Art
Seven steps to save Scotland’s creative economy
Author / Creator: Dougal Perman
Media type: Article
Date published: 2025
The creative economy, attacked from all sides in recent years, is stagnant. Without investment it would contract. Job losses would be particularly severe in fragile areas such as grassroots music venues
Seven steps to save Scotland’s creative economy
Author / Creator: Dougal Perman
Media type: Article
Date published: 2024
“cutting arts funding is a false economy?”
A failure of leadership over Glasgow’s “Mack”
Author / Creator: Jackie Kemp
Media type: Opinion
Date published: 2024
Glasgow needs its Mack back
Demarco's Edinburgh
Author / Creator: Richard Demarco
Media type: Book
Date published: 2023
Can the Edinburgh Festival survive?
Digging deep with Demarco
Author / Creator: Charlie Ellis
Media type: Article
Date published: 2024
Demarco on Edinburgh Festival and arts.
Highland Sparks
Author / Creator: George Gunn
Media type: Article
Date published: 2024
Highland theatre has a short and impressive past and a bright and beautiful future.
Poor Things: meet the radical Scottish visionary behind the new hit film
Author / Creator: Joe Jackson
Media type: Article
Date published: 2024
Alasdair Gray was a maverick and polymath – a writer, artist, polemicist, dissident and civic nationalist – who had an immense influence on contemporary Scottish literature and beyond.
Demarco’s Edinburgh
Author / Creator: Richard Demarco
Media type: Book
Date published: 2023
Now in its seventy-sixth year, can the Edinburgh Festival survive?
The Cheviot, The Stag and The Black, Black Oil: An inside story
Author / Creator: Bill Paterson
Media type: Article
Date published: 2023
Bill Paterson reflects on "The Cheviot, The Stag and The Black, Black Oil" 50 years on
Glasgow Cool of Art: 13 books of fire at the Mackintosh Library
Author / Creator: Johnny Rodger The Drouth price £10.00: https://www.thedrouth.org/product/glasgow-cool-of-art-johnny-rodger/
Date published: 2022
A look at "the full human effect of the cataclysm which destroyed Mackintosh’s masterwork."
Time, travel and the fading magic of Edinburgh
Author / Creator: Christopher Silver
Media type: Opinion
Date published:
The Edinburgh festivals can be understood as process of gentrification. This is a small city which has simply run out of space.