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21/06/2010
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Donald Worster Wins Scotland’s Biggest Literary Prize
Leading American academic and historian Donald Worster has been awarded the Book of the Year Award for his biography A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir at the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards. |
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17/06/2010
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Sixty Organisations Share £16m For Global Artistic Visions and Inspiring Public Engagement
The Scottish Arts Council has committed almost £16 million to 60 of the country’s leading arts organisations for two years, beginning in April 2011. |
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09/06/2010
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Air Time Jazz CPD for Scotland
International music producers Serious will manage Air Time: Jazz CPD Scotland, the second edition of a Scottish Arts Council funded project facilitating the continuing professional development of emerging creative jazz musicians living and working in Scotland. |
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19/04/2010
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Artist selected for Scotland and Venice 2011
Visual artist Karla Black has been selected to represent Scotland at the 54th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, the world’s largest and most prestigious showcase for contemporary visual arts. Selected from an open call, the exhibition will be curated by The Fruitmarket Gallery for presentation in Venice from June to November 2011. |
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12/04/2010
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Highlands and Islands Focus for Creative Scotland’s ‘Rural Innovation’ Investment
Creative Scotland, Scotland’s new national development body for the arts, culture and creative industries, today announced £240,000 investment in two new projects to encourage and support literature, theatre and dance touring in remote areas of Scotland. The investment is part of Creative Scotland’s Rural Innovation Fund, a £750,000 fund to support innovative, cross-agency working in rural areas |
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07/04/2010
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Book Awards: Category Winners Announced
Four Scottish authors have been shortlisted for the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book of the Year. Selected from 16 category finalists, the winner of each of the fiction, non-fiction, poetry and first book categories receives £5000 and the chance to receive a further £25,000 and overall book of the year accolade. |
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23/03/2010
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Winners of Creative Scotland’s Vital Spark awards announced
Seven unique collaborations have won the Creative Scotland Vital Spark Awards. The winners were selected from a shortlist of 16 by a panel of creative experts to receive a share of the £500,000 Vital Spark Fund to develop their collaborative projects. |
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18/03/2010
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Sixteen Books Shortlisted for Scotland’s Biggest Literary Prize
Sixteen Scottish authors are in the running to receive £30,000 and Scotland’s Book of the Year accolade as part of the Scottish Arts Council’s Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust 2010 Book Awards.
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18/03/2010
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Unlimited Commisions Scotland Announced
Scotland’s Janice Parker and Ramesh Meyyappan awarded first commissions for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad project Unlimited - the UK’s largest programme celebrating arts, culture and sport by disabled and deaf people |
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17/03/2010
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Artists' Film and Video Fund - Recipients Announced
Scottish Screen and the Scottish Arts Council have announced the recipients of the 2009/2010 Artists’ Film and Video Fund. Visual Artists Gair Dunlop and James Houston, were each awarded £20,000 to create two major new pieces of moving image work that are ambitious, fresh and experimental. |
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