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

• Stanley Odd
• Lubna Kerr – Tickbox
• Ruxanda Cantir and Sarah Rose – Two in a Barrel
• Fergus McCreadie

Artists 2019

• Alan Bissett – The Moira Monologues
• Shaper Caper – Within this Dust
• ‘Owdyado Theatre – Twisted Tales
• Mairi Campbell – Auld Lang Syne
• Vanishing Point – The Dark Carnival
• My Name is Irrelevant – Myth of the Singular Moment
• Bodies of Water – Saffy Setohy, Aya Kobayashi, Joanna Young, Nicolette McLeod

Artists 2018

• Jango Starr – One Man Shoe
• Mike Vass and Mairead Green
• The Isle of Love / Right Lines / Randolph’s Leap
• Carina McLeod – Fibro-My-Arth
• Bird Radio – The Boy and the Audience

Artists 2017

• Horse MacDonald – Careful
• Let’s Circus – Good Times for Happy People
• Single Shoe – Crazy Glue
• Kathryn Joseph
• Plan B for Utopia / Joan Cleville Dance
• Indepen-Dance – 4 Go Wild in Wellies
• Luke Norris – Growth