Text says "Creative workshops for older people at Forfar Library - limited places available. Morning and afternoon sessions on Fridays. 13th February - 6th March." Background image shows colourful craft materials and the Luminate logo.
Don't miss out on the chance to join artist Maureen Crosbie at Forfar Library’s Lend & Mend Hub for a series of creative workshops.
Events are free to attend but booking is essential – contact Forfar Library direct to book and find full details on our website: luminatescotland.org/opportunity-...
12.02.2026 11:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Photo shows Arti Prashar sitting in a red chair.
‘Ephemeral to concrete - a second chance’ is the latest blog on our website, written by Arti Prashar OBE.
It shares Arti’s reflections on our recent Older Artist Seminar with The Baring Foundation, which featured the life journeys of three older emerging artists.
Link to blog in comments 🔗
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Image shows front page of Learning to lead dementia inclusive singing activities resource.
Don’t miss our new resource 'Learning to lead dementia inclusive singing activities’.
Aimed at song leaders and written by musician Jo Miller, it looks at getting started, choosing repertoire and managing sessions, with lots of practical advice.
▶️ singing.luminatescotland.org/guide/learni...
22.01.2026 12:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Luminate – Opportunity to get sew creative in Forfar
New creative project for older people gets underway
Angus artist Maureen Crosbie will lead creative workshops for older people at Forfar Library’s Lend & Mend Hub, with taster sessions on Friday 6th February.
▶️https://luminatescotland.org/opportunity-to-get-sew-creative-in-forfar/
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Festive graphic with the word 'Our office will be closed from Tuesday 23rd December and will re-open on Monday 5th January. Enjoy the festivities!
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A close up of four women in profile wearing Christmas jumpers and accessories who are singing and smiling.
Earlier this week we enjoyed a special celebration event at Elderslie Village Hall.
We were joined by Active Communities' Singing Buddies and residents of Lancefield Care Home and Adams House for an afternoon of song and friendship. Thanks to all who took part.
#creativeageing
📷 Eoin Carey
04.12.2025 16:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Words say "Chair Recruitment. Closing soon. Apply by Monday, 8th December".
The Luminate logo is below the words.
⭐ LAST CHANCE TO APPLY ⭐ We are seeking a new Chair to lead our Board of Trustees from early 2026.
Bruce Tait Associates are leading on recruitment for this post - full details: bta.current.jobs/job/chair-lu...
Applications close on Monday, 8th December.
#creativeageing #boardvacancies
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🙌A big thank you to our inspirational speakers - David Taylor, Liz Bertram-Gossan and Christine Kydd – for taking part in today’s Older Artist Seminar.
Thanks to everyone who attended, and The Baring Foundation for their support. Blog coming soon.
#creativeageing #emergingartists
📸 Jassy Earl
18.11.2025 16:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A dark background with holly and autumnal leaves. Words say 'Chair Recruitment, Apply by Monday, 8th December'. The Luminate logo is underneath.
We are seeking a new Chair to lead our Board of Trustees from early 2026.
Bruce Tait Associates are leading on recruitment for this post - full details: bta.current.jobs/job/chair-lu...
Applications close on Monday, 8th December.
#creativeageing #boardvacancies
18.11.2025 16:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A woman with grey hair wearing a blue top lies on her back on a fallen tree in a forest.
Join us on Tuesday, 18th November for an Older Artist Seminar with The Baring Foundation.
This free online event explores opportunities that can arise from finding a new creative career or developing a new artistic direction in later life.
👉 luminatescotland.org/events/event...
📸 Robbie Synge
06.11.2025 10:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The text reads: Closing Soon, Programme Manager, Apply by 9am on Monday, 3rd November.
The Luminate logo sits under the text.
⭐ CLOSING SOON - LAST CHANCE TO APPLY⭐
We are looking for a Programme Manager to manage a wide range of projects and events that support creative ageing practice in Scotland.
👉 Full job description: luminatescotland.org/job/programm...
#creativeageing
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Background picture shows leaves and leaf prints in blue and orange. Wording says 'We are hiring, Programme Manager, Apply by 9am on Monday, 3rd November.' The Luminate logo sits underneath the words.
⭐ VACANCY – Programme Manager P/T, Hybrid, £26,272 for 28hrs/week⭐
We are looking for a Programme Manager to manage a wide range of projects and events that support creative ageing practice in Scotland.
👉 luminatescotland.org/job/programm...
@creativescots.bsky.social @agescotland.bsky.social
20.10.2025 11:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
People sit on chairs around tables having animated conversation.
Are you an artist or creative professional with an interest in creative ageing?
Why not join us at Eden Court in Inverness on Thursday, 6th November for a special, free event with guest speakers, discussions and networking.
luminatescotland.org/events/event...
#creativeageing
📷 Jassy Earl
09.10.2025 11:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The words We are hiring, Programme Manager, Apply by 9am on Monday, 3rd November and the Luminate logo are shown against a background of brown leaf prints.
⭐ VACANCY – Programme Manager P/T, Hybrid, £26,272 for 28hrs/week⭐
We are looking for a Programme Manager to manage a wide range of projects and events that support creative ageing practice in Scotland.
👉 luminatescotland.org/job/programm...
@creativescots.bsky.social @agescotland.bsky.social
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We’d like to say a big thank you to @westonfdn.bsky.social for awarding us funding towards our core costs. 🙌
This support will help us to increase access to the arts for older people across Scotland through our programme of creative activities and training.
📷 Jassy Earl
30.09.2025 08:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Scottish Dementia Arts Festival 2025 logo
The Scottish Dementia Arts Festival gets underway on Thursday, 25th September at the Macrobert Arts Centre in Stirling.
The programme features the very best of music, theatre, poetry and film produced by those diagnosed with dementia.
Full details: www.deepnessdementiaarts.co.uk/dementia-art...
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Background image shows a woman arranging colourful printed material including leaf prints. Wording says: Autumn Events Programme Book Now. The Luminate logo is underneath.
🍂Booking for our autumn events programme is now live. Online and in-person events will explore artist wellbeing, opportunities for older artists and creative ageing perspectives.
🎟️Events are free, but booking is essential.
👉Full details: luminatescotland.org/work/events/
#creativeageing
18.09.2025 10:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
⭐ VACANCY - Administrative Officer P/T, Hybrid
£27,000 FTE pro rata for 17.5hrs/week
We are looking for a part-time administrative officer to support our day-to-day operations, projects, and activities.
Interested? Apply by 9am on Wed 17 Sep.
luminatescotland.org/job/administ...
#creativeageing
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⭐REMINDER - closing Monday 18 August, 9am
Creative Ageing Artist Residency available in Forfar, Angus.⭐
Full brief on our website 👇
luminatescotland.org/.../creative...
#creativeageing #artistresidency #Forfar #Angus #closingsoon
📷 Creativity for Carers in Harris – photo Al Johnston
14.08.2025 11:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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⭐ New Chair and Board Members
We are recruiting for a new Chair and 2-3 Board members to start in early 2026.
Closes on Monday, 29 September. More info 👇
luminatescotland.org/job/trustee-...
📷 Kate Temple
12.08.2025 13:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Luminate – Jobs and Opportunities
Keep up-to-date with current job vacancies and other opportunities
📢 Evaluation and Research Support Tender
We are seeking evaluation and research support on a longer-term freelance/consultancy basis from autumn 2025 to spring 2028.
👇
luminatescotland.org/about/jobs/
Closes 9am on Mon, 1 Sep.
📷 Jassy Earl
#creativeageing #artsjobs #tenders #freelancejobs
29.07.2025 10:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Delighted that Tonia will be starting with us in September.
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⭐ REMINDER - CLOSING TOMORROW - Fri 20th June, 9am ⭐
Come and work with us! New part-time role, ideal for someone who has an interest in the arts in a community context. Interested?
Apply online 👇
luminatescotland.org/job/communic...
#creativeageing #artsjobs #artsmarketing #creativearts
19.06.2025 12:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Enjoying hearing from a great line-up of speakers at the Creative Dementia Arts for Health and Wellbeing Conference in #Bristol today
#creativeageing
@dementiacommunity.bsky.social
03.06.2025 12:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Communications Officer
#artsjobs #ad new p/t post, ideal for someone with a track record in designing and delivering effective & accessible, strategic campaigns.
£27,000 pro rata, 17.5 hours/week, plus pension.
Apply by 9am, 20th June. Hybrid, Edinburgh-based.
luminatescotland.org/job/communic...
30.05.2025 09:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
64 Million Artists is a social enterprise inviting everyone in the UK to explore their creative potential and use it to challenge the status quo. Home to The January Challenge.
Theatre Director & Creative Collaborator, passionate about creating performances for people living with dementia.
www.magdalenaschamberger.com
Movement based visual theatre. We use object theatre, puppetry, circus, mime, music, projection, and light to explore stories of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. Edinburgh and touring. Freda O'Byrne: https://tragiccarpet.com/
Creating, caring and campaigning for change. Rewired, not retired. Trustee @BridgendFarmhse. Hon Mem @FPH. Carer #Parkinson's #LewyBodyDementia. Artist @leithartschool @edinburghprints
We are a diverse, creative and exciting theatre based in the middle of Scotland, come and check us out!
A family founded grant-maker supporting a wide range of charities across the UK, with grants totalling over £129 million last year.
www.garfieldweston.org
Collaborative and multidisciplinary approaches to support health and wellbeing. Arts for public health; culturally responsive healthcare. DrPH @LSHTM. linktr.ee/jpueblafortier
When women lead. In crises. In their communities. We can change the world. Join us.
https://www.careinternational.org.uk/
Producing a programme of creative activities with & for people living with a dementia, their families & carers in Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster.
https://linktr.ee/resonatearts
A charity bringing older and younger people together through the arts. Follow for intergenerational creativity in care-homes and the community.
Arts-based, creative learning programmes & teaching resources for schools across the UK and beyond!
Music for All is a charity believing that EVERYONE regardless of circumstance, should have the opportunity to access music making.
Organisers of UK Learn to Play.
Monthly Scottish arts and culture magazine covering #Glasgow & #Edinburgh since 1985.
list.co.uk
A free contemporary art gallery on Edinburgh’s iconic Calton Hill 🔭
⭐ Current exhibitions: Highland Embassy by Shen Xin & Panorama: New Views of a City
🏛️ Open Wednesday-Sunday, 10am-4pm
https://collective-edinburgh.art/
Cryptic is Scotland’s internationally renowned home of experimental music and audiovisual art. Presenting today’s most imaginative, innovative artists + nurturing the talent of tomorrow...
www.cryptic.org.uk https://sonic-a.co.uk
The UK's largest leisure-time music network. Representing 4,000 member groups and 228,000 musicians of all styles, genres, and abilities.
https://www.makingmusic.org.uk
Not-for-profit working towards a world where everyone has access to the transformative power of music 🎶
www.musicmasters.org.uk
We believe the arts make life better, and everyone should have opportunities to experience and take part in them. 🎶💃🎭🎨✍️📸🎥🧵🏛️
https://www.campaignforthearts.org/join/
Powering research to find new ways of detecting and treating #dementia. Providing infrastructure to enable research at scale and pace. Funded by #MedicalResearchCouncil. Based at Oxford University with teams at universities across the UK and in industry.
Award winning Consultant on Actively used Care & Dementia Gardens |Author 'Why Don't we Go into the Garden?' series Books | Speaker & Trainer |
Support to Care Homes & Garden Designers | Garden Designer
