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Director of Creative Engagement
National Theatre of Scotland
Our Creative Engagement work is central to our mission of being a theatre without walls, ensuring that we create extraordinary theatre by, with, and for contemporary Scotland. The Director of Creative Engagement will play a vital role in developing co-created, community-driven theatre and participatory experiences that reflect and respond to Scotland’s diverse voices, places, and stories. We are looking for a dynamic and socially engaged cultural leader who will bring drive, innovation, and strategic vision to this work. If you are passionate about making theatre accessible to all, building partnerships, supporting artists and expanding who influences and experiences our work, we would love to hear from you.
Location: Glasgow
Deadline: 4 April 2025
EAF x The Skinny Emerging Writers Award 2025
Edinburgh Art Festival
EAF are teaming up with the Skinny for a fourth year running to commission four emerging art writers to write about the EAF25 Programme. The project aims to platform Scotland-based, early career writers from backgrounds underrepresented in journalism, through a mentored, paid opportunity to be published, in print and online, by The Skinny. Three of the four writers will write two articles, each on a different element of the EAF25 Festival: one EAF commission, and one Partner Gallery commission. In a new development for this year, a fourth writer will be commissioned as the first Longform Emerging Writer, spanning two years (April 2025—August 2026), to write an extended piece on EAF’s first Early Career Artist in Residence. All writers will be supported by a group workshop with The Skinny’s Art Editor, Rachel Ashenden. Each writer will be paid £75 per article. The Emerging Writers will be paid £150 to cover two articles. The Longform Emerging Writer will be paid £300 to cover their work across the two Festivals, equivalent to 4 articles. There is also a separate access fund available for writers with additional support needs. For full details on the opportunity and for details on how to apply please visit the EAF website opportunities page. If you have any queries about the award or the application process, including access support, please email info@edinburghartfestival.com or call 01312266558.
Location: Edinburgh
Deadline: 7 April 2025
Head of Stage
National Theatre of Scotland
We are a Theatre without walls and have imagination without limits and we are seeking to appoint a Head of Stage to join our Technical Team. This varied and exciting role will suit someone with proven stage and technical skills coupled with a highly informed interest in theatre in particular, and the arts in general.
Location: Glasgow
Deadline: 9 April 2025
Interior Design Competition
Darlow Smithson
Ten talented designers. One life-changing contract. Alan Carr and interiors guru Michelle Ogundehin are on the hunt for creative, passionate, and innovative designers. If you are ready to showcase your talent for interior design, we want to hear from you! Apply online Applicants must be 18 years of age or over. Applicants must also be a current legal resident of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.
Location: Various
Deadline: 13 April 2025
Finance for Charity Trustees
Culture & Business Scotland
Wednesday 30 April 2025 | 5pm-7pm | Azets Quay 2 139 Fountainbridge Edinburgh EH3 9QG FREE for C&BS members | £45 + VAT for non-members Do you dread the moment in the board meeting when the finances come up on the agenda? Do you think – I won’t say anything – that’s not my area, and I don’t understand the management accounts anyway? Let us help take the fear away, so that you too can play your part in monitoring your organisation’s current financial position. Every trustee has responsibility for overseeing the finances of your charity – not just the Treasurer or the lone trustee with finance skills on your board. This short session will touch on your statutory legal duties in relation to finance including the year-end and audit requirements, but will mainly look at the sort of financial reports you might see at your board meetings and regularly throughout the year. We will help you to read a set of management accounts and look at what sort of information is likely to be included. We will discuss what sort of questions you should ask, and how to spot the warning signs. Restricted and unrestricted funds will be explained, as well as balance sheets, and how to interrogate the organisation’s annual budget.
Location: Edinburgh
Deadline: 30 April 2025
Dunedin City of Literature Residency
Edinburgh City of Literature Trust
Spend six weeks of writing time in New Zealand! The Caselberg Trust and Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature are pleased to offer the Caselberg Trust Margaret Egan Cities of Literature Writers Residency 2025. The aim of the Residency is to provide international and Aotearoa New Zealand writers an opportunity to work on a substantial piece of creative writing and to foster connections among creative writers in Aotearoa New Zealand and internationally. There are no limits in terms of genre, language, or length of writing, and completion of the project during the Residency is not a requirement. The Residency is offered annually for a period of six weeks to writers from other UNESCO Cities of Literature, such as Edinburgh, and to Aotearoa New Zealand writers in alternating years. In 2025 the Residency is offered to a writer from another UNESCO City of Literature.
Location: Dunedin, New Zealand
Deadline: 7 April 2025
Marketing Assistant
National Theatre Scotland
We are a theatre without walls and have imagination without limits. We are seeking a Marketing Assistant who will implement marketing and sales campaigns for the National Theatre of Scotland. This fantastic entry level post offers the opportunity to play a key role in the Audience and Media team and to contribute to the work of Scotland’s National Theatre. We are looking for highly motivated candidates with excellent organisational and admin skills, who are collaborative, flexible and excited by the prospect of a career in the arts in Scotland.
Location: Glasgow
Deadline: 7 April 2025
Artist or maker studio in our art trail
Pentlands Open Studios
Pentlands Open Studios (POSt) is looking for local professional artists and makers to join their new collective. The first open studios trail is to take place over the weekend of 30/31 August 2025 and the Open Call for applications to join goes live 15 March 2025 for four weeks. The catchment area is southwest Edinburgh in the villages of the upper valley of the Water of Leith: Colinton, Juniper Green, Currie and Balerno.
Location: Upper valley if Water of Leith: Colinton, Juniper Green, Currie, Balerno
Deadline: 12 April 2025
Disability Equality Training
Culture & Business Scotland
Thursday 24 April 2025 | 9.30am-12.30pm | Online £85 + VAT for C&BS members | £125 + VAT for non-members In this comprehensive disabled-led training with Birds of Paradise, you will learn about what actively disables people, explore disability from a cultural context, and gain the skills and confidence to create a more inclusive and accessible environment in whatever you do. This training with Birds of Paradise is underpinned by an extensive knowledge of equality and access within the sector as well as the wider context of how we view disability and think about equality within society. We know disabled people continue to experience significant barriers in the culture sector and elsewhere. This training offers a relaxed way to gain the skills and confidence to remove these barriers.
Location: Online
Deadline: 24 April 2025