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Supported Programme

Running between 2016-2023, the Supported Programme provided funding to promoters to help them programme excellent and experimental new work.

The Supported Programme enabled promoters to:

  • take risks on certain shows
  • programme different genres
  • encourage new and more diverse audiences to attend their events
  • pay a fair and reasonable fee to performers, who otherwise might not be able to tour to remote and rural areas of Scotland

Promoters can now apply to the Programming Pot to support them to book brilliant live performances in their communities.

Promoter-led programming

The Supported Programme focussed on a promoter-led approach to programming. A Promoter’s Panel met annually to consider a collection of available shows, collated by The Touring Network, venues and arts bodies. Once the final programme had been decided, promoters then applied for bursaries to support the cost of their chosen show’s fees.

Artists 2022/2024

Artists 2021/22

Artists 2019/2020

  • The Moira Monologues - Alan Bissett

    Narrated by Alan Bissett in character as Moira Bell – single Mum, cleaner and the hardest woman in Falkirk.

  • Carina McLeod

    Fibro-My-Arth - Carina MacLeod

    Carina gives a painfully funny account of dealing with Fibromyalgia and Osteoarthritis.

  • Achilles - Company of Wolves

    Achilles tells the story of the greatest hero of the Greeks during the Trojan War.

  • The Dark Carnival: Unplugged - Vanishing Point

    Through songs, spoken word and imagery, The Dark Carnival tells the story of newcomers to the afterlife who discover, much to their surprise, that death is not actually the end.

  • Jim Harbourne - The Myth of the Singular Moment

    Two musician-performers take us on a fantastical journey that links four characters in interconnecting tales across the multiverse.

  • My Name is Irrelevant - Matthew Hall

    Mental health and isolation are explored in this piece blending spoken word with a live, original soundtrack.

  • Kinkens - Pip Hambly

    Kinkens depicts an unlikely friendship between anxiety and depression, as they stroll up and down the treacherous hills of life.

  • A promotional image from the dance performance Bodies of Water. A hand hovers above water and stones covered in green seaweed. Droplets of water are falling from the hand.

    Bodies of Water – Saffy Setohy

    Bodies of Water aims to draw connections between our personal experiences as humans made mostly of water, our relationship to it politically and environmentally, and the materiality of water.

  • Still from _ Is Where The Heart Is by Creative Electric and Birds of Paradise

    _ Is Where the Heart is - Creative Electric / BOP Theatre

    A play for two performers of any gender, sexuality, age or race which explores the impact of a person’s environment on their mental health.

Artists 2018/2019

Artists 2017/18

Artisits 2016/2017

  • Kathryn Joseph

    Kathryn Joseph

    Scottish singer-songwriter and musician.

  • A Brief History of Evil - Company of Wolves

    A duet about lies and where they can lead us.

  • The Red Chair - Clod Ensemble

    Surreal ballad which tells the story of a man who could not stop eating, the wife doomed to cook his meals and their “inveesible” daughter.

  • Plan B for Utopia - Joan Clevillé

    A playful dance theatre work exploring the notion of utopia and the role that imagination and creativity can play as a driving force for change.

  • Blast from the Past - Spiltmilk

    Fast-paced, comedic contemporary dance performance that tours through seven decades of British pop culture.

Thank you to our funders

We are grateful to Creative Scotland, WM Mann Foundation, Highland Council and Argyll and Bute Council for funding the Supported Programme.