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| KIN : a New Commission by Duncan Chisholm
'Kin' will celebrate landscape, language, tradition, community and family, all fundamental to the Highland consciousness, to our place in the world and to the inspiration of our people. | |
| Recognising collections of national significance
Ten unique collections from museums and galleries across Scotland were celebrated today (25 June 2007) as they were deemed significant to the nation. | |
| Russians and American Singers for Inverness Town House
Inverness Town House welcomes choral groups from Russia and America in the second half of July to tie in with the InvernessFest. Svetilen, a seven member male ensemble perform on 16 July followed on 26 July by the Oneida Chorale from Albany, New York State. | |
| Play It Again goes Trad
The popular BBC “Play It Again” series is supported by a series of events open to the public throughout Scotland and brings a very special opportunity to the Highlands on Sunday 22nd July 2007. | |
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Dornoch-based artist brings wind power to Dundee
Prominent Scots artist Sue Jane Taylor is taking a unique collection of works documenting the installation of the UK’s first deepwater offshore windfarm to Dundee Contemporary Arts. |
| Bombay Sapphire Designer Glass Competition
Bombay Sapphire, dedicated to supporting young emerging design talent across the globe, invites all design students and recent graduates* to enter the Bombay Sapphire Designer Glass Competition. | |
| "Cearcaill na Gaidhlig" Launch Celebrates Gaelic Culture Throughout West Highlands and Western Isles
The official launch of Cearcaill na Gàidhlig, a groundbreaking initiative celebrating Gaelic culture throughout the West Highlands and Western Isles, took place in Inverness on Friday (June 22). | |
| Buckie festival on Tour
To celebrate the launch of the Moray Firth Flotilla 25 performers from the Buckie Festival 2007 made the journey up north to Wick to perform at the event. | |
| Renowned Gaelic Singers at Fèis an Eilein
Christine Primrose and Margaret Stewart are to appear in concert with Neil Campbell and Blair Douglas as part of the 2007 Fèis an Eilean/Skye Festival in July. | |
| Organisers herald success of the first Outsider Festival
Organisers of the first ever Outsider Festival today spoke of the outstanding success of the event that took place from Friday to Sunday on the Rothiemurchus Estate this weekend, meeting the ambition of the organisers that it would be a festival like no other. | |
| The “Woven Strings Tour” July 2007
From sparkling jigs and reels to heart-stopping slow airs, Sarah Naylor and Rachel Hair, two of Scotland’s finest Traditional musicians join forces to present the “Woven Strings Tour”. | |
| Unique Art Works Unveiled at Shetland Museum and Archives
The opening of the Shetland Museum and Archives at the beginning of June 2007 not only enabled the islands’ most treasured and historical items to be displayed, but also granted the public access to a wide variety of unique artworks that complement and highlight these collections. | |
| 'The Voice of The Sea' Comes To Inverness
’The Voice Of The Sea’ by award winning writer Macdara Vallely, and featuring All Ireland champion pipe player Ivan Goff, comes to Inverness, Stratherrick and Carrbridge from 18 to 24 July. | |
| Skelpaig Tour the North and Record Debut Album
Skelpaig are preparing to tour the North and record their debut album. Their tour will be coast to coast starting in Lossiemouth and finishing on the Isle of Skye. In-between they will be in the studio. | |
| Landfall of the Island Tapes at Resolis
On Thursday 28th June 2007 Resolis Community Arts hosts the only mainland performance in the current tour of The Island Tapes. | |
| Ceòlas 2007
Ceòlas 2007 is almost here, and more students are booked already than last year, which was a record in itself – so it looks like we are in for another fine year!! | |
| Big Shop Inverness
Over the next few weeks Puppet Lab Theatre Company from Edinburgh will be in Inverness engaging people in community theatre. | |
| Ceòl nam Fèis 2007 on tour across Scotland
Around 50 young musicians from the fèisean will be going on tour around Scotland over four nights this June. | |
| Inverness Concert by the USA Stockton Chorale
On Sunday 1 July at 7.30pm, The Stockton Chorale are performing their third Ireland/UK concert tour in the Old High Church, Church Street, Inverness. | |
| Jyrojets UK tour
It’s non-stop for Jyrojets – they finish their two month US tour with the BBC BritBus this week, then, after a few days to catch their breath back home in Inverness, their UK tour kicks off. | |
| Beautiful Gaelic song at it's very best
Rachel Walker brings her own special style of singing complemented by two of Scotland's most sought after musicians - Carol Anne MacKay and Ewan Robertson - to Carrbridge Village Hall on 23 June 2007. | |
| St Kilda screening in Hootananny's, Inverness
St Kilda, 'the island on the edge of the world' is to be celebrated across Europe in a spectacular theatrical production taking place on June 22 and 23. | |
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National Education Award for Mulbuie Primary School and the Highland 2007 tartan
Mulbuie Primary School on the Black Isle scooped the coveted Best Enterprise Award at last week’s education ‘Oscars’, the Scottish Education Awards. |
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The Highland Promise helping to build bridges
Young people in Inverness have been building bridges to possible future careers this week as part of the Highland Promise - An Gealladh Mòr, the element of Highland 2007 that places Highland schoolchildren at the heart of the celebrations. |
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Lots to look forward to with the RBS Inverness Highland Tattoo at Fort George and InvernessFest
Additions to the line up for both the RBS Inverness Highland Tattoo and InvernessFest were announced today (14 June) at Fort George, the stunning location for this year’s Tattoo. |
| HI-Arts Provides Link for Island Art Castaways
From the 2nd to the 17th June, twenty artists from Scotland and around the globe have taken up residence on the island of Tanera Mor for the first of three International Artists Workshops organised by the Triangle Art Trust. | |
| The Return of the Great Gaelic Paper Plane Throwing Competition
Yes, it really is back! Fèis an Eilein/The Skye Festival is delighted to announce the return of the Great Gaelic Paper Plane Throwing Competition. | |
| BBC webcast of St Kilda - A European Opera
The BBC will be showing a live webcast of the production of 'St Kilda: A European Opera' on Friday 22 June 2007. | |
| This Time, This Place - The Making of Another Time, Another Place 25th Anniversary
Stories, Memories and Memorabilia Meetings on Monday 18th June in the Victoria Hall Cromarty and on Thursday 21st June in Resolis Memorial Hall. | |
| Concert in aid of Moray Art Centre
Local professional musicians will join forces on 16th June 2007 at the Universal Hall in Findhorn to perform at a gala concert in support of the new Moray Art Centre. | |
| Calling all musicians and crafty folk!
Buckie Festival would like to hear from musicians/groups/crafty folk who would like to showcase either their talent or their wares on Thursday 28th June 2007. | |
| More Inverness Gaelic News... Barrachd Naidheachdan
Information on what's happening from Fòram Gàidhlig Inbhir Nis. | |
| The Neil M Gunn Writing Competition
The theme for the 2007 Neil Gunn Writing Competition is 'Highland Spaces'. Closing date is 29 June 2007. | |
| Close Your Eyes and Open Your Ears to Scottish Ballet and Indepen-dance
On Wednesday 20 June, Scottish Ballet will take a couple of well placed dance steps on the road to its new home at Tramway as participants of the Company’s integrated performance group Reactivate join forces with special guests Indepen-dance to present a unique site-specific performance. This free performance begins at 5pm and is set amidst the inspirational haven of Tramway’s Hidden Gardens. | |
| Art and Creativity at the Heart of the Curriculum
The Northern Lights Teachers Conference 2007 will be at the newly-opened Moray Art Centre at The Park, Findhorn, on 19-20 November 2007. | |
| Jiggery Pipery in Beauly
A super-musical melting pot comes to Phipps Hall at the end of the month when Jiggerypipery perform as part of the exciting year long programme presented jointly by Highland Council and Beauly Arts Group. | |
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HI-Arts Provides Link for Island Art Castaways
From the 2nd to the 17th June, twenty artists from Scotland and around the globe have taken up residence on the island of Tanera Mor for the first of three International Artists Workshops organised by the Triangle Art Trust. This diverse group of artists will spend two weeks on the remote and beautiful island, creating artwork, experimenting with ideas, and most importantly fostering lasting creative links that will transcend geographical boundaries. 12 June 2007 |
| Venus As A Boy - World Premiere at the Gable End Theatre
The Gable End Theatre on Hoy in Orkney is bracing itself, with a sense of excitement, to host the world première of the National Theatre of Scotland Workshop and Burnt Goods adaptation of Luke Sutherland¹s original and critically acclaimed novel, Venus as a Boy, as part of the St Magnus Festival on Tour on 25 June 2007. | |
| HALF LIFE - a major new landscape work
Following the hugely acclaimed project, The Storr: Unfolding Landscape that took place in 2005 on The Isle of Skye, HALF LIFE is a major new landscape work and the first co-production between renowned innovators NVA and the National Theatre of Scotland. | |
| Buckie Festival 2007
To mark the Highland Year of Culture and the arrival of the Moray Firth Flotilla, Buckie Festival 2007 (28 June), led by Theatre Modo, creates a spectacular celebration of the culture and community of Buckie and the surrounding areas. | |
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Competition launched to name the new Highland 2007 Constellation
Highland school pupils are reaching for the stars as part of this year's national celebration of Highland culture. An exciting competition to name the new Highland Constellation created for Highland 2007, Scotland's Year of Highland Culture, was launched at Cawdor Castle yesterday (Sunday 10 June). |
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Dràma Na h-Alba – Scotland’s International Theatre Arts Festival and Forum Launched
The Highlands and Islands Theatre Network (HITN) is mounting Scotland’s first International Theatre Arts Festival and Forum –“ Dràma Na h-Alba” (DNA) during October 2007, in the year Scotland celebrates Highland culture. |
| True North: Teaching the music of the Highlands and Islands in Higher Education
This conference in Perth on 13 & 14 June 2007 aims to gain an understanding of the state of the Scottish music industry, in particular rock/pop, traditional and the fusions thereof, and its current and potential relationship to Higher Education providers in the region and the UK as a whole. | |
| Scottish Ballet Summer School in Moray
This summer (Monday 23rd – Friday 27th July) Scottish Ballet will be offering a week of workshops aimed at young people interested in dance, taking place in Elgin Town Hall. | |
| Shetland Folk Festival Podcasts
The Shetland Folk Festival can now be enjoyed all over the globe, all year round thanks to ZetCast.com and sffpodcast.blogspot.com. The online broadcasting networks are going to be publishing exclusive live recordings of the festival over the next few months as podcasts. 08 June 2007 | |
| Cathy Ann MacPhee & Kathleen MacInnes in concert
The opening concert of the 2007 Fèis an Eilein/Skye Festival will set the standard for an outstanding two week programme of diverse events that, every July, marks South Skye as a leader on the summer festivals’ circuit. | |
| Search to find next voice of the Highlands in Poetry Competition
Budding bards - young and old - are to have their work judged by some of the country's top writers as a major highland-wide poetry and short story competition is launched for the John Lennon Northern Lights Festival. | |
| Party on the Pitch - announce more ticket outlets!
Party on the Pitch, the exciting all day Inverness Dance event set for 23 June 2007, has now announced that tickets can be bought online via The Ironworks website. | |
| Fund is Music to Business Ears
HALF a million pounds is to be spent on creating business paths for Scotland's up and coming bands, enabling emerging talent to tell the same tale of success as artists such as KT Tunstall, Runrig and Franz Ferdinand. | |
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World Class Artistes Head for Proms at the Palace
The organisers of ‘Live at Scone Palace’ have announced that three of the world’s top classical acts are to headline Proms at the Palace in association with the Stewart Milne Group on Saturday 28th July 2007. |
| The Bluetones return to Inverness
The Bluetones will be playing The Ironworks in Inverness on 3 August 2007. | |
| Scottish Ballet Unleashes the Beast to the Sound of Radiohead at the Edinburgh International Festival
Scottish Ballet is delighted to announce that acclaimed choreographer Stephen Petronio has chosen to set new production Ride The Beast (a world premiere) to the music of Radiohead. As an avid fan of their music, Petronio has selected five tracks spanning Radiohead’s career to complement the layered complexity and primal nature of his new work. The work will be performed at the Playhouse as part of the Edinburgh International Festival from 18 to 20 August 2007 inclusive. (See EIF's website at http://www.eif.co.uk .) 07 June 2007 | |
| Scottish Youth Theatre Fundraising Party Night!
Scottish Youth Theatre is 30 years young this year and will be holding a 70's Fundraising Party on Friday 22 June 2007 at their new home in The Old Sheriff Court Building, 105 Brunswick Street in Glasgow's Merchant City. In this time the company has engaged with thousands of young people, from Orkney to Glasgow, St Petersburg to New York and Edinburgh to Inverness, through its diverse range of creative activities. | |
| Scottish Traditional Music Graded Exams - New Financial Support
Summer is upon us, and with it a fresh update on the development of the Scottish Traditional Music Graded Exams. The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama recently gave added financial backing to the project responding to demand across the education sector and showing faith in the exam programme’s power to promote inclusiveness, confidence and excellence among young traditional musicians everywhere. | |
| Call for Applications from Artists working in all Artforms: Argyll and Bute Residences
In 2007 Cove Park will award four Argyll and Bute Residencies. These residencies, between 22 October and 22 November 2007, are for artists at all stages in their careers and working in all art forms. | |
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Working in Public: Art, Practice and Policy - Seminar 3
The third in a series of three seminars aiming to develop a new level of thinking in relation to the aesthetics and ethics of art practices that work within the social and cultural spheres of public life, will be held in Inverness on 19 & 20 June 2007. |
| Summer Recitals in Inverness Town House
The popular series of lunch-time recitals in Inverness Town House continues with a busy period over the summer. | |
| Board Membership Opportunity
Promote YT (Scotland) is the national agency dedicated to the development of youth theatre in Scotland. | |
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Papers made by hand in Caithness to be sent around the globe.
Joanne B Kaar has been busy recycling linen waste from the Scalpay weaving shed in the Western Isles into handmade papers. |
| Opening date for Pier Arts Centre announced
Following completion of a £4.5 million project The Pier Arts Centre in Stromness, Orkney will re-open its doors to the public on Saturday 7th July 2007. | |
| The 2007 Conservation 'Oscars' – Short-lists Announced Today
Three outstanding – and very different - survivors of Britain’s heritage have been short-listed for the prestigious Conservation Awards, the “Oscars” of the conservation world, which are supported by Sir Paul McCartney. | |
| Scottish Arts Council Announce Major New Dance Bursaries
The Scottish Arts Council has announced two major new bursaries for Scotland’s dance artists. Anna Krzystek has been awarded the inaugural Choreographic Fellowship while Ross Cooper will take part in the first New York Residency. | |
| Why English? Minority Language Music urged to move in from the Margins
English may be the world's second most widely-used language but Hot House Flowers front man Liam Ó Maonlaí will be in Inverness next month to argue the case for minority languages to find their way into mainstream music. Ó Maonlaí - who is famously quoted as saying 'words, particularly English words, are not enough' - joins a panel of music industry experts for the 'Why English?' debate taking place at the Ramada Jarvis Hotel on Thursday June 7 from 12.30pm till 3pm and which forms part of this year's goNorth festival. | |
| Scotland and Singapore seal their cultural ties
A new era of co-operation between Singapore and Scotland was signalled today with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the National Arts Council of Singapore and the Scottish Arts Council, with the first links confirmed between the Singapore Art Festival and the Edinburgh International Festival. | |
| Whisky Kisses to be performed at the Critics’ Awards in Pitlochry Festival Theatre.
Pitlochry Festival Theatre is the venue this year for the annual Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland (CATS) on 10th June 2007 and an excerpt of the show, Whisky Kisses, created by Right Lines Productions, will feature during the ceremony. | |
| YoungArt
Local young artists are being encouraged to celebrate the culture and heritage of the Highlands in a special event organised by the Art Society of Inverness. | |
| 750 extra camping tickets introduced due to popular demand for Scotland's coolest new festival
An extra 750 camping tickets for The Outsider (Scotland’s coolest new festival, 22-24 June 07) have been added due to the high demand from festival goers. | |
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