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| Mount Stuart Visual Arts Programme 2007
Read on to find out about the exhibitions of the work of 2 artists that are forthcoming at Mount Stuart - Monya Flannigan and Sarah Staton. | |
| Visitors to be ‘Enchanted’ by Pitlochry
Visitors to The Enchanted Forest, Scotland’s premier sound and light show at Faskally Wood near Pitlochry, are to be encouraged to stay longer and enjoy the area’s many attractions this Autumn courtesy of a new festival being organised by businesses in the town. | |
| Latest chapter of Inverness Book Festival
The fourth Inverness Book Festival is taking place next week offering a line-up of acclaimed authors including Iain Banks, Tom Devine, GP Taylor, A-L Kennedy and Lance Price. | |
| Richard Demarco comes to Aberfeldy
The Watermill Gallery is pleased to announce that artist, teacher and art patron Richard Demarco will be holding an exhibition and series of artistic events in Aberfeldy between 13 and 28 October. | |
| Arty Inverness goes shopping!
In the build up for BIG SHOP INVERNESS 17th - 20th October 2007 Symon Macintyre and his team of performers designers and set-builders, have turned the Old HSBS building on the Longman Industrial Estate into a hive of artistic activity. | |
| Invernessians love 'Junk' but are shy about spin and sex
With just a week to go to the 4th Inverness Book Festival, organisers are revealing what people are buying tickets for. | |
| News from New Media Scotland
Read on for more exiting information about the activities of New Media Scotland including News, Events and other Opportunities. | |
| Scotland’s first ever film and food festival to launch in Kingussie
A film festival focusing purely on food is to be launched at gourmet dinner event in Kingussie on 29th September 2007. The Kingussie Food on Film Festival (KFFF) which will run from 1st – 3rd February 2008 will showcase producers, chefs and all aspects of producing and eating food through documentaries, workshops, demonstrations and short | |
| The Triumphs of Oriana
Following the success last September of their Masque for Mary, Queen of Scots, the voices of the Highland early music choir Musick Fyne are to join forces with members of the instrumental consort Coronach in two performances of a programme entitled The Triumphs of Oriana. | |
| Introducing Young Audiences Scotland
YOUNG AUDIENCES SCOTLAND is an exciting development on the Scottish cultural landscape. It is a megaphone for the vibrancy and variety of theatre for children, young people and families in Scotland. 20 September 2007 | |
| Step Into The Past With Highland Archaeology Fortnight 2007
Highland archaeology-followers will be able to step, cycle and four-wheel drive their way into the past during the 14th annual Highland Archaeology Fortnight. | |
| Tales from the Museum / Sgeulachdan Bhon Taigh-Tasgaidh
Tales from the Museum is an exhibition of new work by four contemporary artist/makers made in response to Gaelic culture, material histories and abandoned settlements on the Isle of Mull, developed through a series of artists residencies at An Tobar over the last year. | |
| Tob Records New Release - Michael Marra Quintet
In June 2007 acclaimed Dundee singer songwriter Michael Marra spent a week at An Tobar – The Tobermory Arts Centre, Isle of Mull, to record a new CD-EP. | |
| Public to vote for their 'Treasure Places' to celebrate RCAHMS Centenary
The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) today puts its extraordinary collection of archive images to a public vote, to celebrate its centenary in 2008. | |
| "Bliadhna Theàrlaich, The songs, music and story of the ‘45" - Gaelic Society of Inverness Concert
"Bliadhna Theàrlaich, The songs, music and story of the ‘45", is a concert which will be presented by the The Gaelic Society of Inverness in association with National Trust for Scotland and with funding from Highland Council. The concert will be performed at the Ironworks on Fri 28 September, 7.30pm and includes Margaret Stewart (singer), Jenna Cumming (singer), Lisa Storey (readings), Gillebride MacMillan (singer), Griogair Labhruidh (singer), Breabach (innovative celtic band), Ross & Cromarty Pipes and Drums School, Simon McKerrell (piper), The Claire Bryce Dancers and Allan Campbell (fear an taighe). | |
| Scotland’s Rural Past Celebrates its First Birthday with the Launch of a Website
An exciting heritage project that was established a year ago to investigate and document abandoned rural settlements throughout Scotland is about to celebrate its first anniversary with the launch of its new website. 17 September 2007 | |
| Looking to the future
Once again An Tuireann has been bustling away with thought-provoking exhibitions, exciting events and the prospect of a new building. Read on for more details...... | |
| Hit Festival Show Comes to the North East
Following a staggering sell out run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, audiences in the North East of Scotland will get a chance to see TAG Theatre Company’s production of David Greig’s runaway success Yellow Moon. TAG’s acclaimed production will be in the region from 19-22 September 2007. | |
| Magical family show to be the first performance in Ness Islands arena
Eden Court Education’s magical family show The Lyre Tree will be the first performance event in the Ness Islands’ newly created central arena on 21 & 22 September 2007. | |
| Inverness Chamber Music Society to open new season with Carducci Quartet concert
The Inverness Chamber Music Society’s 2007/2008 season will open with a concert by the Carducci String Quartet at Inverness town House on Thursday 27 September 2007. | |
| Writing & Reading Althings at Caithness Arts Festival 2007
For the past eighteen months, Scotia Review has been hosting a new local writing initiative, which is to make its first public appearance during Caithness Arts Festival, with support funding from Highland 2007. Scotia Review’s Writing Group is hosting an evening of new writing at its Reading Althing in the Tempest Surf Café at Thurso harbour on Wednesday 12th September 2007. | |
| Catiabhs Castles Celts - 4 Caithness Skalds
As Caithness Arts Festival 2007 nears its second week, Scotia Review prepares for its third event during the cultural whirl. The St. Fergus Gallery in Wick is the venue for the intriguingly titled ‘CATIABHS CASTLES CELTS – 4 Caithness Skalds’ next Wednesday, 19th September 2007. | |
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Special film event on the Black Isle
If you like film, good food and drink, classy ceilidh music, Italian songs of passion and romance, dancing, good craic and if you love the Black Isle, then all of these are yours on Saturday 15th September 2007. |
| Blazin' In Beauly 2007
Blazin’ in Beauly (15-19 October 2007) is a week long (non-residential) course of classes (fiddle, cello, piano and guitar), seminars, workshops and concerts. | |
| Year of Culture Special - The Minister Opens the European Geoparks Conference
The 7th European Geopark Network Open Conference entitled "Landscape & People: Earth Heritage, Culture & Economy" will take place from 13th – 16th September 2007 in Ullapool. | |
| Canisbay School Journey Books Project
Earlier this year, the 8 Highland based cultural co-ordinators received funding from the Scottish Arts Council to provide arts projects for children on a theme of ‘Heritage’. | |
| Face to face or virtually connected at Timespan
Timespan storytelling weekend was a great success according to the many positive comments received from those who participated in the storytelling sessions, who viewed the premier screening of the new animated films or who enjoyed the music and entertainment supplied by various performers at the busy ceilidh. | |
| Macedonia Residency Prize 2007 - Highlander’s Revenge
Rody Gorman, poet and translator in Gaelic and English left for Macedonia on September 3rd. He will spend a month at Art Point Gumno along with a visual artist from the U.S.A. | |
| Celebrations to mark unveiling of new landmark sculpture
Celebrations are in hand for the official unveiling of a stunning new landmark sculpture at the Lecht Ski Centre in Strathdon on Saturday 22 September 2007. | |
| Carrbridge Tunes Up for Annual Music and Arts Festival
A large industrial truck which transforms into a mini theatre, a celebration of Japanese Taiko drumming and a spectacular street carnival are among the main highlights as behind the scenes preparations get underway for this year's Carrbridge Live Festival (15-23 September 2007). | |
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Inspirational Highland studio to attract Scottish and international artists
Watercolour Music, the award-winning partnership of producer Nick Turner and his broadcaster-musician wife Mary Ann Kennedy, is to set up a top of the range recording and multi-media studio in the tiny lochside village of Ardgour, near Fort William. |
| The MacDougall Collection Touring Exhibition At Auchindrain Museum
For the first time a touring exhibition featuring part of the MacDougall Collection will be on display in Argyll. | |
| Drama from Scotland in Demand from Florida to Sydney.
Two Scottish theatre companies will be performing award-winning drama for young people across two continents early in 2008. | |
| Funding decision postponed on Mareel
Shetland Arts heard today that they will probably have to wait up to another six months for a final decision from the Scottish Arts Council Capital Lottery Fund with regard to Mareel, the proposed new cinema and music venue. | |
| Following the drovers in words and walking-boots
Perthshire-based writer Linda Cracknell sets off in September to walk a route that was once well-trodden by people and cattle between Skye and Crieff. The route winds around the serrated Cuillin range, crosses the ferocious tidal strait at Kylerhea where the cattle were swum across in the slack of the high tide, and passes through Lochaber and Highland Perthshire to the more sedate landscape of Strathearn where the Tryst at Crieff was the great centre of the Highland cattle trade till the mid eighteenth century. | |
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Screenplay – Shetland’s First Film Festival
Shetland’s first ever film festival (is now /will be) officially underway as of 6pm on Thursday 6th September. The festival is curated by celebrated film critic and writer Mark Kermode and despite the unforeseen and enforced absence of star attraction, director Ken Russell, promises to be a marvellous event for cinema lovers and film enthusiasts of all ages. 06 September 2007 |
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TMSA Young Trad Tour 2007
To celebrate the ongoing work of the Traditional Music and Song Association founded in 1966, the TMSA will be showcasing 9 of Scotland’s finest young musicians in a nationwide tour this month, from the Highlands to the Borders, and culminating in a fabulous night of music as part of the Fest’n’Furious 2007 event in Dundee. The Young Trad Tour will be featuring in a double-bill musical extravaganza with the Red Hot Chili Pipers. Stuart Cassells who leads the Red Hot Chillis was a previous winner of the Young Traditional Musician of the Year and his career has rocketed from the many opportunities that have come his way since. |
| Arts & Regeneration: Urban & Rural - Two Sides of the Same Coin
Arts & Regeneration: Urban & Rural - Two Sides of the Same Coin is a practical and informative session on the enormous social & economic impact of the arts in regenerating our communities being held in The Greenhouse, Inverness on 13 September 2007. | |
| Wordplay 2007
This weekend’s Shetland Book Festival line up sees an exciting mixture of new faces and returning friends. Wordplay 2007 will take place this weekend at Islesburgh Community Centre. | |
| Piping Concert in Inverness Town House
Blas are delighted to bring together some of the finest and respected exponents of the piping tradition for a special one off concert in the beautiful Inverness Town House on Wednesday 5 September '07 at 7.30pm. | |
| RSAMD Scottish Traditional Music Graded Exams Announcement
At last, we can now announce the debut session of the RSAMD Scottish Traditional Music Graded Exams and the launch of the exams’ new website: http://gradedexams.rsamd.ac.uk . | |
| Artists Throw Open their Doors!
From 1st – 9th September, artists all over the Highlands will throw open their doors and invite you in to get a look behind the scenes of a busy artist’s studio. Painters, printmakers, makers of woollen, wooden, stone, clay, delicate and dramatic objects will welcome in the public to see them at work. It’s a rare opportunity to enjoy a visit and gain an insight into the workings of a Highland Artist. | |
| Another Time, Another Place Anniversary.
To celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the filming of Another Time, Another Place, Resolis Community Arts are holding a weekend event on Friday 14th, Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th. The programme will include a schools event, a location tour around the Black Isle and 2 very special showings of the film in its original 35mm format. All this topped up with fabulous food, a ceilidh dance and the romance of Italy created by the Philip Contini Trio. | |
| Inverness Town House Lunch-time Recitals – Volunteers Sought
The new Bosendorfer Grand piano in Inverness Town House has seen excellent use since it purchase last October and it has been the mainstay of a very successful programme of lunch-time concerts. Some fourteen lunch-time events have been held to date attracting over one thousand people and raising £2500 for local charities. Now steps are afoot to secure the future of such events. | |
| Blas 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. | |
| Skys the Limit for Book of the Year
The Scottish Arts Council, in partnership with BAA Edinburgh and publisher Faber & Faber, is today (Friday) sending 1000 international passengers home with a work of art from Scotland. | |
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Journeys Explores Cultural Heritage of Durness
Journeys, an exhibition by Joanne Kaar, which will be travelling around Mackay country as part of the Highland Year of Culture 2007, explores the natural landscape and cultural heritage of Durness. |
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