Creative Scotland is the national development agency for the arts, screen and creative industries.  Our vision is that Scotland will be recognised as one of the world’s most creative nations – one that attracts, develops and retains talent, where the arts and the creative industries are supported and celebrated and their economic contribution fully captured; a nation where the arts and creativity play a central part in the lives, education and well-being of our population.

Creative Scotland’s ambition is that Scotland will have the highest level of participation in the arts in the UK with creativity reaching into every home.

Creative Scotland is delighted to be a Supporter of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad and the London 2012 Festival. We’ve created a programme that shows Scotland’s creativity at its best: contemporary, international and reflecting the joy that a vibrant cultural life brings to our communities.

Scotland is in a unique and unprecedented position. The proximity, profile, vision and energy of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games - two of the world’s biggest sporting and cultural events - allows us to build a network of cultural connections across the world and within, and between, all of our communities.

From Shetland, via Stirling, to Selkirk and the glens and cities in between, Scotland will host once-in-a-lifetime concerts, outstanding theatre for children, a football match deep in a forest and a feat of precision choreography lit by cutting-edge technology on an iconic Scottish hillside.