Art27scotland is a community interest company and non-profit making organisation. It is focused on exploring the powerful and sometimes conflicting relationship between our shared human and cultural rights. We are distinctive in Scotland, as we articulate global shared experiences through our locally based international Artists in Residence. We aim to celebrate our connectedness to the rest of the world, and develop empathy, listening and learning from others’ lived experience. We want to share this exchange through art in order to stimulate broader democratic discussion and exchange relating to the rights of artistic expression, cultural participation and cultural democracy.
Art27scotland works in the Southside area of Edinburgh. We define the Southside as the area of Edinburgh within fifteen minutes’ walking distance of our partner organisation the Southside Community Centre, an area made home by a vibrant international community.
Art27scotland’s role is to empower and encourage artists and their communities into a Collective, and for it to become a vibrant, democratic, local social movement that opposes racism by celebrating the many cultures of the Southside, enhancing the lives of all Southsiders.
We welcome everyone including visual artists, writers, performers, musicians, socially engaged and interdisciplinary practitioners to join us in collective cultural action.
