News Archive

Second Annual Creative Music Week - Concert

North Highland Connections Concert of music composed by young composers taking part in the second annual Creative Music Week, 8th - 13th July.  The concert will include works by the resident tutors, David Horne and Stuart MacRae, performed by a chamber ensemble drawn from the National Youth Orchestras of Scotland, directed by Nicholas Cleobury.  

North Highland Connections - July

The busy and varied events programme of North Highland Connections continues in July, with two residential activities which include opportunity for local involvement.   The second Creative Music Week for young composers will take place at Ham House, Caithness, from 8th to 14th July.  

Music group report published

The Government’s Instrumental Music Group has made 17 recommendations to build on current successes and Scotland’s position as a leading nation in music.   The report makes a number of recommendations including: There should be a general principle that individual circumstances should not be a barrier to access instrumental music tuition Authorities should review their charging policies and concessionary schemes to ensure that pupils in their area are not prevented from learning a musical instrument There should be greater collaboration between local authorities in the provision, purchase, repair and sharing of instruments and the delivery of instrumental music tuition Authorities should seek more sponsorship for instrumental music provision Research should be commissioned to examine the contribution of instrumental music learning to Scotland’s economy and culture and to learning and development The 2003 guidance for instrumental teaching should be updated The Scottish Government should set up an Instrumental Music Implementation Group to deliver these recommendations.  

Blues Musician Kent Duchaine - One Night Only

Kent Duchaine is coming to Wick for one night again this year.   Playing at Mackay's hotel on Saturday 29th June from 9.00pm.  

Six Simultaneous Exhibitions of Painting, Craft & Photography

Lyth Arts Centre Open 12 - 5 pm daily 1st July - 31st August 2013 Adults: £3 OAPs: £2 Children, Students, Unwaged: £1 Alistair Cook This project "McArthur's Store" was created by photographer, architect and artist Alistair Cook, who spent the summer of 2012 in a building on the quay at Dunbar used by fishermen while mending their creels.  He used wet plate collodion photography, a process concocted by Englishman Fred Scott Archer in 1851 to produce portraits of Dunbar men and their families.  

Artist in Residence opportunities (x2) - Dance

4x4AiR: Dance, Body and the Environment Artist in Residence opportunities for dance artists and choreographers Bodysurf Scotland is pleased to offer two unique and challenging funded residencies, open to dance artists and choreographers in 2013-14.   Exploring themes of dance, body and the environment, the 4×4 Artist in Residence (AIR) programme is aimed at artists interested in working in non-theatre based locations and challenging environmental contexts.  

ING Discerning Eye 2013: Call for Entries

Sponsored by ING Commercial Banking, the ING Discerning Eye Exhibition is a show of small works independently selected by six prominent figures from the art world: two artists, two collectors and two critics.   The 2013 selectors are: Artists, Stephen Farthing RA and Eileen Hogan; collectors, Loyd Grossman OBE (television presenter, gastronome and art historian) and Professor Deborah Swallow (Director of the Courtauld Institute of Art); and critics, Liz Anderson (Arts Editor, The Spectator), and Estelle Lovatt FRSA (art critic and lecturer).  

Logan Mackay, Castletown Primary School Commended in Neil Gunn Awards

The only Caithness person to be mentioned in this years Neil Gunn Wrrting competition was Logan Mackay from Castletown Primary school.   "Marshmallow Mission" was one of the 'Commended' entries in the Primary Schools section of the Neil Gunn Writing Competition, 2013.  

Dance Residencies (x4)

Eden Court, plan B and the Highland Council are delighted to announce a series of four dance commissions and residencies as part of the dance Strategy for the Highlands.  Submissions are being sought for four separate projects as outlined below: ‘Out with the old….’ Youth Dance Residency We are seeking an innovative and exciting company or choreographer to develop a new dance piece with a group of young dancers, aged 13-21 years.  

The Well at the World's End?

North Highland Connections will present a lecture which will interest all who have a love for Caithness and its cultural history.   Dr Donna Heddle, Director of the Centre for Nordic Studies at the Orkney and Shetland College of the University of the Highlands and Islands.