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Highlands and Islands Arts Sector News archive from May 2004
New Highlands and Islands Writing Development Co-ordinator Announced

Aspiring writers in the Highlands and Islands are to have the opportunities increased for getting their work published, due to the appointment of a new Writing Development Co-ordinator for the Highlands and Islands.
28 May 2004


Executive Arts Funding reaching thousands of Pupils

Fèis Rois will on Thursday 27th May launch a brand new programme of traditional music and song tuition in Primary schools in Highland.
27 May 2004


Get ON THE WRITE TRACK with IDEASFACTORY Scotland and HI~Arts

Non-Fiction in Scotland - What's the chances of getting published? Come along to the Spectrum Centre Drama Studio in Inverness on Saturday 5th June and find out!
25 May 2004


Increased funding for touring arts in the North East

North East Arts Touring (NEAT) has just received a grant of £10,000 from the Scottish Arts Council to stage an exciting programme of touring drama & dance performances around the North East over the next year.
24 May 2004


Channel 4 launch Modern Apprentice Scheme

Channel 4, in partnership with the Glasgow based Research Centre, will be piloting a new Modern Apprenticeship within the Channel.
21 May 2004


New Fund to Promote the Gaelic Arts

A new £400,000 fund to promote the Gaelic arts over the next three years is to be launched in Nairn today (21 May 2004).
21 May 2004


Anna Wendy Stevenson Click for full size image
Anna Wendy Stevenson
Traditional Music Outreach Tour of Argyll

A great treat is in store for schools and communities throughout Argyll with the advent of a week long tour of traditional music from 25th May to 1st June.
12 May 2004


Gearing up for the 2004 Highland Festival

This year’s Highland Festival, is gearing up to be yet another event to savour, with artistes from around the world descending on Inverness for nine days from 4 to 12 June.
11 May 2004


Gaelic Superstar in Concert

The Inverness & District branch of the TMSA are delighted to be presenting another concert on Friday 4th June at the Waterside Hotel, Inverness, featuring more of the very best in Scottish music and song including Gaelic superstar Arthur Cormack.
11 May 2004


Goular - a new exhibition at Taigh Chearsabhagh

Goular, a house on the Machair is the subject of an exhibition opening on June 3rd of twenty paintings by two Western Isles artists, Laura Donkers and Anne Rabbitts.
11 May 2004


Pitlochry Festival Theatre Click for full size image
Pitlochry Festival Theatre
A Small Family Business

Third to open in Pitlochry Festival Theatre's 2004 Summer season is Alan Ayckbourn's masterful dark comedy, A Small Family Business, on 13 May.
11 May 2004


Festival Breaks All Records For Opening Ticket Sales

The Hebridean Celtic Festival has announced a record-breaking opening week of ticket sales for this year's event.
11 May 2004


The Shop At Sly Corner

Hot on the heels of last Friday`s season opener, Engaged, Pitlochry Festival Theatre is delighted to present the first professional revival for many years of Edward Percy's The Shop at Sly Corner , possibly the greatest British thriller of the 1940s.
06 May 2004


Leading Festival Confirms International Line-Up

Scotland’s Capercaillie and Irish band the Saw Doctors are just two of the headline acts which will appear at this year’s Hebridean Celtic Festival, 14th-17th July, based in Stornoway in the Western Isles.
06 May 2004


May Anniversary for Atholl Gathering and Highland Games

When the Atholl Gathering and Highland Games are held in the grounds of Blair Castle, Perthshire, at the end of May, they will mark the 20th anniversary of the modern-day event, with traditions that date back over 150 years.
05 May 2004


Discover the Past this Summer in Perthshire

Following on from a successful inaugural event last year, the second Perthshire Archaeology Week will be held from Saturday 29 May - Sunday 6 June 2004.
05 May 2004


Crossing the Minch - The Hebridean Tour

The enthusiastic, heartfelt response from previous years of performing in many small, vibrant Highland communities has inspired Dannsa to embark on their third tour (20 May-12 June).
03 May 2004


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Balance by Vega
Hebridean inspired Exhibition at Castle Gallery

The Castle Gallery, Inverness is hosting an exhibition of Hebridean inspired oil paintings by artist Vega, from 7-29 May 2004.
03 May 2004


Whisky Galore - 2004 Revival for Mull Theatre

Back by popular demand – Mull Theatre’s hilarious stage production of Whisky Galore. With a new cast and set design, Whisky Galore opens in Tobermory on the Isle of Mull (20 May), and plays there over the summer, with a short tour to the Highland Festival, Inverness, and the Byre Theatre, St Andrews, in June.
03 May 2004


 

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