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TRACS Traditional Arts Mentoring

Find out what it's like to be a TRACS Traditional Arts mentee and apply for this year's Trad Arts Mentoring opportunity to develop your skills.

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TRACS Traditional Arts Mentoring 2026

Are you an early- or mid-career practitioner looking to develop your traditional arts and/or language skills? We offer mentoring opportunities in the following areas:

  • Traditional Dance
  • Traditional Music
  • Traditional Song
  • Traditional Storytelling
  • Gaelic language or Scots language (in combination with one of the above artforms)

Follow the link below to find out more about TRACS Traditional Arts Mentoring, supported by Creative Scotland. The deadline is Monday 8th December 2025.

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Dr Jo Miller on the benefits of mentoring

How TRACS Traditional Arts Mentoring Can Support You

Balancing creativity with the demands of organising, promoting, and producing new work can often feel like a juggling act.

In our latest blog, TRACS Traditional Arts Mentoring Coordinator, Dr Jo Miller explains how the TRACS Traditional Arts Mentoring Programme can help you find focus, confidence and community in your creative journey.

Discover how mentoring supports artists across Scotland, from storytelling and song to dance and languages and how it could help you take your next step.

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2023-2024 TRACS Traditional Arts Mentoring Report

The annual Traditional Arts Mentoring Report gives you an overview of the aims, spread and outcomes of the programme.

Trust, confidentiality and quality assurance are extremely important to us, which is why we’re proud to be working towards the Scottish Mentoring Network’s Quality Standard Award. The Quality Award is a benchmark for organisations providing mentoring, aiming to independently assess mentoring practice and certify that programmes are operating in a safe and effective manner.

Read the 2023-24 Report