Estelle van Warmelo

Taking it to the streets with site-inspired theatre that connects people with place. Artistic Director @feralprods; trustee @_CFTA. Views my own

[Campaign for the Arts @_CFTA]

If the government wants national renewal, they should invest in the arts and culture 🎤

Today, we're launching a petition to remind Rachel Reeves: the arts make our lives happier and our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them 🌱

https://t.co/iFrFFi0Pjt

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[Campaign for the Arts @_CFTA]

Creative Scotland's new Multi-Year Funding programme will support more than double the number of organisations that were supported last time, and a higher proportion than were successful in the last comparable rounds in England and Wales.

Read more →

https://t.co/EMbrqoZT3r

[Estelle van Warmelo @WarmeloVan]

Read and loved The Twelve. The stuff of Alan Garner, truly. Read it.

[Liz Hyder @LondonBessie]

Umm… blimey. BLIMEY. https://t.co/n9PTvR727b

[Estelle van Warmelo @WarmeloVan]

@LondonBessie 🙌🏼

[Estelle van Warmelo @WarmeloVan]

@CWichbold @CourtyardArts @Madi_MacMahon Thank you @CWichbold it was good to see you! 😘

[Clare Wichbold @CWichbold]

Sleeping Beauty @CourtyardArts #Hereford last night. Well done to all concerned, especially Director @WarmeloVan & the wonderful baddie Blista @Madi_MacMahon.

[Angus Robertson @AngusRobertson]

Transformational Scottish Govt budget for Culture with £34m boost, includes extra funding for:
✅multi-year arts funding
✅ Screen Scotland
✅National Performing Companies & Collections
✅Festivals
✅Culture Collective
✅Sistema and YMI
✅…and more

[Campaign for the Arts @_CFTA]

NEW: The Scottish Government has significantly increased its investment in culture, improving prospects for artists and organisations at a critical moment. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎉

It follows months of campaigning and a petition backed by 18,000 Campaign for the Arts supporters.

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[Campaign for the Arts @_CFTA]

The overall culture budget will increase by £42 million (14%) next year.

There will be an extra:
💸 £27m for Creative Scotland to fund arts organisations
🖼️ £13m for the National Collections
🎥 £2m for Screen Scotland
🎭 £1m for the National Performing Companies

[Estelle van Warmelo @WarmeloVan]

@LondonBessie So well deserved! X

[Estelle van Warmelo @WarmeloVan]

This is crazy

[Brian Ferguson @brianjaffa]

🚨Scotland’s theatres, festivals, arts venues & organisations have been left in limbo over their future @scotgov funding until the end of January after ministers refused to earmark a budget for the next @CreativeScots multi-year programme.🚨
https://t.co/Stvo2pmFMr @TheScotsman

[Estelle van Warmelo @WarmeloVan]

Total game-changer growing a musical with these incredible women this week #HushNow #hiddenwomen @FeralProds
@MinaNakamura @LivivanWarmelo

[Campaign for the Arts @_CFTA]

🚨BREAKING🚨
@CreativeScots warns that “cultural depression” is imminent in Scotland.

“Resilience within the sector, financial and human, is essentially at rock bottom.”

“Nationally and internationally significant” organisations are “in crisis and on cliff edges”.

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[Campaign for the Arts @_CFTA]

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[Campaign for the Arts @_CFTA]

🚨BREAKING NEWS 🚨

@scotgovculture reinstates £6.6m in investment for @creativescots, including £3m for the Open Fund.

Despite this, significant sums of funding pledged for 2024-5 remain cut or unconfirmed.

Scotland's cultural sector is still critically at risk.

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[Estelle van Warmelo @WarmeloVan]

@JoHenshaw1 @LivivanWarmelo Such a great show! 🥰

[Estelle van Warmelo @WarmeloVan]

First time to Regent’s Park Theatre and it’s to see my gal @LivivanWarmelo do her thang #FiddlerOnTheRoof #ProudMum ❤️

[Estelle van Warmelo @WarmeloVan]

Extraordinary

[Samuel West 💙💛 @exitthelemming]

How despicable

[Brian Ferguson @brianjaffa]

Check it out, folks.

[Playwrights' Studio, Scotland @Pwrightsstudio]

In light of the decision by Creative Scotland to close the Open Project Fund for Individuals this Friday, we have compiled the following document of support currently being offered to artists, alongside campaigns that have been set up. You can view it here: