I presented 2 ambitious projects for Generation, "Real Life Rocky Mountain" at National Galleries of Scotland and "20 Years of Real Life, Free Instruments for Teenagers" at Collective Edinburgh, discussed in separate Radar Outputs. I was invited in this forum to discuss the latter project in terms of its engagement funding and socially engaged aspect to an invited audience from a broad spectrum of art professionals from Museums, Galleries,funding bodies, culture and politics. I was specifically asked to discuss, "Impacts on audiences - What has the project achieved so far? What have been the challenges? What have you learnt that you would like to pass onto other practitioners? What are you doing next with this learning? Engaging audiences - what would you like the future to look like?" Kate Gray, Director of Collective also spoke to discuss how the project was developed from the Galleries persecutive.
"A key aim for GENERATION was to initiate a shift in the profile and accessibility of contemporary art across Scotland and to increase people’s appetite for, and confidence in, engaging with the ideas and art of our times. How did we do? This final development day of the series will consider what impacts we have had on our visiting audiences; how we can sustain the focus on youth engagement further, and what we might wish to see as the next national focus for the sector. It will be an opportunity to further explore conversations started in December on some of these issues as well as hear about the learning from GENERATION’S public engagement programme.

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