There is so much talent in Scotland, and we’d love to hear from you - artists, companies, organisations of all sizes who would be interested in programming a night of new work from their network or pool of artists you support through your own initiatives.

As guest curator + host, you programme whatever is exciting you, showcase you and the people who inspire you in your professional community, bringing their work to new audiences.

This is a grassroots initiative, open to anyone with professional training or experience at any stage of their career. To learn more about how we define early career, emerging, mid-career and established creatives, see our Career Stage Guidelines.

When we say it’s YOU and friends, we mean it. Programme whoever you want across any and all genres of live performance. We’d love it if the work brought to the night hasn’t been seen by a paying public audience before, however, sharing excerpts of work going through development or work that has production dates in the diary is grand. Artists can be folk you’d love to get up on a stage / in front of an audience they may not have had access to before, and the work must be safe and easy to perform with limited tech + stage management support. 

If you are interested in curating + hosting one of our nights, email us to start a conversation. We will ask you about you, your work and what kind of work you'd like to programme, and send you our Curator Handbook in the first instance.

We promise our curators and artists a fair, transparent share of any money we make through tickets sales.

We have wrestled with many profit share models, crunching numbers on various scenarios for percentages + fees, and going forward _and friends will operate on a 40/60 profit share split - 40% of takings covering our venue hire fees and wages for our stage management, FOH and producing team. Any remaining profit is channeled directly back into our organisation to support what we do. The remaining majority 60% share goes directly to guest curators + artists. We pay artists directly within a week of the performance date.

We don’t offer comp tickets. As our artists are paid directly from ticket sales, we invite industry guests with the caveat that entry will not be free. 

We offer two ticket price tiers - £12 seated and £10 standing. In our current venue, we have space in the venue for 50 seated and 30 standing. We have been able to offer cheaper tickets thanks to donations made through our Ko-fi page, but as this is not a regular income stream. To keep fees as fair as possible for our artists, tickets will remain at these price points.

We charge what we charge for tickets because art is work, whatever stage it's at.