Findhorn Bay Arts

Findhorn Bay Arts is an award-winning creative producer of cultural events and activities rooted in the communities of Moray. We have grown from our initial Culture Day celebration, first held in 2013, to establish a year- round programme of high quality arts and cultural activities for young people and their families, locals and visitors alike, including the flagship biennial Findhorn Bay Festival.

Driven by a passion to celebrate and promote the area as a place of outstanding arts and culture, Findhorn Bay Arts was established in 2012 as a non-profit organisation and company limited by guarantee (SC413997). In 2020, we became a charity registered with the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (SC049867) further cementing our aim to bring increased creative opportunities and investment to the communities that we work with.

Our development has been significantly informed by a desire to increase recognition for the Moray creative sector and for the positive role that arts and culture can make to so many parts of our lives. We have been a driving contributor to the revitalisation of the region as a creative place, including establishing Ignite: Moray Youth Arts Hub, co-founding the Culture Cafe creative network and contributing to the Moray Cultural Strategy: We Make Moray – which was prepared in the shadow of negative news stories about lack of support for arts and culture in the region.

We are based in the town of Forres – situated in the west of Moray and adjacent to Findhorn Bay – the large tidal basin from which we, and our festival, take their name. The surrounding communities of Forres, Findhorn, and Kinloss have been key sites for festival venues for the first three editions. However, our other strands of work make increasingly wider connections through year-round activities that connect with audiences, participants and artists across Moray and beyond.