Since our conception in 2017, Project X has developed and flourished as a high quality, artistic, engagement programme which seeks to redress the racial inequality in Scotland’s current performing arts sector. Our programme is centred in our work with and for artists who identify as black, people of colour (BPOC) and with heritage from Africa and/or the Caribbean, offering residency programmes, choreographic and performance platforms, access to training and professional development opportunities, and a community hub offering support, advice, advocacy, and amplifying artists work within the creative sector. 

As of 2025, Project X has become a Multi-Year funded organisation. To learn more about our programme until 2028 you can read our business plan.

Available to view here.

VISION, MISSION, VALUES

Our Vision: We are working towards a world which is free from insidious hierarchical structures founded on white supremacy.
A world where African and Caribbean heritage and culture is respected, cherished, cared for, celebrated, recognised, and valued.
We want to see BPoC artists represented and cared for within the performance sector; we want our BPoC communities to have access to work which is celebratory, empowering, and liberatory - work we can see ourselves reflected in.

Our Mission: Our mission is to decolonise the arts in Scotland. Through our work platforming dance of the African and Caribbean diaspora, we aim to improve the diversity and strength* of Scotland’s cultural ecology and contribute to a more holistic, equitable and inclusive society.

*For Project X, strength is collectivity, sustainability, resilience, wisdom, good health & wellbeing, thoughtful criticality, responsiveness and imaginative creativity.

Our Values & work are guided by four core values:

Knowledge & Creativity
We recognise artists as the voice of our culture. We platform artists to move, to make, to innovate, to create. We see creativity as a gateway to knowledge and we encourage all those who participate in Project X activity to be empowered with historical knowledge and its contemporary impact in every context they move in.

Care
We work with care for the artists, for the art forms, for the participants, for the culture, and for the community. We kindly recognise and acknowledge the multiplicity of trauma that people of the African and Caribbean diaspora carry with them each day, particularly in the context of Scotland, and we approach this trauma as witnesses, allies and friends. We draw from our own lived experiences to offer recognition, responsiveness, and genuine care.

Collaboration
Recognising the multidisciplinary nature of African and Caribbean diasporic performance and that many unique voices represent the African and Caribbean diasporic experience, we aim to work collaboratively and across art forms. Our work is delivered in collaboration with a wider team of freelance artists and practitioners who identify as BPoC, from choreographers, performers, dance artists and musicians, to producers, designers, filmmakers and photographers. We work together through equitable exchange and conversation, co-piloting towards our shared destination.

Celebration
Creating joyful and welcoming community anchor points that centre and celebrate African and Caribbean diasporic culture and heritage. We believe that working for racial justice must include time for celebration and moments of joy or this vital antiracist work will not be possible.

Power of X

We are inspired to use X in acknowledgement to our elders in the civil rights activist emancipation movement, who used X in place of their slave surname as an act of refusal and empowerment. In Algebra X can symbolise any number and we use this as inspiration for infinite possibility. X marks the spot - the point in which our diasporic identities, movement, historical and contemporary contexts all meet. X is the space for us to imagine and build our future.