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A ROW has blown up over Glasgow missing out on millions in Scottish Government coronavirus lockdown support for performing arts venues without any call for applications. Ministers announced £3m in funding was going to just three charities leading to questions over how they were singled out. Aberdeen Performing Arts – which runs His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen Music Hall and The Lemon Tree – is to receive £1.4 million in new funds. Capital Theatres – which operates the Festival Theatre, the King’s Theatre and The Studio in Edinburgh – will receive £800,000. And Eden Court Highlands – Scotland s largest single-site arts venue in Inverness – will receive £800,000.
THREE online artists’ residencies have been launched to help people rediscover their creative side during lockdown. Each of the events – hosted by OnFife (Fife Cultural Trust) – will seek to inspire those whose imaginative impulses may have been dulled by COVID. The Scottish Government-backed initiative will also reach out to groups which have found outlets for self-expression hard to come by during the pandemic. Singer-songwriter David Latto, from Kirkcaldy, award-winning Leith-based drag artist Jordy Deelight and up-and-coming inter-disciplinary artist Eilidh Ellery, from Cellardyke, will each lead a four-week project. The initiative is supported by the Performing Arts Venue Relief Fund, which supports arts organisations unable to promote their regular activities because of the coronavirus pandemic.