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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.  

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.  

Arts Meets Engineering

Art Meets Engineering – make your kinetic sculpture workshop for young people over the age of 10 (must be accompanied by a parent or a guardian), Saturday 8th March, 10am-1pm.   The workshop is free but booking is essential as the places are very limited! Please email: jana.emburey[AT]highlifehighland.com .  

Caithness Artist's Work Sold Around The World

Elaine Rapson-Grant is an internationally selling artist.  She has collectors throughout the UK, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, USA, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Italy, Channel Islands, Isle of Man, S.  

The Caithness Collection

The Caithness Collection by Gavin Macqueen Gavin Macqueen, a former student of Wick High School and Thurso College, left Caithness in 1998.  But, he returns so regularly a Weeker recently remarked that Caithness must be his "spiritual home".  

Celebration Exhibition - Last Few Days

St Fergus Gallery, Wick Library High Life Highland and the family of David Morrison would like to invite you and your friends to David�s retrospective exhibition of paintings at the St Fergus Gallery.   The exhibition will be open to public from 14th January to 8th February 2014.  

SEA - Art Fundraiser - Entries Accepted From Now Until 20th June

Caithness artists, Joanne B Kaar & Liz O'Donnell, invite you to join in their arty fundraiser for Brough Bay Association & Castletown Heritage Society.   Be inspired by the SEA to draw, paint or collage postcard size artwork for their fundraiser.  

Coriolanus At Thurso Cinema From The National Theatre Live

The National Theatre will broadast its live performance of Coriolanus by William Shakespeare around the world and Thurso Cinema will get all the action on Thursday 30th January 2014.   National Theatre Live will broadcast the Donmar Warehouse�s production of Coriolanus, Shakespeare�s searing tragedy of political manipulation and revenge, with Tom Hiddleston (The Avengers, War Horse (film), BBC's The Hollow Crown) in the title role and Mark Gatiss (Season's Greetings at the National Theatre, BBC's Sherlock) as Menenius, directed by the Donmar's Artistic Director Josie Rourke.  

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.  

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.