Janet Archer, CEO, Creative Scotland said: 'We are delighted to announce TTS.Digital, a new fund to support digital projects led by young people. TTS.Digital will generate opportunities for young people to express themselves through new technologies as well as developing ground breaking relationships between arts organisations, young people and technology partners.'
Today, Thursday 22 January 2015, Creative Scotland announces the launch of TTS.Digital, a £450,000 fund to develop young peoples’ digital creativity and experimentation. TTS.Digital is a strand of Time to Shine, Scotland’s National Youth Arts Strategy. The strategy sets out a vision and key recommendations to enable Scotland’s children and young people to flourish and achieve, in and through the arts and culture.
The purpose of TTS.Digital is to inspire digital creativity and experimentation in young people through a series of youth-led projects working with arts organisations in collaboration with technology partners.
Janet Archer, CEO, Creative Scotland said:
“We are delighted to announce TTS.Digital, a new fund to support digital projects led by young people. TTS.Digital will generate opportunities for young people to express themselves through new technologies as well as developing ground breaking relationships between arts organisations, young people and technology partners. We want to encourage innovation and challenge, connections across Scotland and potentially the wider world as well.
TTS.Digital is split into two phases. The first phase will fund up to 10 pilot projects of up to £5,000 each. These projects will be led by young people and facilitated by arts organisations in collaboration with a technology partner. The outcomes of these projects could include workshops, the testing of new technologies, experimenting with new digital languages and channels, or the creation of artworks or performances which are a work in progress.
In August 2015 we will launch phase two of TTS.Digital with an open call for larger-scale projects which build on the outcomes of the phase one pilot projects. The scale of these projects will be between £50k–£100k. Full details, guidelines and application forms for phase two will be made available by early August 2015, with applications due by 14 September 2015.
In shaping this project we have worked closely with Youth Arts Voice Scotland, a group of young people aged 14-20 who are working with Creative Scotland and Young Scot to shape the future of arts for young people in Scotland.