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| Highland Fringe Exhibition
This exhibition, jointly hosted by the Castle Gallery in Inverness and Tore Art Gallery on the Black Isle, will provide an opportunity to show and promote the work of some of the best artists living and working in the Highlands. It will include pieces from both established artists and emerging talent. | |
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Eden Court to reopen on 3rd November 2007
COLIN MARR, the director of the Eden Court Theatre, yesterday unveiled plans for the reopening of the Inverness building following a major refurbishment. |
| Ancient Egypt Comes to Shetland
For the next two years school pupils in Shetland will have the opportunity to handle replica Egyptian artefacts from National Museums Scotland. Museum on the Move (MoM): Ancient Egypt is a touring learning resource which has been developed by National Museums Scotland in partnership with Shetland Museum and Archives, Renfrewshire Council and East Ayrshire Council. | |
| Franz Ferdinand to headline Loopallu
The ‘little fest in the west’ Loopallu is very very proud to announce that Franz Ferdinand will be headlining the final night of this years festival. | |
| Caithness Arts Festival programme available for download
The Caithness Arts Festival will take place this year from 8th—22nd September 2007. | |
| Autumn events at IMAG
During the months of October and November there are some exciting events and workshops for the young (and not so young!) at Inverness Museum and Gallery. | |
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World class acoustic guitarist to play Beauly venue
John Goldie appears for his first time in Phipps Hall on 28 September as part of the programme co-promoted by the Beauly Arts Group and Highland Council. |
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Dark Sea and Red Sail at Perth Gallery
Sun may not have been a feature of this year’s British summer, but a new exhibition entitled 'Dark Sea and Red Sail' (1 Sept 2007 – 24 May 2008) at the Fergusson Gallery will transport you to the sunny south of France. |
| Blas Festival at Ardross Hall
As part of the Blas Festival, on Monday 3 September the Atlantic Voices concert will take place in Ardross Community Hall featuring the Mary Jane Lamond Band and the Kathleen MacInnes Band. | |
| Free showing of An Inconvenient Truth at Gable End Theatre
A free showing of Al Gore's celebrated film, "An Inconvenient Truth"at the Gable End Theatre on Thursday, 6 September, represents an open invitation for the people of Hoy and Walls to look at the arguments and form their own views. | |
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Alastair Fiddes Watt exhibition at The Watermill
One of Scotland’s best-known contemporary artists, Alastair Fiddes Watt, is exhibiting “From a point of view” at The Watermill in Aberfeldy from 8th September to 2nd October 2007. |
| Blas Festival Promises ‘Harvest’ Spectacular
A spectacular concert featuring fifteen top international singers and musicians playing alongside over forty young Highland Fèis students, is to be staged as one of the key events at this year’s Blas Festival, the leading Gaelic and Traditional music event staging 53 music events across 48 venues in the Highlands. | |
| Go behind the scenes with Scottish Ballet!
Go behind the scenes with Scottish Ballet! 27 August 2007 | |
| Art On Site
'Art on Site' An exciting photographic archive of the Shetland Museum construction. 27 August 2007 | |
| Small and Perfectly Formed: Local Festival, Known for Music and Craic, Now adds Family Day to Event.
With three weeks to go “Drams in the Field”, the Glenelg Music Festival (Drams), announces its line up and for the first time a Family Day during the day on the Saturday. Over the weekend of the 14th & 15th September the festival will be held on Bernera Farm. Continuing the success of last year the community run not for profit music festival is working in partnership with the Glenelg & Arnisdale Development Trust (GADT). | |
| Curtain Up on Artists' International Ambitions
The Scottish Arts Council today confirmed its support for two initiatives aimed at raising the international profile of Scotland’s dance and theatre artists. | |
| Call for Artists
As part of their tenth birthday celebrations, An Tobar is inviting every artist who has exhibited with them over the past ten years to donate a piece of artwork for their winter exhibition. 24 August 2007 | |
| The Black Isle Words Festival
This year's Black Isle Words Festival gives everyone an opportunity to meet and hear a number of well-known, popular writers. | |
| TMSA Young Trad Tour 2007
The Traditional Music and Song Association is delighted to be part of this year’s BLAS festival promoting 3 concerts featuring the cream of talent on the traditional music scene. Both organisations are excited by this partnership which allows them to showcase the wealth of talented young musicians we are so fortunate to have in Scotland. 21 August 2007 | |
| Stromness Blues Weekend
Following the news that 2005 Orkney Blues Festival would be the last. A small group of blues enthusiasts and local businesses got together to keep the spirit of blues music alive in Orkney. A new committee was formed and a very successful blues weekend took place in 2006. | |
| Harnessing the energy of Shetland's creative industries
People working in the creative industries of Shetland have been invited to gather at Lerwick Town Hall on Thursday (30 August) to explore the industry's potential to become one of the top five economic sectors in Shetland. | |
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Young Films takes youthful route to an online marketing strategy
Skye based Young Films has employed web-aware school leaver Mairead Martin to using her blogging skills, to promote the first Scottish Gaelic feature film to show in commercial cinemas in the UK, Seachd: The Inaccessible Pinnacle. |
| Aye! Productions presents The Ballad (a story without words)
An exquisite and moving physical theatre duet, The Ballad tells the story of a young couple who, by a chance meeting, are destined to be bound forever by love. Inspired by the storytelling, imagery and yearning of traditional Scottish ballads, it combines theatre with aerial work and live music. The Ballad was originally created as a co-production with The Lemon Tree in 2005. It returns now by popular demand. | |
| 'Theft Carried Out in the Name of Art' is the subject of new exhibition at Peacock Visual Arts
"Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal."- Igor Stravinsky The exhibition contains work by various international artists, is curated by Atopia Projects and runs from 25 August until 29 September. 20 August 2007 | |
| Cellorhythmics. |
Cello Art Fest on Papa Westray
Cellorhythmics – composer/jazz musician James Hesford and a Kazakh born virtuoso cellist Alfia Nakipbekova came to Papa Westray on the 10th August to play two concerts. |
| Riddoch on the Outer Hebrides. |
Time for Islanders to Take Control; Riddoch on the Outer Hebrides
“a wonderfully contentious commentary …on 21st century Gaeldom.” |
| Tional – a gathering for Gaelic learners of all levels
A unique and vibrant, family-orientated Gaelic language gathering comes to Ullapool in the form of “Tional” on 1st and 2nd September. | |
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Biggest UK Prize for Children's Books descends upon FACLAN Festival
The inaugural winner of a Scottish award celebrating the best Gaelic children’s books will return to her roots later this month with a guest appearance at the Faclan Hebridean Book Festival. |
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Boat of Garten Book Day
Andrew Greig, Nicola Morgan, Lesley Glaister and Lin Anderson will be hot-footing it from the Edinburgh Book Festival to join other authors in the brand new Community Hall in Boat of Garten on 1 September 2007 for Boat’s first ever Book Day. |
| Faclan - Hebridean Book Festival
Faclan, the 2nd Hebridean Book Festival, is at An Lanntair from 29th August - 1st September 2007. | |
| The Way of the Drum - A Celebration of Traditional Taiko Drumming
Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers make a welcome return to Inverness for two shows on 18 September 2007. | |
| Fourth Inverness Book Festival offers insights into everything from Spinning to Swinging
The fourth Inverness Book Festival (1-5 October 2007) will feature an exciting line-up of acclaimed authors including Iain Banks, Tom Devine, GP Taylor, A-L Kennedy and Lance Price. | |
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New concert by musician James Douglas
Due to popular demand, Ullapool Composer James Douglas and his ensemble: 'The Glorious Company...' return to The Macphail Theatre in November 2007. |
| Xuefei-Yang. |
Chinese guitarist joins SCO for final Highlands Tour of 2007
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra will be joined by Chinese guitarist Xuefei Yang and conductor Alexander Shelley for the final SCO Highlands Tour of 2007, with performances of music by Rodrigo, Haydn, Stravinsky and Fauré in Stirling Castle's Great Hall (Thursday 6 September), Kingussie's Badenoch Centre (Friday 7 September) and Thurso High School (Saturday 8 September), where the SCO will perform as the opening event of Caithness Arts Festival. |
| Mull Theatre's new building begins!
The construction of the new Production Centre for Mull Theatre is beginning, at Druimfin, just outside Tobermory on the Isle of Mull. | |
| Northerly Connections
Timespan gallery, Helmsdale is currently exhibiting works by Scottish artists Charles MacQueen, Christine Woodside and Sian MacQueen. | |
| Sold Out Edinburgh International Festival Show Goes OnTour
For the first time, this August Edinburgh International Festival takes a Festival show on a short tour around Scotland as part of an initiative from new Edinburgh International Festival artistic director Jonathan Mills. | |
| Blas Festival Launches 53 Shows Across 48 Highland Venues
The leading Gaelic and Traditional music festival in the Highlands has published its 2007 programme of events detailing 53 shows across 48 venues in the region. | |
| Tional a gathering for Gaelic learners of all levels
A unique and vibrant, family-orientated Gaelic language gathering comes to Ullapool in the form of “Tional”. On 1st and 2nd September the Gaelic language will take the centre stage at the MacPhail centre thanks to Clì Gàidhlig, the organisation promoting and helping adult learners of the Gaelic language. Participants can take part in a variety of activities, but they will all be led in Gaelic with translations where necessary. | |
| 2007 Student Prize Winner for Cromarty Arts Trust Residency - Lindsay Boyd
Lindsay Boyd - 2007 graduate from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee will be arriving in Cromarty on Friday 3rd August to take up residence at The Stables for the month of August. | |
| 'Inverness Cathedral' premiered in Inverness Cathedral, Inverness, Capital of the Highlands
Composer James Douglas (based in Ullapool), gave the World Premiere of his ‘Inverness Cathedral’ on Thursday 26th July at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Cathedral in Inverness. | |
| Francesco Corti appointed as Scottish Opera’s Music Director
The Board and Company of Scottish Opera are delighted to announce the appointment of Italian conductor Francesco Corti as Music Director. | |
| Coming to Orkney - No Hall Too Small tour with Hank Wangford and Reg Meuross
As part of their 'No Hall Too Small' tour of the north, the unique country 'n' western duo of Hank Wangford and Reg Meuross will be in Orkney for dates at Woodwick House on Wednesday, 22nd August, at 7.30 p.m. and at the Gable End Theatre, on Thursday, 23rd August, at 8 p.m. | |
| Scottish Eco Prize for Creativity 2007
Call for entries that inspire environmentally-friendly living. Now in its third year, the Scottish Eco Prize for Creativity has opened for entries for its 2007 award. | |
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Art Exhibition in Cromarty
The Cromarty Group will hold their 31st annual exhibition at The Stables, Cromarty from Saturday 18th August through to Monday 27th. |
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Call for OUR HOME to be the new Scottish Anthem
A campaign is growing for a new Scottish anthem. |
| Last Blast from DMF Oban!
Fifteen year old DMFOban was originally a birthday party and this year it took place across Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th of July. Scotland’s most exciting independent festival basked in glorious sunshine over the course of an incredible weekend. | |
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