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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...

Across the Grain festival returns for a second year with almost 100 events and performances. NEAT are pleased to be supporting two performances by Iona Fyfe as part of this year's festival. Thursday 10 October 7:30pm Collieston Community Centre Friday 11 October...

The Visual Artists and Craft Makers Award scheme (VACMA) is a programme of small grants for creative practitioners living in Aberdeenshire. The scheme is run by our Arts team in partnership with Creative Scotland and provides awards of between £500 and £1500. Funds...

27th September 2019. A Culture Café was held this week in Roseisle to give people a chance to hear about the great work being done by artists who were awarded bursaries last year. During the Moray Artist Bursary Culture Café event, this year’s awards scheme was also...

After a year of fundraising, in 2018 the Barn celebrated the delivery of over £200k for some well needed improvements to the foyer and box office areas, as well as the development of neighbouring sheds to create a new craft store and workshop space to showcase local...

After a glitzy awards ceremony at the Hi-VIS: NRTF Conference 2019, held in Bangor, Wales 2 – 4 July 2019. National Rural Touring Forum is delighted to announce the winners of Rural Touring Awards 2019. Hosting the awards was Kate Fox, stand up poet, who was joined by...

Fire Exit theatre company has announced it will close permanently at the end of June 2019, after 17 years. This follows Creative Scotland’s decision last year to cut the company’s funding completely. Artistic Director David Leddy plans to stop making theatre and...

We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded two year funding from the Young Start National Lottery Community fund to continue and develop of our  Young Promoters Scheme. The initiative is aimed at young people aged 13 – 25 years; enabling them to programme...

Dumfries & Galloway Arts Festival takes centre stage as Scotland’s largest rural performing arts festival celebrates its 40th Anniversary, opening a programme of 50 events across 34 regional venues from this Friday 24th May until Sunday 2nd June. The 40th...

RISE 2019 is Moray’s annual contemporary dance festival held at the Universal Hall in Findhorn. From Friday 3 to Sunday 5 May, audiences will be treated to the best in contemporary dance and performance from Scotland and across the globe. This year the programme has a...