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Welcome to your July newsletter

It's a month of opportunities, with funds opening for youth music, youth arts, and touring theatre and dance, as well as mentoring for pivoting towards digital ways of working.

We've also got some online sessions now available to book onto, so you can find out more about the redevelopment coming to the Open Fund for Individuals application process.

Read on for all this and more!

Learn more about the redeveloped Open Fund for Individuals application process

A young man plays guitar while wearing headphones and another sits at a laptop tracking his playing

YMI Access to Music Making and Strengthening Youth Music funds now open for applications

Digital Pivot open for applications for mentoring support to explore a more digitally based practice

Hay bales in a golden field against a moody dark blue sky

53 projects supported in the latest round of the Open Fund: Sustaining Creative Development

HANG A new Event for Scotland's hip hop and grime communities - 31 July 2021 - 12:00 - 22:00 - ONLINE and SWG3 - officialsama.com/hang

Tomorrow! HANG, Scotland's first hip hop and grime conference, takes place online

Two aerial performers hang upside down on giant swings in a park setting

Touring Fund for Theatre and Dance: New funds available for touring live theatre and dance from Summer 2022

We've published our 2021-22 Annual Plan, including a summary programme of our work across the year and updated Strategic Framework

Seven creative businesses from across Scotland have been selected to participate in the Stay, See, Share initiative

Applications now open to the Youth Arts Bursaries, supporting early career artists and creative practitioners aged 18-24

We've published a new round-up of international opportunities and information, including events, funding, policy and resources

Read the Selling Platforms for Art, Craft and Design in Scotland report

Listen to the latest Scottish releases in our July playlist

Writer Helen Sedgwick has been appointed as the 2021 Dr Gavin Wallace Fellow

The National Library of Scotland has announced the appointment of Alison Miller in the role of Orkney Scriever

Edinburgh Art Festival is now open - discover what's on

This month's funding deadline highlights are the Youth Arts Bursaries, the Translation Fund, and the Creative Wellbeing Fund.

The Youth Arts Bursaries provide opportunities for arts and creative organisations, so that they can support early-career artists and creative practitioners aged 18-24 in the arts, screen and creative industries.

Find out more about the Youth Arts Bursaries

The Translation Fund supports publishers based outside the UK with fees to translate Scottish writers. Priority given to contemporary literature, inc. fiction, non-fiction, poetry, writing for children and graphic novels.

Visit the Publishing Scotland website

The Creative Wellbeing Fund supports schools to improve learner wellbeing by working in partnership with a creative partner.

Learn more about the fund

For the full list of upcoming funding deadlines, visit our website.

Visit the funding deadlines page

Connecting Scotland's creative community through the Opportunities website

We've got over 600 jobs, workshops, funds, awards, residencies and other professional development opportunities for the arts, screen and creative industries. You can also advertise your own opportunities for free.

Visit the Opportunities website

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Image credits

Open Fund recipients - SOIL project image by Susie Goodwin
YMI Funds - Image credit: Findhorn Bay Arts
Touring Fund - Previously supported through the Touring Fund - The Swings (Credit Suzanne Heffron)

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