Creative Glasgow x Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Split Screen is back for a second year, and we’re delighted to be partners on it again alongside the Citizens Theatre, Arcadia and The Work Room, led by the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s Innovation Studio and supported by the Scottish Government’s Ecosystem Community Fund.

Split Screen brings creative practitioners together to find new ways of folding technology into their practice – 3D worldbuilding, digital avatars, motion capture, and new approaches to movement and performance-making. The first workshops sold out fast, but they are looking for people to showcase at their first meet up. Attendee details below – open to all!

SPLIT SCREEN Meetup: In the Making
Thursday 8 October 2026, 5.30–8.30pm
Civic House, 26 Civic Street, Glasgow, G4 9RH
Free

The first meet up is an evening of works in progress and lightning talks from artists and technologists. There’s also an optional SPLIT SCREEN POT LUCK – a rapid-fire round where you say what you’re working on, what you need, and what you’ve got to offer!

Through our partnership with Creative Edinburgh on Raise Your Game National, we’ve been able to offer 12 members free professional development and creative business skills training this September and October. 55 of you applied, which says plenty about the demand for this kind of support. We’re looking at how we meet more of it!

The city has had its summer – the Games, train trips to Edinburgh for the festivals, the long stretch of not-quite-normal – and now everything starts again at once! Autumn, is that you calling?

August’s LAST THURSDAY took us to The Pyramid in Anderston, where we teamed up with Film Hub Scotland to ask what comes next for film exhibition in Glasgow. Ilia Ryzhenko and Hanne Wyllie framed the evening for Film Hub Scotland, and three spotlight presentations from Mónica Laiseca of Refugee Festival Scotland, Mark Langdon, Chair of GMAC and Debbie Aitken from Glasgow Film Festival. It was a really invigorating discussion about how (and where!) we can enrich the film exhibition scene in the city.

Through our partnership with Creative Edinburgh on Raise Your Game National, we’ve been able to offer 12 members free professional development and creative business skills training this September and October. 55 of you applied, which says plenty about the demand for this kind of support. We’re looking at how we meet more of it!

Creative Glasgow has been delighted to hear that proposals for an Artist Basic Income for Scotland are progressing, with MSP Màiri McAllan, Cabinet Secretary for Education, Culture and Gaelic, announcing a Government commitment to piloting a Scottish artists minimum income initiative on 1st September! We look forward to continuing to work closely with Basic Income Conversation to ensure our members’ needs get heard in the pilot’s development phase.

We took a little break last month – but the city didn’t! We were so happy to join Glasgow 2026 for Leading Women at the Commonwealth Games. Lunch high up at the Radisson Red SkyBar, then the best seats in the house for the netball at the Hydro, with leading women from the creative sectors in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee! Thank you to everyone at Glasgow 2026 for the invitation and the warm welcome, to our pals at Creative Edinburgh and Creative Dundee for sharing the day, and to the amazing members who came along and made our corner of it what it was.

We also had our regularly schedule member meet up on the Last Thursday of the month. We were hosted the wonderful folks at Agile City, getting a peek at Civic House, Civic Street and The Glue Factory spaces, as well as finding out what Cue Props and Locohome Retrofit are up to.If you came along and picked up your free day-pass trial, do go back and use it!

We’ve announced two roles that we’re now seeking applications to fill: a freelance, fixed term Researcher and a voluntary Trustee position.

Welcome to summer!

We hope you’re all enjoying the Glasgow sunshine!

We had an energetic May! The second in our Culture Matters series explored what kind of cultural legacy the 2026 Commonwealth Games could leave behind. It was a busy event, with contributions from Gayle MacPherson (Professor of Events and Cultural policy at the University of the West of Scotland), Christiana Bissett (Arts Producer with Glasgow Life), Raidene Carter (Artistic Director and co-CEO of Arts Admin), Simon Stewart (Arts and Heritage Manager at Govanhill Baths) and Phil Batty of the Glasgow 2026 Organising Committee. They were hosted by Dr. Katherine Champion, Senior Lecturer in Creative Industries and Cultural Policy at the University of Glasgow. Thank you to all the contributors and to the brilliant audience for bringing their insights and questions!

May was also the month of Pitch Pot! It was an incredible, lively night where we heard from eight pitchers and the room voted on their favourite. Coming out with the first prize (a £1000 grant partly raised through ticket income) was Glasgow Glass Studio, who will use the pot to develop a new dedicated education and visitor space for heritage craft. In second place, Ese Johnson from Mind to Matter Ceramics who will use his share of the pot towards producing an Afro-Caledonian exhibition spotlighting Black artists in Scotland. All eight pitchers will recieve ongoing support and mentorship from Creative Glasgow as their projects develop. Thanks to our funders over at the Economic Development Dept at Glasgow City Council for making the event possible!

Here’s looking ahead to June:

The third CULTURE MATTERS event on 12th June will ask a hot-button question: does Scotland need a basic income for artists?

Later in June we’re joining forces with Glasgow 2026 Legacy Network to co-host a FREE Summer Social on 23rd June in Civic House!