TFN Guest Post

Key Findings, Upcoming Festival and What Next?

In the lead up to the Wellbeing Festival hosted on 13 September 2026, our researcher Loa Pour Mirza wrote a post for Third Force News (TFN) outlining the key findings of our research, what to expect at our festival and where our work is headed. Loa emphasises how our work lands at a particularly relevant moment: increasing austerity, budget cuts across the arts, venue closures around Scotland and intensifying racial hostilities. With the Scottish Government’s recent commitment to pilot Artists Basic Income, we hope our work can inform this pilot by continuing to amplify the voices of creatives on the ground who have demonstrated clearly what meaningful transformation can look like.