We may be the world's Festival City, but what value do we place on culture?

Arts organisations are warning of a "Hunger Games" approach to the sector in which there are no real winners

There is a beat in the Grassmarket.

Walk past the pubs packed with tourists and the busker singing Wonderwall on repeat and you can hear it. You will find it above the packed bar at the Black Bull, or alongside Granny’s Green Steps if you are making the climb up towards the Castle.

It will be a different beat depending on the day and time. Sometimes hip-hop, sometimes Bollywood, classical ballet or old-time dance hall.

This is Dance Base, Scotland’s National Centre for Dance, and one of the beating hearts of Edinburgh’s cultural life.

What happens here - and within other, grassroots organisations in the Capital - cuts to the core of the debate about public funding of the arts in Scotland.