The five most-viewed links from the last Edinburgh Culture Minute:

1. 📝 New government survey on culture sector support. (Survey now closed, but it was this newsletter’s most-clicked link for three weeks running.)

2. 🍿 Cinetopia’s weekly events, screening and film industry opportunities.

3. 🎨 This year’s programme of adult craft workshops at Lauriston Castle.

4. 🎭 ‘Take Part: Find Your Light at the Festival Theatre with Mary Poppins crew.’

5. 💰 Summerhall Arts launches ‘New Meadows Award’.

News:

💰 It’s been a life-changing week for many of Edinburgh’s arts organisations, venues and groups following Creative Scotland’s long-awaited and delayed multi-year funding announcement. – There is a good summary of the news in All Edinburgh Theatre.
⮑ Why are they getting this cash? Creative Scotland explains here. You can download a full breakdown of how the money is shared out in this spreadsheet.
⮑ In total, 74 Edinburgh-based orgs will get £72.2 million between now and 2028.
⮑ Here’s a list of all 74 Edinburgh groups granted funding across the next three years:

• Edinburgh International Festival: £11,750,000.

• Royal Lyceum Theatre Company: £4,974,570.

• Fruitmarket Gallery: £3,133,333.

• Edinburgh International Film Festival: £1,950,000.

• Edinburgh International Book Festival: £1,880,000.

• Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland: £1,757,076.

• Dance Base: £1,720,263.

• Capital Theatres: £1,609,750.

• Imaginate: £1,528,274.

• Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop: £1,406,179.

• Publishing Scotland: £1,401,009.

• Craft Scotland: £1,299,999.

• Collective: £1,263,483.

• Filmhouse: £1,243,312.

• Regional Screen Scotland: £1,230,000.

• Edinburgh Printmakers: £976,120.

• Federation of Scottish Theatre: £960,000.

• Edinburgh International Jazz and Blues Festival: £940,000.

• Arika (Arika Heavy Industries CIC): £911,950.

• Scottish National Jazz Orchestra: £909,450.

• Starcatchers Productions Ltd: £888,451.

• Grid Iron Theatre Company Ltd: £875,160.

• Red Note Ensemble Ltd: £857,500.

• Tinderbox Collective: £822,500.

• Lyra: £758,400.

• Manipulate Arts (Puppet Animation Scotland): £757,267.

• Independent Arts Projects Ltd: £720,223.

• Stills Ltd: £683,432.

• Drake Music Scotland: £674,543.

• Magnetic North Theatre Production: £658,547.

• Youth Theatre Arts Scotland: £642,033.

• Artlink Edinburgh and The Lothians: £639,000.

• The Dovecot Foundation: £634,500.

• Summerhall Arts: £608,302.

• Curious Seed: £602,793.

• Deaf Action: £600,486.

• Luminate: £598,223.

• Art27 CIC: £591,840.

• Love Music Productions Ltd: £588,182.

• All or Nothing Aerial Dance Theatre: £587,500.

• Wide Events CIC: £585,262.

• Screen Education Edinburgh: £580,149.

• Lung Ha Theatre Company: £572,591.

• Be United: £559,829.

• Tortoise in a Nutshell: £514,650.

• Travelling Gallery (City of Edinburgh Council): £504,667.

• Scottish BPOC Writers Network: £489,334.

• Cutting Edge Theatre LTD.: £484,039.

• Civic Digits CIC: £470,000.

• Dunedin Consort: £470,000.

• Edinburgh Art Festival: £470,000.

• Talbot Rice Gallery, the University of Edinburgh: £422,024.

• I Am Loud CIC: £419,943.

• Live Music Now Scotland: £410,001.

• Music in Hospitals and Care: £405,481.

• Theiya Arts: £366,600.

• Creative Edinburgh Ltd: £315,000.

• North Edinburgh Arts: £309,731.

• Push The Boat Out Ltd: £283,500.

• Door In The Wall Arts Access C.I.C.: £278,736.

• Open Book: £269,293.

• WHALE, The Arts Agency: £262,355.

• Media Education Scotland CIC: £261,106.

• The Embassy Gallery: £249,237.

• Art Walk Projects CIC: £247,089.

• The Benedetti Foundation: £225,600.

• Dirliebane Theatre Company: £224,150.

• Art in Healthcare: £222,467.

• Iberodocs CIC: £188,000.

• Pianodrome Community Interest Company: £177,500.

• Craigmillar Now: £150,000.

• Think Circus C.I.C.: £150,000.

• Visual Arts Scotland: £150,000.

⮑ The funding announcement is ‘a significant uplift in support after years of cuts and standstill funding,’ writes Naomi Head in the Good Egg Project newsletter.
⮑ and “not anywhere near as bad as everyone thought it might be. In fact, I think it was pretty damn good,” said Fergus Morgan in The Crush Bar.

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