Arts at the heart of Young Scots Fund
A National Centre for Youth Arts is to be established with a £5m investment from the Scottish Government’s £50m…
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CPD for all at RSNO
An award worth over £200,000 from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation will enable the Royal Scottish National Orchestra to run a new…
Smoke and mirrors
The Scottish Government’s Spending Review and Draft Budget for 2012/13 contains some difficult news for the arts, both directly…
Culture funding survives the worst of Scotland’s budget cuts
Standstill funding faces Scotland’s National Performing Companies for the year ahead
Government confirms its cash pledge to Glasgow arts venues
RSNO and Scottish Opera will benefit from an £11m investment in their performance venues
Kath Wood shares the people who have inspired her most
ROSEMARY MUIR WRIGHT An inspirational teacher and early mentor, Rosemary was my introduction to the History of Art when I studied…
Let Scotland dance
A plea for wider opportunities for dance in Scotland and demands for greater investment to build new audiences are at the heart of…
NY/LON Threads
Having recently spent a week in New York – taking part in the TS Eliot US/UK Exchange organised by Old Vic New Voices &ndash…
Manifesto for opera in Scotland
The Musicians’ Union (MU) is calling for the development of a national strategy for opera provision in Scotland and has laun…
SNP looks for private funding for culture
Scotland’s new culture initiatives will depend on commercial and philanthropic support
What next for Scottish arts?
Anne Bonnar looks at what each of the main parties is promising for Scotland’s arts after the election
Incorporating new protection for charities
Peter Shand says the regulatory uplift for Scottish charities has come just in time for ‘The Big Society’
Scotland aims high
Creative Scotland reveals its 2020 vision for the arts sector
Scottish culture budget ringfences ‘snow fund’ for the arts
Scotland’s arts organisations are to be compensated by the Scottish Government for extra costs or losses incurred as a resul…
Mutual benefits
Laura Brown’s article Do arts organisations REALLY need business to tell them how to do their job? struck me as simple polem…
Vaizey equates innovation with IT
Arts Minister Ed Vaizey has called for Arts Council England (ACE) to perform a co-ordinating role to help cultural organisations t…
Private investment slumps
New figures on private investment indicate a further fall in support for culture. Provisional numbers from Arts & Business sho…
Why don’t we buy art anymore?
Having recently joined a contemporary Art Gallery in Surrey on a traineeship, the first couple of exhibitions I have assisted on h…
CashBack for Culture
A scheme which helps young people engage in arts projects in Scotland is able to continue running for another year thanks to an in…
The kids are alright – in Scotland
In stark contrast with England, where the future of the creative education scheme ‘Creative Partnerships’ is under thr…
Last word
The big C word Overused, allegedly undervalued, and bouncing off the pages of any arts report worth its weight in words: Creativit…
Museum bodies clash
Fears that funding cuts will damage the Renaissance programme, designed to boost the profile of regional museums, has sparked a sh…
Plug in to the matrix
How can local authorities develop cultural leadership? Kathleen O’Neill explains how matrix management transformed Scotland’s…
MSPs reject Commission findings
Scottish Parliament has put culture plans on hold, rejecting all the main points in a report by the Scottish Cultural Commission.
