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Invitation to our December Membership Meeting[2]
Date:Friday 8th December 2017[3]
Time:11:00 – 14:00
Location: Dunfermline Carnegie Library and Galleries
(Confirm you would like to attend[4] by clicking on the link at the bottom of this eNewsletter)
Provisional Programme
11:00 -Tea, Coffee
11:15-12:00 -Eleanor Stewart - Animation Film Maker & Paper Artist
12:00-12:45-Lunch and vote for best piece of work
12:45-13:00-Bottle of wine presentation, any Creative Exchange business
13:00-14:00-Creative Exchange 'Interactive Scoping’ workshop
Venue
This years[5] membership meeting will be taking place[6] inDunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries (DCL&G) - a new museum, gallery spaces, [7]cafe, shop and reading rooms all[8] adjoining the world's first Carnegie Library.
This spectacular £12.4million award-winning new building (EAA Building of the Year), which opened in May 2017, links superbly with the world’s first Carnegie Library and houses a new museum, exhibition galleries, local history Reading Room, new children’s library and a mezzanine café with stunning views over the landscaped garden to Dunfermline Abbey and the Heritage Quarter[9].
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Morning session - Eleanor Stewart
Eleanor Stewart is an Animation Film Maker and Paper Artist based in Glasgow. Using her distinctive analogue style, she creates hand-crafted models and animations out of paper, and has produced work for a variety of international clients including Hyundai, Jura Whisky and The Calgary Stampede.
Recently Eleanor was a Finalist in the category of 'Best Visual Artist' in the Sunday Herald's Scottish Culture Awards. She was awarded the Bram Stoker Medal for most imaginative work in her final year Degree Show at Glasgow School of Art and a D&AD (Design & Art Direction) Best New Blood Award in London. Her animations have been screened in the UK and internationally, including performances with live symphony orchestras.
Eleanor runs workshops in papercraft, origami[11] and animation for kids and adults and this year ran a number of workshops for the National Trust and Book Week Scotland.
Visit her website
Afternoon session - Creative Exchange 'InteractiveMembershipScoping' session[12]
To continue on from our Brand Workshop in June, Creative Exchange want to keep up the momentum about the shape of our future and what direction the membership would like us to go in. We are a membership network and so we want to hear the views and opinions of as many members as we can.
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Creative Exchange member Gary Dickson, Designer with the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations, will be introducing everyone to an online interactive tool called Slido. Enabling[14] anyone at the meeting with a smart phone or tablet to get involved interactively through a series of polls and questions to try and get an understanding of how Creative Exchange might evolve[15].
Slido is really simple to use and (you will be glad to know) is anonymous! So we hope to get a true insight into what people think.[16]
It's a chance for us alltothink about what we would like to see not just at events but on the website and also if there are other things that could to help us grow and improve.
Find out more about Slido here
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Adjust colour as per email.
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New copy, colour and reduce size.
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New copy.
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If you would like to attend, please confirm by clicking…
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December’s
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Delete (looks like it’s lifted from publicity and repeats what’s already said). Insert ‘has recently been awarded Scotland’s most prestigious architectural prize, and sits in a landscaped garden with views to Dunfermline’s Abbey and Heritage Quarter.’
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Insert caption - you’ll know better than me how to describe the images.
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Origami
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Not sure - is it Membership that is being scoped, if you see what I mean? Suggest Interactive Membership Scoping Session without inverted commas.
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(General comment) Not sure whether the para breaks are consistent, whether they’re inserted lines or a mix of both? (I’m doing this in Pages by the way, which maybe doesn’t import it right). Obviously proper para breaks are best if MailChimp allows it. Will leave it to you.
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This will enable
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exploring ideas together about how Creative Exchange might develop in the future for everyone’s benefit
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Again, maybe a para break.
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The button (not visible here) - does that duplicate what the EventBrite invitation does? If so we’ll need to sort. In any case, copy to read ‘Confirm you will be attending’. (I say that ‘cos most folk would probably LIKE to attend - we need to know whether they are coming or not). And it’s not free - members pay subscriptions and might scoff at being told it’s free.
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Our Twitter account has fallen out of use and should have been deleted by Alan last year - if not we need to sort. Facebook link to our FB page would be great, and I assume MailChimp’s template insists on a link to them, but if it were used to link to our website that would be better for us.
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Is that right? Might be a surprise to people. Suggest moving bottom two para’s and saying:
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I don’t mind my home address on formal correspondence, but not here please Gary, thanks.
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Not sure if this is needed, when people don’t seem to have any trouble getting in touch.
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See above