Scottish Government

Leading arts organisations from Scotland, Ireland, Norway, Belgium and Germany have been awarded funding from the Creative Europe programme of the European Union to cross-pollinate youth theatre practice across the continent for the first time.

Funded by the Scottish Government’s CashBack for Creativity Targeted Fund, New Territory was a partnership project between Youth Theatre Arts Scotland, Toonspeak Young People’s Theatre and Ignite Theatre delivered across Glasgow, Inverclyde, North Lanarkshire and West Lothian.

In 2018, Youth Theatre Arts Scotland and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society worked with young people who all shared an interest in learning about and developing skills in creative criticism for performance.

Seven of Scotland’s brightest young theatre-makers were chosen to work with some of the country’s top theatre practitioners as part of a twelve-month Young Arts Leaders programme to encourage a new generation of arts leaders and producers within their own communities.