theatreSCOTLAND

Theatre management

Aberdeen Performing Arts

34 Albyn Place , Aberdeen AB10 1FW

01224 641122

A NON-profit making company with charitable status set up to run HM Theatre, the Music Hall, Aberdeen Box Office and, from 2008, the Lemon Tree.

Mental health support

Artfull

Scottish Arts Council, 12 Manor Place, Edinburgh EH3 7DD

0131 226 6051 artfull@scottisharts.org.uk

DEVELOPING the role of the arts in improving the mental health and wellbeing of people living in Scotland. A supporter of Out of the Darkness Theatre Company.

Sponsorship

Arts and Business Scotland

6 Randolph Crescent, Edinburgh EH3 7TH

0131 220 2499 scotland@aandb.org.uk

DEDICATED to raising private money for the arts.

Audience development

The Audience Business

First Floor, 50 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 2LE

0131 243 1430 info@tab.org.uk

DEDICATED to increasing audiences for the arts in Edinburgh.

Circus

Conflux

Arches, 253 Argyle Street, Gasgow G2 8DL

0141 565 1049

ORGANISATION set up to support Scottish street arts, phsysical theatre and circus, working towards festivals in 2010 and 2012.

Funding

Creative Scotland

FROM 2010, the organisation set up to replace the Scottish Arts Council with a brief to be responsible for all the creative industries. Discussion group at Perspectives.

Funding

Creative Scotland Awards

DEDICATED to information about the winners of the Scottish Arts Council's award scheme for individual artists. The scheme has now ended.

Gerry Mulgrew and Keith Fleming accept CATS best actor award 2008 for Dundee Rep's Peer Gynt Pic: Alan McAteer

Awards

Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland

ANNUAL awards in various categories organised by leading critics and presented in June. The first CATS were awarded for the year 2002-03 and are now given in ten categories: best production, male performance, female performance, design, new play, director, technical presentation, children's show, ensemble production and music.

Funding

Cultural Enterprise Office

c/o CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3 JD

0844 544 9990 info@culturalenterpriseoffice.co.uk

SUPPORTING business development in the cultural sector.

Arts trust

Culture and Sport Glasgow

THE body responsible for Glasgow's major civic arts spaces and theatres.

Professional association

Equity

114 Union Street, Glasgow G1 3QQ

0141 248 2472

THE actors' union is organised in Scotland by Scottish secretary Lorne Boswell.

Professional association

The Federation of Scottish Theatre

c/o Theatre Workshop, Hamilton Place, Edinburgh EH3 5AX

0131 220 6393 fst@scottishtheatre.org

ORGANISATION representing all the major subsidised theatre producers in Scotland.

Audience development

Glasgow Grows Audiences

Suite 1/1, 6 Dixon Street, GlasgowG1 4AX

0141 248 6864 info@gga4arts.co.uk

ENCOURAGING people to attend arts events.

Professional support

Highlands and Islands Theatre Network

c/o HI-ARTS, Ballantyne House, 84 Academy Street, Inverness IV1 1LU

01463 717 091 stuart@hitn.co.uk

PROFESSIONAL resource for theatre in the Highlands and islands.

Children's theatre

Imaginate

45a George Street, Edinburgh EH2 2HT

0131 225 8050 info@imaginate.org.uk

ARTS agency promoting children's theatre and organising the Children's International Theatre Festival.

Professional support

North-East Arts Touring

BRINGING productions to theatres and village halls across Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and Moray.

Professional support

North Highland Connections

34A High Street, Wick, Caithness KW1 4BS

01955 606695 info@nothhighlandconnections.org

ENOURAGING young people in their involvement in drama, poetry and visual art.

Promoter

Open Book

info@open-book.org.uk

TAKING shows on tour in the Highlands and islands, the Borders and beyond. Close links to A Play, a Pie and a Pint. Director John Cairns. Website not yet in operation (13/4/09)

Articles: Northings (April 2009)

Youth theatre support

Promote-YT (Scotland)

Unit 13, Canongate Venture, 5 New Street, Edinburgh EH8 8BH

0131 558 3773 hannah@promote-yt.co.uk

NATIONAL Network supporting the development of high quality youth theatre.

Funding

Scottish Arts Council

12 Manor Place, Edinburgh EH3 7DD

0131 226 6051 help.desk@scottisharts.org.uk

WHERE the cash comes from. The website includes reports by the SAC's team of advisors on Scottish theatre productions. Follow the A-Z links in the CFOs listing column. The SAC is being replaced by Creative Scotland in 2010.

Touring

SAC Touring Resources

DATABASE of venues, companies and shows available for touring.

Amateur theatre support

Scottish Community Drama Association

National Office, 5 York Place, Edinburgh EH1 3EB

0131 557 5552 headquarters@scda.org.uk

ORGANISING body for the amdram scene

Professional support

Scottish Cultural Enterprise

74 Victoria Crescent Road, Glasgow G12 9JN

0141 339 2846 info@scottishculture.co.uk

CREATIVITY in business.

Playwrights' resource

Playwrights Studio, Scotland

CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD

0141 332 4403 info@playwrightsstudio.co.uk

CENTRE for writers across Scotland, offering script reading and development services.

Professional support

Scottish Theatres Technical Training Trust

c/o Theatre Royal, Hope Street, Glasgow G2 3AQ

0141 332 3321 admin@s4t.org.uk

PROMOTING technical standards in professional Scottish theatre.

Professional support

SPARC

WEST Dumbartonshire community arts inclcuding a number of drama projects.

Audience development

Young Audiences Scotland

ENCOURAGING children to go to the theatre.

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