Exciting news about the Unique Dyslexic Get Creative Celebration of Creativity event

 

Hello there blog readers

 

Just to keep you updated with the exhibition event:

 

The event is happening at Studio Room at the Rothes Halls on the 29th October. It starts at 12 noon finishes at 4pm. But the exhibition will be open to the public until 6pm.

 

Title: Unique Dyslexic Get Creative Celebration of Creativity

 

We have:

 
Provost Jim Leishman opening the event
 
Dr Ross Cooper as a key note speaker
 
Anita Govan dyslexic poet giving us a performance
 
Myself Steve McCue hosting the event
 
There will be over 70 images from the five Unique Dyslexic Get Creative workshops on display in the exhibition
 
Traditional Scottish music


My name is Stephen McCue and I am the founder of Dyslexia Pathways Community Interest Company and we are based here in Glenrothes in Fife. Since our foundation in 2009 we have secured contracts to provide dyslexia support services to two universities here in Scotland.  We have also worked with many organisations and individuals in the five years we have been trading including the Scottish Parliament.

 

As part of our social contract we have also provided free support, guidance and information on all things dyslexic to people here in Fife, across the UK and indeed all over the world.

 

Last year we embarked on a new project for us, “Unique Dyslexic Get Creative”. We secured funding from a number of sources including: The Big Lottery, Foundation Scotland, Community Trust Fife and Fife Community Learning Network.

 

The objectives of Unique Dyslexic Get Creative were to:

 

·  Support, promote and celebrate the creative talents of dyslexic individuals across the full range of creative spectrum

·  Promote and raise awareness of a more positive social model profile of dyslexia

·  Bring dyslexics from across Fife together to share their stories, develop their self confidence and self esteem. To do this we ran five free to access creative focussed workshops across the whole of Fife.

·   Develop a hub for all things dyslexic and creative for people to access and use from across Fife and the world. To do this we set up a social media hub and dedicated Unique Dyslexic website.

 

I believe we have achieved all our objectives and would like to inform you of some of the successes Unique Dyslexic Get Creative has had:

 

·  We organised and ran five creative workshops across Fife that were all well attended. Workshops took place in Lochgelly, Dunfermline, Anstruther and Cupar.

·  We received nothing but positive feedback from all participants of these workshops.

·  We have well over 600 followers on our Facebook and Twitter pages. We also have nearly 500 likes on our dedicated Unique Dyslexic Get Creative page and showcased the work of many creative dyslexics here in Fife, Scotland and other countries around the world

·  We have developed and launched a dedicated Unique Dyslexic Get Creative web site

·  We have raised awareness of the social model of dyslexia in the local press and radio

·  I am very proud of the achievements of Unique Dyslexic Get Creative over this last year and of myself and the other directors of Dyslexia Pathways CIC who all volunteered their time and energy to make it such a success.

 

 

 

 

 

We will be inviting people and organisations from across Fife and Scotland to attend this celebration to see for themselves what creative dyslexics can achieve as well as giving them an opportunity to promote their services.

 

There will also be an open invitation to the public to come and visit the event from 2pm onwards.

 

ta for taking the time to read this blog

 Steve McCue