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HI-Arts Cultural News archive from August 2004
METAGAMA comes to Inverness and Drumnadrochit

Metagama, the new Gaelic / English play for the Western Isles by Irish writer Dermot Healy, will be performed in the Inverness area on 2 & 3 September.
30 August 2004


Celebrating Forests - Exploring trees through creative activities

Tree tales, tree poems, the secret passports into the world of trees, tree books, tree people, tree sculpture....Celebrating Forests is a two day event on 13 & 14 November in Culbin Woods that will offer participants the chance to experience a range of arts based activities that will help us see trees in new ways.
30 August 2004


Work by Jenny Hunter Click for full size image
Work by Jenny Hunter
North East artists exhibiting in Fochabers Gallery

Exhibition of works by Graham Pook & Jenny Hunter at Just Art, Fochabers, 29th August to 26th September.
30 August 2004


Arts Events in south Skye – a three day bonanza!

The dust has only just settled on another exciting Skye Festival and already its organisers, SEALL arts in south Skye, has launched its Autumn programme with three nights of exciting shows from 31 August - 2 September.
30 August 2004


Wanted! Scottish Gaelic Poets!

Attention all Scottish Gaelic poets and enthusiasts. The Féile Filíochta/International Poetry Competition needs your poems.
28 August 2004


Tune in to Tune Up series of live music tours

A further 10 bands have been announced, today (27 August 2004), for the 2004/05 programme of the Scottish Arts Council's innovative Tune Up initiative.
27 August 2004


A crafty lesson for Scottish schoolchildren

School pupils throughout Scotland will be able to try their hand at a contemporary craft in the coming school year thanks to a £150,000 initiative by the Scottish Arts Council.
26 August 2004


Dougie MacLean performs all over Britain…despite landslide and floods!

Despite a landslide on the A9 just north of his Perthshire home, and a couple of days when all roads around the tiny village of Butterstone were cut off by flooding water, the month of August has found Scotland’s foremost singer-songwriter Dougie MacLean busier than ever.
25 August 2004


Private Agenda Click for full size image7:84 Theatre Company have their own Private Agenda

Lorenzo Mele’s directorial debut for 7:84 Theatre Company puts Scotland’s public services under the spotlight with a tour of Private Agenda from 7 September to 23 October.
25 August 2004


Scots Music Stars Line Up to Inspire Budding Talents

Capercaillie’s Karen Matheson is among the big-name musicians who are to perform alongside the Highlands’ most promising teenagers at a one-off concert Inverness later this summer on 11 September.
24 August 2004


Channel 4 IDEASFACTORY to visit Shetland

An exciting opportunity within the national, perhaps international, music industry may very well become available to someone involved in the Shetland music scene as part of a project called ‘Make Tracks’, part of the Channel 4’s ‘Ideas Factory’ initiatives and in association with HAIL Music, based in Inverness.
18 August 2004


The Bass-Ship Returns

On Friday 27th August there will be the eagerly anticipated follow-up to last years "Bass Odyssey" at Oscars in Dingwall.
18 August 2004


Arts Trust Autumn and Winter Programme in place

Shetland Arts Trust is set to bring an autumn and winter programme of top quality, varied live music to the islands as part of their ongoing Music Development Project.
18 August 2004


Work by Mhairi Killin Click for full size image
Work by Mhairi Killin
New Gallery opens in Tobermory

The Workshop Gallery is the name of a new gallery which has opened in Tobermory on the Isle of Mull.
16 August 2004


3500 Young People to get in on the act with SYT’s National Roadshow

Over six weeks, beginning on 6 September 2004, Scotland’s National Theatre ‘for & by’ young people will visit 88 schools, youth & community groups nationwide. The company will run workshops for over 3,500 young people and aims to reach every postal code area in Scotland.
16 August 2004


Pitlochry Festival Theatre still performs despite weather

Pitlochry Festival Theatre battled yesterday’s A9 closure (11 August) and widespread flooding in Perthshire by staging The Weir at very short notice.
12 August 2004


Web site in use for Festival Ticket Exchanges

Tickets have sold out to the Tartan Heart Festival at Belladrum on 14th August 2004 but if you’re a disappointed purchaser or you don’t need your tickets any longer, the message board on the festival web site is providing an informal ticket exchange.
11 August 2004


Fiddle Frenzy Concerts

Shetland’s first Fiddle Frenzy is now less than two weeks away, and as well as promoting a number of formal and informal workshops, lectures and other ‘educational’ elements, there will be a variety of concerts during the week long event.
10 August 2004


Children in Namibia taking part in the Golden Tapestry project Click for full size image
Children in Namibia taking part in the Golden Tapestry project
A Golden Opportunity for Highlands and Islands Schools

The Millennium Tapestry Company Limited is inviting schools from across the Highlands and Islands to take part in the The Golden Tapestry project.
10 August 2004


Welcome Boost for new Grand Piano

The campaign for a new grand piano for Shetland took a giant step further this week with the announcement that the Scottish Arts Council Lottery Fund has awarded Shetland Arts Trust £26,850 towards the cost of the instrument.
10 August 2004


Scots and Swedish collaboration exhibition in Western Isles

Taigh Chearsabhagh has curated an exhibition of new work by Scottish artist Olwen Shone and Swedish artist Gunilla Hansson and will be on display from 13th August - 11th September.
09 August 2004


Tartan Heart Festival sold out

Tickets have sold out to the Tartan Heart Festival at Belladrum on 14th August 2004. No further tickets are available on-line, by post or from the Inverness box office at Hootananny’s.
09 August 2004


Classic tale goes on Tour

Jekyll & Hyde the classic tale from one of Scotland’s best-loved storytellers is brilliantly interpreted for the stage by Mull Theatre and goes on tour from 16 September.
09 August 2004


Curtain Up on plans for the new Eden Court

The redevelopment of Eden Court reached an important milestone this week (5 August 2004) with the submission of a planning application to the Highland Council. approval of this application would clear the way to proceed with the construction of the company’s ambitious capital development project.
06 August 2004


Nairn-based Artist to Showcase in Glasgow

Nairn-based artist, Shaun MacDonald, will be showcasing work at the the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Kelly Gallery from 28 August–11 September 2004.
04 August 2004


Blazin' in Beauly

Blazin’ in Beauly is the musical extravaganza, started by the band Blazin’ Fiddles in the historic village of Beauly. This year it will be held on 11-15 October 2004.
03 August 2004


New Traditional Music Event for Children across Scotland

A 38th Feis in the shape of Fèis sa Mheadhan: Fest o' the Mids, is planned for Stirling over the weekend of October 15-17.
03 August 2004


Blazin' Fiddles on Tour

Blazin’ Fiddles will be on the road again from 18-27 August.
03 August 2004


Jesse Davis Click for full size imageBlack Bottle Islay Jazz Festival 2004

The Black Bottle Islay Jazz Festival is a celebration of jazz and with sixteen events over the weekend of September 10-12, visitors and musicians will be able to enjoy a heady atmosphere where ozone and whisky mix with the best of the current vibrant Scottish jazz scene.
02 August 2004


A Highland Fest Noz

An Avel, a group of 27 young musicians and dancers from Brittany, tour the Highlands from 9 to 15 August to share their culture through a series of Fest Noz.
02 August 2004



 

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