HI-ARTS Home About Us Bulletin Board Contact Us Job Vacancies Links Postcards   
HI-ARTS HI-ARTS
QUICK SEARCH
E-mail Page
News Archive
Highlands and Islands Arts Sector News archive from October 2006
Village halls unite campaign launched to take top class music and drama to rural communities

A campaign is being launched to urge Scotland’s village halls to unite if they want to take part in a major bid to bring world-class music and drama into the country’s rural heartland.
30 October 2006


Watermill Gallery brings giants of modern art to rural Perthshire

The Watermill Gallery, one of the UK’s best-kept art secrets, is hosting an exceptional Christmas exhibition this year, with original work for sale by some of the best-known international figures in modern art. From Picasso to Warhol, and Moore to Hepworth, this Perthshire gallery will have one of the most exciting collections of modern art for sale anywhere in the UK this Christmas.
27 October 2006


Young Scot Artists

Young Scot is looking for four creative individuals from a range of artistic disciplines to deliver an innovative new podcasting project, supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, which will enable young people from across Scotland to make and broadcast their own online radio programmes. Successful applicants will be required to take part in some project development before Christmas, with the main project rollout taking place in the January 2007.
23 October 2006


The Writers Factory in Inverness

The Inverness Film Festival, Highlands and Islands Enterprise and Scottish film and television production company Brocken Spectre present The Writers Factory Introduction to Screenwriting in November 2006.
18 October 2006


£250,000 for Highland 2007 arts projects

Fifteen organisations planning arts projects to mark Highland 2007, the year Scotland celebrates Highland culture, have been awarded £250,000 through the Highland 2007 Arts Capital Fund for arts equipment and small building costs.
18 October 2006


Visual Arts Report 2006 - Landmark Report Lays Down Five Challenges for the Visual Arts

A new study commissioned by HI~Arts, the arts development agency for the Highlands and Islands, sets Five Challenges for the continuing development of the Visual Arts in the Highlands and Islands.
18 October 2006


Scotland's top sculptor in project for Olympic tribute - Expressions of interest invited from Highland Artists and Craftspeople

The hunt is on to find artists or craftspeople to design and build a 3-dimensional tribute to the Olympians of Badenoch and Strathspey.
16 October 2006


Aviemore Trade Show update

The Aviemore Trade Show is now just over one third full with around another dozen stands provisionally booked.
13 October 2006


Six Cities Design Festival - call for business case studies

The six cities of Scotland – Aberdeen, Dundee, Inverness, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Stirling – will host the country’s first nationwide international design festival in early Summer 2007.
13 October 2006


Cromarty Arts Trust's Ardyne House available for winter let

Cromarty Arts Trust has accommodation available at Ardyne for anyone undertaking academic, educational, research and artistic activities, from 1st October 2006.
09 October 2006


Aviemore Trade Show 2007

The Aviemore Trade Show is what the gift/craft/art trade has been asking for. A purely Scottish show, it is being held in the Osprey Arena at the Macdonald Aviemore Highland Resort on 22nd to 24th April 2007.
06 October 2006


Craft Development Funding

If you are a craft maker in Skye, Lochalsh or Wester Ross you can now apply to An Tuireann for funding for the development of your practice.
06 October 2006


Art and Agriculture come together in Orkney

An artist is being sought for a unique commission – the chance to create work inspired by spending a year with Orkney’s farming community.
04 October 2006


 

Text Only Print Page Arts Journal Guide Artform Development HI-Arts Services What's on in your area Search the events listing to find out what's on and where. What's on? Take a look at the events calendar.