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shmu recruiting for North East Culture Collective Coordinator role

Culture Collective is a network of 26 community-rooted creative projects from all across Scotland,

The network will explore new ways of working; creating employment opportunities for creative practitioners; sharing knowledge and learning; and championing what works to inform the future of support for community-rooted creative activity.

Date added: 01/07/2021

Nothing to do? Come to shmu!

Thanks to funding from Cashback, Fairer Aberdeen and YouthLink Scotland, we're offering an exciting summer programme of free media-based activities to young people who live in the regeneration areas of Aberdeen and have just left P7 or are at secondary school.

Sessions will run throughout the school holidays from July 7th.

Date added: 30/06/2021

We’re recruiting for eight key roles at shmu!

As one of the core cultural organisations in the region, we’re on a mission to use media to creatively transform lives. We’ve grown from strength to strength and have seriously big ambitions for our future. To realise these ambitions, we’re actively recruiting talented people for these key roles across the organisation.

Date added: 25/06/2021

We’re recruiting for eight key roles at shmu!

As one of the core cultural organisations in the region, we’re on a mission to use media to creatively transform lives. We’ve grown from strength to strength and have seriously big ambitions for our future. To realise these ambitions, we’re actively recruiting talented people for these key roles across the organisation.

Date added: 25/06/2021

shmu involved in 'Elliptical Readings' art project

shmuMEDIA have recently been involved in filming an interesting project which is a collaboration between Aberdeen’s Library Service and Aberdeen Art Gallery. 

‘Elliptical Readings’ involved the filming of nine people, each reading from selected books for 3 minutes in sequence. The piece, recorded as an artwork, focuses on the words and the hands of the readers. See the photo!

Date added: 23/06/2021

shmu featured in Education Scotland '100 stories of lockdown' publication

We were delighted to see an article about what our volunteers achieved for their communities make it into Education Scotland’s ‘What Scotland Learned, 100 stories of lockdown’ publication.

There were thousands of entries, so it's great to see some of their work make it into the top 100 - something positive to share and remember from the lockdown experience!

Date added: 09/06/2021

A brief history of shmuPRESS

During the Covid-19 outbreak the editorial volunteers and the shmu support team are working hard to continue to produce community magazines. We are aware of the important role our magazines have to play in circulating information as well as celebrating local communities and we want to continue to do this during these challenging times. 

Date added: 28/05/2021

Making Waves - New youth music project roles at shmu

shmu have been awarded Youth Arts Access Funds (via Creative Scotland) to deliver music making programmes for young people across our strands of work over 1 year. Update 01/06/2021: The deadline for notes of interest to be submitted for these roles has now passed.

Date added: 26/05/2021

Video: Foundation Apprenticeships at shmu: Kieran

shmu runs Foundation Apprenticeships in Creative and Digital Media and IT & Software Development for Aberdeenshire Council.

These programmes are becoming very popular and are an extremely useful way for senior school pupils to gain additional qualifications and work experience at the same time.

Date added: 07/04/2021

Create Express Transform: Meet the Tutors

We welcome Grace, Iona & Don to the shmuCREW!

Our new Create Express Transform project has now started. The project includes Music Makers and Songwriting courses for adults and we’d like to introduce you to the tutors who will be running them:

Date added: 31/03/2021