About us

Creative Glasgow is a vibrant membership organisation dedicated to connecting, championing, and celebrating creative practitioners across Greater Glasgow.

We’re a community of over 500 creative practitioners across Greater Glasgow: artists, designers, musicians, makers, filmmakers, producers and everyone in between. We connect, champion and celebrate the people who make this city’s creative life happen, whatever their discipline and wherever they are in their career.

Where we came from

We started life as Glasgow Connected Arts Network (GCAN), which spent over ten years supporting community artists and socially engaged practice, with a real focus on youth and participatory arts. In February 2025 we relaunched at Civic House as Creative Glasgow.

What we’re here for

Our mission is to build the cultural, social and community wealth of Glasgow, with and through its creative and cultural sectors.

We want a creative sector in Glasgow that’s better connected and fairer, and a city that recognises what its creatives bring to it. Wherever we can, we keep money and opportunities in Glasgow by working with local practitioners, businesses and organisations who share our values. When we take on commissions and collaborations, we bring our members in as collaborators and pay them properly.

What we do

Support for members: a year-round programme including our monthly LAST THURSDAY meet-ups, 1-2-1 support sessions, training and microgrants. We promote your work through our newsletter and socials, and speak up for members’ needs in city forums.
Working across the city: through contributing to groups like Glasgow Culture Forum, Culture Counts, and Scotland’s Creative Networks we feed into the city’s plans for culture, education, sustainability and the economy.
Partnerships: we produce projects and events, run marketing and artist recruitment, and take on research, public art and consultation work. What we earn goes back into supporting our members. We co-deliver projects with partners too, from CULTURE MATTERS with the University of Glasgow to SPLIT SCREEN with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Our guiding principles

We are committed to collaboration, working in partnership with Greater Glasgow’s creative businesses, cultural organisations and institutions to deliver our work.
We champion the principles of Fair Work, creating an inclusive working environment and ensuring all programme contributors are fairly remunerated.
Our work is rooted in social justice, striving to build a more equal, inclusive, and representative creative and cultural sector in Greater Glasgow.
We integrate environmental sustainability into every aspect of our work, contributing to a greener creative and cultural sector.

Are you a creative in Greater Glasgow? Join us for free and add your profile to our members’ directory!

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Creative Glasgow is a company with charitable status, registered in Scotland with OSCR. Charity Number: SC053016.

Meet Creative Glasgow’s Team

Rosemary James-Beith

Executive Director

Rosemary (She/Her) has been contributing to Glasgow and Scotland’s creative and cultural sectors for over 15 years with organisations in both employed and freelance capacities including Glasgow Life, SCAN, Craft Scotland, Panel and University of Glasgow. She joined Creative Glasgow in November 2024, supporting the organisation to develop and deliver an ambitious inaugural programme – cementing its role and recognition in the city as a force for sector support and development.

In January 2026 Rosemary transitioned to Executive Director, overseeing the organisation’s strategy, partnerships, and creative programmes.

Tie Macbeth

Company Manager

Tie (she/her) joined Creative Glasgow as Administrator in November 2024, bringing over 15 years of experience in arts administration. She’s worked in a variety of roles across operations, finance, sustainability, creative learning, production, and events, with well-known Glasgow institutions including CCA and the King’s Theatre & Theatre Royal, and Fan Frontier/Glasgow Comic Con.

In March 2026 Tie transitioned to Finance & Administration Manager before transitioning to her current role in August 2026. As Company Manager, Tie plays a key role in supporting the organisation’s day-to-day operations and long-term development.

Jessie McGoff

Digital Comms Specialist

Jessie joined Creative Glasgow in November 2024, overseeing the digital communications strategy and social campaigns.

Jessie is a communications and marketing specialist with a background in contemporary art and cultural programming. In their role as Communications Manager at CCA Glasgow, they led strategic communications, developed inclusive marketing practices and worked with a range of cultural organisations in the city. They currently also work with performance art festival Take Me Somewhere and Al Seed Productions.

Our Board

Jane Gordon

Acting Chair

Malini Chakrabarty

Greer Pester

Sara Schlatte

Rachel Aisling Smith

Tarka Heath

The Latest

September highlights

The clocks haven’t gone back yet, but the jumpers are out and the diaries are filling up fast!

September’s LAST THURSDAY took us to City Halls, where we teamed up with Glasgow CREATE to dig into what the changes to the Scottish Curriculum mean for creative education in Glasgow. Almost 40% of our members work in creative learning, arts education or with young people, and it felt overdue to get the creative and education sectors properly in the same room. Thank you to Kirsty Ferns and the Glasgow CREATE team, Lucy McEachan from Panel and Minnie Crook from 21 Common for their brilliant spotlights, and to everyone who got stuck in with the post-it notes!

We’re still pulling together the details for our next Members Meet on Thursday 29 October, but save the date! We’ll send full details directly to members as soon as everything is confirmed. Don’t want to miss out? Sign up now! If you’re interested in hosting us for a future Members Meet, we’d be delighted to hear from you. Just get in touch!

A Festive Fundraiser

Thursday 3 December 2026

Pop it in the diary now: we’re throwing a festive evening of creative chaos, collective wisdom, good food and drinks, all to raise funds to keep our member meets FREE in 2027. More info soon, but limited tickets so get on it!

Can you donate a prize? We’re looking for local businesses, creative organisations and members who’d like to donate a prize, experience, voucher or skill for the auctions and tombola. Get in touch at admin@creativeglasgow.co.uk.

Creative Glasgow x Film Hub Scotland exhibition workshop key highlights

We’ve collated the key insights and a bundle of resources that came out of our member meetup. The event asked: what does a healthy future for film exhibition here look like, and how do we get there together?

Split Screen returns!

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!

Raise Your Game National

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!

August Highlights: Last Thursday at The Pyramid

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.

Creative Glasgow Privacy Notice

Last Updated November 2024

This Privacy Notice for Creative Glasgow (‘we’, ‘us, or ‘our’), describes how and why we might access, collect, store, use, and/or share (‘process’) your personal information when you use our services (‘Services’), including when you:

Visit our website at http://www.creativeglasgow.co.uk, or any website of ours that links to this Privacy Notice
Use Creative Glasgow, a membership organisation for the creative and cultural sectors in Greater Glasgow. Creative Glasgow is a Limited Company with Charitable Status, registered in Scotland with the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) (SC053016).
Engage with us in other related ways, including our marketing activities and events

Questions or concerns?

Reading this Privacy Notice will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. We are responsible for making decisions about how your personal information is processed in keeping with all relevant legal requirements, including the UK General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our services. If you still have questions or concerns, please contact us at admin@creativeglasgow.co.uk

What personal information do we process?

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us. This may include the following: names, email addresses, job titles, usernames, passwords, contact preferences, contact information, date of birth, and authentication data.

When you visit, use, or navigate our services, we may process personal information depending on how you interact with us and the Services we provide, the choices you make, and the features you use. You must notify us of any changes to personal information.

We do not process sensitive personal information (for example your racial or ethnic origins, sexual orientation, or religious beliefs) through this website. We also do not collect any information about you from third parties.

Some information – such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address and/or browser and device characteristics – is collected automatically when you use our services. Like many businesses, we also collect information through cookies and similar technologies.

How do we process your information?

We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our services, communicate with you, and to comply with the law. We may also process your information for other purposes with your consent. We process your information only when we have a valid legal reason to do so.

The UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires us to explain the valid legal bases we rely on in order to process your personal information. In our case this includes:

Consent: we may process your information if you have given us permission (i.e. consent) to use your personal information for a specific purpose. You can withdraw your consent at any time.
Performance of a contract: We may process your personal information when we believe it is necessary to fulfil our contractual obligations to you, including providing services to you.

Creative Glasgow are the ‘data controller’ for the purposes of this Privacy Notice. We determine the means and/or purposes of the data processing we perform.

We may, from time to time, share information in specific situations with third parties. This includes vendors, consultants and third-party service providers who perform services for us on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work. Contracts will be in place to safeguard your personal information. We may also use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect and store your information, this includes allowing third parties to access this data for the purposes of online analytics (such as Google Analytics).

How do we keep your information safe?

We only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice, unless a longer retention period is required by law (for example for accounting, reporting or other legal requirements). We have adequate organisational and technical processes and procedures in place to protect your personal information. However, no electronic transmission over the internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorised third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. If this occurs we have a legal obligation to inform the Information Commissioner https://ico.org.uk/

What are your rights?

You have the right, under the UK GDPR, to (1) request access and obtain a copy of your personal data; (2) to request rectification or erasure; (3) to restrict the processing of your personal information; (4) request data portability to another service; and (5) not to be subjected to automated decision-making.

How to contact us?

For any questions relating to our storage or processing of your personal data please contact us at admin@creativeglasgow.co.uk

Or write to us at

Creative Glasgow
Civic House
24 Civic Street
Glasgow
G4 9RH