Two Destination Language – a performance company and arts charity based in the Scottish Borders creating projects with national and international reach – would like to ask for help with some Creative Scotland funded research they’re conducting in partnership with FST.

They are surveying Scotland’s cultural organisations to find out how much of the employed workforce is made up of migrants from countries that were behind the Iron Curtain – from the Baltics to the Balkans, from central to Eastern Europe.

They’re also looking to understand how these people have been represented in the creative programmes of organisations. To get an accurate picture, it’s really important that even where an organisation has no staff identifying in this way and no programme focus, that they still get a response. Please click here to complete the survey.

There’s also a survey for individual migrant creatives to complete about their experiences of working in the creative sector. If you know creatives in your network that you think identify in this way, please pass this on. Please click here to complete as an individual.

The data will be used to create a report that will be shared with the sector in 2027. There’s a deadline at the end of November, but sooner really is better! Please take part, or send it to the person in your organisation who deals with reporting on staff demographics.