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Instagram Takeover Call Out – Creative Spaces

The Creative Spaces team are looking for young creatives who are from or live in Dumfries & Galloway to feature on their Friday Takeovers on Instagram Stories.

Project Overview

This project aims to provide a platform for creatives to showcase their work, share insights about their practice, and connect with a broader audience. By taking over our Instagram Stories for one day, creatives will have the opportunity to engage with our followers, highlight their portfolios, and promote their creative endeavours.

Objectives

Showcase Creative Work: Allow creatives to share images, videos, and stories of their projects.

Highlight Creative Practices: Provide insights into their creative process, tools, and techniques.

Promote Individual Portfolios: Direct followers to the creatives’ websites, online stores, or social media profiles to boost their visibility.

Build a Creative Community: Foster a sense of community among creatives and our audience by introducing them to diverse creative talents.

Scope of Work

Each person will: Take Over Instagram Stories for One Day: Post a series of stories showcasing their work and creative process.

Introduce Themselves: Provide a brief introduction, including their background, artistic journey, and current projects.

Share Creative Insights: Offer behind-the-scenes content, such as sketches, drafts, or work-in-progress shots, and discuss their creative methods.

Engage with the Audience: Respond to questions and comments from our followers throughout the day.

Promote Their Work: Include links and information on where followers can find more of their work, such as websites, online stores or social media profiles.

Fee

Fee: £50
Payment Terms: Payment will be processed upon completion of the Instagram Takeover.

Requirements

  • Aged between 16 – 30
  • Either from Dumfries and Galloway or currently working/living in Dumfries and Galloway

Deliverables

  • A complete series of Instagram Stories for the takeover day, including:
    ◦ At least 5-10 story posts showcasing creative work.
    ◦ An introduction to the creative individual.
    ◦ Insights into the creative process.
    ◦ Engagement with the audience.
    ◦ Promotional information directing followers to the creative’s portfolio.

Interested? Get in touch!

Please send an email to [email protected] with the subject ‘Instagram Takeover’, and a bit about yourself and your creative practice and we’ll be in touch.

What is Creative Spaces?

We are a Dumfries-based collective of young creatives, working with and advocating for our region’s young artists.

Situated in the heart of Dumfries, Creative Spaces collaborates with young creatives from across the region, providing young people with opportunities to engage in the arts. Whether it’s through events, workshops, mentorships, or our annual Associates Programme, we aim to enhance Dumfries and Galloway’s creative scene by offering free access to opportunities and paid commissions

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The Travelling Gallery Returns to D&G

Travelling Gallery, a contemporary art gallery on a bus, is back, bringing its third season to Dumfries and Galloway this October. 

The Gallery will visit three sites across the region, featuring Repair Café, a 16 mm film by Scottish artist and filmmaker Helen McCrorie. The film was co-created with the residents of Strathearn in Perthshire as part of the Scotland-wide Remembering Together project, which aimed to bring ‘collective acts of reflection, remembrance, hope and healing to communities across Scotland’ in the years following the COVID pandemic. 

When asked about McCrories’s exhibition, Edinburgh Council Culture and Community Convener Val Walker said, “[The exhibition] promises to be an insightful exhibition that will inspire us all to reflect on the inequalities that were compounded by the pandemic, and the different ways we made our way through with creativity and connection. 

In partnership with the What We Do Now Network and The Stove, they will be visiting: 

The film engaged people of all ages through creative workshops, asking them to recall what helped them both during the pandemic and beyond. It weaves hand-drawn animation and footage of beloved community spaces with oral histories and evocative music by local school pupils and musicians. The soundtrack features a special arrangement of the song Strathearn by Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne of Strathearn, a contemporary of Robert Burns.

Exhibited alongside the film are a number of additional works that reveal some of the processes and thinking behind its making, including an interactive display with 16mm film reels, a colourful abstract animation and an atmospheric sound work.

McCrorie has also collaborated with Glasgow-based illustrator Annabel Wright to produce several drawings that bring to light more of the personal stories shared during the project: some sad, scary, or poignant, some hopeful, funny, or surreal. The work expands further upon the spectrum of insights and experiences from this time.

The gallery is free to visit and open to all. Visit Travelling Gallery website for more details.

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