🪩 Edinburgh Culture Minute: 18-24 Oct 2023

Ā£100m creative funding ā€˜pledges don’t add up’, a fascinating Fringe budget spreadsheet + new community press hub opening in Wester Hailes

🪩 Edinburgh Culture Minute: 18-24 Oct 2023

Welcome to the 16th edition of the Culture Minute, a weekly round-up of Edinburgh’s local creative news, events, jobs and opportunities. It’s for paying subscribers only, so big thanks to you for supporting this. 

šŸ†  Nominations for this year’s Creative Edinburgh Awards (on 17 November) have been announced. - See them all here.

šŸ”Š  A series of talks, concerts and workshops is happening in Edinburgh this week as part of the UNESCO Week of Sound. - See the full line-up here.

šŸ’°  Scotland’s culture funding saga took a twist on Tuesday when Ā£100m of ā€˜arts and culture’ funding across five years was announced by first minister Humza Yousaf. It followed heavy criticism of a decision to reimpose a Ā£6.6 million cut to Creative Scotland’s funding. - Brian Ferguson, The Scotsman.

ā€œI’m afraid the two key pledges just don’t add up at the momentā€ - Brian Ferguson, who covered the story in The Scotsman.

šŸ—£ Local reaction - a mixture of joy and cynicism: