Previous Workshops

Lizzie McDougal talking about the tradition of story telling through quilting. An old Scottish tradition.

Went the day well at the Unique Dyslexic & Neuro Diverse communities Get Creative Celebration of Creativity

October 29th 2014 saw the first Unique Dyslexic & Neuro Diverse communities Get Creative Celebration of Creativity event. It was the culmination of Unique Dyslexic & Neuro Diverse communities Get Creative.

Has to have been the hardest days work, most enjoyable, most joy full and most stressful day of my life. I am so proud of everyone who was involved in this project.

This was the first event of this kind to be held is Scotland and the UK. Organised and run by the first dyslexia focussed social enterprise to be constituted in the UK Dyslexia Pathways Community Interest Company.

I thank everyone, every participant of every workshop, my wife, my directors, The Lord Provost, Ross Cooper, Anita Govan Siannie Moodie and Lizzie Mcdougall, all the artists and everyone of the 60 or so people who came along to the event through out the whole day and making it such a great day.

We had people coming through the door even when we were closing down the event.

The Lord Provost of Fife opening the event. We at Dyslexia Pathways CIC and Unique Dyslexic & Neuro Diverse communities Get Creative have found a new friend in the Provost. He showed a keen interest in what we did and achieved over the last year

A few pictures of me opening the event, have to say I was very nervous and I actualLy threw away all my prepared notes and made it up as I went along LOL

A few pictures of Ross Cooper giving us his key note speech. I think everyone I talked to was inspired by what he had to say about dyslexia, being dyslexia positive and challenging the old medical model of dyslexia. For me it was good to hear someone else saying what I have been since about dyslexia since I founded Dyslexia Pathways CIC just over 5 years ago.

I have some film content from the day including film of Anita Govan and Siannie Moodie performing which I will add in the next blog. I will also be adding them to our youtube page.

The next few photos are of Lizzie who, with her beautiful quilt told us some of her aural stories. Stories which have been passed on generation after generation for over at least 800 years or more.

Watch this space for Unique Dyslexic & Neuro Diverse communities Celebration of Creativity number 2 next in 2015 where we have a bigger and better event.

Remember you can still get involved in Unique Dyslexic & Neuro Diverse communities by sending us any photos, film, poetry anything creative with us on out Facebook page:

I have updated our Unique Dyslexic & Neuro Diverse communities android app which I designed and built with info and photos from the event also.

This workshop was an introduction into basic music creation, recording and editing techniques. Participants were welcome to bring along any musical instruments they played, but did not need to have musical instrument or experience of playing a musical instrument to take part and have fun in this workshop. Participants had access to two recording set ups as well as microphones and synthesizers. Music tracks could also be composed and recorded using music sampling software that enabled participants to write a track in a style and genre of their choosing.