News Archive
9/4/2014
Inverness to host 36th Celtic Media Festival In 2015
Inverness has been chosen as the host city for a major international festival renowned for attracting some the biggest names in the broadcasting and film world. The 36th annual Celtic Media Festival will be held in Inverness, having been held in the Scottish city twice before in 1987 and 1991 and elsewhere in Scotland seven times.
Karmana in concert at Lyth Arts Centre
20th April 2014 Visionary guitar virtuoso Simon Thacker and the outstanding young Polish cellist Justyna Jablonska present Karmana (Sanskrit for "performing anything by means of magic"), combining elements from classical, jazz, Indian, Flamenco, Celtic, Balkan and other powerful musical systems mixed with Simon's unique experiences performing with musicians from around the world, resulting in an exhilarating meeting of musical styles, cultures and traditions, performed by two leading musicians. Karmana mingles compositional ingenuity, captivating rhythmic invention and improvisational grace and fervour with the incredible sonic palette of guitar and cello.
Dyad Productions in "I, Elizabeth" At Lyth Arts Centre
28th April 2014 Adapted & performed by Rebecca Vaughan Directed by Olivier Award winner, Guy Masterson 1568: At a vital crossroads in history a young queen steps from the shadows to unburden herself of her many troubles and reveal her innermost thoughts on marriage, succession, religion, war, and the challenges to her throne. But time is against her...
Dogstar Theatre Company in "Factor 9"
9th April 2014. At a time when the NHS has been much challenged, we open our season with a play set against the backdrop of the tainted blood products scandal affecting thousands of haemophiliacs worldwide.
The Shee in concert at Lyth Arts Centre
25th April 2014 At Lyth Arts Centre. This is an all-female six-piece band with exceptional singing along with astonishing instrumental prowess.
8/4/2014
Lyth Arts Centre Kicks Off The 38th Season
April sees Lyth Arts Centre Start its 38th season of drama, music and other work across the arts spectrum. In Caithness this is the place to see works of the highest quality presented in small and cosy theatre with the trimmings of cafe and bar.
3/4/2014
Calling All Art And Craft Folk
We are looking for artists to enter work into our ART & CRAFT EXHIBITION the event will take place on the 16th ,17th & 18th June 2014 and will be open to the public from 5-8pm. The venue will be at The Mill Theatre, Thurso.2/4/2014
Great Programme At Y-NOT Thurso In April
If you are looking for musical nights out in April then take a look at Y-NOT in Thurso..
Karl Blossfeldt - Art Forms in Nature
St Fergus Gallery, Wick Library 29th March - 26 April 2014 High Life Highland would like to invite you and your friends to visit the new exhibition Art Forms in Nature, photogravures by Karl Blossfeldt which will be at St Fergus Gallery from 29th March – 26th April. Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932) was a German photographer celebrated by the Surrealists and early modernists for his pioneering close-up images of plants and flora.
28/3/2014
Thurso Book Club - First meeting
This is the first meeting of a new friendly and informal reading group/book club. Books will be supplied to us by Highland Libraries and we will meet monthly to chat about and around the book of the month.
23/3/2014
Hazels and Yoles - Walk and Talk
'Hazels & Yoles' - A Walk with Stories & Poems by Essie Stewart & George Gunn On the first day of British Summertime, join Essie Stewart and George Gunn on a leisurely walk in Dunbeath, punctuated with poems, stories and the odd bit of folk history. Starting at Dunbeath harbour, we'll walk up the river to the Broch, and then on to where the hazel trees of Neil Gunn's 'Highland River' fame cast their nuts for the salmon of wisdom.
23/3/2014
Call for applications: MSc Cultural Landscapes
Edinburgh College of Art. Application deadline: 30 June 2014 Edinburgh College of Art Lauriston Place Edinburgh EH3 9DF United Kingdom.
20/3/2014
More success for Rush.dance
Rush.dance kids have just completed Maximum street dance championships 2014 in the Caird hall Dundee. As the results show we have had another fantastic day competing in Dundee.
17/3/2014
Funding Opportunity - Wellcome Trust – Arts Awards
The Wellcome Trust is inviting organisations and individuals to apply for funding through its Arts Awards. The Arts Awards support projects that engage the public with biomedical science through the arts including: Dance Drama Performance arts Visual arts Music Film Craft Photography Creative writing Digital media.12/3/2014
Young Highland Musicians Shine On Stage
Over 300 young musicians from across the Highlands took part in the Highland Young Musicians Concerts Festival on Saturday (8 March 2014) in Eden Court’s Empire Theatre. Opening the Festival, the Highland Regional Youth Orchestra conducted by Jean-Claude Picard (Assistant Conductor of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra), gave stunning performances of excerpts from Bizet’s Carmen Suites and Rimsky Korsakov’s Capriccio Espagnol.
11/3/2014
Call for young talented musicians 
All talented young musicians attending Highland Council schools are currently being invited to apply for membership of one of the Highland Young Musicians eight regional music groups which are run as an extension to the work of the Council’s Instrumental Tuition Service. These Groups continue to perform at the highest level and are in growing demand for performances in addition to those planned in their annual rehearsal and performance calendar.
8/3/2014
Roberta Smith at the University of Guelph's 8th Annual Shenkman Lecture in Contemporary Art
Design by Julia Hall, 2012. Courtesy of University of Guelph MFA Graduate Program.
8/3/2014
Polytechnic Museum presents Polytech.Science.Art program
Polytech.Science.Art program Polytechnic Museum Novaya square, 3/4, entrance 3 Moscow, 101000 Russia. T +7 910 432 01 52 polytechscienceart[AT]gmail.com.
SEA – Arty fundraiser for Brough Bay Association and Castletown Heritage Society
We’re off of a brilliant start, with all our 170 MDF blank postcard size pieces of wood handed out or collected by locals from Caithness Horizons, St Fergus Art Gallery and Castlehill Heritage Centre in the first couple of weeks! We’re delighted with everyone’s enthusiasm to join in. Now they are getting arty and inspired by the SEA, wonderful artwork has started to be returned and I’ve been adding images to the blog as it arrives.
7/3/2014
MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art
MAK Permanent Collection Asia: new gallery designed by Tadashi Kawamata MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art Stubenring 5 1010 Vienna Austria Hours: Tuesday 10am–10pm (free admission 6–10pm), Wednesday–Sunday 10am–6pm www.mak.at The new presentation of the MAK Permanent Collection ASIA: China – Japan – Korea on the ground floor of the museum reflects the growing interest of visitors—and most notably of many artists—in Asian art. Selected artefacts from the collection have been embedded in an artistic concept and design created specifically for the venue by the renowned artist Tadashi Kawamata, yielding profound insight into the art and cultures of East Asia.
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