🪩 Edinburgh Culture Minute: 5 - 11 Feb 2025
£72m of arts funding for local groups: who's getting the money? + Events including Fern Brady, Caroline Hirons & Balkanarama
Welcome to the 76th weekly edition of the Culture Minute, a round-up of Edinburgh’s local creative news, events, jobs and opportunities.
It’s a funding special this week!
As always, if I’ve missed anything please get in touch.
The five most-viewed links from the last Edinburgh Culture Minute:
- 📝 New government survey on culture sector support. (Survey now closed, but it was this newsletter’s most-clicked link for three weeks running.)
- 🍿 Cinetopia’s weekly events, screening and film industry opportunities.
- 🎨 This year’s programme of adult craft workshops at Lauriston Castle.
- 🎭 ‘Take Part: Find Your Light at the Festival Theatre with Mary Poppins crew.’
- 💰 Summerhall Arts launches ‘New Meadows Award’.
News:
💰 It’s been a life-changing week for many of Edinburgh’s arts organisations, venues and groups following Creative Scotland’s long-awaited and delayed multi-year funding announcement. - There is a good summary of the news in All Edinburgh Theatre.
⮑ Why are they getting this cash? Creative Scotland explains here. You can download a full breakdown of how the money is shared out in this spreadsheet.
⮑ In total, 74 Edinburgh-based orgs will get £72.2 million between now and 2028.
⮑ Here’s a list of all 74 Edinburgh groups granted funding across the next three years:
- Edinburgh International Festival: £11,750,000.
- Royal Lyceum Theatre Company: £4,974,570.
- Fruitmarket Gallery: £3,133,333.
- Edinburgh International Film Festival: £1,950,000.
- Edinburgh International Book Festival: £1,880,000.
- Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland: £1,757,076.
- Dance Base: £1,720,263.
- Capital Theatres: £1,609,750.
- Imaginate: £1,528,274.
- Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop: £1,406,179.
- Publishing Scotland: £1,401,009.
- Craft Scotland: £1,299,999.
- Collective: £1,263,483.
- Filmhouse: £1,243,312.
- Regional Screen Scotland: £1,230,000.
- Edinburgh Printmakers: £976,120.
- Federation of Scottish Theatre: £960,000.
- Edinburgh International Jazz and Blues Festival: £940,000.
- Arika (Arika Heavy Industries CIC): £911,950.
- Scottish National Jazz Orchestra: £909,450.
- Starcatchers Productions Ltd: £888,451.
- Grid Iron Theatre Company Ltd: £875,160.
- Red Note Ensemble Ltd: £857,500.
- Tinderbox Collective: £822,500.
- Lyra: £758,400.
- Manipulate Arts (Puppet Animation Scotland): £757,267.
- Independent Arts Projects Ltd: £720,223.
- Stills Ltd: £683,432.
- Drake Music Scotland: £674,543.
- Magnetic North Theatre Production: £658,547.
- Youth Theatre Arts Scotland: £642,033.
- Artlink Edinburgh and The Lothians: £639,000.
- The Dovecot Foundation: £634,500.
- Summerhall Arts: £608,302.
- Curious Seed: £602,793.
- Deaf Action: £600,486.
- Luminate: £598,223.
- Art27 CIC: £591,840.
- Love Music Productions Ltd: £588,182.
- All or Nothing Aerial Dance Theatre: £587,500.
- Wide Events CIC: £585,262.
- Screen Education Edinburgh: £580,149.
- Lung Ha Theatre Company: £572,591.
- Be United: £559,829.
- Tortoise in a Nutshell: £514,650.
- Travelling Gallery (City of Edinburgh Council): £504,667.
- Scottish BPOC Writers Network: £489,334.
- Cutting Edge Theatre LTD.: £484,039.
- Civic Digits CIC: £470,000.
- Dunedin Consort: £470,000.
- Edinburgh Art Festival: £470,000.
- Talbot Rice Gallery, the University of Edinburgh: £422,024.
- I Am Loud CIC: £419,943.
- Live Music Now Scotland: £410,001.
- Music in Hospitals and Care: £405,481.
- Theiya Arts: £366,600.
- Creative Edinburgh Ltd: £315,000.
- North Edinburgh Arts: £309,731.
- Push The Boat Out Ltd: £283,500.
- Door In The Wall Arts Access C.I.C.: £278,736.
- Open Book: £269,293.
- WHALE, The Arts Agency: £262,355.
- Media Education Scotland CIC: £261,106.
- The Embassy Gallery: £249,237.
- Art Walk Projects CIC: £247,089.
- The Benedetti Foundation: £225,600.
- Dirliebane Theatre Company: £224,150.
- Art in Healthcare: £222,467.
- Iberodocs CIC: £188,000.
- Pianodrome Community Interest Company: £177,500.
- Craigmillar Now: £150,000.
- Think Circus C.I.C.: £150,000.
- Visual Arts Scotland: £150,000.
⮑ The funding announcement is ‘a significant uplift in support after years of cuts and standstill funding,’ writes Naomi Head in the Good Egg Project newsletter.
⮑ and “not anywhere near as bad as everyone thought it might be. In fact, I think it was pretty damn good,” said Fergus Morgan in The Crush Bar.
🎧 This month’s EHFM Culture Show was broadcast today and you can listen again here: