TRAINING AND BUSINESS ADVICE
Wednesday 19th November 2014
Room 206, Tower Mill, Heart of Hawick
CABN's Advocate for Music, James Mackintosh, will be delivering one-to-one advice sessions for individuals working in music. Each session will last an hour, and will be followed up by a report identifying further sources of information and action points.
The available appointments are:
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11.00am - 12.00 noon
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1.00 pm - 2.00pm
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2.30 pm - 3.30 pm
For more information on the sessions and details on how to book please go to the Training &
Business Advice page on the CABN website .

10.30am - 3.00pm (with half hour lunch break), Tuesday 25th November 2014
Room 205, Tower Mill, Heart of Hawick
The Next Step, a Cultural Enterprise Office workshop delivered by CABN, helps established businesses take stock, review achievements, consider options for development, kick start new plans and renew motivation.
Aim of event:
To introduce established businesses of 3 years or more to information, questioning and thinking tools which help them explore their business and:
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Analyse the successful and unsuccessful income streams and activities within their business practice and model
Identify challenges within the current roles and responsibilities in their business model
Identify changes to make to their business practice and model
This Cultural Enterprise Office workshop helps you take stock of your established business, review your achievements, consider options for development, kick start new plans, and renew motivation
What to Expect:
The workshop includes exercises and plenty of discussion to help you examine the things that you are passionate about, those you are the best at and those that make financial sense for your future.
You'll do one short exercise before the workshop to help focus your thinking and start the reflective process. This paper exercise will establish the skills, relationships, profile and rewards that connect your experiences to date and support your future choices. You’ll start by discussing your journey to date and the options that lie ahead.

What You'll Get Out of It:
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Reassurance, clarity, confidence and greater understanding of how to progress the next stage of your business by identifying; the values which are indispensable to you and your business what changes could help you utilise time and money more efficiently what you want to consolidate or eliminate in order to move your business forward
For further information and details on how to book please visit the Training and Business
Advice page on the CABN website.
The Next Step is a Cultural Enterprise Office workshop delivered by CABN (Creative Arts Business
Network)
7.00pm - 9.00pm, Thursday 27th November 2014
Hawick Library
Is there no place like home? Is it where your heart truly lies? Is home a place, a memory or even a person?
To celebrate Book Week Scotland 2014, join Border based award winning writer Tom Murray to explore the many and varied interpretations of HOME. Whether you wish to explore the theme in prose or poetry is up to you.
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This free workshop is suitable for beginners or more experienced writers.
Booking is essential, please contact Hawick Library on 01450 364640 or libhawick@scotborders.gov.uk
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10.00am - 4.00pm, Saturday 29th November 2014
Heriot Watt University - School of Textiles and Design, Galashiels
Grace Smith, Screen-print Technical Demonstrator at Heriot-WattUniversity, will be running a one day workshop on Screen-printing for Textiles at the Scottish Borders Campus. The day will provide you with the opportunity to print your own artwork with pigment inks onto a range of substrates at the world class facilities. This is an exceptional chance to try out screen-printing and visualise its possibilities in a creative context. All samples can be taken away at the end of the day.
Course Provision;
 Use of the facilities at Heriot-Watt’s Print Dept. – including printing beds, wash out facilities, dye lab & finishing equipment
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Tuition in screen-printing
Screens with your images for the day
Sample Screens
Pigment inks
Substrates
For more information please visit the Training and Business Advice page on the CABN website.
To book your place please contact kay.mccluskey@scotborders.gov.uk
by 9.00am on
Wednesday 19 th November 2014.

The workshop costs £60, or £35 for resource subscribers. You must pay in advance by cheque
(made payable to Scottish Borders Council), cash or credit card (please call Kay McCluskey with your card details on 01450 360441,9.00am - 12.30pm, Monday to Thursday)
Places are limited to 10 so please get in touch soon to book your place.
OPPORTUNITIES
Scottish Borders
Artists in the Scottish Borders are invited to submit cvs, proposals and examples of their work for possible inclusion in future exhibitions to be held in the following art galleries managed by
Scottish Borders Council: The Scott Gallery, Hawick Museum; The Robson Gallery, Halliwell's
House Museum, Selkirk; The Christopher Boyd Gallery, Old Gala House, Galashiels & The Gallery,
Tweeddale Museum, Peebles.
For all enquiries please contact Elizabeth Hume, Visual Arts Officer, SBC Museums & Gallery
Service Tel 01450 364651 or email ehume@scotborders.gov.uk
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EVENTS
Monday 10th November 2014 - Friday 14th November 2014
The Studio on the Green, Selkirk
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The 3rd annual Dreamtime Dance Residency will take place at The Studio On The Green from
Monday 10th to Friday 14th November.
The Dreamtime initiative is a creative residency by Dance Base, Edinburgh, SBC's Performing
Arts Partnership and The Studio On The Green.
The residency exists to support choreographers and artists to create innovative new work in a supportive and nurturing environment, and particularly those who value the contemplative and peaceful rural atmosphere of the Scottish Borders.
This year's choreographer, Michael Sherin, will be using movement, live music and text to begin a new dance theatre work Out of The Shadows (working title). Based on an actual event, the research will look at how two strangers come together in unusual circumstances and change each others lives.
For more information please visit the Events page on the CABN website.
9.30am - 6.00pm, Thursday 20th November 2014
The Lighthouse, Glasgow
Zero Waste Scotland supported by Scottish Textile & Leather Association are bringing to
Glasgow’s Lighthouse an opportunity for those working in textiles to learn, engage, debate & discuss the future of Scottish textiles.

At this days event you will learn of innovations and trends occurring globally that could influence your business and funding and training opportunities from ZWS and the Textiles Sector that could help you in the creation of new textile initiatives.
Our keynote speaker on the day is internationally renowned luxury knitwear designer, Orsola de
Castro, Creative Director at From Somewhere and Reclaim To Wear & Co-founder and Cocurator of Estethica at London Fashion Week & our panel discussion on the day will be chaired by Janice Forsyth of BBC Radio an avid follower and advocate of the arts and creative fields within Scotland.
The day’s information, discussion and funding opportunities will be of interest to manufacturers, designers, academics and organisations working within the wide spectrum of textiles and their creation.
For more information and details on how to book please visit the STLA website .
4.00pm - 6.00pm, Sunday 7th December 2014
The Gordon Arms, Yarrow
Tickets: £8
Go along for an entertaining afternoon of traditional storytelling and song at the Gordon Arms - the place where friends Sir Walter Scott and James Hogg last met.
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In this 200th year since ‘Waverley’first took the world by storm, hear stories and ballads which inspired Scott, ‘The Wizard of The North’, as told by local storyteller, Mary Kenny. It will also be a showcase of traditional, festive and local songs, including a selection from Hogg, sung by ‘The
Fisher Lassies’, Borders-based acappella group-still blushing from their sell-out performance at the Edinburgh Fringe!
Tickets are available on the door or contact The Gordon Arms, Yarrow Tel: 01750-82261, email: info@thegordonarms.com
, web: www.thegordonarms.com
www.marykenny.com
NEWS
The recent Haining at Home event was a great success. Here is the link to the Summer Hall TV
Art programme video about the Haining at Home Event http://vimeo.com/110348185 . ITV also filmed at the event for Border Life TV which should be aired on Monday 10th November 2014.
Regards

Kay McCluskey
Clerical Assistant
Heart of Hawick/CABN
Scottish Borders Council
Room 304
Tower Mill, Kirkstile
Hawick
TD9 0AE
Tel: 01450 360441 www.heartofhawick.co.uk
www.scotborders.gov.uk
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