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16/12/2024
Artists are generally thought of as either starving in a garret (La Bohème and all that) or jammy millionaires producing works valued at eye-watering sums (hello Damien Hirst). But the reality of life in the visual arts is more prosaic and a great deal more worrying, as the publication of Glasgow University's report into the pressures facing UK visual artists reveals.
A special event to mark and celebrate the Flow Country's successful bid to become a UNESCO World Heritage site. The evening will include a drinks reception, guest speakers and a screening of ‘When Fish Begin to Crawl’ with a chance to meet the team behind the bid.
5/12/2024
Hundreds of individuals and organisations to benefit. Culture Secretary Angus Robertson has said an additional £34 million in culture and arts spending next year will be "game-changing" for the sector.
30/11/2024
The Gala Queen with Santa in attendance switched on he Wick Christmas Lights for 2024. Before the switch on children paraded into the Market Square with umbrellas decorated with many lights.
Join us for a screening of No Other Land + a potluck dinner! Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta, has been fighting his community's mass expulsion by the Israeli occupation since childhood. Basel documents the gradual erasure of Masafer Yatta, as soldiers destroy the homes of families - the largest single act of forced transfer ever carried out in the occupied West Bank.
14/11/2024
First Footin' - free New Year's Day live music trail returns with expanded programme featuring Karine Polwart, Valtos, Dead Pony, Mama Terra and more. Invitation to join 200-strong community choir for St Giles' Cathedreal performance.
14/11/2024
Scotland's female literary talent took centre stage on Wednesday 30 October as The Saltire Society presented its Shortlists for Scotland's National Book Awards, one of the oldest literary prizes in the UK. The Awards celebrate exceptional talent across Fiction, Non-Fiction, First Book, Poetry and Research, recognising and rewarding the breadth of style, subject and individual flair on show on modern Scotland's literary stage.
14/11/2024
Creative Industries Minister Sir Chris Bryant MP calls on live music industry to introduce voluntary ticket levy on stadiums and arenas to protect grassroots music sector, including venues, festivals, artists and promoters. Creative Industries Minister calls on industry to introduce levy on stadium and arena tickets.
14/11/2024
Becky Sikasa, EYVE, Leahgte, Pweatpants, SLIX, Brògeal among the nominees. The Scottish Alternative Music Awards (SAMA) returns for its 15th edition and is excited to announce the 2024 group of nominees.
14/11/2024
Living culture and traditions embedded in Scotland's rich and diverse communities have been recognised and celebrated at a lively, thought-provoking day-long conference. Prompted by the UK's June ratification of UNESCO's Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, over one hundred heritage professionals, cultural advocates, practitioners and public bodies from across Scotland and beyond gathered at Perthshire's Birnam Arts.
4/11/2024
Of the 80,000 native Irish speakers, 6,000 live in the North of Ireland and three of them became a rap group called Kneecap. This is the real-life story of how this anarchic Belfast trio became the unlikely figureheads of a civil rights movement to save and reinvigorate their mother tongue.
1/11/2024
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has welcomed confirmation in the Budget of the government's commitment to support the creative industries - as part of the Industrial Strategy - recognising the key role it can play in economic growth. Budget funding to help thousands of creative businesses grow across the UK.
21/10/2024
Tha Am Mòd Nàiseanta Rìoghail 2024 a' tighinn gu crìch, an tachartas as motha de a sheòrsa a th' air a bhith ann an còig bliadhna. Bidh tàlantan ciùil bho air feadh na dùthcha agus nas fhaide air falbh a' tighinn còmhla ann am baile seunta an Òbain a' toirt crìoch air an fhèis iongantach naoi-latha.
Introduction to the basics of acting on stage and improvisation. For ages 11 - 16.
9/10/2024
The Mòd provides a world-wide platform to showcase of our rich Gaelic and cultural talent and heritage. 10 - 18 October 2025.
7/10/2024
The third Book Festival. 11th, 12th and 13th October 2024 CAITHNESS BOOK FESTIVAL at Murkle Hall.
Thurso Players was formed in 1950 following the closing of the Thurso Dramatic Society, Thurso Dramatic Club and earlier Caithness drama groups that can be traced back to the 1890s. Despite the logistical problems of finding rehearsal and performance spaces the Players thrived, and in 1959 founder member Robin Sinclair offered a building in the old mill complex - if they could make it safe and watertight, which eventually over two to three decades later they were able to.
7/10/2024
Leader of Inverness and Area Councillor Ian Brown has recently accepted a sculpture designed by art students of Inverness, Florida USA which celebrates the Sister Cities status of Inverness - Florida and Inverness - Scotland. Cllr Brown said: "I am delighted to accept this sculpture which has been gifted to the City of Inverness under the ownership of the Inverness Common Good Fund and curatorship of The Highland Council.
4/10/2024
The culture sector needs to have stable and supportive financial arrangements in place in order to fulfil its potential, the Culture Secretary Angus Robertson has said. In a letter to the Chair of Creative Scotland, Mr Robertson reiterated the Scottish Government's support for the arts and culture sector.
CYC Comics Club is an opportunity to be creative and learn new ways of storytelling through Comics. Come along to Wick or Thurso Library for our monthly Comics Club sessions with illustrator and comics maker Aimee Lockwood.