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Former Board member of Puppet State Theatre, Strange Town & Puppet Animation Scotland. Website www.andycatlin.com | IG www.instagram.com/andycatlincom/
Local Democracy Reporter for County Kerry at the independent.ie. Previously with maghrebi.org
Scotland's first university. Founded 1413.
Useful links: hootbio.com/www.st-andrews.ac.uk
#EverToExcel
Independent Cultural Journalism from Scotland. Free monthly magazine, website, podcasts, and more. DMs not monitored, send us an email.
theskinny.co.uk
Creativity & Expressive Arts Transforming Education • GCC Education Services • Raising attainment & achievement by thinking differently • #GetGlasgowCreating
Championing stories and storytellers.
This account is monitored Mon-Fri, 10am-6pm.
Registered Scottish Charity (SC002368)
Scotland's leading Baroque ensemble.
linktr.ee/dunedinconsort
Updates from Dundee Contemporary Arts: Galleries, Cinema, Print Studio, Shop and Jute Café Bar.
The Early Music Forum of Scotland (Reg. charity SC054718) brings together singers, players, listeners and instrument makers from around Scotland with an interest in the medieval, renaissance and baroque periods. Join us! https://www.emfscotland.org.uk
Promoting all genres of Scotland's music at home & abroad:
music archive & online shop, talent development, showcasing and events:
Current projects:
HitTheRoadTours, Musicares, Classical Next, Northern Connection ShowcaseScotland, Made in Scotland
Islander in exile, musician, researcher, occasional conductor and broadcaster. Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange @rcstweets.
NASUWT is the Teachers’ Union, representing teachers and school leaders in all sectors of education. Also on Facebook and Instagram.
https://www.nasuwt.org.uk/
Stellar Quines creates theatre, supports creatives and engages communities, all with the aim of achieving greater equality.
Central to local cultural life in Perth, Scotland for 125 years, Perth Theatre and Concert Hall create life affirming, shared experiences in the performing arts.
Researcher & Lecturer in Composition, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Writes music & words with & about animal songs, zoomusicology, folkore, gender, parenthood & creativity, interdisciplinarity. Plays oboe with whippets: https://tinyurl.com/2wyxc4st
Arts correspondent at The Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday newspapers in Edinburgh.
Also write about figure skating.
https://www.scotsman.com/author/jane-bradley
Trombonist, teacher, Director of National Youth and Children’s Concert Bands (@NYCBGB.bsky.social)
Musician | Educator |
Principal Instructor @GlasgowCREATE.online
Bodhrán Tutor @ Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Sharing the stories of Scotland and beyond, past, present and future. Home to TRACS with Scottish Storytelling Forum & Traditional Music Forum.
https://linktr.ee/scottishstorytellingcentre
❗UK music making is in crisis!
🎶 Everyone deserves access to music making!
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👇 Join us in making a difference! 👇
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Broadcaster @classicfm.com │ Author │ Actor
CONCERT DIARY zebsoanes.com/events
BOOKS gaspardthefox.com/shop
RSM is the UK's oldest music charity, providing financial support, advice and guidance to music professionals unable to work due to physical or mental ill health. linktr.ee/rsmgb
Dundee's Concert & Conference Venue 🎼🎤
Representing all 32 local authorities instrumental music services
Supporting diverse traditional dance in Scotland through FREE membership and 3 routes: residencies º productions º festivals. Scottish charity SC045085. Sign up to our newsletter now👉https://www.tdfs.org/
A contemporary theatre & arts centre in the heart of Inverclyde.
Cover Photo - Sleeping Beauty | Thu 4 Dec - Wed 31 Dec
Telephone: 01475723723
Email: info@beaconartscentre.co.uk
Making time count for people living with motor neuron disease.
https://linktr.ee/MNDScotland
Sounds Good.
Box Office open in person/on +44 (0)131 668 2019 | 10am- 2pm, Mon-Fri 🎻🎸🥁🎤📚🤣
Voices of Experience (Vox Scotland) is Scotland’s mental health collective advocacy charity, run by and for its members.
A free contemporary art gallery on Edinburgh’s iconic Calton Hill 🔭
⭐ Current exhibitions: Highland Embassy by Shen Xin & Panorama: New Views of a City
🏛️ Open Wednesday-Sunday, 10am-4pm
https://collective-edinburgh.art/
🟡 The past, present and future of traditional music.
🟡 This year's dates 1 - 11 May 2026.
🟡 More info via: https://edinburghtradfest.com/
Music for All is a charity believing that EVERYONE regardless of circumstance, should have the opportunity to access music making.
Organisers of UK Learn to Play.
Three galleries. One world class collection. Discover in Edinburgh here:
📍National
📍Modern
📍Portrait
& Online
Queer-owned and woman-led independent community bookshop. 🏳️🌈 An unapologetically activist, intersectional, feminist, antiracist, lgbtq+ community space.
Find us at https://lighthousebookshop.com/
Committed to reducing inequality and helping young people find their potential through speech and debate programmes. SCIO no SC050590
https://youngspeakersscotland.org.uk/
Leith based arts organisation getting up to all sorts with great folk.
https://www.independentartsprojects.com
The official Aberdeenshire Council profile on Bluesky.
Find information about our services at www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk
Pioneering positive change in the classical music industry
Fèis Rois enables people of all ages & abilities to access, participate in & enjoy traditional arts & Gaelic language through a diverse programme of activities in Ross & Cromarty, across Scotland & beyond.
www.feisrois.org
Starcatchers is Scotland’s Arts and Early Years organisation. We create performances and creative experiences for babies and children from birth to 5 years and the adults who care for them. Find us at starcatchers.org.uk
We champion, develop and present animated film, puppetry and visual theatre in Scotland and internationally.
Producers of Manipulate Festival: 12 - 15 Feb 2025 🌙
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▪️ Discovering | developing | empowering 21st Century Musicians ▪️
The latest jobs in arts, heritage and culture. Visit CultureJobs.org now.
The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS) is a place like nowhere else, powered by performance, its people and their passion. RCS is a World Top 10 undergraduate and postgraduate destination for performing arts education (QS World University Rankings 2025)
The greatest platform for creative freedom in the world 🌎
07 - 31 August 2026
#edfringe
edfringe.com
🙊 Not an 'Influencer', happy to pay
🏴 An Edinburgh blog for locals & visitors
🧑💻 By Andrew Girdwood / marketer
🎨 By Bronwen Winter Phoenix / artist
https://edinburgh-reviews.co.uk/
We believe the arts make life better, and everyone should have opportunities to experience and take part in them. 🎶💃🎭🎨✍️📸🎥🧵🏛️
https://www.campaignforthearts.org/join/
The independent critical voice in contemporary art since 1949.
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SURGE runs projects to develop street arts, physical theatre and circus in Scotland.
We also run SURGE Festival, our annual event, which brings new Scottish work and cutting edge international performances to the streets of Glasgow.
We are Visible Fictions. We tell stories for young audiences through live theatre, immersive and site-specific experiences, film, animation, online content and creative learning. It's been our passion since 1991.
🌐 linktr.ee/visiblefictions
Hands Up for Trad are a Scottish organisation funded by Creative Scotland who work to promote Scottish music, culture and languages throughout the world. https://linktr.ee/handsupfortrad
The music, the live stream links and other events news for the choir of St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh, Scotland.
theartsdesk.com - a daily serving of incisive, well-informed arts coverage. Enjoy criticism at its best.
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Gramophone Award-winning classical/comtemporary record label operating from Edinburgh.
Our catalogue is curated to inspire the adventurous 🚀
🎙️ www.delphianrecords.com
Exec culture and books editor of The Times
Great singing and good company. West end of Princes St, Edinburgh. Every Sunday 9.30am Matins, 10.30am Eucharist, 6pm Evensong. We're amateurs: we do it for love.
Violining; music, poetry & radio lover; systems, policies & inequalities 🏴🇰🇪
Welsh-Irish opera singer 🏴 🇮🇪 🎶
Writer 📖
Doctoral Researcher in Computer Science at the University of Westminster, London 🎤 💻
#Cymraeg 🐦🔥
www.paulcareyjones.net
keynoteartistmanagement.com/artists/paul-carey-jones/
Your essential guide to what's on in Glasgow and beyond www.whatsonglasgow.co.uk
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Writer, poet, musician from Shetland. Minoritised language, islandness and illness. She/shö/her. Author of multi award-winning poetry collection 'Moder Dy' (Polygon, 2019). Jerwood Poetry Award Winner 2024.
https://linktr.ee/roseannewatt
Guardian Scotland correspondent
contact: libby.brooks@theguardian.com
insta: @libbyjbrooks
extracurricular: books, hills, standing stones, gingerbread, Labradors
Columnist with The Times in Scotland. Editor of The Jaggy Thistle substack. Orwell Fellow. I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king.
Freelance journalist & writer. Bylines at the Herald, the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the Big Issue, Prospect Magazine et al. Radio 4 documentaries, including Waiting for the Van & Prosecuting Polmont. Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.
Comms and freelance journalism. Bylines in the FT, Guardian, the Times, Big Issue, the Herald, Scotsman etc. Still trying to convince the people of Nigeria to forgive Dundee United.
A non-partisan think tank that aims to create a new economy that is democratic, sustainable and just.
https://www.futureeconomy.scot
Film and Theatre Critic 🎭
Sarcasm is the default setting.
Editor of https://corrblimey.uk freelance writer and critic for The List, BBC Radio Scotland, Reviews Hub, In Their Own League. Film Critics UK and Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland judge
We provide leadership for the archives and records management sector in Scotland. Lead. Inform. Inspire.
Website: https://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/
Columnist for The Times and The Sunday Times, specialising in Scottish affairs. Also, co-host of The Ponsonby & Massie podcast, available on all pod-platforms.
Journalist and writer
Former English teacher & lecturer | Author of 'Class Rules: the Truth about Scottish Schools' & 'A Scottish Journey' | Fond of FOI, motorbikes, La Gomera, and all things education
www.jamesmcenaney.co.uk
Chair of European Movement UK. 🇬🇧 🇪🇺
Founder of the Bylines Network.
Founder of Scientists for EU.
Lover of science, Europe and humanity. 🙌
This is the campaign to rebuild the UK-EU relationship 🇬🇧🇪🇺 Help us win: https://www.europeanmovement.co.uk
A Glenlivet an Rhynie loon rolled intae een! Edinburgh noo. Chair at Oor Vyce. Here's tae the Scots leid, Gàidhlig, whisky an a progressive Scotland.
Scots Singer and Public Folklorist
Chief Executive of TRACS (Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland)
Sing & play with Malinky
Arbroathian, now living in East Lothian.
Own views, as ever!
Words and music. Glasgow, Scotland
he/him https://linktr.ee/neilwilliamson
📚 Latest thing: Blood In The Bricks
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📚 Next thing: The Packet
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Classical music journalist. Author, Carols From King's, Ebury, 2016.
• British Opera Singer
• Rep: HarrisonParrott Group
• Patron: Streetwise Opera, Destination Opera, Southport Bach Choir
• LCR Music Board Member
• Artistic Consultant: clients incl. London Transport Museum, Opera de Montreal
• Former Barrister
• Views mine
Classical guitar
Women composer ambassador
Board member @archivfraumusik
Cancer survivor
Languages, arts, dancing, archaeology, astronomy, arctic, climate change, history...curious and polyglotte!
https://www.heikematthiesen.com
she/her
Scottish theatre director, composer and writer. Artistic director of Sleeping Warrior Theatre
www.andyrmcgregor.com
www.sleepingwarriortheatre.com
Marcas Mac an Tuairneir. Gaelic Editor Northwords Now / Poet, Cultural Commentator and Singer-Songwriter / Polaris, Cruinneachadh, Speactram OUT NOW / #Gàidhlig 🏴 #Gay #Genderqueer 🏳️🌈 / My views, here (he/him/e/esan) marcasmac.scot
Scotland’s longest running festival of experimental music.
https://linktr.ee/counterflowsfest
Contemporary classical composer and thatch dweller.
https://linktr.ee/garrydwjudd
Independent arts and culture magazine for Scotland and beyond
Music | Film | Theatre | Food & Drink | Comedy | Visual Art | Books | LGBTQI+ | Life
hello@snackmag.co.uk 💛
snackmag.co.uk + https://linktr.ee/SNACKmag
CEO @SheffieldTheatres. Theatre producer, theatre manager, traveller, reader, football & cricket obsessive, northeasterner in Yorkshire.
Priest in Edinburgh, Canon Emeritus, former cathedral Precentor (Canterbury, Rochester), former solicitor, family guy, liturgical scrivener
#Composer, #conductor, #choral #baritone, cross genre #musician, #oboe, #sax, #guitar, #sitar, #mandocello, #piano
Here for
Music
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Eastbourne UK
www.clivewhitburn.com
Associate Professor in Music at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Renaissance music theory and music education specialist.
Gaelic singer & songwriter based in the Highlands of Scotland. Lecturer for UHI and tutor for the National Centre of Excellence in Traditional Music. Proud mum and breast cancer survivor (She / Her)
Orchestra of local musicians based at Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, performing three concerts a year at The Apex. Established in 1998.
www.suffolksinfonia.co.uk
#suffolksinfonia #symphonyorchestra #classicalmusic #orchestra
Registered Charity 1130410
Bass player, singer, mistake maker, strategist https://open.spotify.com/artist/3XnIaEpHQsR91pzHgaQ5qE?si=WASVUdm3Qmm72zt-x9kdLQ Working for https://charanga.com Interested in #MusicEducation #MentalHealth #Autism
Archaeologist; #Roman Frontiers; Scottish History and #Archaeology at National Museums Scotland @ntlmuseumsscotland
The Scottish Society for Northern Studies (SSNS) was founded in 1968 to explore the inter-relationships between the Scandinavian, Celtic, and Scottish cultures.
https://ssns.org.uk
Prof of Public Policy & Governance at Uni of Glasgow. Director @uofgpolicy.bsky.social. Research devolution & constitutional politics, multi-level government & public policy.
Singer, musician, voice artist, composer. Gàidhlig/Gaelic. Singer on Disney Pixar’s ‘Brave’. TV/radio presenter and creative collaborator. Love the Scottish outdoors and sport.
www.juliefowlis.com / Facebook / Instagram
Music historian @ Open University, research interests in health history, 19th century Britain, social and cultural history, education history. Views my own.
https://musichealthandhappiness.wordpress.com/
News, collection highlights and heritage stories from the Library & Archive at Surgeons' Hall/Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh #histmed
https://archiveandlibrary.rcsed.ac.uk
https://www.rcsed.ac.uk/career-hub/learning-resources/library-and-archive
Scotland: Literature Song Culture
Valentinabold.org
FSA Scot, Hon Fellow Edinburgh Uni, Heritage at Scottish Women's Institutes, Editor journals.ed.ac.uk/index.php/rosc and
www.peterlang.com/series/shcs Birlawman of Stirling Marches
Orchestra teacher, music theorist, bassist
"Listening to Rap" (2e) and "Rap Music and Whiteness in Postracial America" both coming from Routledge in 2026.
michaelberrymusic.com
