re-imagining, Re-connecting) project, working toward the creation of a new museum for Aberdeenshire. These commissions are made possible by The National Lottery Heritage Fund (Heritage Fund).
A central aim of the development of the new museum is community involvement through co-curation and co-production. To support this, a key element of the development phase is a programme of community engagement, and we are working with three key, target groups:
• Refugees/asylum seekers
• the Gypsy/Traveller community
• Incarcerated persons at HMP Grampian
The project also seeks to engage:
• Young people, particularly those in more deprived areas
• Carers and older people
• School groups and families / inter-generational groups.
The creative commissioning outlined above is focussed on working with these groups collaboratively, developing opportunities for skills building and creating positive partnerships. The process of co-curating aspects of the new venue with community groups across Aberdeenshire will be documented by a filmmaker already commissioned to work with us to capture many of the workshop sessions.
These commissions will be rolled out between February and June 2026.
More details can be found on Live Life Aberdeenshire's arts commissions page:
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