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One of Scotland\u2019s leading performing arts promoton charites has reached a new milestone in its 28- year history.<\/p>\nOne of Scotland\u2019s leading performing arts promoton charites has reached a new milestone in its 28- year history.<\/p>\n
Marie Lewis, who is currently Producer and Finance Manager of SEALL, based in the south of Skye, is taking over the positon as Creative Director, held by Duncan MacInnes for almost three decades.<\/p>\n
Sixty-nine-year-old Duncan, who began promotng performing arts in the south of the Island in the late 1980s, has gone on to receive a number of prestgious awards during his lengthy service to the Sleat community. In July he received his greatest honour to date: an MBE from the Queen for his services to the arts.<\/p>\n
Duncan said: \u201cSEALL is in a very excitng place now.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe charity was started in 1991 with a group of like-minded volunteers running a few events each year in various south Skye venues.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow with the on-going and increasing support of many people on Skye, I am delighted that SEALL has become a leader in rural touring events in the UK. We have created four cultural jobs for the area and I am confdent that SEALL is a strong and sustainable organisaton.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis has led to many new ideas and a grander vision for SEALL, so I am delighted to hand over a project that is in the very good hands of Marie Lewis as the new Creative Director.”<\/p>\n
Marie, who lives in the north of the Island, will take the helm of the Sleat-based organisaton in November.<\/p>\n
Marie said: \u201cDuncan\u2019s decision to retre this year is a very important juncture in the history of SEALL.<\/p>\n
\u201cDuncan has done such a great job in bringing quality performing arts to the Sleat community for almost three decades and I am eager to carry on this good work across the Island and into an excitng new future for SEALL.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are already forming new partnerships and forging important new relatonships with individuals and organisatons at a local, natonal and internatonal level and I look forward to programming some amazing events in venues across our communites for our year-round touring programme, The Skye Festval and the SEALL Festval of Small Halls.<\/p>\n
\u201cSEALL is very much a community-orientated organisaton with an ambiton to extend our reach right across the Islands of Skye and Raasay. The voice of the communites is all important to us and I should be really delighted to hear what people have to say in terms of what kind of performances they would like to see in their venues.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are also always on the look-out for new board members too. Anyone who is interested in the future of performing arts on Skye is asked to please get in touch and help us take SEALL forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
The hand-over will take place during SEALL\u2019s AGM on 19 November and anyone interested in becoming a board member is asked to contact SEALL on 01471 844207 or email info@seall.co.uk<\/p>\n
SEALL chair, Rosie MacDonald, said: \u201cDuncan has been such a great asset to the Sleat community over the past 28 years and we have been so fortunate to have the beneft of his experience, vision and passion for the arts.<\/p>\n
\u201cThrough SEALL, he has brought a wealth of excellent quality music, theatre, flm, literature and dance to the area, unusual in such a small rural locaton. The organisaton has become very well respected and well-known among performing artsts and other arts organisatons throughout the UK, due in no small part to uncan\u2019s ability to network and fy the fag for SEALL<\/p>\n
\u201cDuncan is retring from SEALL but he won\u2019t be far away and will continue to work on SEALL\u2019s archive, which documents the organisaton since its incepton.\u201d<\/p>\n
Marie joined SEALL in October 2016 as part of the organisatonns succession planning.<\/p>\n
Rosie added: \u201cMarie is equally enthusiastc about performing arts and cut her teeth as Creaitve Director in 2018, having responsibility for organising and programming the SEALL Festval of Small Halls. This was a new winter festval for SEALL and was a great success.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is anticipated that Marie will expand on this success and take the arts further to additonal venues on Skye and Raasay, thereby contnuing SEALL\u2019s traditon of providing our rural communites with some excellent entertainment.\u201d<\/p>\n
SEALL\u2019s 2019 annual general meetng takes place in Se\u0300omar hruinneachaidh, Sabhal Mo\u0300r Ostaig, on Tuesday 19 November at 7.30pm. All welcome<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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