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22/1/2014
Royal Ballet: Giselle - Thurso CinemaThumbnail for article : Royal Ballet: Giselle - Thurso Cinema
Times for Royal Ballet: Giselle.  Monday 27 Jan 19:00.  
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7/1/2014
Caithness Horizons: Year of Ancient Ancestors Festival 2014Thumbnail for article : Caithness Horizons: Year of Ancient Ancestors Festival 2014
Scotland welcomes the world for the Year of Homecoming 2014.   Homecoming Scotland 2014 offers a year-long programme of events celebrating the very best of Scotland’s food and drink, our fantastic active and natural resources as well as our creativity, culture and ancestral heritage.  
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6/1/2014
What's On At Caithness Horizons In January/February
Cafe Exhibitions Christmas Exhibition extended Throughout January For the rest of January the Christmas exhibition, a collection of smaller works by various local artists, will be on show in the café.   All paintings are for sale.  
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26/12/2013
Mr Boom Lands Again In Caithness 28 DecemberThumbnail for article : Mr Boom Lands Again In Caithness 28 December
Mr Boom will land the Space Ship Imagination at the Wick Pipe Band Hall.   Fun for younger bairns at Wick Pipe Band Hall.  
24/12/2013
BBC to screen Inverness Hogmanay highlight.
The Highland Council has revealed that Inverness has been chosen by BBC Scotland to sing Auld Lang Syne to the nation at The Red Hot Highland Fling Hogmanay Party.   It is expected that up to 10,000 revellers in Northern Meeting Park Arena will take part in the sing-a-long which will start immediately following the conclusion of the fireworks display over Inverness Cathedral to mark the arrival of 2014.  
15/12/2013
Jane Macrae - A Scottish Artist With Caithness RootsThumbnail for article : Jane Macrae - A Scottish Artist With Caithness Roots
Jane Macrae is a Scottish artist, born in Lybster and lived ten years of her childhood there and in Wick.   Jane paints landscapes and seascapes and recently has worked on some pictures of Stroma.  
9/12/2013
Going To Inverness Next Weekend Then Take Kids To Winter Wonderland
Winter Wonderland set to light up Whin Park, Inverness.   Hundreds of families are expected to attend this weekend’s Winter Wonderland, the Inverness Winter Festival’s most popular event for toddlers which will be staged at Whin Park this weekend.  
8/12/2013
Cinderella Panto Live At Thurso Cinema Beamed In From Hippodrome BristolThumbnail for article : Cinderella Panto Live At Thurso Cinema Beamed In From Hippodrome Bristol
Sunday 22nd December 2013 It’s Christmas time, we’re throwing the Ball of the year and you’re all invited! Live via satellite from the Bristol Hippodrome comes this year’s family pantomime, Cinderella.  With belly-laughs aplenty and glitter galore, you could not wish for a better panto - it is the perfect treat for children of all ages (even the grown up ones!) Starring as the Prince’s loyal and outrageous servant, Dandini, is the hilariously mischievous Louie Spence, the only man on the planet whose personality has more sparkle than Cinderella’s ballgown.  
8/12/2013
Parsifal Opera At Thurso Cinema Live From The Royal Opera HouseThumbnail for article : Parsifal Opera At Thurso Cinema Live From The Royal Opera House
Location: The Thurso Cinema Date: Wednesday 18th December Time: 4.45pm - 10.00pm Price: £10.00 Web Link: thursocinema.co.uk E-Mail: info[AT]thursocinema.co.uk Phone: 01847 891505 Parsifal is based on Wolfram von Eschenbach’s medieval romance Parzifal.  It tells the story of an innocent young man who arrives at the Kingdom of the Holy Grail.  
8/12/2013
Council welcomes launch of new Highland Homecoming Fund
Senior Highland Councillors have warmly welcomed the launch of the Highland Homecoming Fund, which will give local groups the chance to bid for financial support of between £3,000 - £10,000 to organise a new or enhance an existing event linked to next year’s autumn celebrations.   Highland Homecoming is a programme of events that will take place within The Highland Council area between 1 September - 31 October 2014.  
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5/12/2013
Traditional Music Concert - 14th December 2013Thumbnail for article : Traditional Music Concert - 14th December 2013
The Wick Pipe Band Hall will be the venue for a traditional music concert on Saturday 14th December 2013 starting at 7.30pm.  The concert will feature the well known musician Carol-Anne MacKay along with some of the musician friends she has met along the way and some of her pupils.  
5/12/2013
Rushdance At Street Star Championships 2013Thumbnail for article : Rushdance At Street Star Championships 2013
Rush.dance kids have just competed at Dance lines Street Star Championships, the Street dance competition is the biggest one of the year on the ADFP circuit.  It took place in the Blackpool tower ball room which is one of the best dance venues around the UK.  
30/11/2013
ARTIES TARTAN TALES on SATURDAY 7th DECEMBERThumbnail for article : ARTIES TARTAN TALES  on SATURDAY 7th DECEMBER
2 showings...  4.15pm and 5.45pm Tickets £4.00..  
29/11/2013
A Northerly Land - George Gunn Book LaunchThumbnail for article : A Northerly Land - George Gunn Book Launch
BOOK LAUNCH 3rd December - 7.30 Caithness Horizons, Thurso ‘A Northerly Land’ is a new volume by Caithness poet, George Gunn.  Playwright as well as poet, George Gunn’s work is lyrical and politically switched on, a distinct voice that speaks for the Highlands and his native Caithness, but refuses to be contained by geography.  
29/11/2013
What’s On At Caithness Horizons: November/December 2013Thumbnail for article : What’s On At Caithness Horizons: November/December 2013
Cafe Exhibitions Meg Telfer & Rhona Graham November Until the end of November these two local artists will be exhibiting their work in the Gallery Cafe.   Christmas Exhibition December Throughout the whole of December an exhibition of small works by local artists will be on show.  
26/11/2013
Julie Fowlis named as University of the Highlands and Islands Alumnus of YearThumbnail for article : Julie Fowlis named as University of the Highlands and Islands Alumnus of Year
Scottish singer and multi-instrumentalist Julie Fowlis has been named as the University of the Highlands and Islands Alumnus of the Year.  The annual award is given to a former student for services to the community, achievements in arts or sciences, business or in public or academic life.  
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24/11/2013
Aladdin From Thurso PlayersThumbnail for article : Aladdin From Thurso Players
The pantomime from Thurso players for 2013 is Aladdin.   Thurso High School.  
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21/11/2013
Out OOf PlacceThumbnail for article : Out OOf Placce
A touring exhibition of film and video work commissioned by Timespan, made by three Scottish artists in response to the remote landscape of Sutherland.   Location: Caithness Horizons AV Room.  
14/11/2013
SLEEPING BEAUTY - PANTO - EDEN COURT THEATREThumbnail for article : SLEEPING BEAUTY - PANTO - EDEN COURT THEATRE
EMPIRE THEATRE SLEEPING BEAUTY - PANTO Filled with fun, laughter, mishaps and magic, the Pantomime has become an essential part of Christmas celebrations for families across the Highlands & Islands, and this year's Panto-spectacular is the fairytalefavourite...  SLEEPING BEAUTY! Sleeping Beauty tells the tale of the beautiful Princess Belle who is cursed at her Christening by the wicked Fairy Carabosse, which means that on her 18th birthday she will prick her finger on a spinning wheel and die.  
14/11/2013
Flow Country ArtsThumbnail for article : Flow Country Arts
Exhibition of Art works for sale.   14th - 16th Novermber 2013 Norseman Hotel, Wick.