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Independent Arts Projects (IAP)
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Leith based arts organisation getting up to all sorts with great folk.

https://www.independentartsprojects.com
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Say hello to the amazing team behind Function Schmunction at East Park School!

🎨 Max Alexander (Play Radical) - lead artist & play worker
🎭 Amy Conway - theatre maker, performer & creative facilitator
A photograph of a woman wearing a hat and smiling next to the sea. A photograph of a man wearing an orange t-shirt and a baseball cap.
December 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Lou Brodie reflects on her IAP Associate Artist journey & her collaboration with Geraldine Heaney on These Bodies Dancing.

Read our latest blog from Arusa Qureshi here👇
independentartsprojects.com/blog-these-bodies-dancing/
December 3, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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We’re delighted that #WelcomeToTheFringePalestine has been named in @thelistuk.bsky.social's #Hot100 for 2025. 🔥

To be recognised as one of Scotland’s most influential cultural contributors makes an already special event even more meaningful.

We can't wait to celebrate with everyone.
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November 27, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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We may not have taken home the BIG prize, but being nominated truly meant the world to us.

Huge congratulations to ‪@takeoneaction.bsky.social‬ - so well deserved! ✨👏
November 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Believe that everyone should have the chance to be creative? Join us at IAP! There’s just ONE WEEK left to apply to become a Trustee & help us celebrate & champion creativity, inclusion & the arts across Scotland. Info & how to apply (Tue 18 Nov, 12 noon) independentartsprojects.com/work-with-us

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November 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Play. Joy. Connection. 💛

Max Alexander's project #FunctionSchmunction celebrates authentic autistic play with artists Max #PlayRadical & Amy Conway at East Park School in Maryhill.

Creativity is for everyone and we’re proud to see it thriving here. 🌈

#ArtsForAll

📸 Geraldine Heaney
November 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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In our latest blog, Arusa Qureshi speaks with IAP Associate Artist Kirsty Biff Nicolson about #WeDreamHere - exploring queer spaces, imagination, and freedom through performance.

Read it here → bit.ly/WeDreamHere

#QueerArt #WeDreamHere #Performance #CreativeCommunity

📸 Tiu Makkonen
Five people sitting on a floor in a rehearsal room.
October 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Thrilled to share that #WelcomeToTheFringePalestine is up for a #CreativeEdinburgh Award! 🎉

So proud and excited - and sending love to all our fellow nominees! 💙 Watch this space...

#creativeedinburghawards

📽️ Sandy Butler
October 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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We’re on the lookout for new Trustees! 🌟

Help us shape the future of #IndependentArtsProjects.

Around 5 days a year | Voluntary (expenses covered)
Apply by Tue 18 Nov, 12 noon

More info here 👇 www.independentartsprojects.com/work-with-us/
October 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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📢 We’re looking for new Trustees to join our team!
👉 Commitment: around 5 days a year, for 3 years
👉 Voluntary role (reasonable expenses provided)
👉 Deadline: Tuesday 18 November 2025, 12 noon
🫵 Download the information pack here: www.independentartsprojects.com/work-with-us/
September 30, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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“What if just imagined the world a wee bit differently?” Arusa Qureshi interviews artists Emily Nicholl and Ellen Renton about making performance that works for blind and partially blind audiences.

📸 Nik Paget-Tomlinson

#NationalLottery #CreativeScotland

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July 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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📣 IAP is looking for a freelance Artist and Playworker to work with Max Alexander on his wonderful project, Function Schmunction, taking place at a Glasgow school this August to December.

👉 We’re looking for someone Autistic (regardless of diagnosis).

www.independentartsprojects.com/work-with-us/
July 3, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Please support disabled people who are facing having their access to work cut. This means that they will lose the jobs and careers they have worked so hard for, and their voices will be harder to hear.

For those who want the link through it’s tinyurl.com/AtWLetter
May 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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👉 Independent Arts Projects (IAP) are looking for a well-organised & efficient General Manager who will oversee the day-to-day operations of the organisation, including financial management, HR, reporting, & administration.

📆 deadline: 12pm 22 April

🔗 www.independentartsprojects.com/work-with-us/
March 12, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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We are so pleased that Independent Arts Projects (IAP) has been successful in
its application to Creative Scotland for Multi-Year Funding for 2025-28. Read
our statement here: www.independentartsprojects.com/iap-to-becom...
February 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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✨ We’d like to say an enormous thank you to all our supporters: audiences, donors, friends, funders, participants, partner organisations, trustees & workers. You are magic!
December 31, 2024 at 8:42 PM
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IAP is now closed until Wednesday 8th January 2025. Wishing everyone a super, extended, restorative break if you’re able.
December 18, 2024 at 5:54 PM
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Every donation helps us to deliver this project to more people, so if you would still like to give, the donation page will stay open for the next few days.

“It was a really special experience that felt like it had been made just for us.” – 2023 participant

bit.ly/IAP-fundraiser
December 18, 2024 at 6:29 AM
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🎲 👉 24hr Board Games marathon starts at 12noon today. Follow along on instagram stories at www.instagram.com/indeartsproj...
December 14, 2024 at 9:17 AM
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2 days left until our 24hr Board Games marathon in aid of Function Schmunction. Can you help us reach our goal? #MakeADifference #DonateToday
December 12, 2024 at 11:43 AM
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Blog: “It feels way more provocative and way more political to perform it in a school”

Arusa Qureshi talks to Jack Hunter about touring his one-person show into schools across Scotland supported by Theatre in Schools Scotland

📸 Julie Howden

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December 5, 2024 at 12:03 PM
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✨ Enormous thanks to all of you who have generously donated so far including all our anonymous supporters who we’ve not been able to thank directly.

👉 You can read more about the project and donate here: www.justgiving.com/page/iap-24h...

📸 Geraldine Heaney

#GivingTuesday
December 3, 2024 at 7:10 AM
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🎲 We will be holding a 24hr Board Games marathon from 12noon on Saturday 14th to 12noon on Sunday 15th December to raise money to bring back this much-loved project to Glasgow & Edinburgh in 2025.

👉 You can read more about the project and donate here: www.justgiving.com/page/iap-24h...
December 3, 2024 at 7:09 AM
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🤞 Can you help us bring back Function Schmunction, an interactive play space where autistic folk of all ages can celebrate and create opportunities for authentic autistic play, joy & connection.

👉 You can read more about the project and donate here: www.justgiving.com/page/iap-24h...
December 3, 2024 at 7:08 AM
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👉 We have only 11 days left to reach our £2,500 target! Can you help with a donation to our fundraiser?

❤️ Donations from people like you are vital in supporting us to keep making spaces where people can see themselves and be themselves.
December 3, 2024 at 7:06 AM