Findhorn Bay Arts (FBA) is an award-winning creative producer of cultural events and activities rooted in the communities of Moray. We have grown from our first Culture Day celebration, held in 2013, to establish a year-round programme of high quality arts and cultural activities across the region, including the flagship biennial Findhorn Bay Festival.
We enable creative experiences across a wide range of artforms and genres, encouraging artists and communities to take expression in whatever form is most appropriate to them. We are also committed to presenting work in site specific, outdoor and unusual locations that explore and celebrate the possibility of cultural activities to surprise and delight audiences.
Our programme has always had community participation, environment and regeneration at its heart and this has led to an increasing focus on engaged practice and co-production. We develop projects that place local communities and people at the heart of the creative process, through participant-led activities and projects which amplify the voices and respond to the needs of those who are frequently unheard, isolated or marginalised.
It’s important that our activities are accessible and diverse to meet the needs of different audiences and participants. This is reflected in both our programming and communications, which target the most marginalised of Moray residents and supports them to explore their creativity, improve their confidence, health and wellbeing and become more socially connected.
Across our programme we seek to harness and enhance the skills of the current, and ever growing, creative sector in Moray as well as provide key development and employment opportunities that help to attract, maintain and develop the people who help to make this part of Scotland a creative place to live, work and visit.
As our work has grown, we understand that our activities bring proven cultural, economic and social benefits to individuals and communities – through transformative creative regeneration projects that resonate locally and inspire nationally.
