Vivid Roots Collective
ROOTS Festival 2024
ROOTS Festival is a groundbreaking contribution to the Highlands theatre community. It is a unique opportunity, delivering a full programme of events to celebrate and support local theatre-makers.
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Vivid Roots festival in 3 words: informative, engaging and arguably essential (ROOTS 23 Attendee)
About ROOTS
ROOTS Festival 2024 is our second annual festival for the Highlands theatre community. It is a unique opportunity, delivering a full programme of events to celebrate and support local theatre-makers.
Your support will allow us to deliver a high quality programme of online and in-person events to support emerging theatre-makers across the Highlands and Scotland to: develop new skills, make new connections, and showcase their work
Last year, we created paid opportunities for 22 artists, and worked with 5 volunteers to deliver 14 events across two days in Inverness. This year, your support will help us to create paid work for over 30 artists, and support 6 new performance ideas through mentorship and the opportunity to be seen by an audience.
The festival is instrumental in all of the work we do – feedback from audience and artists shapes our programme of events, and company values, highlighting the importance of creating spaces for local and emerging theatre-makers to connect, and share their work.
Providing a space to build a creative community, bringing people together (ROOTS 23 Attendee)
About Us
Vivid Roots Collective is a Highland theatre company and local charity inspiring artists to pursue theatre careers from the region; we create professional opportunities for and support the creative development of local and emerging theatre-makers.
We make new theatre, like our May 2024 production of The Wound, the Rag, and the In-Between; research the needs of the local arts sector, like our 2023 research report FUTURES; and we run workshops, facilitate spaces for emerging theatre-makers, deliver projects for local organisations, and support artists to make theatre.
We are creating more opportunities for professional theatre-making in the Highlands and have already seen the benefit that this has on the artists working with us. In our project feedback, artists identify improved confidence in approaching work, increased understanding of their practice, and new networks which help them to connect with artists and make their work.
One thing that naturally happened which was lovely was that in-between/after workshops, some people would gather in the Hidden Gem cafe, and we chatted and made connections with new people (ROOTS 23 Attendee)
Your Support
We know that money doesn’t go as far as it used to, and many of us have found the last few years to be especially challenging. With this in mind, we are offering rewards for your support in the shape of advertisement so that the benefit you receive for your contribution goes further than knowing you are supporting Scottish artists and Highland theatre.
