Last week the Cross Party Group on Culture met to discuss A Culture Strategy for Scotland. Following on from this, please find below a note from Scottish Government colleagues:

Dear colleagues,

Thank you for an interesting and productive meeting at the Cross Party Group on Culture on 5 September.  We really appreciate your ideas, views and the enthusiasm for what a Culture Strategy can achieve.

Please find below some information about the current engagement phase of the development of a Culture Strategy for Scotland. We hope these are just a few of the many ways you, and your peers, colleagues and communities can feed into the conversation.

Our Resource Pack to support stakeholders hosting their own discussions around the Culture Strategy for Scotland, along with details of our planned public engagement events in Paisley, Dumfries & Galashiels have now been published on our website.

• Paisley’s Culture Conversation in partnership with Renfrewshire Council, will be held in Brough Hall at Paisley Campus, University of the West of Scotland, on Tuesday 19 September 1-3pm
• Dumfries’ Culture Conversation in Partnership with the Stove Network, will be held at The Stove, Dumfries on Tuesday 26 September 5-7pm
• Galashiels’ Culture Conversation in partnership with Live Borders, will be held in the Transport Interchange, Galashiels on Wednesday 27 September 12.30-2.30pm

Details of further events will be confirmed and added to our webpages in due course.

To find out more about the culture strategy and how to get involved, email culturestrategy@gov.scot, you can also share your views on Twitter by mentioning @culturescotgov and using the hashtag #scotlandscultureconversation, or get involved in our online discussion forum.

Thank you and we hope to hear from you soon.

Kind regards,

The Culture Strategy team

Information courtesy of Cross Party Group on Culture email update.

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