Another year, another series of job cuts to the creative arts sector in Scotland. Despite promising millions of pounds in arts investment in this country, yet again we’ve witnessed more U turns from the Scottish government and Creative Scotland, meaning that struggling artists, companies, writers, directors, dancers and so on won’t be able to getContinue reading “More Arts Cuts”
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The Arts Are Not A Luxury
I grew up in a small working- class rural town in Perthshire, Scotland. Nothing much happened there; we didn’t have much money and TV was our only dose of culture. In my house, books were shoved into cupboards, hidden away like skeletons, and theatre, with the exception of am- dram panto, wasn’t “for the likesContinue reading “The Arts Are Not A Luxury”
Hit The North 