Scotland's main arts funder has revealed 100 awards to artists and cultural projects worth nearly £2m.
Awards of between £1000 and £120,000 have been made to festivals, visual artists, musicians, film makers, art centres, dancers and writers.
The Edinburgh-based sculptor Kenny Hunter, "forager artist" Thomas Keyes and visual artists Steven Grainger and Robert Powell are among individual artists who have received awards to enable them to create and exhibit new work.
Kenny Hunter’s new work will debut at the 2016 Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop Exhibition as part of Edinburgh Art Festival this year.
Also receiving funds are Cuilean Craicte, the Edinburgh-based Gaelic reading group for children, as well as a project called Scots Hoose Ootreach.
This Scots language project led by Scots writer Matthew Fitt and supported by Hamish MacDonald, has been given £12,000 and will work with schools in areas of deprivation throughout Scotland to create large-scale pieces of creative writing in 75 workshops.
Glasgow-based publishers Freight receive £40,000 for new publishing and Neu! Reekie! of Edinburgh receive £60,000 to "host and deliver Art is for Everyone, a year-long programme of affordable literary salons showcasing poets and writers, alongside an eclectic mix of cutting edge music, animation, film, visual art, dance and theatre."
Several Scottish festivals have received awards including, St Andrews Voices, the Glasgow Americana Festival, Stonehaven Folk Festival, and a new festival from Making Music called, A Festival of Making Music which will take place at Kilgraston School, Perthshire in October 2016.
In theatre, Angus-based theatre company Poorboy received funding to support their touring production Damned Rebel Bitches.
The play is based on the war years generation of Scottish women with an international cast aged between 75-30.
In one of the biggest awards, Glasgow-based Outspoken Arts received an award of £80,000 to support their inaugural season of work.
Spanning two years, this work looks at "LGBT asylum, trans visibility, LGBT ageing and care, the development of new voices and women writers, LGBT ethnicity in the visual arts in Scotland and exploring stereotypes in contemporary literature and fiction."
Edinburgh-based filmmaker Steven Fraser has received funding to support the development of his animation-documentary What It Feels Like, which looks at the experience of hearing voices.
The Banff Preservation and Heritage Society will use their award made towards crafts to re-establish Banff as a centre of silversmithing.
Among the awards for dance, Edinburgh-based choreographer Jack Webb received an award to support the development of new contemporary dance work The End.
He said: “I am delighted to have received funding to make and tour The End.
"The work will explore the dramatic notion of end points, the end of the world, the end of life as we know it, the end of good, bad and all in between.
"We are very excited to be taking this work to many venues across Scotland, including to Dundee, Inverness, Banchory, Aberdeen and Ullapool, and to be able to offer the opportunity for local people to get involved through workshops exploring The End's methodologies, themes and choreography and to perform alongside the professional cast."
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