We are delighted to be collaborating with the Royal Lyceum Theatre as it launches Wonder Festival - two weeks of work-in-progress by Edinburgh-based independent artists who have been part of the L20 programme.

We are hosting three in-person events at the end of March including, Meet the Artistic Team, Networking and Co-working.

Fronteiras Theatre Lab will showcase a filmed excerpt of Placeholder, written and performed by Catherine Bissett. 

Flavia D'Avila, director, will talk about creating the piece which is based on academic research on theatre and opera in the Colonial Caribbean. 

After two years, we are pleased to be offering Co-working again.

Book now for the first session, which will take place on Thursday 24 February at the Festival Theatre.

Production Manager, Louise Gregory will host a second session on making Covid-safe work.

Following excellent autumn Platform events, we are looking for proposals for our late winter and spring sessions. We have hosted training, new writing, testing online workshop and performance formats amongst others. The Platform sessions can be used however you need to support your creative practice. Apply by 5 January 2022.

Rachel Arthur, Founder of boom saloon and Katie Goh, Digital Marketing specialist, will lead a seminar on how best to use your digital channels to promote your project.

EPAD and Creative Edinburgh have announced a further iteration of the Practice Support Fund for freelance creatives working in Edinburgh. Application are open until 1 November.

We have announced the results today of the final round of the Practice Support Fund we have delivered in partnership with Creative Edinburgh with funds from the City of Edinburgh Council.

A Practice Support Fund for freelance artists, technicians and creatives working in the arts and creative industries in Edinburgh is being launched by EPAD and Creative Edinburgh.

A workshop with Production Manager Louise Gregory. In this workshop Louise will help you navigate through the Covid guidelines, and explore some ideas for different ways of presenting work.  

EPAD is offering a further round of coaching to our network. As we enter another period of uncertainty and with the winter fast approaching, we would like to provide you with a source of bespoke support that can provide a safe place (online) for you to share your concerns and be supported to give shape to your next steps.

We are pleased to announce EPAD Platform our new online initiative that gives Edinburgh’s professional independent performing arts practitioners an online place to share their work with peers from the city’s performing arts community.

We are pleased to attach the findings from our recent survey that invited all those working in Edinburgh’s professional performing arts community to let us know how Covid-19 has impacted their work…

We are delighted to be hosting an online conversation with Vanessa Boyd, Interdisciplinary Performance Officer from Creative Scotland.

We wanted to send an update on forthcoming EPAD events in the light of the Covid-19 pandemic.