Showcase Scotland, the important industry initiative which supports international cultural collaboration as part of Glasgow’s renowned music festival Celtic Connections, is this year partnering with Norway.
We’re inviting people involved in the visual arts and architecture to share their experience of, and hopes for the Scotland + Venice project. An initial survey is now open, with a deadline of 16 February.
Europe’s premier folk, roots and world music festival Celtic Connections opened in Glasgow on 18 January, for what will be one of its biggest-ever capacity programmes.
Scottish creative individuals and businesses are invited to apply to the Go See Share fund for small grants designed to increase their own and the sector’s financial sustainability.
The Scottish Government’s Youth Music Initiative (YMI) has provided over £1.5m of funding to 52 creative community projects engaging young people with music-making activities and opportunities across all of Scotland.
Further to our initial response to the publication of the Scottish Government’s Draft Budget for 2024/25, the Board of Creative Scotland met today, 20 December.
A total of £1,178,473 has been awarded to over fifty artists, practitioners, groups, projects and organisations across the length and breadth of Scotland with many initiatives seeking to bring forward underrepresented voices and perspectives.
Independent Venue Week (IVW), the UK’s annual 7-day celebration of independent music and arts venues and the people that own, run and work in them can reveal that Scottish superstar-in-waiting BROOKE COMBE and Welsh Music Prize runner-up L E M F R E C K as our final Ambassadors for 2024. (...)