Music Space programme 2025–26
After a pause in the programme we are thrilled to announce funding support from Youth Music Initiative (YMI). Music Space is supported via YMI’s Access to Making Music fund, focusing on access to opportunities for young people that address inequity.
Congratulations to the other sixty organisations and initiatives across Scotland that also received funding from YMI.
We are now preparing for the next bursary programme which will launch in September. We will be offering two bursaries which will include financial support, a year membership with Music Broth including access to their instrument library, a residency opportunity supported by the CCA’s Creative Lab programme, a programme of mentoring sessions with artists and musicians, and further opportunities that will be developed with the bursary recipients.
Bursary recipients will be selected via nomination.
We will also be planning an exciting programme of creative sessions which will take place later in the year.
This will be the third programme since Music Space launched in 2022. A significant portion of our time is dedicated to behind the scenes work to develop our network and what we offer as an organisation. We continue to explore how we can support young people in the city who are interested in sound and music, with a focus on what is most inspiring, relevant and useful. This is achieved through establishing connections and partnerships within different creative communities, ongoing conversations with young people we have worked with in the past, collected feedback, and evaluation. As well as YMI funding AC Projects (Music Space and Counterflows) are a new recipient of Creative Scotland’s Multi-Year funding programme, which will enable us to sustain and develop the work we do over the next three years.
Image: Creative Session, 2024 – Decolonising the Guitar with Ray Aggs. Held at The Dream Machine.
