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Glasgow Life Arts Development Scheme 2025/26 open now

This awards opportunity supports arts and cultural organisations, and local community groups to deliver cultural projects in Glasgow.
Applications for the 2025/26 scheme are now open.

**Closing date 2025 Friday 25 July**

Apply now

Ciara Phillips - Undoing it

Solange Pessoa - Pilgrim Fields

John Akomfrah - Mimesis: African Soldier

Spare a Minute - Glasgow's networking event for artists and cultural organisations

Enter our Gaelic writing competition - you could win £500!

A bulb pictured in front of glowing lights

Arts Opportunities and Funding

A crowd in a darkened venues, arms raised in celebration

Glasgow UNESCO City of Music

A performer dressed in a yellow jacket with a large eye on the front. They have their face to the sky and arms outstretched behind them. There are other similarly dressed performers in the background. The performance is taken place outdoors on a bridge in Glasgow and there is a blue sky and buildings in the background.

Glasgow's Culture Strategy 2024-2030

A man and a group of children stand in front of Gaelic language signage

Glasgow Life Artists in Communities

Velocity cultural programme

Community Touring Programme

Gaelic Arts at Glasgow Life

Arial view showing a packed auditorium at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall during a show

Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

City Halls exterior.

City Halls

Large crowd at Old Fruitmarket music venue

Old Fruitmarket

An empty Kelvingrove Bandstand with tall green trees in the background and curved concrete seating, pictured in evening light

Kelvingrove Bandstand

Tramway exterior - the Tramway is an old brick building with large windows

Tramway

Gallery of Modern Art - a grand neo-classical building

Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA)

Floating heads at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum - each head has a different expression.

Visit Glasgow Life Museums

Person dressed as a cat and wearing a top hat, at Merchant City Festival

Merchant City Festival, 18 - 20 July 2025

A bagpiper smiles to camera with fellow bandmate pipers out of focus in the background in an outdoor setting

World Pipe Band Championships, 15 - 16 Aug 2025

Four children sitting on the floor in a library reading books

Aye Write Glasgow's Book Festival, 6 - 16 Nov 2025

Glasgow International, 5 - 21 June 2026

A large concert venue, packed with hundreds of revellers, dramatic light focused on a stage

Celtic Connections 2026, 15 Jan - 1 Feb 2026

Three dancers in traditional dress art Glasgow Mela

Glasgow Mela 2026

Venue hire at Glasgow Life

Hire one of our venues for your special occasion

Venue Hire

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