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'Precious Cargo' - Exhibition At St Fergus Gallery, Wick
30th May to 27th June 2009 At St Fergus Gallery, Sinclair Terrace, Wick Upstairs In Wick Library Precious Cargo 2009 is Scotland's Year of Homecoming and the calendar's theme of migration, boats and the sea reflects this. The exhibition has been designed by Brodie Nairn and Nicky Burns from Glasstorm in Tain as an innovative installation of closed Cargo boxes, one of which opens every day over the festive period to reveal a new object or contemporary 'souvenir' of the Highlands which travellers to lands across the sea might have cherished to remind them of 'home'.
26/5/2009
Solid Rok Support for Highland Culture Programme
A national building company has entered into a commercial sponsorship partnership with The Highland Council to support the Highland Culture Programme. Building and maintenance firm, Rok, is backing the programme, which was created as a long term legacy of Highland 2007 to support events and projects showcasing Highland culture.24/5/2009
The Age Of Stupid Coming To Caithness Horizons
Saturday 13th June 2.30pm and 6.30pm The Climate Buster Movie by the McLibel Director The Age of Stupid is the new four-year epic from McLibel director Franny Armstrong. Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance? For Much More Click on to The Age Of Stupid Web Site www.ageofstupid.net Bookings required by 12th June.
Kent DuChaine and Leadbessie - 2 Million Miles And Counting
Mackays Hotel, Wick Saturday 23rd May 2009 - 9.00pm Once again Mackays Hotel, Wick will play host to Kent Duchaine one of the most travelled American Blues players. He travels all over the USA every year and still manages to tour worldwide.
15/5/2009
Distance No Object For Photography Competition
Caithness and Sutherland photographers are being encouraged to get creative for a prestigious digital photography competition which has been launched to celebrate innovation in the Highlands and Islands. Anyone with a camera and a creative eye is being invited to send entries to 'Innovation Exposure' which has been organised by Fusion, an organisation supporting entrepreneurial business, and Distance Lab, the digital media and communication technologies research institute.15/5/2009
2009: A Sinclair Odyssey - May Newsletter
Hello to you all and welcome to the first Odyssey newsletter! We had our first walk on Sunday 10th of May, lead by Dieter Tuerlinckx of Caithness Ranger Services. It was a beautiful day and many thanks to all those who turned out and made it (I think) such a success.10/5/2009
Session A9 - The New Scottish Music
Session A9 Take To The Road Again In June "Session A9 and Beyond", Session A9 are Adam Sutherland, Brian Mcalpine, Charlie Mckerron, David "chimp" Robertson, Gordon Gunn, Kevin Henderson and Marc Clement. Over the years Session A9 have been described as a "Scottish super group", "The best band to have come out of Scotland in 100 years", "Tighter than James Brown" and an "Amazing Festival band", great praise indeed for a band formed through informal music sessions up and down the arterial Scottish road, the A9, culminating in their first ever tour in 2001.
8/5/2009
Thurso High School Pupil Wins First Prize In Pushkin Awards
Thurso High School pupil Charlotte Gordon (13) has this week received the First Prize at the prestigious Pushkin Prize Award Ceremony, held in Edinburgh last Monday. Charlotte's prize-winning portfolio of writing included an extract from her fourth fantasy novel and a short poem entitled "Singing in the Rain".
2009: A Sinclair Odyssey - You Can Get Involved
A Sinclair Odyssey combines arts and archaeology to tell the stories of the Sinclair Clan of Caithness. With a glittering Street Parade and an opportunity to step back in time at The Gathering, Odyssey will explore the themes of Ancestry and Homecoming in the county of Caithness.
8/5/2009
Queen Mary Loses Her Head In Wick And Strathy
The National Theatre Ensemble comes to Strathy Hall on 12 May and Wick Assembly Rooms on 14 May for two professional shows, Dennis Kelly's 'Our Teacher is a Troll' and Liz Lochhead's 'Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off'. Area Cultural Officer, Adrian Clark, said: "I am really excited about this visit, which is in addition to the National Theatre's Transform project just starting up in Thurso.
8/5/2009
Auntie Janet Saves The Planet - Opera For 3 - 6 Year Olds
Auntie Janet Saves The Planet is a magical, musical tale taking the audience into the woodland world of Auntie Janet and her forest friends. The characters they meet along the way include some of Scotland's endangered species and Auntie Janet and the audience must help them to save their homes.30/4/2009
What's On At Eden Court In May
Scottish Chamber Orchestra ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday 03 May | 20.00 | Empire Igor Stravinsky Danses Concertantes Joseph Haydn Sinfonia Concertante in B flat Carl Maria von Weber Konzertstόck in F minor Op 79 Maurice Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin Piano/conductor Christian Zacharias Oboe Robin Williams Violin Christopher George Cello David Watkin As this year's Classical Concert Series draws to a close, we'll welcome the SCO and the stunningly talented Christian Zacharias to Eden Court. Zacharias is one of the greatest German pianists of modern times.30/4/2009
Free Talks By Glass Artists At Caithness Horizons
Presentations & Talks by Four Glass Artists from Around the Globe at Caithness Horizons Friday 8th May, 7pm Carole Freve, Quebec, Canada - Joshua Hershman, Colorado, USA Friday 15th May, 7pm Alex Trommler, Pennsylvania, USA - Sean Campbell, Co. Fermanagh ADMISSION FREE - Refreshments .
28/4/2009
Tales of the Sea - FREE Storytelling Sessions
with Andrew MacKintosh & Bob Pegg at Caithness Horizons Saturday 2nd May at 7pm & Sunday 3rd May at 12.30pm & Dunbeath Heritage Centre, Salmon Bothy, Dunbeath Harbour Saturday 2nd May at 2pm & Sunday 3rd May at 2.30pm.
The Sweetener Coming To Lyth Arts Centre
It's 1972. After devoting his lifetime to sweetening the soundtracks of the stars with canned laughter, Ed looks back over his career and finds himself having to decide who should get the last laugh.
27/4/2009
Portraits By One Of 20th Century's Greatest Photographers Comes To Inverness
ARTIST ROOMS On Tour with The Art Fund supported by The Scottish Government is a unique scheme to bring one of the largest and most imaginative acquisitions of post-war and contemporary art to audiences across Britain. Inverness Museum & Art Gallery is delighted to announce the opening of an exhibition of the work of the American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, presented by The Highland Council.27/4/2009
Travelling Gallery returns to Highlands
27th April - 15th May The Travelling Gallery will be returning to the Highlands for three weeks at the end of April, after successful visits last year. The custom-build mobile art gallery will be taking its new exhibition 'Finger Buffet', to thirteen schools across the area, and will also be open to the public for the day at the Black Isle Leisure Centre on Monday 4th May.26/4/2009
Inverness College UHI hosts talk by leading literary figure
Inverness College UHI will welcome leading literary figure, Dr Fred Freeman, to its Longman Campus on Wednesday, 29 April to host a talk entitled 'The Unknown Burns: The Songs of Robert Burns'. As part of the Homecoming 2009 celebrations, the talk will introduce an unknown side of Burns with Dr Freeman suggesting that Burns was in fact primarily a songwriter.19/4/2009
Souled Out Comes to Wick
Christian band Souled Out began running events at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre in 2004, bringing the church in Aberdeenshire and beyond together to worship. Since then thousands of people, of all ages and backgrounds, have joined them on the Souled Out journey.The Saturday Festival - Wick - Sat 18 April
Caithness Arts presents The Saturday Festival Saturday, 18th April 2009 Mackay's Hotel, Wick Saturday Afternoon 3pm Five Seasons O' A Lass Poetry Dance Music Song Featuring Jill Kingdon - Dancer & Choreographer Russ Murray - Saxophonist, David Morrison - Narrator Other Performers James Ross - Pianist, Jenny Stewart - Poet, Edna Morrison - Singer Saturday Evening 8pm After Hours R&B Revue every After Hours gig turns into a party... ...and you're invited! Other Performers James Ross - Pianist with guest saxophonist Russ Murray afternoon ticket £3.Search Our Site
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