Growing Leaders

Arts and culture are the sinews of society and cultural leaders ensure they remain at its heart. In a rural region like ours, cultural leaders often operate in isolation, lacking the opportunity to connect with their peers: emerging leaders have fewer chances to grow as leaders and may need to seek opportunities outwith the region. Growing Leaders seeks to address this through the following:

Leaders Unlimited

​​Leaders Unlimited is a bespoke experiential learning programme connecting existing and emerging leaders together: exploring leadership qualities, developing a range of new skills for the benefit of their personal and creative development and establishing a mutually supportive peer network across the region. Click HERE to meet our 2021 cohort.

Next Level

Next Level is a series of professional development webinars designed to help creative practitioners and cultural organisations take their creative practice and businesses to the next level.

Click HERE to see the full list of topics covered and to watch the webinars.

The Circuit

The Circuit is a quarterly forum and networking event bringing creative people together to contribute to Dumfries and Galloway's ongoing cultural conversation.

The format is simple: share a glass, break some bread, engage in a forum of discussion and network. Each forum will be hosted by DGU and have a guest speaker(s) for example, a recipient of an Innovate Create Cultivate award describing the impact of the award on their professional development. Participants will share, celebrate, learn and connect with fellow practitioners.

The Circuit will encourage awareness and potential collaborations across and between artforms. They will be relaxed, fun and informative. 

Click HERE to see a recording of the most recent edition of The Circuit.