Creative Scotland

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💡 Our funding application portal my.creativescotland.com will be undergoing essential updates from 12pm to 5pm on Monday 17 March. During this time, the portal will be temporarily unavailable and you will not be able to access or submit funding application forms on the site. If you have any questions or concerns, for example, about an impact on project dates, our enquiries team are here to help. Please contact enquiries@creativescotland.com. Thank you for your patience and understanding and we are sorry for any inconvenience caused.

Working or volunteering with a third sector organisation in the UK? Enhance your digital skills with The Curve, a series of free, 90-minute online workshops designed to boost your digital capabilities and increase your organisation's impact. Coming up ✨ Website Project Myths and Must-Knows: A Charity’s Guide to Success 🗓️ April 4, 2025 ⏰ 10am to 11:30am Planning a new website or redesign? Join the Third Sector Lab team to navigate the complexities of website projects with confidence. All workshops are led by leading experts and provide an opportunity to learn best digital practices, raise awareness of digital tools, and ultimately help increase your organisation's impact with digital. You can also view recordings of previous workshops on demand. These workshops are open to anyone working or volunteering with a third sector organisation in the UK. All workshops are free to attend. Link in comments ⬇️

✨ Exciting news from the Scottish Classical Sustainability Group, who have been listening to musicians - over 115 of them! - to find out how they feel about international travel and how we can make touring greener. Established in 2020, the Scottish Classical Sustainability Group was created to bring together Scotland’s classical music sector to promote sustainability, share best practice, learn and act as one to navigate the challenges of the climate emergency. Recognising how important musicians' perspectives are, they captured those experiences in a recent survey, with participants from the classical sector, but also from folk, jazz, pop, electronic, and punk backgrounds. Their findings are full of insight, inspiration, and practical ideas for a more sustainable future in music 🎶 Key findings include: 💡 Organisations should be encouraged to include musicians in their sustainability planning, and musicians should initiate conversations about sustainable approaches with the organisations they work with. 💡 Those surveyed reported that international travel was important for their job satisfaction, but over 54% said they wanted to fly less for work. 💡 Carbon emissions factor into travel decisions for the majority (60%) but it’s usually practical things like time and money that make the final decision. Younger people are more likely to always consider travel emissions in their travel decisions. Read the full report at the link in the comments 🔗 #SustainableTouring #ClassicalMusic #EnvironmentalSustainability #CreativeIndustries #Scotland Culture for Climate Scotland

Join youth theatre, creative learning, and teaching professionals from across Scotland for a practical skills development event from ✨ 🗓️ 5 and 6 April 2025 🗺️ Lanternhouse, South Kildrum Ring Road, Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, G67 2UF 🎟️ Tickets are free and available at the link in comments

10 projects have been selected to receive funding from Shetland Arts Development Agency's Creative Shetland Commissioning Fund. 💚 Aidan Nicol's O Da Bog is an edible art, film and science collaboration offering a visually exciting, approachable and interactive experience of the cultural and environmentally significant features of blanket bogs. 🩷 Austin Taylor will undertake a 5-Day Photography Short Course with University of the Arts, London, designed to recalibrate photography practice. 💜 Shetland-based musicians and composers David Boyter (Eyland project) and Lana Elaine Smith (Herkja) are collaborating to create a new body of instrumental music in Hinna (to have time to). 💙 Garbanzo is a one-woman multidisciplinary comic-feminist work originated by Emily Briggs, a movement and theatre artist from Shetland, designed to be performed in casual spaces such as bars, restaurants and small venues and ready for its second phase of development. 🧡 Inspired by the Shetland Bumble Bee, a community woodland and the ideas of Joseph Beuys (German sculptor and performance artist, 1921 – 1986), Helen Robertson’s Bee Art will combine art, craft, community, performance and installation in a Social Sculpture. ❤️ Shetland Story Slams and Spoken-word Storytelling Workshops from Liz Musser and Ruth Oliver aims to connect community through an open-mic event, with storytelling Workshops held before the Slam. 🖤 Muir is Tir is a multi-artform residency that will be run in partnership between An Lanntair and Sail Britain, led by Project Curator, artist and islander Jon Macleod, and based on the Gaelic sea-lore book, of the same name by George Macleod. 💛 FELT is a workshop and exhibition project building on work Lydia May Hann undertook in Oslo, Norway, and will involve a series of wetfelting workshops celebrating communal labour and joy in childish things, resulting in sculptures celebrating the diversity of Shetland sheep and Shetland people. 💜 Both Shetland-based creatives, Peter Ratter is a published poet and Magnus Stout is a musician, and their project ‘Ptolemy’ will set several of Peter’s works to music with the ultimate goal of creating a multimedia performance. 🩵 Suzanne Briggs will be undertaking training to become a licensed Singing Mamas leader and offer sessions in Shetland Following their successful funding bid to Creative Scotland, Shetland Arts are also currently planning to introduce a 3-year commissioning programme by the end of the summer. 📸 Images courtesy of the artists and Shetland Arts

Lovely news from The Work Room, who recently announced the final project awarded funding from their BEYOND programme's 2025 cycle. South Asian Dance Festival by Nikhita Devi, Oxana Banshikova and Prathiksha Ravoor now plan to host a taster event to introduce participants to a range of South Asian music and dance styles and share their love for South Asian Arts through a day of workshops, performances and conversation. Find out more about their plans and the BEYOND programme at: https://lnkd.in/ejw8j3ud

The Scottish Enterprise Leadership Academy aims to give you the skills and capability to grow globally competitive organisations. You can explore customised programmes designed to expand your knowledge and get the most out of your team, such as: ✨ Essential Leadership ✨ Growth Leadership ✨ Managing People for Growth ✨ Leading with Change Find out more: https://lnkd.in/eFQ8fekP

Fifteen Scots language projects have received funding from The National Lottery, delivered by Hands Up for Trad, to support creative events across the country in many dialects of Scots 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🪩 From Shetland, Claire White an Robbie Leask have been funded for Da She in Shetland, a multi-media concert planned for the Scottish International Storytelling Festival in October 2025 🎤 In the Black Isle, a funded project called Auchies Spikkin' Auchie will produce a live music performance in the village ✍️ In the Highlands, Eden Court Theatre have been supported to continue their bilingual writing competition Scrìobh | Scrieve 🗣️ Wyvin Wyes, produced by Kate Wilson, will visit craft groups, recording Doric voices as spoken in communities today and for Doric ABC, Jackie Ross of Doric Books will lead singing events in care homes, engaging Doric speakers in creativity and conversation in their dialect. 🎭 In Huntly, Lucy Beth will bring a double-bill of live Scots language theatrical performances to the new creative space in the town, Number 30. 🎙️ In Perthshire, celebrated poet Jim C. Mackintosh will produce a podcast in Scots sharing some of the finest stories, songs and poems, and released in collaboration with Scots Radio. 🧟 In Dundee, successful Scots Language performance night Blether has been funded for the second year in a row, and Erin Farley and Lynne Campbell's FEIRT, a 50 minute performance, will highlight the horror that lies in the heart of the Scottish landscape. 🎶 Fife-based writer and broadcaster Billy Kay has been funded to work with Galloway singer Robyn Stapleton to tour a Scots song and story event to book festivals around the country in 2025. 🎉 In North-Lanarkshire, Scots language literary festival Gie It Laldy! will be established, hosted by and in North Lanarkshire Libraries 💃 Edinburgh’s Sick Children’s Hospital will host The Roarie Bumlers, a music song and dance project in Scots for children in the hospital. 🌆 Scots Singer of the Year Beth Malcolm will work with musician Dorian Cloudsley to record and release a new Scots work exploring the legacy of Charles Darwin in Edinburgh 🎻 Ayrshire singer/songwriter Seán Gray has been funded to create work putting the Scots poetry of Alex Barrowman and John Hassett to music and turning them into songs for performance 🗞️ A the Airts will host Kris Haddow’s funded project, a creative satirical show called 'Haud The Bus, a Nicht o Satire in Scots' based on his columns in the local paper. Get the hale story: https://lnkd.in/gfGyuu_v

Deadline extended to 10 March 📣 You've got a few extra days to apply for CultureXcelerator, offering creative organisations up to four days of tailored coaching, and strategic and practical advice to support you in navigating your current challenges ⬇️