Covid-19
Dance Base Cash Crisis
Dance Base takes Crowdfunding route:
Dance Base, Scotland’s National Centre for Dance, has put out an emergency appeal on Crowdfunder to raise £25,000 so it can continue with its outreach work.
Lyceum’s Live Xmas
Live Shows planned for Christmas:
The Lyceum Theatre has revealed plans for a live family production in December, staged in a dramatically re-shaped auditorium to enhance social distancing.
Showcase 30th Anniversary Album
★★★★☆ Lockdown Highs:
Showcase has pulled off something of a miracle in this 30th Anniversary Album, in which its band and huge chorus has recorded 80 minutes of material under strict social distancing guidelines.
#TakeASeat
★★★★★ Necessary mementos:
Theatre, as we knew it, might not have made a return to the Lyceum just yet, but there is enough drama in the #TakeASeat exhibition, viewable in the foyer until October 3, to engage as performance.
£955K for Ed Theatres
Second wave of Covid funds announced:
Six Edinburgh organisations have received a total of £955,698 as part of the £5m Performing Arts Venue Relief Fund, the second round of government support, administered by Creative Scotland and announced on Thursday 24 September 2020.
Seats Up at the Lyceum
Installation celebrates Scotland’s missing theatre:
The foyer of the Royal Lyceum has become the set of #TakeASeat, with freelance theatre designers creating a tableaux of empty seats to mark the loss of theatre during the Covid pandemic.
Help Save the King’s
Capital Theatres in desperate straits:
Edinburgh’s Festival, King’s and Studio theatres have put out an emergency appeal for money and vocal support, in the face of going dark permanently.
Letter to FM
Full text of Capital Theatres’ letter to the FM:
This is the full text of the letter sent from Capital Theatres to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on Wednesday 9 September 2020.
King’s Double Jeopardy
Jobs or King’s, Capital Theatres tells FM:
Capital Theatres has sent a stark warning to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon that without emergency funds it will either have to sack workers or risk the King’s theatre closing for good.
£57m for culture
Another £57m consequentials allocated:
The Scottish Government has allocated a further £57m of the £97m barnet consequentials reserved for the covid-19 response to the cultural sector.
