Big Lottery

Congratulations to everyone at CAOS as they have been invited by the Big Lottery fund to submit an application to the next round of funding. Moving on from this research and the great feedback from the Up Your Street event they are hoping to employ some permanant staff to really get the project off the ground.

Mapping Clydebank

Just in case you missed it last Saturday you can have another look at what the children and young people think of their area...



A big thank you to Y Sort-It and the CAOS playscheme for helping us.

The Event!

Here's just a small taster of what was happening on Saturday in the Clyde Shopping Centre.

Welcome to the new beautiful and colourful Clydebank with arms, legs, smiles, polka dots, glitter, flowers and lots of imagination! This is the Clydebank that local people built in our model shop on Saturday with lots of excitement and mess.

Hopes for the future - an exhibition about local people's hopes and dreams, on the day people also added their own.

Shoppers stop to read local writers' creative writing and poetry on the empty shops

Up Your Street got off to a crowd stopping start with the help of Celtic Spirit

Poetry readings in the performance space from Clydebank Writers


Sequence dancing with Linnvale Modern Sequence Dancing Class


Drumming, movement, singing and lots of enthusiasm from the Saturday music and drama group

Crowds watch in awe at 'Element' a local group of street dancers

Everyone had a brilliant time and we'd like to thank all our dedicated volunteers, the Clyde Shopping Centre, Brian from InShops and all the amazing staff in the Coop.

If you came along on Saturday please leave us a comment to let us know what you thought of it all - what was your favourite bit?

Y Sort It?

We spent Thursday night with Y Sort It's Dalmuir Youth Action Group looking at what they thought of their area and what they wanted for their futures. Their work, including a film and drawings will be on display at 'Up Your Street' next weekend, so if you want to see what they think come and check it out.

Up Your Street

Up Your Street - Community Arts Event

On the 14th June CAOS will be taking over the empty shops of Clydebank Shopping Centre. We've got a whole host of things in store including drumming, dance, films, music, poetry reading, exhibitions, photography, creative writing, making.

So come along and have a look, make a film, build a mini building, watch some performances, make a film, try some street dance and lots more!

We'll be in empty shops, an InShop unit and on the third floor of the Coop so look out for us between 10-5pm!

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If anyone's got a good idea for a name for the up and coming community arts event in Clydebank let us know by leaving a comment! Ideas so far: 'window shopping with CAOS' 'Up Your Street' 'Window Arts' - what do you think??

Clydebank's Got Talent!!

We are organising an event to celebrate community arts and to show the people of Clydebank what it's all about and to get them involved. As the shopping centre is such a central part of Clydebank we felt that it would be appropriate to hold the event there. We recently did a small piece of research in the lower section of the shopping centre asking people what they would like the event to be and we had over 200 people stop and talk to us within a space of 4hours. Therefore we're confident about the public's interest in such an event. The event will take place in a number of empty shop units in Clydebank shopping centre on 14th June.

We are looking for existing groups or individuals that would like to participate and show some of their work. That might be art works, photographs, textiles, sculpture, knitting, a dance piece, stand up comedy, a drama piece, music or singing. We're open for anything. We're also looking for films to display which have been made by local people and pieces of creative writing to print on shop fronts.

If you would be interested in showing something or volunteering on the day as an exhibition attendant or have any questions please email us at info@wearecurious.com .