🤗 I hope this finds you well. It’s all change at IAP as we start this new financial year and the beginning of a new relationship with our most supportive funder, Creative Scotland. We have joined a wide and brilliant portfolio of year-on-year funded organisations from April 2025 to March 2028. 

💰 We’re delighted that IAP’s work has been recognised with this key support from Creative Scotland. This is the result of the hard work, skill and creativity of the artists and producers we have collaborated with over the last seven years. 

🧮 Due to this key support, we are recruiting for a General Manager to join our team. Please see below to find out more about this role and review the job pack. 

🍉 We’re really proud to be supporting Welcome to the Fringe: Palestine a mini-festival as part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 to celebrate Palestinian art and culture, with freedom and without censorship. Enjoy theatre, dance, comedy, food, storytelling, music and poetry, showcasing artists from Palestine and the diaspora. We’ve included 3 ways you can support this wonderful project below, ahead of a full announcement. 

📝 I’m also including two articles from the excellent Arusa Qureshi on One of Two by Jack Hunter and Sensory Workshops at Dixon Community in Govanhill (led by Aya Kobayashi, Saffy Setohy & Joanna Young).  

✨ We’ll have more for you soon on Max Alexander’s Function Schmunction,  Hazel Darwin-Clement’s Maya and the Whale, Welcome to the Fringe Palestine and more.   

Take care, 
Mhari & Team IAP

PS – Thanks for supporting IAP. 


Independent Arts Projects (IAP) are looking for a well-organised and efficient General Manager who will oversee the day-to-day operations of the organisation, including financial management, HR, reporting, and administration.

📆 Application deadline: 12pm Noon, on Tuesday 22 April 2025

🔗 General Manager information & job packs in various formats

Welcome to the Fringe: Palestine
This brilliant and beautiful project led by volunteer artists and producers in Scotland aims to bring artists from Palestine and diaspora to Edinburgh in August 2025. There are three ways to support: 

– Donating 
– Volunteering 
– Provide accommodation

You can support & share on Facebook and Instagram


Blog: “I’d forgotten how playful the older participants could be”

Blog: “It feels way more provocative and way more political to perform it in a school”

Thank you to all our friends and supporters who helped us raise funds to bring back the Function Schmunction project in 2025