£500, no-strings-attached mini-grants to cool projects that will make the world – and Glasgow – more Awesome! We’re the Glasgow Chapter of the Awesome Foundation. A fun way of giving £500, no-strings-attached mini-grants to cool projects that will make the world – and Glasgow – more Awesome! Remember: Awesome Glasgow gives £500 away every two […]

This Trad Talk, of special interest to early-career musicians, will focus on the challenges that musicians experience beyond music-making, with talks from professionals in the field. The easy, and fun, bit of being a folk musician is creating the music, but where do we go from here? This Trad Talk, of special interest to early-career […]

Musicians required for Dance for Parkinson’s national programme! The Dance for Parkinson’s Scotland programme is a joint initiative managed by Dance Base, Scotland’s National Centre for Dance and Scottish Ballet, Scotland’s National Dance Company, and delivered in partnership with Parkinson’s UK. This national programme originally delivered in Glasgow and Edinburgh for several years now, has […]

BBC ALBA are looking for vibrant, compelling ideas from Gaelic writers for the 2019 EBU (European Broadcasting Union) children’s short drama scheme. 2019 EBU (European Broadcasting Union) children’s short drama scheme BBC ALBA are looking for vibrant, compelling ideas from Gaelic writers for the 2019 EBU (European Broadcasting Union) children’s short drama scheme. • Theme: […]

Better be quick! Funded place for a young woman working in the creative industries aged 18-26 to attend the Southbank Centre’s Women of the World (WoW) Festival in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil from 14-18 November 2018. As part of British Council Scotland’s work to create new international opportunities during Scotland’s Year of Young People, we […]

The Young Composer Award The Young Composer Award is an annual competition based award issued by The Clarsach Society. This year the award name has been updated in memory of John Macleod. The Award is now called The Iain Macleòid Young Composer Award. Composers aged between 16 & 25 years of age are invited to […]

I received this email the other day. It’s good news for anyone who puts music on SoundCloud (at bloody last). I don’t know if it has rolled out to everyone (I don’t have it yet) or what the criteria is however it is good to be aware of it. This is from their Creator Guide. […]

The See Learn Share fund aims to support better Creative Learning activity. See Learn Share is a small fund to enable freelance artists or creative learning staff in arts organisations to spend time working with people from another sector, observing work and discussing, exploring or testing ideas. The fund allows applicants to connect with another […]

THE TRADE FAIR The 2018 Trade Fair takes place on Friday 1st February 2019 between 9.30am and 2.30pm: bookings are now open for trade stands (which may be shared by more than one business*). Spaces are limited and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. Showcase Scotland requests a contribution of £150 […]

From Suzanne Houston. Dear players/singers, I’m thinking of organising a festival over 27th-28th December “The Gift Of Music”, getting live music into care homes across the country. A funny time of year when we’re often at a loose end between Xmas and Hogmanay, and residents in care homes are potentially needing a pick up too! This would […]