Creative Identities

Opportunities for young people to get creative!

VOMO is host to a brand new programme for arts activities, called Creative Identities, for young people throughout Scotland.

With a focus on film, this 15-month project is funded by CashBack for Communities - which reinvests the recovered proceeds from organised crime back into Scotland’s communities. Creative Identities is being run in partnership with Scottish Screen and the Scottish Arts Council and here in the Borders is managed by VOMO.

Scottish Borders Council’s Executive Member for Sport, Culture and Community Education Councillor Graham Garvie said, “VOMO is the perfect example of how a creative project can give young people the chance to explore, challenge and communicate issues in their lives through film and media. I am therefore delighted that more young people will be given the opportunity benefit from such activities.”

Culture Minister Michael Russell said, “It is important that we give Scotland’s young people chances to put their energies into something positive and the Creative Identities project does just that. It provides a unique opportunity for our young people to explore activities they would not traditionally have been exposed to, such as enabling them to communicate using arts and digital media.”

Here in the Borders, Creative Identities kicked off in 2009 with a major new film project involving eleven girls from all over the region who came together to develop and shoot an original and moving short film drama, Freeze.

Watch this space for updates on events and activities from Creative Identities … and how you can get involved!

For more information contact Jez Arrow at VOMO:

T:         01750-724901

E:        jez.arrow@scotborders.gov.uk