Creative Scotland, the organisation which supports Scotland's arts, screen and creative industries has released its ten year plan for supporting and funding the country's cultural and creative sectors. The ten year plan and funding strategy has been put together with input from over 1000 participants drawn from the entire creative spectrum.  Which, for the first time, …
Creative Scotland Open Sessions – Your Editor Speaks
After a year which can best be described as 'challenging', Creative Scotland, the organisation tasked with supporting, promoting and helping Scotland's creativity is holding a number of 'open sessions' which will "encourage open debate on Creative Scotland and its place in a healthy and thriving future for the arts, screen and creative industries." The open …
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Denki Nominated In Creative Scotland Scotland Awards
The 2012 Creative Scotland awards has come in for some criticism in recent weeks. Â We kicked off, asking why digital media and interactive entertainment had no categories, alongside more traditional areas such as film, television, music and literature. Then the rest of the country had a go, wondering why the judging panel was exclusively male, …
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Creative Scotland Awards 2012 – Decision Time
It emerged a few weeks ago that the 2012 Creative Scotland Awards had categories for film, TV, music, performing arts but games, interactive entertainment and digital media had been neglected. We've since had several conversations with representatives from Creative Scotland who have gone some way to explaining why games didn't appear in the awards. Put …
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