Our strategic plan sets out our vision and strategy for the next three years at Manipulate Arts, from 2025 until 2028. It was developed through extensive consultation with artists, audiences, venues and industry partners alongside our board and staff team. What we’ve articulated here is the beginning of a conversation about our shared future.
This business plan is a living, fluid document which will continue to evolve throughout the three years of its life. It establishes a clear direction of travel, but individual strategy elements and objectives will likely change.
The key development aims are:
- Grow our national and international reputation for nurturing and presenting innovative work of the highest quality.
- Expand opportunities for people in Scotland to enrich their lives through participation in visual performance and animated film.
- Nurture a sustainable and future-facing business model, that is resilient to financial, environmental and operational challenges.
- Ensure that a diversity of lived experiences informs our work, and that those from under-represented backgrounds find a home at Manipulate Arts as artists, participants and audiences.
- Create meaningful, empowered and fair opportunities to work and develop practice in our organisation, and act as successful advocates for our artists.
You can read more about these ares for development in our Strategic Plan. View our 2025-2028 Business Plan here.
If you’d like to discuss possible collaborations with us or would like to ask any questions about our future plans or objectives, please feel free to drop us a line.
Climate
As an international festival, we are highly conscious of the impact of our activities and searching for new ways to reduce our footprint. We firmly believe that international cultural exchange is an important part of building human empathy and understanding across the globe, but it is also our view that we cannot use this belief as a reason not to take action on climate.
We are working to find new ways of programming internationally whilst reducing the volume of carbon-intensive travel that we rely on. Each year, we rely on fewer flights to bring companies to the UK. We also work with all companies visiting the festival to ensure their awareness of the Theatre Green Book and support practices which help to invest in a circular economy.
