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Spotlight - Back to School
The YMI Formula Fund sees funding distributed directly to all local authorities in Scotland to support in-school delivery of music making activities. As well as having a focus on providing pupils with their first experiences music making, the fund also supports music making in non-mainstream settings, such as special schools, and with groups of young people who would not normally have the opportunity to participate in meaningful, quality music making opportunities.
7 September 2021
Spotlight - Glittery Bums and Glasgow sun: a blog from Shobhita at Ensemble
A spotlight on Ensemble, the award-winning Glasgow based project funded by Creative Scotlandâs Youth Music Initiative and run by Wheatley Care. The project has launched a brand new music video for the fourth single âGlittery Bums (feat. The Sistas, Clare McBrien, Jonnie Common)â from their debut album âNo Place Like Itâ.
10 August 2021
Spotlight on Findhorn Bay Arts, celebrating creativity with young music makers from Moray
Since 2012, Findhorn Bay Arts has been âmaking creative things happenâ in Moray and beyond. In this Spotlight piece for the Youth Music Initiative, find out more about their project In the Mix.
5 July 2021
Spotlight on Nevis Ensemble's Young Carer's project
For this monthâs spotlight Nevis Ensemble Chief Executive, Jamie Munn writes about their recent Young Carerâs project which will tie in with Carerâs Week (7-13 June).
3 June 2021
Spotlight on hip hop artist Jackill
Aberdeenshire YMI have been working with local hip hop artist Jackill for 3 years to deliver a hip hop project to primary schools and two groups of young people at risk of exclusion from mainstream secondary education in the north of Aberdeenshire. Jackill writes here about why he believes hip hop is such an important tool for learning.
17 May 2021
Arts Culture Health and Wellbeing Scotland
We spoke to Robbie and Claire from Arts Culture Health and Wellbeing Scotland about the network and why it's such an important community to become a part of.
13 May 2021
Scotland's jazz
30 April is UNESCO International Jazz Day. This year, 20 of Scotlandâs finest jazz artists will celebrate the occasion at jazzahead!, the industryâs leading international tradefair event.
26 April 2021
Northwords Now
The newly launched website of the literary publication Northwords Now allows access to read (and now hear) prose and poetry in English, Scots and Gaelic and to writing that reflects lives and experiences in the North of Scotland.
21 April 2021
Meeting Points - a collaboration with The Work Room and Tanzbüro München
We speak to dance artists and Work Room members Rob Heaslip and Tamsyn Russell about their experience of the Meeting Points project in collaboration with Tanzbüro München.
25 March 2021
Spotlight on Tinderbox PlayAway Games Festival
For this monthâs spotlight Tinderbox Collective Project Manager, Musical Director and freelance Games Composer Luci Holland writes about Scotlandâs games music industry.
11 March 2021
International Opportunities - September Round Up
Welcome to the September edition of Creative Scotlandâs round-up of international opportunities and information, put together by Kate Deans, Creative Scotlandâs newly appointed International Officer.
10 September 2021
International Opportunities - July Round Up
Welcome to Creative Scotlandâs new round-up of international opportunities and information! In this blog, we cover events on outgoing mobility, funding opportunities, international policy and useful resources.
23 July 2021
Time to Shine - an update on development work
When it launched in November 2013, Time to Shine was Scotlandâs first national youth arts strategy. It set out a 10-year-vision for the future of youth arts in Scotland, one in which children and young people are put at the heart of the decision-making process.Now, in 2021, we all find ourselves working in a very different context to the one in which the strategy was launched.Â
12 July 2021
An end of year message from our CEO, Iain Munro
As the year draws to a close, read this message from our CEO, Iain Munro.
15 December 2020
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Iain Munro writes on the impact of the Black Lives Matter movement and Creative Scotlandâs commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.
16 June 2020
Dreaming Big Dreams: Children's Literature in Scotland
Mairi Kidd is Head of Literature, Languages and Publishing at Creative Scotland. Here she talks about the landscape of children's literature in Scotland.
10 January 2020
How the SoundPlay Dome encourages exploration and experimentation through music
With support from Creative Scotland's See Learn Share Fund, Ellie Turner shares her experience of learning more about the Soundplay Dome. Ellie is a designer of interactive materials and objects.
23 July 2019
Playing politics in Scotland: The potential of theatre to involve people in the decisions that affect their lives
How can theatre empower people to have their say? With the help of Creative Scotlandâs See Learn Share Fund, Active Inquiryâs Artistic Director Gavin Crichton explores how participatory theatre can enable people to have a deeper say in the decisions that affect their lives.
18 July 2019
Digital technology and dance: Does motion capture offer an alternative to film?
With support from the See Learn Share fund, Julia McGhee and Fraser MacDonald have begun a new collaboration together and carried out the background work for a six month proof of concept project called Perception Experiments, which aims to use motion capture technology to map the movement qualities of young people who have learning and physical disabilities.
5 July 2019
Helping regularly funded organisations tackle climate change
From double glazing and thermal curtains to smarter travel and forming Green Teams, this guest post by Creative Carbon Scotland explores some of the ways in which the 121 organisations in our Regular Funding Network 2018-21 are working to reduce their carbon footprints.
31 January 2019