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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 Women's Day
This International Women's Day, we give a shout out to some of the incredible women and women-centred activities we've supported over the past year.
5 March 2021
Behind the scenes of songwriting collective Hen Hoose
Hen Hoose is an all female and non-binary songwriting collective, founded by Tamara Schlesinger and supported through the Open Fund. We spoke to Tamara and two Hen Hoose Writers, Amandah Wilkinson and Suse Bear, to find out more about how the collective got started and what's next.
28 January 2021
Celtic Connections 2021
In light of the current situation across the world, the Celtic Connections team have put together a digital-first festival for 2021 - and they're here to tell you all about it!
16 December 2020
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
Martin O'Connor: Change anything that makes it better to play
Theatre maker and participatory artist Martin O'Connor reflects on ideas of risk and play inspired by the latest Creative Learning event from Creative Scotland. Tassos Stevens from Coney invites to play a series of games that asks us to question our own sense of playfulness, participation and rule-making.
28 January 2019
Imaginate's Paul Fitzpatrick: How IPAY put the spotlight on Scotland's work for young audiences
Imaginate's Chief Executive Paul Fitzpatrick reflects on the power of the Scottish presence at IPAY 2019 - the International Performing Arts for Youth showcase event in Philadelphia.
25 January 2019
Help us investigate radical approaches to childcare for creatives
We're inviting representatives from the arts and creative industries in Scotland to join us on a fully-funded research trip to Birmingham in April 2019 to explore innovative solutions to flexible childcare.
18 January 2019