Reflections on SCVO’s Gathering and YouthLink Scotland’s Digital Youth Work Conference
Tuesday 10 February was a busy day out and about for some of our team, representing the youth theatre sector at both YouthLink Scotland’s Digital Youth Work Conference and at SCVO’s Gathering. Here are our team’s reflections from both events and the sessions they attended.
YTAS Picks of the Fringe 2025
We’ve been briefly distracted from our usual jobs while we made our way through the Fringe programme to select our top theatrical tips.
Fringe Days Out are back for 2025!
It’s time to limber up and get ready to enter this summer’s hottest ballot! No, not Wimbledon or the London Marathon… Fringe Days Out, of course! We have opportunities for young people and practitioners alike, so click here to find out how to get involved.
Save the Date for Interchange 2025!
Join youth theatre, creative learning, and teaching professionals from all across Scotland for this two-day practical skills development event at the start of April.
It’s the YTAS Pick of the Fringe… 2024 edition!
We asked the hive mind that is Team YTAS to interrupt their regular programming and choose their Pick of the Fringe 2024.
Ayr back in the National Festival of Youth Theatre spotlight
Participants in Scotland’s National Festival of Youth Theatre will descend on Ayr on Friday to mark the start of another wonderful weekend of workshops and performances.
Exciting new additions to our sector training offer
In autumn 2023, YTAS will be back with a new season of training for the Scottish youth theatre sector… and we might be coming to a theatre near you with a brand new two-day training event! Are you ready to get your hub on?
YTAS Pick of the Fringe
We asked our staff to sift through the mighty tome that is the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 programme and select their top picks.
New sector training events launched for Nov-Dec
Just when you thought our training programme for the autumn couldn’t get more exciting, we teased that there was an exciting season finale still to come… Well, now we’ve gone and added part two!
New training programme launched for autumn 2022
We’re delighted to launch the first part of our brand new training programme, full of great learning, CPD and networking opportunities for organisations and freelancers across the youth arts sector.
The YTAS Guide to the Fringe
Our team’s top tips for shows and money saving opportunities: drumroll please, for the Official YTAS Guide to the Fringe 2022…
Ayr in the spotlight with the return of National Festival of Youth Theatre

Budding young talent will fill the stalls of the Gaiety Theatre on Friday as National Festival of Youth Theatre participants descend on Ayr.