Gill Bird, Arts and Heritage Education and Exhibitions

14/09/2026

08/09/2026

🗣️ Funding available | Kickstarter Forward Fund

Following the success of the inaugural Creative Scotland Forward Fund in 2023, Creative Scotland is renewing its support for Scotland-based creatives – producers, artists and makers, musicians, designers, and more – adding a new pool of £67,500 to the fund, courtesy of The National Lottery.

The funding will contribute directly to eligible live Kickstarter campaigns across film, comics, music, radio and podcasts, games, publishing and design.

Kickstarter and Creative Scotland team members are hosting a webinar at 6pm, September 16 2026 for potential applicants to learn more about running successful Kickstarter campaigns and the process of applying to the Forward Fund.

Learn more 👇

04/09/2026

FINDHORN BAY FESTIVAL - CULTURE DAY FORRES
Saturday 26 September 2026 | 11am - 4pm

Our Culture Day Map & Listings have arrived! 🎉

We'll be getting them out to local shops and businesses over the next coming days, you can also pick one up from our office if you'd prefer at:

📍98 High Street, Forres, IV36 1NX
🕚 Office Opening Hours: Tuesday - Thursday | 10am - 4pm

02/09/2026

I can confirm that summer 2026 has well and truly delivered - I’m absolutely delighted to be the Resident Artist of the James Milne Institute in Findhorn for the Small Halls Artist Residency Programme. Meeting with locals, chatting/writing about memories of the village and finding out more about t...

02/09/2026

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28/08/2026

📢 OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS 📢

Micro-Commissions 2026 is now open! This year, Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums invites creative practitioners to respond to the AAGM collection and the theme of Scottish Identity. We want to hear fresh perspectives on what Scottish-ness means today. 🏴✨

Whether you're exploring heritage, place and belonging, or reflecting on identity through lived experience, culture, memory and myth, we welcome creative and thought-provoking proposals that reimagine how Scotland is seen, understood and imagined in the 21st century.

If you are a creative practitioner from an AB postcode, please send us your application for a funded micro-commission. We use the term micro-commissions as the making period is 12 weeks, in which you, the artist, will have developed and realised your proposed work(s). There are two levels of funding available. We expect to award one commission of £2,500 and two commissions of £1,000.

This is the seventh round of Micro-Commissions by Aberdeen Art Gallery (Aberdeen City Council). The first rounds were funded using award money received from winning the Art Fund Museum of the Year prize. All subsequent rounds have been supported with generous funding from the Friends of Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums.

📆 Application deadline: 11:59pm, 4 October 2026

✨ A virtual information and Q&A session for anyone interested in applying will take place on Microsoft Teams at 6pm on Tuesday 8 September 2026. To attend, please contact [email protected].
For more information about Micro-Commissions and how to apply, click the 🔗 https://orlo.uk/b3nJb

Aberdeen City Council Friends of Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums Creative Scotland SCAN Gray's School of Art Aberdeen Deemouth Artist Studios Torry StationHouse Media Creative Learning

17/08/2026

I'm not sure if 'looking forward to this' is the right phase, but I am definitely going to see it.

13/08/2026

Codie Anne's crochet work challenges the divide between art and craft, asserting the value of human skill in a world of mass production.

10/08/2026

Step into the heart of the action as a festival volunteer, supporting our events, helping visitors and meeting people.