A conference of Creative Islanders from across the Hebrides will take place on Easdale Island in mid August 2005, and will be used to launch a new funding scheme to promote better arts and cultural links between island communities.
29 July 2005

Shetland’s 2nd Fiddle Frenzy, promoted by Shetland Arts Trust as part of its ongoing music development project, is now less than two weeks away (8-14 August 2005), with almost forty participating music students from all over the world heading towards Shetland to take part in this years event.
29 July 2005

A Gaelic television series will take to the road next month.
29 July 2005

Ramage Jazz was blows it's own trumpet today as it announces that due to a sell out original performance and continued terrific demand, the Count Basie Orchestra will give two shows on Saturday 13th August.
28 July 2005

Citylink will be running a bus service from Inverness Bus Station to Belladrum Festival from 11th to 14th August, the company announced. The
26 July 2005

Peter Joyce’s exhibition ‘New Landscapes’ will be on show at Scotland’s newest arts venue, The Watermill, Aberfeldy, from 1st September to 29th October.
25 July 2005

Young people from across Ross and Cromarty are being invited to take part in the Summer Rock Schools being organised by Careers Scotland and the Highland Council's youth development officers.
25 July 2005

Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival has announced fringe events in Inverness and elsewhere in the Highlands in the week running up to the festival on 12/13th August.
22 July 2005

London-based poet, playwright and short story writer Chrissie Gittins will be visiting nine primary schools and one secondary school along the western seaboard of the Highlands from Durness to Skye between 31st August and 14th September 2005.
22 July 2005

To celebrate the end of The Mull & Iona Tree Festival, 2005 An Tobar invites you to visit The Aros Park Birch Tree – an installation by Emily Francombe in Mull’s Aros Park from 29th July.
22 July 2005

August sees two great shows in the fabulous auditorium and dance hall at the Macdonald Aviemore Highland Resort
22 July 2005

Performers have travelled many thousands of miles to be at DRUMBEAT 2005 which starts on July 27th and runs till August 4th at Drumnadrochit.
22 July 2005

As part of the Summer Diversionary Activities Programme for Young People, Roxana Meechan, Arts Development Officer for Sutherland has organised an Intensive Week of Animation in Bettyhill from 25-29 July 2005.
21 July 2005

An exhibition of new paintings by Sally Carlaw will be on show at Tobermory Art on the Isle of Mull from 2-31st August 2005.
21 July 2005

An Tobar, the Tobermory Arts Centre is delighted to celebrate popular children’s character Katie Morag’s 21st birthday with an exhibition of original illustrations by the author Mairi Hedderwick from 2 August to 3 September 2005.
21 July 2005

More than 140 people have purchased new works of contemporary art and craft worth £84,000 during the first six months of the Scottish Arts Council’s Own Art scheme, it was revealed today, as an additional 22 galleries across Scotland are selected to participate in the initiative.
21 July 2005

Ullapool will resound to the sounds of music making in August when the Edinburgh Quartet will be in residence there from 6-13 August 2005 as part of NYOS Variations – Making Chamber Music in Scotland, launched earlier this year by the National Youth Orchestras of Scotland.
20 July 2005

Robotone's first anniversary party will bring a unique mix of acts to Oscars Bar in Dingwall on Saturday 30th and Sunday 31st July 2005,
19 July 2005

With 20 leading celebrities already waiting to model for you Granada TV are looking for artists who can aspire to the title of Britain’s most talented amateur portrait painter and to appear in a new television series called 'A Brush with Fame'.
19 July 2005

A debut CD featuring talented local children has been launched by one of the popular and well attended Western Isles Fèisean.
13 July 2005

Taigh Chearsabhagh scooped two awards at the recently held Highlands and Islands Business Awards in Inverness.
13 July 2005

The Fèis Rois Fèisteas programme comes into its own in the autumn with new drama workshops for Gaelic speakers and anyone interested in learning Gaelic.
13 July 2005

The five National Youth Performing Arts Companies (National Youth Choir of Scotland, National Youth Orchestras of Scotland, National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland, Scottish Youth Theatre, YDance - Scottish Youth Dance) welcome the final report of the Cultural Commission "Our Next major Enterprise".
13 July 2005

This month (July 2005) sees the launch of the Channel 4 British Documentary Film Foundation (C4 BDFF).
12 July 2005

Cromarty Arts Trust this summer welcomes its first international artist in residence, Sergej Andreevski, a painter from Macedonia.
12 July 2005

The New Shetland Museum and Archives project, currently being developed by The Shetland Amenity Trust, is bringing £125,550 to Shetland for its innovative arts and heritage project. The Scottish Arts Council and The Esmeé Fairbairn Foundation have awarded £65,550 and £60,000 respectively for the provision of Public Art in the project.
12 July 2005

As an innovative new project is launched by HI~Arts, the search is on for a poet to work with communities and to address the issue of suicide in the Highlands and Islands.
11 July 2005

The Pier Arts Centre in Stromness, Orkney, is planning a series of art workshops for children in Shopping Week (12-15 July 2005) while the Centre is closed for refurbishment.
11 July 2005

The World premiere of a new play by Peter Arnott, commissioned by Mull Theatre, will take place at Mull Little Theatre, Dervaig, Isle of Mull on Thursday 21 July 2005.
11 July 2005

Acclaimed funnyman Ross Noble hits the Scottish Highlands next month (August 2005) to launch a new UK tour & DVD.
11 July 2005

A couple from South Carolina in the United States are the first to buy tickets online for this year's Blas festival.
11 July 2005

The Scottish Chamber Orchestra is recruiting amateur musicians for the first ever Scrapers and Tooters project in Perth (10th and 11th September 2005, Perth Concert Hall at Horsecross).
08 July 2005

Taransay reels again as up to fifty fiddlers take up residence. The annual traditional fiddle music school on the castaway island of Taransay, Outer Hebrides will take place from 18 to 22 July 2005.
08 July 2005

Following the success of the first Blether at last year's Inverness Book festival, the focus now shifts to the Isle of Skye and great new books and writing from women writers in the Highland and Islands.
08 July 2005

Nine craftsmen and women on Iona have joined forced to create a new cooperative – Oran Creative Crafts.
04 July 2005

Magician and entertainer Malcolm Russell has completed his tour of Scotland's inhabited islands, exactly a year and a day after beginning the venture.
04 July 2005

The Saturday night of the ButeLive music & arts festival this year features Jazz singer Carol Kidd.
04 July 2005

A seventeen year veteran of rock legend Ozzy Osbourne’s band is to feature at the heart to a unique music industry workshop being staged at this year’s Hebridean Celtic Festival.
04 July 2005

Glasgow band Raising Kain will be taking the road to the isles next month, to headline a benefit gig in aid of the charity War Child on Saturday 16 July at An Talla, Isle of Tiree.
01 July 2005