HI~Arts, the arts development agency for the Highlands and Islands, has completed a funding package to ensure that it can offer a suite of awards to artists, craftworkers, writers and musicians who work in the Highlands and Islands.
31 January 2006

The Callum Macdonald Memorial Award 2006 has been created to recognise publishing skill and effort; to validate the practice of poetry publication in pamphlet form; and to encourage the preservation of printed material of this kind in the national collections.
30 January 2006

Aged 11-21? Bursting with creative energy? Don't miss your chance to join one of the leading youth arts organisations in Britain and take part in one of Youth Music Theatre: UK's musical theatre projects commencing summer 2006.
30 January 2006

The recently opened Warehouse Theatre in Lossiemouth brings you a night of comedy on Sunday 26 February at 8pm, with Boothby Graffoe - winner of a Time Out Comedy Award and 1995 Perrier Award nominee.
27 January 2006

A top jazz trio from the States who rarely perform together will be appearing at Perth Concert Hall on Tues 7 Feb '06.
27 January 2006

Make a date for the biggest annual celebration of books and reading. See www.worldbookday.com.
27 January 2006

A range of bestselling writers, including Ruth Rendell, Conn Iggulden, Maeve Binchy, Richard Branson, and Joanna Trollope, are all taking part in a major new literacy initiative for World Book Day this year which is to held on Thurs 2 March. Quick Reads, an innovative series of short and accessible fiction and non-fiction, are aimed at the millions of people in the who just don’t have time to read or who struggle to finish a book.
27 January 2006

World Book Day (which is on Thurs 2 March 2006) today launches a poll to find out the effect on the nation’s psyche of happy endings. What is the nation’s favourite happy ending? Does everyone agree on whether particular books end happily? Hollywood is famous for changing the endings of books to make them happier – most recently with the slushier US version of Pride and Prejudice. Should some of literature’s most famous tragic endings be rewritten to end more upliftingly?
27 January 2006

THE Peatbog Faeries are headlining the first in series of events on the 25th of February which will raise funds for Dunaverty Village Hall, in Southend, Kintyre.
27 January 2006

"Over the Bridge" is an innovative theatre company of learning disabled actors from Skye and Lochalsh. Their first production, "Out of the Box" will be performed at the Aros Theatre, Portree on Fri 3 and Sat 4 Feb 2006 at 7.30pm. "Out of the Box" is a devised play from the participants' own experiences, dreams and aspirations, which also features local musicians, as well as singers from Coisir Sgire Phortrigh.
27 January 2006

Perth Concert Hall is hosting the city’s first celebration of Mozart and Burns on Saturday 28 January 2006.
25 January 2006

The X Factor Dance Company's Smoke & The After Hours will premiere at Glasgow's Tron Theatre before going on tour.
25 January 2006

Plans are well advanced for the first performance in Orkney of one of the greatest pieces of choral music ever written – J S Bach’s “St Matthew Passion”. The performance will take place at St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall on 11 March 2006 at 6pm.
25 January 2006

Belfast Punk Rockers The Dangerfields are returning to Scotland as part of a UK tour put together to promote debut album ‘Born To Rock’ released through Rock N’ Roll Records. The Dangerfields founder member, drummer & vocalist, Andrew Griswold tells about the bands anticipation for this tour “'Born To Rock' is going down a storm and we just can't wait to hit the road again!”
23 January 2006

This years Up-Helly-Aa day concert on 31 January 2006 in the Garrison Theatre, the ‘Fiery Session’, promises to be one of the most exciting ever, according to Shetland Arts Trust Music Development Officer Davie Gardner, with not only some of Shetland’s most popular and diverse acts taking part, but also the whole event is being filmed by BBC 4 for a programme about Shetland music.
23 January 2006

Inverness City Partnership announced today (Monday 23 January 2006) that they have selected Matt Baker to be the Lead Artist on the City Centre Streetscaping programme.
23 January 2006

Scottish Artist, Malize McBride, is due to exhibit her new body of work, ‘Ice and Light – Antarctica’, in Perthshire’s exciting new art gallery in Aberfeldy Watermill, from Saturday 25th February until Saturday 2nd April. The work completes a two-year project, which began with her polar journey in 2004.
20 January 2006

Work by Mull artist Dawn Reade has been chosen from over 1250 entries to exhibit at ‘Originals 06: The Contemporary Printmaking Show’ at the Mall Galleries in central London. The exhibition will take place from 15th to 25th February 2006 and will cover a wide range of contemporary printmaking media and styles. This year’s Private View falls on 14th February, when the show will be officially opened by Sir Peter Blake.
20 January 2006

Musicians at all stages in their career can develop their skills and find out how to plug into the music industry at a forthcoming seminar day at Perth Concert Hall on Friday 3 February.
20 January 2006

Scotland's cultural landscape will be transformed by radical plans for the future, MSPs were told in the Parliament today (19 January 2006) .
20 January 2006

ALTERNATIVE singer/songwriters Dave Arcari and Lee Patterson team up for a double-bill of acoustic mayhem at: The Bein Inn, by Glenfarg on Saturday 4 February and East Grange Loft, Kinloss, by Forres on Saturday 11 February(see below for times/prices etc).
20 January 2006

Collaboration between Shetland Arts Trust, Orkney Arts Forum and Orkney Islands Council, has led to a two-day Northern Isles writing event to be held in Kirkwall on 11and 12 February 2006.
17 January 2006

A highlight of last year’s Pitlochry Festival Theatre Winter programme, Winter Words 2006 presents a distinctive style of literary event, right in the heart of winter! The four-day programme runs from 26th – 29th January and will contain a variety of different kinds of event.
17 January 2006

Dougie MacLean's long awaited album of new songs is officially released to the shops on 9th January 2006.
13 January 2006

Timespan in Helmsdale, Sutherland, has announced some new exciting features to its programme for 2006.
13 January 2006

Scottish Highlands Walks for All, Conservation in action, Wild Boar in Woodland Project, Munros, Corbetts, Music....it must be the 3rd Glen Affric Walking Festival, 2-4 June 2006!
13 January 2006

Twenty two of Scotland's leading artists have been shortlisted for this year's Scottish Arts Council Creative Scotland Awards.
13 January 2006