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Threshold artspace news
New York comes to Perth on Saturday, 3 February 2007. |
| Trio AAB Play Modern Jazz at The Watermill, Aberfeldy
Continuing a series of successful music evenings, the award winning Watermill is set to organise its first jazz night with highly regarded Edinburgh-based Trio AAB. | |
| The Search Is On For All Time Highlands and Islands Icon
The search is on to discover the ultimate Highlands and Islands Icon following the launch of an internet vote by Highland 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. | |
| Templar Poetry Pamphlet and Collection Competition 2007
Submissions are invited for the 2007 Templar Poetry Pamphlet and Collection Competition. | |
| 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. | |
| New Website Helps Amateur Theatre Companies
A new website has been launched that should prove very useful for all amateur performing societies. | |
| Add your event to the Highland 2007 programme!
With Highland 2007 now well underway, event organisers are being encouraged to make the most of Scotland’s year of Highland culture. | |
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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. |
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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. |
| Gorgeous Trio for Beauly - Karine Polwart, Corrina Hewat, Annie Grace
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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. | |
| The Roar o' Human Shingle exhibition on show at Lochmaddy
The Roar o' Human Shingle exhibition by Helen MacAlister at Taigh Chearsabhagh from 20 January - 31 March 2007. | |
| New York’s Bang on A Can All-Stars bring their incredible music to Perth in 2007
If you like to take a walk on the wild side, don’t miss, the legendary New York ensemble, Bang on a Can All-Stars appearing in Perth for their only Scottish date on Saturday 3 February 2007. | |
| 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. | |
| Crafting the Arts: A’ dealbhadh nan ealan - Voluntary Arts Scotland's 1st National Conference
The arts and crafts landscape in Scotland is undergoing a period of change such as the new Culture Bill, cultural entitlements becoming part of government legislation, community planning and the new Creative Scotland body. This is your chance to find out more, and share your thoughts on how the arts in Scotland should develop. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| World class group brings Classic Jazz sounds to Town House
Highland music lovers will be given a rare chance to enjoy a world class band playing classic Chicago & New Orleans jazz when the Swedish jazz Kings visit Inverness on 12 February 2007. | |
| Kingussie Youth Dance show promises funky mix of Hip-Hop, Breakdance and Theatre
Kingussie’s Badenoch Centre is to be visited by the thrilling show RISK from Scottish Youth Dance Theatre's brilliant Y-Dance project on 17 February 2007. | |
| Kungsbacka Piano Trio to perform in Inverness
On 14 February 2007 one of the Inverness Chamber Music Society’s most popular and acclaimed guests, The Kungsbacka Piano Trio, will return to the Town House. | |
| Highly Acclaimed Singer-Songwriter Updates Sounds of Nick Drake and John Martyn
Young guitarist and singer Dan Arborise, who has been described as John Martyn meets Nick Drake for the 21st century by IN THE MIX magazine, is to play Inverness’s Beaufort Hotel on 9 February 2007. | |
| Scots Comedy Star Craig Hill Camps up The Crown Court
Scotland's brightest comedy star Craig Hill is to bring his much loved brand of cheeky, irreverent and wonderfully camp humour to Inverness on 10 February 2007. | |
| 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. | |
| Sandstone Press newsflash!
Sandstone Press is delighted to announce that three of its recent publications have been nominated for major literary awards. | |
| 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. | |
| 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! | |
| 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). | |
| First George Mackay Brown Writing Fellow appointed
The search to find the first George Mackay Brown Writing Fellow is over. | |
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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. |
| Tale of greed, power and corruption comes to Perth
Lillian Hellman’s1939 play, The Little Foxes, made famous by the 1940s film of the same name starring Bette Davis begins at Perth Theatre on Thursday 1 February 2007. | |
| 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. | |
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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. |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| Distance Lab - Seminar, Workshop and Performance
Distance Lab are coming to the Highlands and Moray with a seminar, workshop and performance which will interest anyone in the arts/design community. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| Scottish Arts Council announce shortlist for seventh Creative Scotland Awards
Twenty of Scotland’s leading writers, musicians, visual artists, film makers, dance artists and digital media artists have been shortlisted for the Scottish Arts Council’s Creative Scotland Awards. | |
| Fonn ’s Duthchas - Land and Legacy Exhibition and re-opening of Inverness Museum and Art Gallery
Culture Minister Patricia Ferguson will officially open the newly refurbished Inverness Museum and Art Gallery and launch the Fonn ’s Duthchas – Land and Legacy exhibition on Friday 12 January prior to the Highland 2007 Launch and Lifescan Monster Street Party. | |
| 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. | |
| Traditional Burns Night with a Contemporary Twist
The village of Carrbridge is set to launch into the New Year with a showcase of events for 2007, the Year of Highland Culture. | |
| There's No 'v' in Gaelic
January will see an explosion of celtic and Gaelic arts in Glasgow at the Celtic Connections festival. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
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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'. |
| Michael Weston King to perform at Hootananny
Medicine Music in conjunction with Belladrum Festival presents Michael Weston King at The Bothy Listening Room in Hootananny in Inverness on 17th January 2007. | |
| 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. | |
| Filmmaker wanted to document Environmental Project
An exciting opportunity is available for a filmmaker to document the Avoch Environmental Project between February and August 2007. | |
| 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.' | |