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Member Spotlight: Josafinni Porter Chambers at V&A Dundee

We’re delighted to share an exhibition Creative Glasgow member, Josafinni Porter Chambers, has been working on at V&A Dundee.

The Room is a sensory exhibition co-designed by Dundonian people with learning disabilities and Josafinni Porter Chambers for V&A Dundee. This exhibition has been co-designed as part of the Delivering Change: Museum Transformers Programme in partnership with The Scottish Commission for People with Learning Disabilities
(SCLD).

Over the past 18 months, a group of local Dundonians with learning disabilities have worked together to create this unique, interactive, sensory exhibition for all visitors to enjoy. Filled with opportunities to play, create, explore and relax, the room invites visitors to engage with light, sound, texture and colour in their own way. From drawing and music-making to tactile experiences and quiet places to rest, the space celebrates creativity, choice, self-expression
and access for all.

Josafinni Porter Chambers, lead co-designer and Guest Designer at V&A Dundee, said: “The Room at V&A Dundee is a beautiful example of the power of co-design and it’s been the project of a lifetime for me. From squishing teeth into clay and chucking buttons on the floor to the intense focus and concentration required to move the design forward, every group member has made their mark on this co-designed ‘Room’. Embodied knowledge, choice and joy have been central to this journey and it was important for every member to have agency and boundless creativity.”

The Room is free and open at V&A Dundee. We can’t wait to visit!

September highlights

The clocks haven’t gone back yet, but the jumpers are out and the diaries are filling up fast!

September’s LAST THURSDAY took us to City Halls, where we teamed up with Glasgow CREATE to dig into what the changes to the Scottish Curriculum mean for creative education in Glasgow. Almost 40% of our members work in creative learning, arts education or with young people, and it felt overdue to get the creative and education sectors properly in the same room. Thank you to Kirsty Ferns and the Glasgow CREATE team, Lucy McEachan from Panel and Minnie Crook from 21 Common for their brilliant spotlights, and to everyone who got stuck in with the post-it notes!

We’re still pulling together the details for our next Members Meet on Thursday 29 October, but save the date! We’ll send full details directly to members as soon as everything is confirmed. Don’t want to miss out? Sign up now! If you’re interested in hosting us for a future Members Meet, we’d be delighted to hear from you. Just get in touch!

A Festive Fundraiser

Thursday 3 December 2026

Pop it in the diary now: we’re throwing a festive evening of creative chaos, collective wisdom, good food and drinks, all to raise funds to keep our member meets FREE in 2027. More info soon, but limited tickets so get on it!

Can you donate a prize? We’re looking for local businesses, creative organisations and members who’d like to donate a prize, experience, voucher or skill for the auctions and tombola. Get in touch at admin@creativeglasgow.co.uk.

From the Split Screen community: Good Enough by NOCTURN Creative

John Darvell and NOCTURN Creative are sharing Good Enough, a new work developed through Split Screen, and they’d love Creative Glasgow members to come along. Good Enough is a one-to-one experience: just you and a storybox, with tactile objects, AR, a haptic vest and bone conduction audio. They have a few events this month:

Artist talk and group sharing, Civic House: Monday 26 October, doors 7pm, talk 7.30-8.30pm, hosted by Janine Matheson of RCS’s Innovation Studio. Book here:
Try it solo: a small number of 30-minute user-testing slots on the afternoon of 26 October, in return for your honest feedback.
At Cove Park, Argyll: talk and sharing on Saturday 24 October, 4-6pm, with

Sarah Longfield: Creative Business Coaching

Offer for Creative Glasgow members

Whether you’ve been self-employed for years or you’re only thinking about taking the leap, Sarah’s coaching subscription offers support and accountability to help you take purposeful action. It’s £99 a month, cancel any time, with a monthly hour-long session and WhatsApp or email access in between. Sarah has extended her autumn offer especially for our members: more info here.

Al Seed Productions: THRICE

Al Seed Productions: THRICE

16 – 17 October, Tramway

When our Digital Marketing Specialist isn’t writing these updates, she’s involved in a few other creative projects across the city! She’s particularly excited about this one: THRICE, a new visual and physical theatre response to Macbeth, led by a chorus of nine women as the figures who haunt the edges of the play: the witches. It’s playing Tramway and touring Scotland in October – and will be the hot ticket of the witchy season!

More info here.

Creative Glasgow x Film Hub Scotland exhibition workshop key highlights

We’ve collated the key insights and a bundle of resources that came out of our member meetup. The event asked: what does a healthy future for film exhibition here look like, and how do we get there together?

Subtle Systems Training Programme

Participant recruitment is now open for Subtle Systems, Strange Field’s new music, events & nightlife enterprise training programme.

Working in partnership with local community organisers and industry professionals, Subtle Systems provides free hands-on technical and entrepreneurial skills training to young people experiencing barriers to working in the music, events, and nightlife industries.

Over 11 weeks (Oct-Dec), participants will build business and technical skills – from finance and marketing to live audio and lighting – before putting their learning into practice by delivering their own public event.

Subtle Systems is supported by the Glasgow City Council Social Innovation Challenge Fund. Participants must reside in Glasgow.

Creative Balance Wellbeing Festival

13 September, Civic House

Creative Balance, the research and advocacy arm of We Are Here Scotland, published the first phase of its research on Tuesday 1 September. Finding The Radiance In Between: Reimagining Scotland’s Creative Spaces draws on group interviews held across Scotland with racialised people working in the creative industries.

The findings get their public airing at the Creative Balance Wellbeing Festival on Sunday 13 September at Civic House: a day of workshops, performances, flash talks, food and newly commissioned artwork, closing with a keynote from Dr Q Manivannan MSP. Tickets are pay what you can, there’s a transport contribution fund, and BSL interpretation and live captioning run throughout.

Split Screen returns!

Creative Glasgow x Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Split Screen is back for a second year, and we’re delighted to be partners on it again alongside the Citizens Theatre, Arcadia and The Work Room, led by the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s Innovation Studio and supported by the Scottish Government’s Ecosystem Community Fund.

Split Screen brings creative practitioners together to find new ways of folding technology into their practice – 3D worldbuilding, digital avatars, motion capture, and new approaches to movement and performance-making. The first workshops sold out fast, but they are looking for people to showcase at their first meet up. Attendee details below – open to all!

SPLIT SCREEN Meetup: In the Making
Thursday 8 October 2026, 5.30–8.30pm
Civic House, 26 Civic Street, Glasgow, G4 9RH
Free

The first meet up is an evening of works in progress and lightning talks from artists and technologists. There’s also an optional SPLIT SCREEN POT LUCK – a rapid-fire round where you say what you’re working on, what you need, and what you’ve got to offer!

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