Benefits of enhancing cultural cooperation with the EU: evidence from Scottish stakeholders

Creative Scotland

“For Creative Scotland, working internationally helps deliver key strategic outcomes. It increases diversity, encourages creative ambition and excellence, strengthens communities, boosts tourism, and connects Scotland to the world. International presentations, distribution and touring are vital in ensuring Scotland’s creativity and diverse contemporary cultures are widely understood and appreciated. Similarly, welcoming ideas and seeing the work from other countries can inspire both audiences and artists at home. Many of Scotland’s artists and cultural organisations depend on international markets to sustain their creative practice and businesses.”
 

Culture Counts

“To connect, share ideas and collaborate without borders is key to the pursuit of art and culture. International cultural activity strengthens Scotland’s reputation as an innovative, connected culturally ambitious country. Culture has the inherent ability to span borders and both outgoing and incoming cultural product, artists and ideas contribute to the artistic and economic health of Scotland’s culture sector as well as those of partner countries. With recent challenges and risk shrinking horizons, it is important to do everything we can to retain and strengthen links.”

Glasgow Life

“Exporting international cultural activity via tours, collaborations, partnerships and performance helps present Glasgow (and Scotland) as a modern, outward-looking and vibrant city. The strength and quality of these relationships is based on the strength and quality of the city’s cultural assets and capacity.

Well established festivals such as Celtic Connections and Glasgow International are built around international cultural connections and these relationships are an integral feature of what makes these events attractive to performers and audiences.”