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The Touring Network – Job Opportunity
The Touring Network are recruiting a Marketing & Development Manager with a diverse palette of marketing skills, a proven track record of income generation and a passion for arts and culture in Scotland. The Touring Network supports, represents and connects a...
read moreBEM for NEAT Volunteer Promoter
NEAT are very proud to share the news that one of our Volunteer Promoters, Mel Shand, has recently been awarded a BEM (British Empire Medal) in the Queens Honours List. Well done Mel! This is great news to start 2021 and we are very grateful for her hard work...
read moreFST Appoints New CEO
Federation of Scottish Theatre appoints Fiona Sturgeon Shea as the organisations new Chief Executive Officer Fiona will join Federation of Scottish Theatre as Chief Executive Officer in March of 2021, leaving her role as Creative Director of Playwrights’ Studio,...
read moreForgotten Heroines of the North East
A new book, sponsored by the Doric Board, from playwright and author Mike Gibb featuring five women from very different walks of life who were all born in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire. The book costs £5.99 and will come signed. Available from the likes of Yeadons in...
read moreDigging It
Digging It A new online Doric radio drama series by Euan Martin and Dave Smith Produced by North East Arts Touring Professor Bell has spent his career unearthing archaeological secrets, but one fabled artifact remains undiscovered: the Rhynie Quine's...
read moreNEAT’s Executive Director treads the boards again!
On World Theatre Day, Rapture Theatre launched Rapture Mini Bites a series of online, bite-sized performances. Every Friday they publish online performances of a reading, speech, poem, song or dance routine! The series is curated by Rapture’s Co-Artistic Director...
read moreProjectionists Have A Brighter Future
NEAT is one of four community groups across Aberdeenshire and Moray who are among the 24 projects from the Orkney Isles to Galashiels, to have received support from The National Lottery through Screen Scotland’s Cinema Equipment Fund towards the purchase of new...
read moreClashnettie Arts Centre For Rent
Clashnettie Arts Centre is a large bright art space remotely located on a hillside in rural Aberdeenshire Clashnettie Arts Centre is a large bright art space remotely located on a hillside in rural Aberdeenshire. It is next to the home of sculptor Helen Denerley who...
read moreCreative Writing Competition
Aberdeen Arts Centre are looking for original stories up to 500 words based on the theme MAGIC! These stories could quite literally be about potions, wands and spells, or you can encourage your little one to think about the magic all around us every day – family, our...
read moreSuccess For First Live Streaming
Our Young Promoters groups were excited to watch their first live streaming on Saturday 25 April. Aimed at young audiences, Common Lore was a fusion of rhythmic spoken word, digital projection, live-looped music and physical theatre. The young people tuned in via Zoom...
read moreAfter The Interval
Please help us by completing this online survey On March 16 we took the difficult decision to cancel all 64 events up until end of June 2020. Since 1985, NEAT has proudly served rural communities across the north east via a team of dedicated Volunteer Promoters. Now...
read moreOver 1,000 performances cancelled for rural communities across the UK due to virus.
Over a thousand professional performances for rural audiences with a combined value of nearly £300,000* have been cancelled as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic across the UK. That’s the figure that has been calculated by research conducted by the National Rural...
read moreNew Community Cinema Coordinator Appointed
Funding from Film Hub Scotland and A Cinema Near You (Regional Screen Scotland) has enabled us to appoint a new Community Cinema Coordinator. Marie Archer will join NEAT in March and will be responsible for developing our community cinema network and provide support...
read moreCinema Funding Awarded
We are pleased to announce that we have successfully secured funding from Film Hub Scotland and Regional Screen Scotland to support and develop our community cinema provision. Film Hub Scotland (FHS) As part of the BFI's Film Audience Network, Film Hub Scotland...
read moreCreative Scotland Appoints Chief Executive
Iain Munro has been appointed as the Chief Executive of Creative Scotland and will take up the post with immediate effect. Currently Acting Chief Executive of Creative Scotland, Iain was the successful candidate in a competitive recruitment process which involved a...
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‘In this digitalised age having live theatre in the local community is like a breath of fresh air and a reminder we are human….thank you NEAT’
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