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🗣️SCAN is currently recruiting for a part-time Programme Assistant – an exciting opportunity to contribute to SCAN’s suc...
24/03/2026

🗣️SCAN is currently recruiting for a part-time Programme Assistant – an exciting opportunity to contribute to SCAN’s success and support the delivery and development of their programmes.

🎨The role will provide support for our Cultivate strand of activity, which focuses on creating fair, equitable and meaningful opportunities for participation in art.

Projects the Programme Assistant will work on include their annual SCAN Summit, their Sparks project highlighting good practice in EDIA, and Affiliations, and their development programme for artist-run initiatives.

đź“ť Full details of the role and how to apply are available in the link in the bio via

🗓️ The closing date for applications is midnight on Monday 30 March 2026.

🗣️ are hiring!Dance Base are looking for a Finance Manager to provide senior financial oversight, including planning, r...
16/03/2026

🗣️ are hiring!

Dance Base are looking for a Finance Manager to provide senior financial oversight, including planning, reporting, governance and strategic support to Dance Base.

đź“ťContract type: part time/permanent

đź•™Hours: 21 hours per week

đź’°Salary: ÂŁ40,000 Pro Rata

📆Deadline: Friday 17 April, 12 noon

Head to the link in the bio via for more information and to apply.

🗣️ is looking for new Board members to support their work and bring new skills, expertise and ideas for the future of t...
10/03/2026

🗣️ is looking for new Board members to support their work and bring new skills, expertise and ideas for the future of their organisation.

This is an important moment in LUX’s history as they embark on a process of rearticulating their purpose and shaping their future with a new executive team. So maintaining a strong, dynamic Board of Trustees is essential to guiding LUX’s mission and working in collaboration with the team to develop and implement the organisation’s vision.

They are currently looking for Trustees with skills and expertise in the following areas:

•Legal

•LUX artist

•Fundraising

•Gallerist or collector with experience in artists’ moving-image practice

•Senior level expertise in digital, IT and new technologies

They are keen to hear from people who are enthusiastic about and committed to contemporary art and artists’ moving-image practice, and who are sympathetic to the needs of artists. They are also seeking Trustees who will add to and complement the skills and experience of other Board members.

⏳Closing date: Monday 13 April 2026

đź’»Interviews: w/c 27 April 2026 (online)

ℹ️ For more information head to the link in the bio via

09/02/2026

A word from Ica 

Creators’ Fund+ Round 2 is open. If you’ve been thinking about applying…

Quick tips:
📝 Take your time 
📝 Give us a real budget breakdown 
📝 Assume we know nothing about you or your work

Got questions? Info session: 19 Feb, 6pm

Deadline: 25 Feb, 11am

đź”— Link in bio

Creators’ Fund+ 2026 is open 🎉
Eight Black and People of Colour creatives and cultural professionals in Scotland will re...
28/01/2026

Creators’ Fund+ 2026 is open 🎉

Eight Black and People of Colour creatives and cultural professionals in Scotland will receive £2,980 in funding and mentoring to build sustainable careers on their own terms.

What you get: £1,514 direct funding 20 hours paid mentoring Option of multiple mentors 12 months support

Who can apply: Black or Person of Colour Living in Scotland Aged 18+ Any creative or cultural field Any career stage

No business registration needed. No big portfolio required.

Apply your way: Written, audio or video - whatever works for you.

Key dates: Deadline: 25 February, 11am 
Info sessions: 3 February + 19 February, 6pm

We’re also looking for mentors, paid at Scottish Artist Union rates.

🔗 Link in bio or visit www.weareherescotland.com

Supported by through The National Lottery.

AMPLIFI returns to on Wed 4 February with three artists exploring identity, heritage and belonging through song.
Angeli...
12/01/2026

AMPLIFI returns to on Wed 4 February with three artists exploring identity, heritage and belonging through song.

Angeline Morrison brings The Sorrow Songs to Edinburgh, her ground-breaking album exploring Black British experience through folk music. Guardian Folk Album of the Year, 15 weeks in the Official Folk Chart, and as seen on Later with Jools Holland.

Djana Gabrielle is a French-Cameroonian indie-folk singer-songwriter who has been quietly building something special on the Scottish scene since 2015, blending music and theatre in her work.

Miwa Nagato-Apthorp writes from the Scottish Borders, drawing on folk traditions to explore multicultural histories of place and home. She has performed alongside Eddi Reader and Rachel Sermanni and at Celtic Connections.

This is going to be very special. 

Tickets from ÂŁ10, link in bio.

Photo of Angeline by Nick Duffy

🗣️ Employment Opportunity: is entering an exciting new chapter, and they are looking for a creative, strategic and inspi...
07/01/2026

🗣️ Employment Opportunity:

is entering an exciting new chapter, and they are looking for a creative, strategic and inspiring Head of Marketing and Communications to help shape what comes next.

If you're passionate about connecting audiences with bold artistic experiences, they'd love to hear from you.

đź“ťDeadline: Wednesday 28 January 2026 noon

ℹ️ Full details head to Cryptics link in their bio.

September marked 5 years of We Are Here Scotland. 5 years of learning, building, pushing, and standing firm in our purpo...
19/12/2025

September marked 5 years of We Are Here Scotland. 5 years of learning, building, pushing, and standing firm in our purpose, to support, platform, and advocate for Black and Global Majority artists and creatives across Scotland. As we close this year, I want to offer my sincere gratitude.

To & for their dedication to the Creative Balance research project. Your work brought real progress that we'll continue into the new year. Thank you to for her work on our Directory and for helping grow the AMPLIFI music series, and a special thanks to .mp333 our 1st AMPLIFI Pathways mentee.

To & it's always a vibe sharing the room with you both. I look forward to more opportunities in 2026. A huge thanks to each of you for your skill, care, and commitment. You've helped shape our projects, carried the work through challenges, and helped us grow with integrity.

Massive appreciation to my colleague who's been involved since the beginning. Her support over the years plus her collaboration with AMPLIFI and Creative Balance has been vital. I'm excited to continue this work together.

To our partners and collaborators,
.scot & thank you for your friendship, trust, and collaboration. Your support strengthens our mission and creates opportunities that wouldn't exist otherwise.

To the wider public and our supporters, thank you for showing up, sharing, attending, and believing in what we do. Your engagement makes space for voices and stories that deserve to be heard.

We remain committed to challenging barriers, amplifying talent, and ensuring our community is recognised, valued, and resourced.

We're not unaware of what's happening in the world right now. In times like these, community, solidarity, and spaces that centre us matters even more.
We move into the new year with gratitude, clarity, and determination.

Thank you for being part of this journey. Here's to the next chapter.
Ica Headlam Founder/Director, WAHS CIC

🗣️ In 2025, We Are Here Scotland was approached by acclaimed poet and advocate to explore the possibility of helping to...
15/12/2025

🗣️ In 2025, We Are Here Scotland was approached by acclaimed poet and advocate to explore the possibility of helping to host a Christmas Dinner for care-experienced young people aged 18-25 in Aberdeen on Christmas Day. This initiative is part of a wider movement led by the charity Lemn founded which has successfully delivered Christmas Dinners across the UK since 2013. To date, there have been 155 Christmas Dinners, across 35 Locations, over the last 11 years.

Rooted in community-led care and action, these events aim to ensure that no care-experienced person feels alone on Christmas Day when so many others are surrounded by family, friends and community.

With the support from The Gold From Stone Foundation and Aberdeen City Council, we are now in the very early stages of planning a Christmas dinner for care experienced young aged 18-25 years old on 25th December 2026. But in order for this to happen WE NEED YOUR HELP.

We are looking to create a steering group committee in Aberdeen of 10-15 people from mixed disciplines, unemployed, self-employed, creatives, anybody who wants to get involved in doing something positive for our care experienced young people of Aberdeen.

Community is at the foundations of our work as a grass roots organisation, and
we want to offer a joyful, dignified, and meaningful experience for care experienced young people in a warm and welcoming environment, giving them a Christmas they will never forget, whilst also becoming part of an amazing national movement of social community care, that is needed more than ever.

If this sounds like something you'd like to get involved then please head to the link in our bio to access the steering group committee sign up form.

If you have any questions please feel to reach out to us via email: [email protected]

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