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HI-Arts Cultural News archive from January 2007
| Volunteers Needed for FALCON Film Project (Art, Music & Drama) FALCON Movie Making is a cause to Celebrate!! - The FALCON Project in Inverness (for adults with Learning and other Disabilities) has recently succeeded in finding over £22,000 enabling its Art, Music and Drama Groups to create a short film and are looking for Volunteers to assist. 26 January 2007 |
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| Inspired by Turner - Inverness ReViewed The first community exhibition in the newly refurbished Inverness Museum and Art Gallery is inspired by one of the museum’s prize possessions, the View of Inverness painted in 1833 by J M W Turner. Young people from Inverness High School have worked with a digital artist and a writer to produce their own images and poems about Inverness which reflect Turner’s style and subject matter. The exhibition runs in the main foyer from 1st to 25th February.
25 January 2007 |
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 | New Artist in Residence in Cromarty for Highland 2007 Joel Mason Houck from Edinburgh has been appointed as Playwright for Cromarty 2007 and will begin his residency in early February and be based with Cromarty Arts Trust at Ardyne until early summer. 24 January 2007 |
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 | New Children’s Book Festival Launched The award winning Watermill Bookshop in Highland Perthshire is to hold the first book festival in Scotland dedicated exclusively to children’s books. 24 January 2007 |
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| Gorgeous Trio for Beauly - Karine Polwart, Corrina Hewat, Annie Grace The Highland Council and the recently formed Beauly Arts Group are combining to present a year long programme of musical events in Phipps Hall, Beauly. The series gets off to a wonderful start on 17 February with the hottest new trio on the Scottish music scene – Karine Polwart, Corrina Hewat and Annie Grace.
23 January 2007
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| A Woman's Journey Art Exhibition This event seeks to share the creative expression of a woman’s journey in life. Overcoming adversity, emerging as women in their own right. Celebrating and embracing the paths that lead the way. 23 January 2007 |
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| Castletown Heritage Traditional Skills Workshops As part of the celebrations of Highland 2007- year of culture, Castletown Heritage is organising a series of workshops featuring traditional skills once practised in the village and district. 22 January 2007 |
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| Discovery Tours for 2007 Pride and Passion For Scotland feel that the more businesses and tourism initiatives know about the local area the better it is for the visitor. 19 January 2007 |
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| The Ironworks announces shows with Top Scottish talent Inverness venue The Ironworks shows its commitment to bringing home-grown Scottish music in all its genres to the Highlands by announcing 4 shows with top Scottish acts between February and March that range between Rock, Salsa and Traditional music. 19 January 2007 |
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| Surreal Comic Drama Promises “Whale” Of A Time The Spectrum Centre is to play stage to The Unsinkable Clerk, a comic drama following two men on a surreal, accidental adventure at the Spectrum Centre, Inverness on 16 February 2007. 19 January 2007 |
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| Sandstone Press newsflash! Sandstone Press is delighted to announce that three of its recent publications have been nominated for major literary awards. 19 January 2007 |
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| Natural Life on Luing Weekend Writers, artists and others interested in learning more about natural life on the Isle of Luing and the west coast of Argyll and responding creatively to it are invited to come to the Natural Life on Luing Weekend from Friday 4 to Monday 7 May 2007. 19 January 2007 |
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| Sir Elton John to rock Highland capital in 2007 Hot on the heels of last Friday’s Highland 2007 Launch and Lifescan Monster Street Party, Highland 2007 have announced today that international rock star Sir Elton John will play in the Highlands as part of the year of Highland culture celebrations! 17 January 2007 |
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| Scottish Musicians perform in New York The Big Apple will be echoing with the sound of Scottish musicians as they perform to an audience of international promoters and agents this weekend (19 & 20 January 2007). 17 January 2007 |
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 | Passing Places/Aite Seachnaidh launched The launch of the Macphail Centre’s community art project Passing Places/Aite Seachnaidh will be celebrated in Ullapool on Thursday 25 January 2007, as part of Highland 2007, the year Scotland celebrates Highland culture. 17 January 2007 |
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| Death Disco returns to The Ironworks Death Disco the UK's coolest club night returns to The Ironworks, Inverness on 20 January 2007 in association with Paul Mathur of the ICA. 15 January 2007 |
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 | Poetic Visions at Perth Museum and Art Gallery Poetic Visions, an exhibition of landscape art that explores the different ways that artists looked at the Scottish landscape during the 19th century, will be showing at Perth and Kinross Museum and Art Gallery over the coming months. 15 January 2007 |
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| Golden Opportunity For Local Writers HI~Arts, in association with Jenny Brown Associates, Literary Agents, Edinburgh, are inviting authors of general non-fiction living and working in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, to submit new proposals for non-fiction books for consideration by literary agents, Jenny Brown Associates. 15 January 2007 |
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| Gael Trail Inverness This weekend (20 & 21 January 2007) , experience the history and heritage of Inverness by taking part in a guided walk led by broadcaster and writer Roddy Maclean. 12 January 2007 |
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| Wolfstone – 'Terra Firma' – Album Launch Terra Firma the hotly anticipated new album from Highland rock band Wolfstone will be launched at the band’s home town gig, The Ironworks on the 9th of February 2007. 12 January 2007 |
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| Striking the Right Note in the Town House The new grand piano in Inverness Town House contiues to be put to good use as part of an enhanced programme of Lunch-time and evening concerts in celebration of the Year of Highland Culture. The concerts are promoted by Inverness Chamber Music Society and The Highland Council, with support from Enterprise Music Scotland and Highland 2007. The piano itself was funded through grants from Highland 2007 Community Fund and Inverness Common Good Fund. 11 January 2007 |
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| Argyll Artists launch Argyll & Bute Highland 2007 Programme The Argyll Boxed Collection, first shown in Gallery 1, An Tobar on the Isle of Mull is set to provide the centre piece for Civic Reception to launch of the Argyll & Bute Highland 2007 Programme on Thursday 16th January at the Caledonian MacBrayne Terminal in Oban. 11 January 2007 |
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| There's No 'v' in Gaelic January will see an explosion of celtic and Gaelic arts in Glasgow at the Celtic Connections festival. 10 January 2007 |
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| Ensuring Public Safety at Highland 2007 Street Party Motorists are being advised of street closures in Inverness, which are needed to ensure public safety at the Lifescan Monster Street Party being staged between 7 – 10 pm on Friday (12 January) to herald the launch of Highland 2007, the year that Scotland celebrates Highland culture. 09 January 2007 |
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| Highland 2007 Launch Weekend - update This weekend, 12 and 13 January 2007, sees a host of events taking place throughout Inverness to mark the official launch of Highland 2007, Scotland’s year of Highland culture. 09 January 2007 |
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 | Winner of the HI~Arts Hogmanay Short Story competition announced We are very pleased to announce that the winner of the inaugural HI~Arts Hogmanay Short Story Competition is Alison Flett of Orkney whose story, 'Here He Comes', captures the horror and fear of domestic violence and isolation and is a vivid, sometimes shocking contemporary take on the notion of the 'ghost story'. 08 January 2007 |
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| Lineup for Winter Words Festival Announced Lineup for Winter Words Festival Announced John Simpson, Ronnie Corbett, and William McIlvanney are just a few of the literary stars and personalities that take to the Pitlochry stage in this year’s Winter Words Festival 25th-28th January 2007. 05 January 2007 |
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| Voluntary Arts Scotland's first national conference The conference is aimed at anyone who gives up their time to organise arts, crafts or heritage activities; any paid staff who help run such activities; local authority arts officers; arts and crafts practitioners - and anyone else who feels they would benefit from discussing issues which arise in the world of 'cultural volunteering.'
05 January 2007 |
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