From all of us to all of you - thank you for your support this year. 🎄

The last thing to read before you switch off for Christmas🎄 Our wonderful blogger @arusa.bsky.social talks to Kirstin Abraham about facilitating multi-sensory outdoor workshops for neurodivergent families. A thoughtful read for the festive season✨ 🔗 www.independentartsprojects.com/blog-theres-...

Say hello to the amazing team behind Function Schmunction at East Park School! 🎨 Max Alexander (Play Radical) - lead artist & play worker 🎭 Amy Conway - theatre maker, performer & creative facilitator

Lou Brodie reflects on her IAP Associate Artist journey & her collaboration with Geraldine Heaney on These Bodies Dancing. Read our latest blog from Arusa Qureshi here👇 independentartsprojects.com/blog-these-bodies-dancing/

We’re delighted that #WelcomeToTheFringePalestine has been named in @thelistuk.bsky.social's #Hot100 for 2025. 🔥 To be recognised as one of Scotland’s most influential cultural contributors makes an already special event even more meaningful. We can't wait to celebrate with everyone.

We may not have taken home the BIG prize, but being nominated truly meant the world to us. Huge congratulations to ‪@takeoneaction.bsky.social‬ - so well deserved! ✨👏

Believe that everyone should have the chance to be creative? Join us at IAP! There’s just ONE WEEK left to apply to become a Trustee & help us celebrate & champion creativity, inclusion & the arts across Scotland. Info & how to apply (Tue 18 Nov, 12 noon) independentartsprojects.com/work-with-us .

Play. Joy. Connection. 💛 Max Alexander's project #FunctionSchmunction celebrates authentic autistic play with artists Max #PlayRadical & Amy Conway at East Park School in Maryhill. Creativity is for everyone and we’re proud to see it thriving here. 🌈 #ArtsForAll 📸 Geraldine Heaney

In our latest blog, Arusa Qureshi speaks with IAP Associate Artist Kirsty Biff Nicolson about #WeDreamHere - exploring queer spaces, imagination, and freedom through performance. Read it here → bit.ly/WeDreamHere #QueerArt #WeDreamHere #Performance #CreativeCommunity 📸 Tiu Makkonen

Thrilled to share that #WelcomeToTheFringePalestine is up for a #CreativeEdinburgh Award! 🎉 So proud and excited - and sending love to all our fellow nominees! 💙 Watch this space... #creativeedinburghawards 📽️ Sandy Butler

@iaponline.bsky.social are looking for passionate new trustees to help shape their future. If you care about creativity, community and positive change click the link below 👇 📍Edinburgh tinyurl.com/ypd4y9r9 #Trustees

Hello Friends & supporters Please help #IAP win £5k from #BenefactGroup’s Movement for Good Arts & Culture draw! 💛 Over 10 days, 10 charities will each receive £5k to support their work. Your nomination really helps →https://bit.ly/nominateIAP Every nomination counts. Thank you 💜 #SupportTheArts

We’re on the lookout for new Trustees! 🌟 Help us shape the future of #IndependentArtsProjects. Around 5 days a year | Voluntary (expenses covered) Apply by Tue 18 Nov, 12 noon More info here 👇 www.independentartsprojects.com/work-with-us/

📢 We’re looking for new Trustees to join our team! 👉 Commitment: around 5 days a year, for 3 years 👉 Voluntary role (reasonable expenses provided) 👉 Deadline: Tuesday 18 November 2025, 12 noon 🫵 Download the information pack here: www.independentartsprojects.com/work-with-us/

“What if just imagined the world a wee bit differently?” Arusa Qureshi interviews artists Emily Nicholl and Ellen Renton about making performance that works for blind and partially blind audiences. 📸 Nik Paget-Tomlinson #NationalLottery #CreativeScotland bit.ly/475rwVT

📣 IAP is looking for a freelance Artist and Playworker to work with Max Alexander on his wonderful project, Function Schmunction, taking place at a Glasgow school this August to December. 👉 We’re looking for someone Autistic (regardless of diagnosis). www.independentartsprojects.com/work-with-us/

📣 IAP is looking for a freelance Artist and Playworker to work with Max Alexander on his wonderful project, Function Schmunction, taking place at a Glasgow school this August to December. 👉 We’re looking for someone Autistic (regardless of diagnosis). www.independentartsprojects.com/work-with-us/

Please support disabled people who are facing having their access to work cut. This means that they will lose the jobs and careers they have worked so hard for, and their voices will be harder to hear. For those who want the link through it’s tinyurl.com/AtWLetter

Deadline for this key General Manager role is 12pm (noon) on Tuesday 22 April. £33,000 per annum. Base: Edinburgh/hybrid.

Small but busy arts charity @iaponline.bsky.social. are looking for a looking for a well-organised, efficient and experienced General Manager to join their team! tinyurl.com/mx5ehta7 £33,000 Leith, Edinburgh/hybrid

👉 Independent Arts Projects (IAP) are looking for a well-organised & efficient General Manager who will oversee the day-to-day operations of the organisation, including financial management, HR, reporting, & administration. 📆 deadline: 12pm 22 April 🔗 www.independentartsprojects.com/work-with-us/

We are so pleased that Independent Arts Projects (IAP) has been successful in its application to Creative Scotland for Multi-Year Funding for 2025-28. Read our statement here: www.independentartsprojects.com/iap-to-becom...

✨ We’d like to say an enormous thank you to all our supporters: audiences, donors, friends, funders, participants, partner organisations, trustees & workers. You are magic!

IAP is now closed until Wednesday 8th January 2025. Wishing everyone a super, extended, restorative break if you’re able.

A huge ✨thank you✨ to the 99 generous supporters who donated £2,670 towards Function Schmunction, creating space for autistic people to be themselves.  The JustGiving link had some technical issues but is now working again if you would still like to give. bit.ly/IAP-fundraiser

Fundraiser for a great project from a great arts org. Please follow below and consider donating 🙂

🎲 👉 24hr Board Games marathon starts at 12noon today. Follow along on instagram stories at www.instagram.com/indeartsproj...

2 days left until our 24hr Board Games marathon in aid of Function Schmunction. Can you help us reach our goal? #MakeADifference #DonateToday

Calling all Scottish arts & culture folks! I’m busy pulling together my preview of the year ahead, which will be running in Scotland on Sunday over the festive period. What TV shows, events, festivals, films, exhibitions & books do I need to know about? Email me or DM me on here!

Only 7 days to raise £2,500 for this key project. Can you help?

Blog: “It feels way more provocative and way more political to perform it in a school” Arusa Qureshi talks to Jack Hunter about touring his one-person show into schools across Scotland supported by Theatre in Schools Scotland 📸 Julie Howden bit.ly/3ZELOlh

Blog: “It feels way more provocative and way more political to perform it in a school” Arusa Qureshi talks to Jack Hunter about touring his one-person show into schools across Scotland supported by Theatre in Schools Scotland 📸 Julie Howden bit.ly/3ZELOlh

✨ Enormous thanks to all of you who have generously donated so far including all our anonymous supporters who we’ve not been able to thank directly. 👉 You can read more about the project and donate here: www.justgiving.com/page/iap-24h... 📸 Geraldine Heaney #GivingTuesday

🎲 We will be holding a 24hr Board Games marathon from 12noon on Saturday 14th to 12noon on Sunday 15th December to raise money to bring back this much-loved project to Glasgow & Edinburgh in 2025. 👉 You can read more about the project and donate here: www.justgiving.com/page/iap-24h...

🤞 Can you help us bring back Function Schmunction, an interactive play space where autistic folk of all ages can celebrate and create opportunities for authentic autistic play, joy & connection. 👉 You can read more about the project and donate here: www.justgiving.com/page/iap-24h...

👉 We have only 11 days left to reach our £2,500 target! Can you help with a donation to our fundraiser? ❤️ Donations from people like you are vital in supporting us to keep making spaces where people can see themselves and be themselves.

👉 We have only 11 days left to reach our £2,500 target! Can you help with a donation to our fundraiser? ❤️ Donations from people like you are vital in supporting us to keep making spaces where people can see themselves and be themselves.

Have made a starter pack for UK Theatre Producers Let me know if you want to be added 😁 go.bsky.app/GYWWH7Z

My new coaching programme for socially engaged cultural workers is LIVE. Please share far and wide, in this much paired down network I need all the help I can get. www.lilyeinhorn.com/re-inspire

doing the work for Theatre Bluesky / Theatre Marketing Hive and have created a list for UK Theatres and Arts Orgs so y’all can stay up to date with accounts here 🎭 please share and let me know if your orgs need adding! go.bsky.app/KAbz71g

“We are always, now, talking in terms of survival, pleading for money. Over and over we have to justify our value. In a world without drama, music, art and all other creative activity, our value would, too late, become horribly apparent.” (Rona Munro) #InvestInCulture

Wonky books are back! We sell books that get returned to us by retailers such as Amazon, which have become dented, torn and/or dirty, as well as some spectacular misprints, all at over 50% off. It means we're not pulping and our authors aren't missing out on royalties. www.404ink.com/wonky-books

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A huge #Bluesky wave to all our new followers! If you are looking for financial advice/support tailored to the arts, we've got you covered. Visit the 'Financial Support' resources on our website here: freelancersmaketheatrework.com/financialsup... #FreelancersMakeTheatreWork

From Berlin to Bellshill, it’s non-stop for Jack Hunter touring 🥚 #OneOfTwo

Hello Bluesky! We’re a Leith-based arts charity who work with artists and performance makers to develop, produce & tour productions & arts projects for people across Scotland. We connect artists & communities and make space for people to be themselves and see themselves.