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00:00So the Creative Scotland funding that we had confirmed back in January and that
00:04will start in April is going to be really positive for our support for
00:08artists. The first bit is about how we support artists to develop new work and
00:13that's one of the key bits of feedback we've heard from artists is that they
00:16need more kind of paid time and support to be able to do that and so we want to
00:21offer paid residency time which is basically opportunity for artists to
00:25explore a creative idea. There's the other side of it which is about creating
00:28new work, new shows and that's generally going to be in co-production with other
00:33companies and there's two parts to that. The first is about children's work and
00:38building on the success of our three-year partnership that we had with
00:43Capitol Theatre's Edinburgh and Aberdeen Performing Arts and the other is
00:47investing in new work for our kind of main stage which will probably only be
00:52able to do about once a year but it's investing in Scottish plays, new work in
00:58partnership with other Scottish theatres. So the project I'm really
01:03excited about that culminates this summer is called In on the Act and
01:06that's happening with four partners across the region. We've got partners in
01:11Lairg, Balmacara, Skye and on the Morven Peninsula and they've each been
01:16partnered with a professional artist and that professional artist is working with
01:21the partner and with the local community to explore themes that are important to
01:27them to develop a brand new short show that will take place in each location.
01:33All of the shows will feature community members in the production as well so I'm
01:38really excited to see the different creativity that comes from each
01:41different location and artists and community. We're working with nine
01:44schools currently on a project called Everyone is an Artist and that is
01:48working with teachers to support them to develop their drama and filmmaking
01:53skills so that they can bring more creativity into the classroom and then
01:57we're also partnering with BFI and Filmhub Scotland on a project called
02:02Spotlight that's working with community organisations all around the kind of
02:07Moray Firth area to support community cinemas to develop their programming.
02:12We've got some great musicals in our new spring-summer brochure. Restless
02:16Natives is a brand new musical based on the Scottish cult 80s film so I'm really
02:22interested to see what they do with that. We've got the ever-popular Rocky Horror
02:27Show in September and then for families I'm really excited about The Lion, the
02:31Witch and the Wardrobe that feels like it's going to be a real kind of big
02:35spectacle show. So we've got some live performance, some engagement and
02:41some film activity all happening out and about and so much more but those are the
02:46key things to talk about.