Creative Electric

27/02/2026

It’s Purple Friday, an awareness and fundraising day for LGBT Youth Scotland and Team Medusa are proud to be taking part.

Many of our team have benefitted from LGBT Youth Scotlands services in our younger years and we’re so pleased that they are still around to support the next generation of LGBTQIA+ young people.

Creative Electric have made a donation on behalf of the Medusa cast and creatives and we’d like to encourage you to donate too if you can.

‘Purple Friday is our annual fundraising day where people all over Scotland show their support for LGBTQ+ young people and fundraise for our vital services.

Life for young q***r people is difficult and frightening right now, particularly for young trans people being caught in an increasingly hostile political and media environment. That’s why being a visible ally for them is more important now than it ever has been.’

To donate please go to
https://lgbtyouth.org.uk/purplefriday/

28/10/2025

Couple of places left in this Thursdays Art for Anxiety if anyone fancies a chilled evening of ghost making!

A free, relaxed workshop where you'll learn how to make ghosts out of air drying clay. No experience necessary. All materials provided.

06/06/2025

Nae shame in failure: learning to embrace rejection

I applied to Hidden Door to create a new live art piece. It was rejected. Looking back over my application it was unhinged, so now I’m doing this instead…

A practical workshop and discussion that explores the impact of rejection when working as an artist and how to turn that into something positive. The session will look at the importance of rest and recovery, how to receive feedback as part of a rejection and use it constructively in your future work as well as knowing when to say goodbye to an idea.

Throughout the workshop participants will work together to develop a sculptural work that explores shame which will be exhibited as part of Hidden Door 2025 and Kelburn Garden Party.
Participants are encouraged to bring project ideas that they are keen to develop that have previously been rejected by funders or arts orgs and will have the opportunity to explore their future potential, including identifying appropriate future support, funding opportunities and mentoring.

We have three sessions
Workshop 1 (Thursday 12th) for disabled and neurodivergent artists and creatives
(the site will be much quieter that day)
Workshop 2 (Friday 13th) for the LGBTQIA+ community
Workshop 3 (Saturday 14th) open to all artists and creatives

All materials are provided

You’ll get to explore the festival during the day before the site gets busy and if you want to stay for the evening when there’s live music and performances we can sort you out with a discount code for cheaper tickets.

More details and booking at the link below

Nae Shame in Failure: Learning to Embrace Rejection! A practical workshop and discussion on how to turn rejection in to success

04/06/2025

We still have a couple of places in tomorrows Art for Anxiety workshop at The Out of the Blue Drill Hall

Learn creative techniques to help soothe anxious moments

6.30-8pm Free with all materials included

Comment below or email [email protected] to reserve your place

10/10/2022

Delighted to have created this tape art campaign across Scotland for Tiny Changes to celebrate and to launch their new funding.

07/09/2021

13/08/2021

We’re absolutely delighted with this four star review of Dandelion from The Scotsman and incredibly proud of the team working on it especially the ‘outstanding young Amelia Tuck’.

Amid this year’s slimmed-down festival, the returning Army at the Fringe strand at East Claremont Street Drill Hall is one of the main producers of intriguing new theatre-based work. With The Trick That Fooled (****), one of two shows Kevin ‘Quantum’ McMahon is presenting on this year's Fringe...

12/08/2021

We’re donating the box office from Dandelion to Refuweegee because we want to support families who have been displaced by war & don’t have the formal support system forces families have.

If you’d like to support Refuweegee & see some theatre go to https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/dandelion

"at first you feel a winding pain... you get used to it, then you develop a liking to it..."  The Happiness Project explores our need for non s*xual physical contact in our highly digital era.  It features scenes of graphic reality TV binge watching, Whitney Houston and spooning.  We're not sure ...

09/08/2021

Great press for Dandelion over the last couple of days with mentions in The Herald, Metro and The Times.

Have you got your tickets yet?

https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/dandelion

18/07/2021

Our friends at the Fruitmarket have a new project for 16-25 yrs so we thought we’d give them a wee signal boost as it sounds awesome!

Celebrate Art Youth Project

The Fruitmarket and Access To Industry have a new art project for young people aged 16-25 years who live in Edinburgh, who aren’t currently in work or education.

Project starts - Monday 19 July 11am-1pm or 2-4pm
(runs weekly and you can join any time)
Venue - Access to Industry

What you get - a free day travel pass, free food, lots of free art materials and the opportunity to create some very cool art.

For more information contact:

Tracy at Fruitmarket

0131 226 8189

[email protected]

OR

Kirsty at Access to Industry

[email protected]