Creative Scotland

🔦 This week's #YouthArtsOpenFund highlights are:

♻️ @barnardosscot.bsky.social Clackmannanshire's Renew Crew
🎭 Ochil Youths Community Improvement
🎨 Reachout with Arts in Mind
🎙️ Glass Performance

(P/ship with @creativescots.bsky.social & The Scottish Government: https://bit.ly/4dpKTsD)

Unsure which funding strand to apply for?

Our funding quiz will help identify which funding strand you may be eligible for.

Take our quiz: immersivearts.uk/resources/quiz

Community Discord Write-ins – 29th July & 1st August 2025 Join us for another round of Discord write-ins!

Calling all Scottish BPOC writers: Join us on Discord for another write-in:

📅29th July 12:30pm – 1:00pm
📅1st August 12:30pm – 1:00pm

Sign up & learn more here: scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org/community-di...

On Thursday 10th July, join host Dougie Mackay as he invites a different selection of Scotland’s finest storytellers, songwriters, musicians, and performing artists to each bi-monthly Hearth Fire Session to create an innovative showcase of Scotland’s contemporary culture.
🎟️ sholink.to/c7583121

✨ Tickets for Islay Book Festival 2025 are now on sale! ✨

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#islaybookfestival #islaybookfestival2025 #ibf2025 #ticketsource #scottishbookfestival #scottishbookstagram #isleofislay #islay

Scottish Film Events: July 2025 – The Skinny This month, check out the newly renovated Filmhouse, celebrate Pride at GFT, enjoy some alfresco cinema at Queen's Park and catch lots of films on 35mm.

July sees the return of Queer Cinema Sundays, pride programming, and a David Cronenberg retrospective – and that's all just at @glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social

For film events in Edinburgh, Dundee and more, check out @jamiedunnesq.bsky.social's monthly column 👇

Applications are open for ScottishPower Foundation ‘Art for Climate Fund’ will award two grants of £100,000 aiming to increase the capacity of arts charities buff.ly/tlx0nII (deadline - 18 July 2025)

Introducing the cast and creatives of A Toast Fae The Lassies! ✒️

Catch this première by John Binnie and Alyson Orr from 29 August - 24 September.

🎟️ Book your tickets today on our website!

A little boy wearing a superhero costume stands next to a friendly-looking wormlike alien. Text - Elio, Now Showing.

A woman stands in front of a book shelf, holding a note. Text - Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, Now Showing.

A man stands in front of a tower of skulls, covered in red marks. Text - 28 Years Later, Now Showing.

Caroline Walker works on a painting of a woman with a small child. Text - Caroline Walker: Women's Work + Q&A, Now Showing.

We've got family fun, rom-coms and more this week at DCA Cinema. Coming up...

•Elio
•Jane Austen Wrecked My Life
•28 Years Later
•The Encampments
•Caroline Walker: Women's Work + Q&A

Plus - documentaries, vintage films and more. Booked now at dca.org.uk!

A beautiful sight! 😍 ♥️

Our doors are OPEN! 🚪🎉🍾💖

🧵Here’s our experience of finding a literary agent for graphic novels. We signed with United Agent 3 years ago and it took us about 2 years to get there.

📚Only contact agents who take on your type of book: we compiled a list of about 50 agents interested in graphic novels (Uk & US)

XO LABS — Jobs - Crossover Labs XO LABS Website

Exciting Opportunity: @immersiveartsuk.bsky.social Producer at Crossover Labs! 🎨

🌍 Location: Remote, with option for hybrid working
📅 Deadline: 17:00 Wednesday 23 July

More info + how to apply here: xolabs.co.uk/jobs

🌟Scotland's Workshops Award
Deadline: 10 July at noon

https://f.mtr.cool/afgmwjmnsl

The aim is to give 1 emerging artist the opportunity to work at 2 of the visual art production facilities that make up Scotland’s Workshops. 

Photo: DCA Print Studio. Photo by Erika Stevenson

Sara Shaarawi crouches by a table covered in post it notes and cups of tea, talking to a group of young women.

2 weeks ago we were joined by Berlin's MPower as part of our Cultural Bridge Exchange, sharing practice on feminist & migrant justice with young women 💜

5 Glasgow-based young women & the MPoweristas spent 4 days together learning to write films & creating concepts for the next part of our exchange!

Guidance is available now and you can attend the upcoming free online session with Arts Infopoint UK to find out more about the fund, who can apply and how to apply.

🗓️ 26 June
📲 Online
🎟️ Free
🔗 artsinfopointuk.com/events/inter...

Northern European Mobility Opportunity

The Nordic Culture Fund recently announced the first Northern European Mobility Opportunity (NEMO) mobility fund.

Applications will open in August 2025 to support artistic exchange and collaboration for practitioners across the Nordic region, the UK and Ireland.

DCA Trustee - Dundee Contemporary Arts Deadline: Sun 20 July, 12 noon

🌟Opportunity: DCA Trustee🌟

We are pleased to announce that the Board of DCA is seeking new trustees with a diverse range of professional skills and lived experiences to help us achieve our vision. To find out more and to apply, visit

"The session was inspirational, and we are planning to take forward some of your ideas with all our children. It’s amazing what some cardboard boxes and tape can create!" Lovely verbal and visual feedback from #WesterHailes nurseries after a sharing of IN & OUT OF THE BOX by Skye Reynolds

Glasgow Tourist Attractions and Places to Visit Discover the best things to see and do in Glasgow, including tourist attractions and places to visit in the centre of Scotland's largest city.

Delighted to be included in Visit Scotland's 10 Amazing attractions in Glasgow

www.visitscotland.com/places-to-go...

Come rain or shine, Explorers Garden is beautiful whatever the weather! 🌷

Visit this haven of serenity right next to the Theatre from Tuesday - Sunday, 10am - 5pm (last entry 4pm).

🎫 Tickets on our website.

Creative Glasgow are looking for three freelance artists, any artform, for a pioneering durational project exploring multilingualism, permaculture, and sustainability within Scottish Primary Schools buff.ly/vnDZMf2 (deadline - 29 June 2025)

CALL FOR ARTISTS
We're looking for Scotland-based creatives—especially from the NorthEast—to run a workshop at our Creative Learning Exchange on Fri 26 Sep on exploring the quiet, reflective moments that fuel creativity

Info & Apply here 👉 findhornbayarts.com/about-us/wor...

📸 Alexander Williamson

£3000 bursaries for Scotland based novelists (including graphic novelists) with at least one existing publication, to develop a work in progress! opportunities.creativescotland.com/opportunity/...

Pomegranates - Traditional Dance Forum

Our springtime Pomegranates Festival may be over for another year, but we are already planning next year's 5th edition. Help us learn how we did and what you'd like to experience more of, so that we can reach new heights with Pomegranates 2026. Complete our wee survey: www.tdfs.org/pomegranates/

Photo of Abby Oliveira, Gray Crosbie, Shane Strachan, Christie Gourlay, Kevin Mclean, and Jack Hinks standing onstage smiling.

Photo of Abby Oliveira, Gray Crosbie, Shane Strachan, Christie Gourlay, Kevin Mclean, and Jack Hinks standing onstage screaming joyously.

Thank you to Abby Oliveira, Gray Crosbie, @shanestrachan.bsky.social, Christie Gourlay, @jackhinksmusic.bsky.social & @kevoutloud.bsky.social for making our final showcase of the season so special!

While that's a wrap on our showcases til autumn, we have loads more events over the coming months...

It's our pleasure - congratulations on the new show! Can't wait to see it!

🔗 lovemusic.org.uk/events
⏰ 7.30pm
🎟️ £10 / £7 for students and disabled people, free for anyone who can’t afford to pay, under 16s and a disabled person’s companion
🗺️ Usher Hall, Edinburgh

Love Music is supported by the Scottish Government through Creative Scotland's Multi-Year Funding programme.

A large choir dressed in colourful attire performs under a pipe organ, led by a conductor gesturing confidently from the front.

A diverse group of choir members stands on stage, holding music sheets, engaged happily in a performance in a well-lit auditorium.

A conductor leads a choir wearing black shirts with a colourful logo, that reads 'Loud & Proud Scotland' celebrating Scotland's first LGBTQI+ choir.

Coming up tonight: the Love Music Community Choir brings together 450 singers to Edinburgh's Usher Hall

Designed to be inclusive and accessible, in this hybrid concert, Love Music welcomes singers on stage alongside those joining from home. You can watch in person or tune in online the week after.

A sketch show? This summer? Good for her... Inside gossip on my BBC special 'Good For Her'

An enlightening behind-the-scenes look into the TV commissioning process from @zanyzaz.bsky.social, whose recent live comedy tour was supported by The National Lottery through the Open Fund 👏

Her BBC Scotland special Good for Her is coming this summer ☀️

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