2009 Scotland

Carberry Towers

2009’s conference was held at Carberry Towers – a magnificent mansion steeped in history, dating back to the 15th century. It got its name from the tower which dominates the mansion and which is over 450 years old. It was first mentioned in the writings of the monks of Dunfermline Abbey in the 11th century

Everyone loved the place -  situated in 35 acres of landscaped parkland and just 20 minutes away from Edinburgh, the obvious destination for the traditional CEVMA outing. To crown it all – the weather was perfect!

Seminars:

Steven Faux lead a highly informative seminar on ‘music for your production’, and also providing the music for our worship sessions. His wide experience of composing and performing music for programmes including many BBC TV and Radio productions made his session particularly relevant.

Andrew Harrison lead a session on Directing from an actor’s point of view. Not only was Andy highly entertaining, but his perspective opened up issues hitherto unthought of by many directors, for instance the need to continually encourage and affirm your performers who are by nature insecure!

The Bible Talks were given  appropriately enough by our Scottish board member Crawford Telfer After 15 years with the BBC, he joined the Christian Television Association as its Director of  Programmes in 1985 where he has worked ever since.. The theme of his 4 talks was ‘Answering God’s call in difficult times’ – and these proved to be highly popular. They can be downloaded from this site.