Who's involved?

The centre for the contemporary arts will house Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen City Council’s Arts Development and Arts Education teams and provide CityMoves, the City’s contemporary dance agency, with new facilities. Both the University of Aberdeen and Robert Gordon University are also involved in the project, which will provide for them a city centre forum for civic engagement, knowledge transfer, research and presentation.

Arts Education Team

The strategic focus of the Arts Education Team is to challenge, develop, enhance, advise and monitor the way that arts, heritage and cultural activities take place in Aberdeen City's schools. The team aims to linking the best in arts, heritage and culture to education in City schools; co-ordinate the interface between policy and practice; make strategic links both locally and nationally; and successfully attract funds for arts & heritage projects in all City schools. website

Citymoves Dance Space

Citymoves is part of Neighbourhood Services (Central Area), providing a service throughout the City. The team co-ordinates a programme of community and specialist dance classes and workshops. Through its professional dance programme, supported by Scottish Arts Council Foundation funding citymoves supports local and visiting professional dance artists and companies, allowing them to teach, choreograph, create and platform new work professionally in Aberdeen and the North East. website

Arts Development Team

Arts Development is part of Neighbourhood Services (Central Area). The team co-ordinates a programme of visual arts, drama, music and new media projects for and with communities in the City, and delivers a bookable programme specialist workshops through it's city centre venue, WhiteSpace. 75% of the work of Arts Development is currently delivered in local venues and 25% at WhiteSpace.website

University of Aberdeen

• website general
• Centre for Modern Thought

Robert Gordon University

• website general
• Gray's School of Art