Mermaid Performing Arts Fund is the supporting body of Performing Arts in St Andrews. We are first and foremost a funding body, to which any matriculated student of St Andrews can propose a show. The 12+ shows we pass each academic year receive exhaustive funds, resources, and performance space to ensure that making theatre in St Andrews remains accessible to all. Our productions are wholly student run, and creative input from Mermaids as a funding body in our shows is entirely at the discretion of each individual production team. In addition to overseeing our own productions, Mermaids also support the work and operations of our affiliated societies and all independent performing arts initiatives at the university. 

 

As a subcommittee of the Students’ Association, Mermaids is also responsible for facilitating engagement with the arts across the entire student community, and to represent the interests of our members at the Student Representative Council.