Search:
Print Page
Email PageHighlands and Islands Cultural News archive from May 2008
| Commedia Comes to Town
Commedia dell’Arte play- ancestor of Pantomime - From The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni | |
| Wordplay 2008
Shetland Arts is delighted to announce the line up for Wordplay 2008. Shetland’s seventh annual book festival will welcome some of the great names of the current literary scene and an exciting mix of writers: local and visiting; writers of fiction, writers of non fiction; novelists and poets; writers for adults; writers for children… | |
| Residency Opportunity at Cromarty Arts Trust
Student Prize 2008 | |
| |
Habeas Corpus to open this week at Pitlochry
Habeus Corpus opens this Thursday 29th May at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre and will play in repertoire until 15th October. |
| Exhibition with a Blast - Kirkwall
Grooves, Albert Street, is playing host to an exhibition of work with an alien influence. Ray guns, space guns and other scientific artifacts, which are derived from the collaboration between local artist, John Shapter, and retired historian, Professor Roderick Urparz. | |
| Mull Theatre presents Swindle and Death
What is the secret behind this most long-lived and ridiculous theatre company? For years they have been touring their sentimental porridge of tartan and nostalgia around the Highlands... how do they manage to keep going with this Cullen skink of claymores and crudity, sgian dubhs and sexual innuendo? | |
| Closing Date for Royal National Mod Entries Draws near
With entries for the Royal National Mod ’08 flowing in thick and fast An Comunn Gaidhealach’s administration team is busy preparing for this year’s event, which is to be held in Falkirk for the first time ever. | |
| |
Rhythm and Dance
A new exhibition, ‘Rythym and Dance’ opens at the Fergusson Gallery, Marshall Place, Perth on 7 June 2008. |
| Stone Required For Traditional Dyke At Ferrycroft Visitor Centre, Lairg
It is proposed to build a traditional drystane dyke over the summer at the newly refurbished Ferrycroft Visitor Centre in Lairg. Expert Dave Goulder, who lives nearby in Rosehall and is the author of “How to build and repair dry stone walls" will lead several short courses to create the wall. | |
| Eden Court highlights for mid-late May
Eden Court is presenting a varied line-up of theatre performances in mid to late May, taking in drama, ballet, kids’ shows, opera, rock n’ roll, world music, and competition finals. | |
| Scottish Opera announces 08/09 season
Scottish Opera is pleased to announce details of its 2008/09 season, offering audiences a busy and varied programme of activity. This is the first season influenced by Music Director Francesco Corti, appointed in 2007, and gives an exciting flavour of things to come. | |
| |
Primary school children's knitting on display at the Shetland Museum and Archives
The Shetland Museum and Archives is to host an exhibition of knitting produced by Shetland’s primary school children. ‘The Market’ is the result of this academic year’s work and highlights both the children’s skills and enjoyment they get from their knitting. |
| |
A Helping Hand for the Arts in the North
Local venues in Easter Ross and the Black Isle have for years promoted quality touring arts events in village halls and arts spaces - including theatre, dance, film, and music of all kinds. Now this work is about to become easier, thanks to the appointment of a local development worker. |
| A Helping Hand for the Arts in Argyll
Local venues in Argyll have for years promoted quality touring arts events in village halls and arts spaces - including theatre, dance, film, and music of all kinds. Now this work is about to become easier, thanks to the appointment of a local development worker. | |
| Visible Fictions opens new production of The Song from the Sea
Award-winning Visible Fictions returns today with the enchanting children’s production, The Song from the Sea. Opening today in Glasgow at Platform, the show will continue on a 7 week tour across Glasgow, Fife, the Borders and the Highlands, finishing on 28 June 2008. | |
| |
Gunnie Moberg exhibition and special ‘Gunnie Day’ to be held at the Pier Arts Centre
An exhibition of photographs by the late Orkney artist and photographer Gunnie Moberg is to open at the Pier Arts Centre this week (23 May 2008). |
| Traditional Sessions in Shetland
Shetland Arts Traditional Session in Cullivoe Hall last Friday (16th May) brought together some of the youngest musicians from the Northern Isles with several more experienced players from the community. | |
| She Stoops to Conquer at Pitlochry Festival Theatre
Following hotly on the heels of opening night at Pitlochry Festival Theatre, PFT is delighted to announce it’s 2nd play in it’s Summer repertoire – She Stoops To Conquer, directed by Richard Baron. | |
| |
Shetland Blues Festival 2008
The 5th Shetland Blues Festival, the UK’s most northerly blues festival, will take place over the weekend of Friday 29 August to Sunday 31 August 2008. |
| Highland Council introduces trusts scheme for talented young people
Young Highland people are to benefit from the new Duncraig Educational Trust Scheme which will provide grants totalling around £25,000 each year. | |
| Fisheries Records return to Shetland
550 manuscript volumes concerning Shetland’s fishing history will be coming back to the islands on Saturday, 24 May 2008. | |
| Les Murray to visit Ullapool
Ullapool is about to receive a visit from one of the most prestigious literary figures in world poetry. | |
| In Response
At an talla solais, Ullapool Visual Arts. | |
| Crime cash to help young people broaden artistic horizons
On the 15th May 2008 Culture Minister Linda Fabiani and Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill announced a new initiative from the Scottish Government’s CashBack for Communities programme which will support increased cultural activities for vulnerable young people. | |
| Year Of the Flood DVD
Runrig 'Beat The Drum' Festival, Drumnadrochit, August 2007 | |
| MUSIC NAIRN ACQUIRES A STEINWAY GRAND PIANO
Music Nairn, the re-named Nairn Performing Arts Guild, have acquired a seven foot Steinway grand piano for their new home at the Nairn Community Centre. | |
| RSA 182nd Annual Exhibition 2008: The Highland Society of London Award
As part of the RSA 182nd Annual Exhibition, Mary Gillies has been awarded The Highland Society of London Award (￡500), for the best work in any discipline by a Highland artist) for her work entitled Midwinter. Mary was brought up on the Isle of Barra in the Western Isles where she attended Castlebay Secondary School, then later, The Nicolson Institute in Stornoway. After graduating from Gray's School of Art in 1993 she received the RSA John Kinross Travelling Scholarship to Florence. | |
| A Band Called Quinn - new album release date put back
A Band Called Quinn's latest album, Sun Moon Stars will be released later this summer (as opposed to this month) due to remixing. | |
| Heat 4 of Battle4Bella
Heat 4 of Battle4Bella will be held this Friday (May 16th) at Invergordon Arts Centre. The Line up is Samina Karatu, | |
| Fame Academy Comes to Moray!
If you like High School Musical you will LOVE this! NO experience required, get fit, have fun and make friends and learn how to dance, make music, and sing your socks off for four days (Mon – Thurs)! The Workshops will be in Moray from 21 July until 7 August at various venues in Buckie, Forres and Llanbryde. | |
| The W.O.T. club - Drama and Dance Workshops
Nothing to do? Want to make a drama out of nothing? At the W.O.T club (21st – 25th July 2008 at Anderson’s Primary School, Forres) they will fill your head with games and your belly with laughter. They will find stories to tell and characters to become. Meet Lucy and Ruby who will lead you in play, inside and out. | |
| Culture and Consequence - Booking opens for major conference on the arts and ethics
Should the arts be ethical? What kinds of values should the arts represent? Do artists have a moral responsibility to speak out? These are just some of the questions that will be asked at Culture and Consequence - a major conference in June on the role of ethics in the arts promoted by the London Centre for Arts ad Cultural Enterprise (LCACE) in partnership with the Cultural Leadership Programme. | |
| Parallax: Exhibition of Work by James Ryan
In this solo exhibition, which runs from 6 June - 17 July, artist James Ryan presents a body of abstract paintings that centre around a deep interest in geometry, relating to the world around us. | |
| Two Exhibitions for North Galleries - May 2008
Over the Hills & Far Away is showing in St Fergus Gallery, Wick from 16 May until 7 June. This displays the work from the 2006/7 Highland Council Exhibitions Units Craft Residency Project and also features local artist Beth Legg. Meanwhile Swanson Gallery in Thurso is showing Scape and Landscape. | |
| The Orchar Collection at Broughty Castle
One of the most important collections of Scottish Victorian Art in the country is now on display at Broughty Castle Museum in Broughty Ferry near Dundee. The Orchar Collection was built up by James Guthrie Orchar (1825-1898), a prominent businessman, great patron of the arts and a former Lord Provost of Broughty Ferry. | |
| Travelling Gallery Returns to Wester Ross and Skye
Pupils from secondary schools across Wester Ross and Skye will have chance to visit the Travelling Gallery this week, as the custom-built art gallery in a bus returns for another visit with its latest exhibition from Monday 19th - Friday 23rd May. | |
| Pitlochry Festival Theatre Season Opens with Wild Honey by Michael Frayn
PFT Season Opens with Wild Honey by Michael Frayn, from the play without a name by Anton Chekhov When the young Chekhov completed his first play, he cannot have anticipated that a century later, it would be given a dazzling makeover by the author of Noises Off - nor that his youthful musings would be turned into a sharp, wildly funny midsummer comedy of love, lust and locomotives! | |
| Artsplay Highland
Artsplay Highland has been running a series of projects since September 2007, including an intergenerational one, Melody, Rhythm and Rhyme for under Fives and a pilot in storytelling with nurseries. | |
| Artsplay Highland Communites and the Arts Crossing the Boundaries Across Generation
This 5 month project aimed to improve communication and understanding between generations within a given locality. | |
| New Three Year YDance Health Department Initiative
YDance are delighted to announce that after the success of the three year Dance in Schools Initiative (DISI) they are once again joining forces with the Scottish Government Health Department on a new Project to get teenage girls active through dance. As part of the Health Department’s ongoing commitment to combat obesity in the young people of Scotland they are funding this three year Initiative to encourage girls aged between 14 and 18 to explore dance as an alternative to PE and other sports activities. | |
| Awards Deadline Approaches for Highlands and Islands Crafts People
A last call for entries to this year’s Country Living Magazine’s The Balvenie© Artisan Awards has been issued to crafts people in the Highlands and Islands. | |
| Scottish artists join a star studded line up at Cambridge Folk Festival
Some of Scotland’s top musicians will join a host of leading artists from around the world including kd lang, Joan Armatrading, Levellers and Billy Bragg, at this year’s Cambridge Folk Festival. | |
| Kevin Spacey at Creative Clusters. |
Scotland’s leading creatives required for global think tank
Scotland’s cultural and creative entrepreneurs are being sought to follow in the footsteps of Hollywood A-lister Kevin Spacey and present their work on the world stage. The event, known as Creative Clusters 2008, is in Glasgow from November 17 to 20. |
| Win Kaiser Chief Tickets at Pavilion Gig.
Two tickets for the 16 May sellout Kaiser Chiefs show at Strathpeffer Pavilion have been given back to the Pavilion by a mystery donor. | |
| Shetland Arts Storytelling Festival
Do enjoy a good yarn? Would you like to learn storytelling skills? Between the 4th -10th August 2008 audiences and prospective storytellers will get the chance to take part in the Shetland Arts Storytelling Festival. | |
| Leabhar ‘s Craic – Ciad fèis Litreachail Ghàidhlig Ghlaschu
Air Disathairne 24mh Cèitean, bidh Ceòl ’s Craic (club oidhche Gàidhlig Ghlaschu) a’ comharrachadh àirdean cruthachail litreachas na Gàidhlig, agus tàlant ar bàird, sgrìobhadairean nobhailean is sgeulachdan goirid Gàidhlig. Nam measg, tha Ceol ‘s Craic fìor thoilichte innse gum bi na sgrìobhadairean is na bàird a leanas an làthair: Anna Frater, Rody Gorman, Griogair Labhraidh, Màrtainn Mac an t-Saoir, Fionnlagh MacLeòid, Aonghas MacNeacail, agus Tormod MacGill-Eain. A’ leantainn len dealais airson obrachadh tro chruthan-ealain Gàidhlig, tha Culture & Sport Glasgow a’ cur an tachartais litreachail ùr Ghàidhlig seo– Leabhar ‘s Craic, air chois, a’ chiad fhèis litreachail Ghàidhlig, ann an com-pàirt le Comhairle nan Leabhraichean, is iad ag amas air an tachartas dearbhaidh seo a leasachadh gu bhith na thachartas stèidhte ann an cùisean nan ealan Gàidhlig sa bhaile. | |
| Leabhar ‘s Craic - Glasgow’s first Gaelic literary festival
On Saturday 24th May, Ceòl ’s Craic (Glasgow’s Gaelic night club) will be celebrating the creative heights of Gaelic literature, and the talents of our Gaelic poets, novelists and short story writers. Amongst these Ceol ‘s Craic are delighted to announce guest writers and poets to be attending as Anna Frater, Rody Gorman, Griogair Labhruidh, Martin MacIntyre, Fionnlagh MacLeòid, Aonghas MacNeacail, and Tormod MacGill-Eain. Continuing their commitment to work across Gaelic artforms, Culture & Sport Glasgow are initiating this new pilot Gaelic literary event – Leabhar ‘s Craic, the first all Gaelic literary festival, in partnership with the Gaelic Books Council, with the aim of developing this pilot event into an established date in the Gaelic Arts calendar in the city. | |
| Scottish Ballet's Summer Season Tour
Winners of the 2007 Critics' Circle National Dance Award for Best Repertoire (Classical), Scottish Ballet continues to garner critical acclaim and captivate audiences with the passion and athleticism of its performances. Among the Company's up and coming presentations is a mixed programme at various rural venues around Scotland. For details please see http://www.scottishballet.co.uk/whats-on/current-productions/summer-season-2008/summer-season-2008.htm. 07 May 2008 | |
| Fife Traditional Singing Weekend
Organisers are preparing for the sixth year of the unique Fife Traditional Singing Weekend that takes place on Fri 16, Sat 17 and Sun 18 May. The event brings together some of Scotland's finest exponents of traditional singing for a weekend of old songs and bothy ballads in concerts, singarounds and workshops/talks on topics related to traditional song and culture. Described by the organisers as "A celebration of traditional singing for singers and enthusiasts", the weekend starts with three days of events all taking place at the Fife Animal Park in Collessie in the Howe of Fife. | |
| Captured, Applied and Composed -"Dewpoint" Exhibition
This is a collaborative Installation and Exhibition of Poetry, Printmaking, Writing and Photography by Visual Artists Rebecca Marr and Carol Dunbar and Writer and Poet Valerie Gillies, (the 2007 Edinburgh Poet Makar....Poet Laureate to the City). The exhibition can be seen from the 9th May to 29th June - at Inchmore Gallery, Inverness. | |
| INVERNESS ARTS FORUM LUNCHTIME CONCERT SERIES
CURTAIN UP! | |
| Brian Graham at the Watermill Gallery
The Watermill Gallery has on loan a very fine exhibition of abstract oil and acrylic paintings by contemporary Dorset artist, Brian Graham. | |
| Pitlochry Festival Theatre Welcomes Discussions Over New Funding Arrangements
Pitlochry Festival Theatre (PFT) learned today that the Scottish Arts Council (SAC) intends to convene a series of meetings with current and potential funders to discuss an entirely new funding arrangement for PFT in the future. | |
| More News from Distance Lab
Please read on for the latest information from Distance Lab..... | |
| Mendelssohn and Mozart for SCO Highland Tour
Following sell out performances in recent years, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra makes a welcome return to Fraserburgh’s United Reformed Church and the Universal Hall in Findhorn between 6 – 7 June. | |
| Scottish Arts Council brings the arts to Westminster
The Scottish Arts Council was at Westminster yesterday (Wednesday 30 April) as part of a UK arts councils Art in Parliament day. | |
| HebCelt Visitors come from far afield!
Visitors from seventy countries look set to travel from around the world to attend the Hebridean Celtic Festival. | |
| Scottish Ballet's Up and Coming Tour of Romeo and Juliet, by Krzysztof Pastor
Following its recent award for Outstanding Repertoire (Classical) at the National Dance Awards, Scottish Ballet is delighted to introduce a brand new, second full-length production to its annual touring programme. This Spring will see the world premiere of critically acclaimed choreographer Krzysztof Pastor's Romeo and Juliet which starts touring venues in Scotland on Tuesday 13 May until Saturday 7 June. | |
| Fiddle Frenzy Programme Announced
Fiddle Frenzy, Shetland Arts’ fiddle school and festival, will run from the 4th to the 10th of August this year. The weeklong event combines fiddle tutoring and concerts with tours of Shetland and cultural experiences. | |
BLOGS
16 Mar 2010 | |
09 Mar 2010 | |
19 Jan 2010 |