Meanbh-Chuileag
The Meanbh-chuileag team is the theatre-in-education (TIE) project administered by Fèisean nan Gaidheal. Over the course of the year 2005-2006 Meanbh-chuileag ran 30 workshops for 500 children, and 35 schools performances for 572 children. The successful partnership with the National Trust for Scotland and Historic Scotland has gone from strength to strength, and additionally work has been carried out with other organisations including Comunn na Gàidhlig.
Funding for their theatre-in-education (TIE) work was made available through Bòrd na Gàidhlig and the Scottish Arts Council, with additional funds raised through pieces of work undertaken in schools and for other organisations.
During the course of 2005-06 extra funding was secured to allow us to deliver a 10-week programme of Gaelic medium TIE in 2006-07, which will be led by Douglas Beck. He will be working closely with a number of other organisations to build up a network of drama Fèisean in 2006-07, building on the success of Fèis Òigridh Ghlaschu, the Ross-shire Gaelic drama festival held in Ullapool in February, and the Argyll drama festival staged in June.
