CREATIVE Scotand has launched a £1.5m fund that aims to tackle inequalities in the arts by focusing provision on Scotland’s most disadvantaged young people.
Applicants are invited to apply for up to £120,000 to cover a three year programme of activity that will provide young people, aged 10-24, from disadvantaged backgrounds or “who have found themselves in difficult situations” access to cultural activities.
The fund is targeted at specific groups of young people from areas of deprivation; those who are unemployed, not in education or training; young people who have been excluded or are at risk of exclusion from school; young offenders and young people at risk of antisocial behaviour.
Applications to the CashBack for Creativity Targeted Fund are also being welcomed from organisations in the arts, screen and creative industries.
Four information sessions are being held in Inverness, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow to help inform potential applicants about the Cash Back for Creativity application process and criteria.
The sessions are in Inverness on February 28, Dundee on February 27, Edinburgh on March 2 and Glasgow on March 3.
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A BENEFIT gig is being held for Glasgow-born guitarist Jim Mullen at the 606 club in London on March 22.
Mullen, pictured, has gathered admirers across the jazz, blues and funk scenes as a musician with his own unique voice on his instrument. As well as leading his own groups, including his Organ Trio, Mullen has worked with leading figures including blues singer Jimmy Witherspoon, jazz pianist Gene Harris and the Average White Band. He co-led the very popular Morrissey-Mullen jazz-funk band for ten years with the late saxophonist Dick Morrissey and the legendary Chicago soul-folk poet Terry Callier used to refer to him as “God” for his ability to lift a song with his improvisations when they toured and recorded together.
Having recently, and quite suddenly, been afflicted by a serious and rare infection that has involved several operations including skin grafting, Mullen is facing months of physiotherapy and is likely to be out of action for a considerable time.
Friends and colleagues including former Average White Band singer-guitarist Hamish Stuart, Tony O’Malley, of Kokomo, jazz singer Claire Martin, and Mullen’s band mate in the Great Wee Band, trumpeter Henry Lowther will perform to raise funds to support Mullen while he recovers.
606club.co.uk
ACCLAIMED Central Scotland summer music festival Doune the Rabbit Hole has teamed up with Synergy Concerts to programme this year's event, which takes place at Cardross East at the Port of Menteith in Stirlingshire on the weekend of August 18-22. Synergy currently programme Glasgow's Hug & Pint venue in the West End and were previously associated with the Wickerman Festival.
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