Founded in 2011 as a meeting place for the local arts community, Culture Café brings together people who work in the arts who are interested in networking, sharing ideas, developing partnerships and peer support.

Culture Café has been used to launch projects, establish sector-wide strategies and introduce partners from health and social care, business and education.

Read the Culture Café Manifesto or find out how to host a Culture Café.

Let’s begin by saying that there is no rigid format, all we ask is that your own event is in keeping with the ethos and ideas outlined in the Culture Café Manifesto. 

Culture Café is all about creating a mutually supportive environment in which arts and culture can flourish.

Full details for hosting a Culture Café or get in touch.

March to September 2020

Culture Café ran two series of Animateurs (a programme supporting contemporary artists/creative practitioners who the COVID-19 crisis had negatively impacted) during a lockdown period in 2020. You can read more about the work of the past Animateurs here.

Through the National Culture Collective fund, currently Moray has two Collective programmes happening, with different partners working together as part of the Culture Café network.

Arts in Moray Collective, a new collective of four partner organisations, Dance North Scotland, Moray Arts Development Engagement (M:ADE), the Moray Way Association (MWA) and Wildbird, are hosting nine artists in residence to develop projects with a focus on both their own artistic development and on community engagement and collaborative practices. Click here for more information

Combine to Create, a new and collaborative programme of creative activities in Moray by Findhorn Bay Arts (FBA) and Artists. Six creative practitioners have been engaged to work closely with FBA, each other as a collective and with communities of people / place in Moray throughout 2021 / 2022. Click here for more information