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21/06/2010
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Donald Worster Wins Scotland’s Biggest Literary Prize
Leading American academic and historian Donald Worster has been awarded the Book of the Year Award for his biography A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir at the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards. |
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17/06/2010
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Sixty Organisations Share £16m For Global Artistic Visions and Inspiring Public Engagement
The Scottish Arts Council has committed almost £16 million to 60 of the country’s leading arts organisations for two years, beginning in April 2011. |
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08/06/2010
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National Lottery Awards 2010 - Cast Your Vote
Hearts and Minds and The Screen Machine Mobile Cinema are amongs the nine Scottish Lottery projects going head to head with other Lottery-funded organisations from across the UK in the semi-finals of The National Lottery Awards 2010.Voting for the semi-finals ends at midday on Friday 18 June. |
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12/04/2010
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Highlands and Islands Focus for Creative Scotland’s ‘Rural Innovation’ Investment
Creative Scotland, Scotland’s new national development body for the arts, culture and creative industries, today announced £240,000 investment in two new projects to encourage and support literature, theatre and dance touring in remote areas of Scotland. The investment is part of Creative Scotland’s Rural Innovation Fund, a £750,000 fund to support innovative, cross-agency working in rural areas |
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07/04/2010
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Book Awards: Category Winners Announced
Four Scottish authors have been shortlisted for the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book of the Year. Selected from 16 category finalists, the winner of each of the fiction, non-fiction, poetry and first book categories receives £5000 and the chance to receive a further £25,000 and overall book of the year accolade. |
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23/03/2010
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Winners of Creative Scotland’s Vital Spark awards announced
Seven unique collaborations have won the Creative Scotland Vital Spark Awards. The winners were selected from a shortlist of 16 by a panel of creative experts to receive a share of the £500,000 Vital Spark Fund to develop their collaborative projects. |
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18/03/2010
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Unlimited Commisions Scotland Announced
Scotland’s Janice Parker and Ramesh Meyyappan awarded first commissions for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad project Unlimited - the UK’s largest programme celebrating arts, culture and sport by disabled and deaf people |
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17/03/2010
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Artists' Film and Video Fund - Recipients Announced
Scottish Screen and the Scottish Arts Council have announced the recipients of the 2009/2010 Artists’ Film and Video Fund. Visual Artists Gair Dunlop and James Houston, were each awarded £20,000 to create two major new pieces of moving image work that are ambitious, fresh and experimental. |
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12/02/2010
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Creative Scotland Announces its Chief Executive
Creative Scotland 2009 Ltd is delighted to announce that the Chief Executive of Scotland’s national arts and culture body, Creative Scotland, will be Andrew Dixon, Chief Executive of the NewcastleGateshead Initiative for the last five years. Andrew has 30 years’ experience of working in the arts media and creative industries. |
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11/02/2010
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Final Awards for Inspiring Communities
Communities across Scotland are celebrating a share of almost £800,000 to connect people through the arts and encourage long-lasting links between people, places and ideas. |
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