The Youth Arts Fund: Bursary Programme from Creative Scotland is a new fund to provide opportunities for arts and creative organisations to support early-career artists and creative practitioners aged 18-24 in the arts, screen and creative industries. Organisations can apply for funding to offer bursaries to these artists, to help them develop and produce work.
The fund is open to organisations based in Scotland whose work involves the arts, screen and creative industries. This can include Creative Scotland Regularly Funded Organisations as well as third sector organisations who can demonstrate their capacity to deliver a supported bursary programme for early-career artists and creative practitioners aged between 18 and 24.
The fund will support between 10 and 25 arts/creative organisations based in Scotland:
- With a grant of between £5,000 and £30,000
- To host up to 5 bursaries lasting up to 12 months
- To support the artists and creative practitioners they host in the development and sharing/presentation of work and their next steps beyond the project
- To reflect on and diversify their own programmes
- To learn from working with young early-career artists and creative practitioners
The selected host organisations will be expected to run an open call for artists and creative practitioners between December 2021 and February 2022.
These should be for individuals who:
- Are aged between 18 and 24 (or, aged over 24 if they are disabled and/or care experienced)
- Are based in Scotland
- Are working in art forms and practices which could include but not limited to: multi-art form, craft, creative learning, dance, design (including fashion and architecture), literature, music, theatre, visual arts, traditional arts, Gaelic language and culture, Scots, film, digital (including computer games design), socially or community engaged practice.
Deadline for applications 12 noon, 27 August 2021.