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)

The next mentoring programme cycle will run from January – June 2027.

*Applications open on 6th October* 

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.

Read the Blog

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 have achieved 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.

This programme is supported by Creative Scotland Multi-Year Funding.

Read the 2025 Report