HI~Arts is very pleased to announce the first details of its Summer/Autumn 2006 programme of Writer Surgeries, taking place across the Highlands and Islands area.
29 June 2006

The winners of the Hebridean Celtic Festival competition for aspiring journalists, supported by HAIL and Highlands & Islands Enterprise (HIE), are announced today (Wednesday 28 June 2006).
28 June 2006

British TV is currently producing some of the best drama seen in years and broadcasters are searching for more unique voices from throughout the UK to tell their stories. Could that be you? Now is your chance to find out as the acclaimed "So You want To Write TV Drama?" class heads North in June and July 2007.
21 June 2006

Illyria theatre company tours out-door performances all over the North East this July 2006.
21 June 2006

Inverness’s Spectrum centre will soon be visited by the ghostly apparition of the late great US stand-up Bill Hicks in the award winning play Bill Hicks: A Slight Return on Thursday 29 June 2006 at 8pm.
20 June 2006

Eden Court in Exile presents Paul Towndrow Quartet at the Beaufort Hotel in Inverness on Friday 23 June 2006 at 8pm.
20 June 2006

Organisers of the Mendelssohn on Mull Festival, 2006, announce full details of this year’s programme.
20 June 2006

An exhibition of etchings by Bronwen Sleigh will be on show at Cromarty Courthouse, Church St, Cromarty from 24th June – 23rd July 2006.
20 June 2006

The Scottish Arts Council is calling for applications for the next round of funding for its artist residency programme, partners.
20 June 2006

This July, the Fair City welcomes those cuddly CBBC TV personalities The Fimbles to Perth Concert Hall, in the first ever theatre production of their much loved TV show.
20 June 2006

Arts in Motion are holding an open day on Wednesday 21 June 2006 to wind up the BluScreen project and to show some of the wide range of work that has been going on in the new facilities over the last two years.
20 June 2006

Gaelic speaking Actors/Actresses all ages - children to 60s - are invited to audition for the Film element of The St Kilda Project filming within the period 21 August – 15 September 2006.
15 June 2006

Rannsachadh Mòr – The Big Survey – is the largest ever piece of research on arts and culture in Skye and Western Isles.
14 June 2006

The Blas Festival, which had such a successful inaugural year in with more than thirty different events in four Highland areas, will eventually have an impact thorough the whole of the region.
14 June 2006

Birds of Paradise Theatre Company present the world premiere of Mouth of Silence by Gerry Loose. Opening at the Tramway, Glasgow on Thursday 22nd June  and touring across Scotland until 22nd July 2006.
14 June 2006

Best-selling author Laura Marney, who has been described as one of the exciting new voices on the Scottish literary scene and, a totally new voice in comic fiction will be talking at Buckie Library on Thursday 22nd June 2006 8pm-9pm.
14 June 2006

With the Grain - an exhibition and appreciation of Tim Stead at An Tobar Gallery, Isle of Mull from 6th June – 28th July 2006 .
14 June 2006

Musician, record producer and composer Donald Shaw is to become the Artistic Consultant for Celtic Connections 2007.
13 June 2006

The Màiri Mhòr Gaelic Song Fellowship from Highland Council is pleased to announce the forthcoming launch later this month of two new projects.
13 June 2006

The first talent contest, organised entirely by the New Elgin Street Elite Youth Forum, was held on Thursday 8 June 2006 at Elgin Town Hall, to raise funds for a local youth drop-in centre.
13 June 2006

This year the Hoy Trust is sponsoring an exhibition of work by Hoy artists and craftspeople at the Pickaquoy Centre, to run during the St Magnus Festival and then continue through to 10 July 2006.
13 June 2006

Twenty of Scotland’s top makers, including Tait and Style from Orkney, have been selected to join over 300 UK and international designer-makers to showcase their work at Origin: The London Craft Fair.

09 June 2006

Britain’s only touring theatre ship is set to hoist it’s anchor this summer for Walk the Plank’s annual tour of the UK with a production of the world’s most famous nautical tale Noah’s Ark, written specially for performance on board.

09 June 2006

In September 2006, Shetland Arts Wordplay book festival will welcome its second writer in residence to the isles.
08 June 2006

One of the widely acknowledged greats of Scottish literature, William McIlvanney, will be heading to Shetland in September for Shetland Arts Wordplay 2006 Book Festival.
08 June 2006

Another joint promotion by the Gable End Theatre and Woodwick House in Orkney bring one of the most exciting line-ups from the cutting edge of World Fusion to the islands in the middle of June 2006.
08 June 2006

Claire Campbell will be supporting Karine Polwart at her Grass Roots at Hoots gig at Hootananny in Inverness on June 9th 2006.
08 June 2006

Ignite is a national playwriting competition aiming to find undiscovered voices for the Scottish stage.
08 June 2006

Crucible 2 is the final event of the National Theatre of Scotland and TAG Theatre Company Crucible Project with Moray Council, which will take place on 16 & 17 July 2006 in Lossiemouth.
08 June 2006

BBC Radio Scotland are delighted to support new talent and unsigned acts at this years Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival's BBC Radio Scotland Seedlings Stage.
08 June 2006

Highland 2007 today (Thursday 8 June 2006) announced their support for many of the major events which will help form the programme for the year long celebration of Highland culture in 2007.
08 June 2006

A glittering shortlist is unveiled today (Thursday 8 June 2006) for this year’s Scottish Book of the Year.
08 June 2006

Songs of Praise, filmed in Portree Parish Church and at various locations in Skye & Lochalsh will be broadcast at 4 o clock on BBC1 on Sunday 11th June 2006.
08 June 2006

The second artist to exhibit in the JIPB CUBE GALLERY. Ally Wallace is a Glasgow based artist who uses light and paper to develop large installations.
08 June 2006

While the Johnsmas Foy gathers pace on Victoria Pier on Friday 23rd June 2006, the North Star will also be gearing up for one of the best and most eclectic music nights of its year, with top Scottish indie act ‘The Hazey Janes’.
08 June 2006

On Saturday and Sunday 24th and 25th June 2006 ‘Shetland Arts’ are to hold three public workshops aimed at helping musicians make it on the national and international scene, entitled “Everybody’s Makin’ It Big – But Me”.

07 June 2006

It’s only a matter of a few weeks since Shetland band ‘Gaddery’ returned from a very successful tour of America, and now Shetland audiences are to be given the opportunity on 20 June 2006 to see the show that made such an impact in the States.
07 June 2006

Oil paintings, inspired by the Outer Hebrides, by Vega will be on display from 2-24 June 2006 at the Castle Gallery in Inverness.
07 June 2006

Inverness based singer songwriter Brian Ó hEadhra has been selected to compete in the European Minority Language Song Contest Liet-Lavlut 2006.
07 June 2006

West-coast based ceramic artist, Allison Weightman has recently been selected for an exhibition in London in September 2006 at the Bankside Gallery.
07 June 2006

Highland 2007, the year Scotland celebrates Highland culture, is encouraging young people in the Highlands to volunteer to become part of the Highland 2007 team.
06 June 2006

Channel 4 are offering 6 places on a custom-made video streaming course, Highland Stream, to be run in Inverness on 2nd & 9th July 2006.
06 June 2006

Organisations planning arts projects to mark Highland 2007, the year Scotland celebrates Highland culture, will from today (May 29) have access to the Highland 2007 Arts Capital Fund.

02 June 2006

Support for Highland 2007 is growing within the business community as a further three organisations become official partners to the year Scotland celebrates Highland culture.
02 June 2006

Have you ever fancied being a journalist? Do you love music? Well the Hebridean Celtic Festival, in conjunction with BBC Radio Scotland's Radio Café and supported by HAIL and Highlands & Islands Enterprise, are giving you a once in a lifetime opportunity to combine both.
02 June 2006

Screen Machine and Rural Cinema North are excited to announce two special screenings of Orkney artist Colin Kirkpatrick’s film The Cowboy & the Spaceman alongside Katrina McPherson’s documentary Catching the Tide, to take place in Ullapool on Saturday 24th June and in Lochinver on Sunday 25th June.
01 June 2006

Pitlochry Festival Theatre is delighted to announce the European Première of Agatha Christie’s ‘lost’ play, Chimneys, which previews this week, from 1st June.
01 June 2006