🪩 Edinburgh Culture Minute: 23 - 28 January 2025
EIFF pledge to future filmmakers, this week's live music, creative events + 'everything you need to know about funding'
Welcome to the 74th weekly edition of the Culture Minute, a round-up of Edinburgh’s local creative news, events, jobs and opportunities. If I’ve missed anything please get in touch.
The most-viewed links from the last Edinburgh Culture Minute:
- 🎵 £5m for National Centre for Music plan on Calton Hill.
- 🎭 Refractions: new Edinburgh Art Festival events.
- 💰 Summerhall management says Fringe acts have now been paid.
News:
🍿 Edinburgh International Film Festival director Paul Ridd says nurturing future filmmakers is ‘at the heart of the new look Festival’. - Ridd will share more details in the media this week, following today's publication of the EIFF annual report.
⮑ If you want to take part, find film submission details here.
“It is career-changing opportunities like these which are at the heart of the new look Festival. The focus is on supporting filmmakers, producers and everyone involved in getting films made and seen with a powerful global launch pad for their work. It is not just about one week in August. It is about nurturing a platform for filmmaking that can lead on to something meaningful, whether that’s ensuring a film has the best chance of securing future distribution or providing the opportunity for a filmmaker to encounter the producer, commissioner or financier who is going to help them get their next film made.” - Paul Ridd
🎬 This year’s first free film networking night hosted by Cinetopia will be at Whitespace Gallery next month. - Reserve a space here.
📆 Find more local film events, screenings and opportunities in this week’s Cinetopia newsletter.
🎨 The ‘unglamourous, behind-the-scenes work’ of the National Galleries of Scotland’s internal sustainability initiatives are revealed in a feature by Joanna Moorhead of The Art Newspaper. The galleries’ sustainability officer Charlotte Gardiner shares how she gets colleagues to ‘volunteer their time’ in the spirit of behaviour change for environmental change. It’s an interesting read if you want inspiration to make change in a creative/culture-related workplace.
💰 Former Edinburgh council chief executive Dame Sue Bruce will chair a long awaited review of Creative Scotland. - North Edinburgh News.
⮑ The Scottish Government has also launched a new survey seeking views on how culture and the arts are currently supported in Scotland, seeking input on areas for change. - Get involved here.