Tag: Creative Scotland

Dance providers across Scotland are offering free taster Get Dancin' dance classes in January, as part of the nationwide Get Scotland Dancing campaign to inspire more people to get active and participate in dance. Get Dancin' offers opportunities for people...

 Scotland’s first national arts strategy for young people launched todayYouth arts to receive £5million over next two yearsTime To Shine, Scotland’s arts strategy for young people aged 0–25, was launched today by Fiona Hyslop,...

Youth Theatre Arts Scotland – a new name and patron for Promote YTThe national development organisation for youth theatre arts in Scotland is changing its name: from Promote YT to Youth Theatre Arts Scotland from...

Recruitment for two new Director posts at Creative Scotland is now in progress.The posts being advertised are:Director of Funding Operations Director of FinanceThe closing date for applications is midnight Sunday 10 November 2013.Creative Scotland say:-"These senior...

In July this year Janet Archer was appointed CEO at Creative Scotland following the departure of Andrew Dixon at the end of last year.  Ms Archer had been a Director at Arts Council England...

New funding to improve Edinburgh arts and cultural facilities Assembly Roxy, Stills, Edinburgh Contemporary Crafts, Drake Music Scotland, Take one Action Film Festival have received funding from Creative Scotland as part of a national programme...

URBAN HORROR FILM CITADEL IS RELEASED IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE TODAY! Ciarán Foy’s debut feature film urban horror flick CITADEL is released this Friday 12 July 2013. Written and directed byCiarán Foy, based on his own personal experiences of...

Walking With Poets is a Scottish Poetry Library, Royal Botanic Garden and Cove Park residency project in which four poets will take up month-long writing and walking residency at all four of Scotland's Botanic Gardens in Royal Botanic...

Winners announced today, at an Awards Ceremony at the The Byre Theatre, St AndrewsCreative Scotland announced the winners of the country’s Creative Place Awards today which includes a £50,000 award to Pathhead for their music...

Edinburgh's Mysterious Book Sculptures return for homecoming exhibition following tour of ScotlandThe beautiful literary sculptures are to be exhibited together at The Scottish Poetry Library for the first Book Week Scotland on 24 November...

Scotland’s arts and creative industries sectors add more than £3.2 billion to the country’s economy, according to new research published today.The research, jointly commissioned by Creative Scotland and Scottish Enterprise, also identifies direct employment...

Picture by Gareth Easton PhotographyIt seems only yesterday we were at a star studded awards ceremony in Edinburgh’s Lyceum Theatre hearing the results of the Scottish Children’s Book Awards 2011, but actually it was...

Twenty titles shortlisted for Scotland’s largest literary prize Twenty authors have been shortlisted to win £30,000 in the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards 2012, in partnership with Creative Scotland. Spread across four categories - Fiction,...

Creative Scotland and Nesta are today calling for ideas that could contribute to the development of a hyperlocal media sector. (We find this news very exciting indeed!)The call is part of a major new...

Massive 3D projections of famous Scottish quotations will illuminate George Street and Rose Street this March as part of Edinburgh’s new initiative. The project, named ‘enLIGHTen’, is led by The City of Literature Trust...

This year’s Middle Eastern Film Festival, a partnership between the Middle East Festival, Edinburgh International Festival of Middle Eastern Spirituality and Peace , and the Filmhouse with support from Creative Scotland, runs from 6...

The Edinburgh Lectures 2012 series has announced one of its best ever line-ups to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of this long running lecture programme.Illustrious speakers such as Kate Adie, Lord David Puttnam, His Holiness...

Movie Magic in a Box is an animated film which takes you behind the scenes to see the 8½ Foundation’s Catherine Payton wrapping the 2000th film on DVD to be sent to an 8½ year-old child...

The City Art Centre is hosting two exhibitions over the Christmas and New Year period.The Edinburgh Reporter spoke to tapestry artist, Fiona Hutchison, who has work which will be displayed in both shows. "I've...

Creative Scotland and The City of Edinburgh Council have this week announced new funding to support a strategy for developing the city’s creative enterprises. The heart of the plan is the revival of Creative Edinburgh,...

Scotland is set to establish its first National Conservation Centre for training young people in traditional building skills. The centre will be based in Stirling and the announcement was made earlier today by Culture Secretary...

Creative Scotland is delighted to announce that award winning poet and author, Jackie Kay, has been awarded the 2011 Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book of the Year, in partnership with Creative Scotland, for her...

Several local bands will grace our screens tonight in an hour long BBC documentary about the South by Southwest Festival, which took place back in March in Austin, Texas.  Called Artworks: Scotland Rocks at SXSW, the programme...

Four talented authors, including one who is Edinburgh-based, have been shortlisted for Scotland’s largest literary prize, the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book of the Year Award, in partnership with Creative Scotland. Stewart Conn who lives...

A major networking event aimed at promoting sporting and cultural opportunities in the Capital is being held on Wednesday.Representatives from Creative Scotland, EventScotland, Edinburgh Voluntary Organisations Council and BBC Screen will mingle with around...

ATOM TOWN: LIFE AFTER TECHNOLOGY (2011) → A film by Gair DunlopArtist Gair Dunlop had unprecedented access to the Dounreay Atomic Research Establishment and to the UKAEA Archive at Harwell over two years, allowing...

Four talented British writers have been awarded the 2011 Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship.Based at the Hotel Chevillon International Arts Centre, Grez-sur-Loing, France the Fellowship allows the writers to take time out of their usual...

Children from Shatila, a Palestinian Refugee Camp in Beirut, will perform Peter Mortimer’s fable, Croak, the King and a Change in the Weather, on Wednesday 6 April at The Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh.Croak, the...

Arts, screen and creative industries development agency Creative Scotland today announced it has secured significant partnerships with the country’s major broadcasters. BBC Scotland, Channel 4, STV and MG Alba have each agreed a programme of...

The expertise of Scotland's new Makar, Liz Lochhead, will be harnessed to promote Scottish literature at home and internationally as proposals to boost literature and publishing got the go ahead today.Responding to the Literature...