Your input required for EPAD Consultancy: Fringe Artist Community Hub
In the UK Government’s Spring 2023 budget, £7m of Capital investment was earmarked for Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society (EFFS). These funds will support EFFS in achieving its long-held goals for a community-centred space and a home for their year-round services to artists, audiences and community.
Edinburgh Performing Arts Development (EPAD) has been invited by EFFS to produce a report analysing the existing and potential service provision for artists in Edinburgh, to ensure that the new space being developed by EFFS in Edinburgh’s Old Town complements and provides additionality to the city's cultural offer. The current expectation is that the Hub will provide rehearsal space, co-working and hot-desk spaces and some meeting spaces. There will be no performance space. The programme of Artist Support Services that operates throughout the year for artists seeking producing and promotional advice about performing at the Fringe Festival, will be extended to be more accessible and available to local artists year-round.
To help us provide EFFS with an insight into the existing and potential provision for artists in Edinburgh, we are inviting artists, arts workers and venues to complete a survey that gives us information based on your own experience.
If you manage a venue in Edinburgh that is hired out to artists/arts organisation please complete this survey.
If you are an artist or arts worker in Edinburgh please complete this survey.