Scottish Arts Council funding shift causes controversy

A redistribution of Scottish Arts Council funding, announced today, has readjusted the balance of financial power within the Scottish arts.

Among those to benefit under the new plans are: Arika, who run experimental music festivals Instal and Kill Your Timid Notion; Shadow Spaces, who perform site-specific theatre works around Edinburgh; and Birds of Paradise and Sense Scotland, who both work with disabled artists and audiences.

Other groups to gain cash injections are visual arts bodies The Common Guild and Glasgow International Art Festival, and dance companies Company Chordelia and David Hughes Dance Productions. Each organisation has received grants of between £50,000 and £110,000.

However, established theatre companies such as Suspect Culture, Borderline and 7:84, and arts organisations Edinburgh International Jazz and Blues Festival, North Edinburgh Arts Centre, Out of the Blue, the Queen's Hall and Pitlochry Festival Theatre have all had their flexible funding applications turned down.

More: Arika, Birds of Paradise, Borderline 7:84, Company Chordelia, David Hughes Dance Productions, Edinburgh International Jazz and Blues Festival, Glasgow International Art Festival, Instal, Kill Your Timid Notion, North Edinburgh Arts Centre, Out of the Blue, Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Queen's Hall, Scottish Arts Council, Sense Scotland, Shadow Spaces, Suspect Culture, The Common Guild, News, Music, Theatre, Visual Art, Dance

Last updated: 6 May 2008 10:17 BST

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1. Peter, Edinburgh – 10 May 2008, 8:21pmReport

it should not be forgotten that the SNP Government has frozen the arts council budget for the next three years - hence many of these cuts.

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