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9/3/2008
Inverness Old Town Arts Programme secures Scottish Arts Council support
The Inverness City Centre Streetscape public art project has received welcome new investment with the award of £100,000 from the Scottish Arts Council National Lottery Capital Programme. The grant, which is the maximum award available, will assist five additional arts projects and underlines the Scottish Arts Council's belief that the Inverness Old Town Art programme will be of national significance.Prime Productions Presents Great Expectations By Charles Dickens At The Mill Theatre
Prime Productions with The Byre Theatre, St.Andrews present Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Adapted by Jo Clifford Directed by Ben Twist Sound Design by David Fennessy Designed by Monika Nesbit Thursday 6th March 2008 Charles Dickens' classic story of love and mystery makes terrific theatre. Pip longs to be a gentleman, but he is haunted by the memory of the mysterious Magwitch.
28/2/2008
Only Two Weeks To Get Your Entries In To New Gaelic Song Competition
Cola-deug air fhàgail gus co-fharpais ̣rain ùr a dh'fheuchainn Chan eil ach dà sheachdain air fhàgail do sheinneadairean is sgŕobhadairean ann am ḿon-chànan ̣rain a chur a-steach airson Ṇs Ùr - a' chiad cho-fharpais ̣rain a thèid a chumail ann an Inbhir Nis, is mar aonan de ceithir cuairtean-deireannach a bhios tachairt ann an sǵrean eadar-dhealaichte na Roinn Ẹrpa. Feumar ̣rain a bhith air an cur a-steach ro 14mh Màrt.28/2/2008
Caithness Bands - Are You Signed Up For goNorth 2008 In Dundee?
From the goNorth web site.................. The last goNORTH was Inverness and we think it was our best yet, more music, more industry delegates, film and tv, fashion, more panels and workshops and more music.28/2/2008
Are you interested in art classes?
Professional tuition in painting, drawing and photography will be starting soon at Lybster Day Centre on Wednesday mornings. Beginners welcome.
Brodie McHaggis Back On Moray Firth Radio Charity Auction In 2008
Brodie McHaggis returns to the Moray Firth Radio Charity Auction for a third year in a row. Up for auction is a set of his first two adventures - "Brodie McHaggis and the Secret of Loch Ness" (second edition), and "Brodie McHaggis and the Curse of the Scotch Mist" (first edition).
25/2/2008
Have You Thought about A Career In Film Making? Look At the Screen Academy In Scotland
The Screen Academy Scotland, a Skillset Screen Academy, is a collaboration between Scotland's leading screen practice education institutions - Napier University and Edinburgh College of Art (eca). Together we aim to provide: professionally oriented, project-based and practice-led film education and training delivered in partnership with the screen industry and which is accessible, flexible and promotes diversity.Get Your FREE Entry In A New Edition Of The Caithness Arts Directory
Caithness Arts are currently producing the second edition of the Caithness Arts Directory which provides a comprehensive guide to artistes (professional and amateur), venues, arts organisations, tutors, agencies etc. who contribute in some way to the arts in Caithness.20/2/2008
New school to house Highland 2007 art project
The fruits of a visual arts project involving primary schools in Ross and Cromarty are to be given a home in the new Dingwall Academy when it opens later this year. For 9 months, 276 pupils created 11 colourful and beautiful silk banners which will be hung in the Academy when it opens this summer.16/2/2008
Scottish Arts Council - New Arts Funding For Groups
SCOTTISH ARTS COUNCIL: INSPIRE Inspire is an exciting new Lottery fund from the Scottish Arts Council launched on 12 February. Inspire is an £8 million fund that has been developed as part of the Scottish Arts Council's commitment to increasing participation and aims to provide more, wider, better engagement with the arts: More - increasing the number and range of people enjoying and taking part in the arts, particularly arts activity for and by children and young people.16/2/2008
DRAMA GROUP ON MARATHON TOUR OF GAELIC SCHOOLS
A new play - F̣garraich na Grèine (The Sun Refugees) - to be performed to Gaelic pupils Meanbh-chuileag, Fèisean nan Gàidheal's theatre-in-education group, is on the road just now with an exciting new interactive play that will be visiting almost every Gaelic-medium school in Scotland over the next few weeks in a marathon tour funded by Highlands & Islands Enterprise and The Highland Council with financial assistance from Ḅrd na Gàidhlig. The play is aimed at years 4 to 7 in the primary school, although it is also suitable for younger children.Get Your Caithness Arts Event Advertised For FREE
Caithness Arts are getting ready to publish their latest Free whats On guide to arts events in Caithness for March and April. The Caithness Arts Newsletter and What's On Guide will be out soon and the editoris requesting contributions from all sectors of the Arts.1/2/2008
Thurso Represented At Celtic Connections In Glasgow
Thurso was well represented at Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow last weekend. On Friday last a Thurso couple, Alison Birnie and Fraser Bain performed some of their own music at the Danny Kyle Open Stage event - a much sought after gig held each night in the Royal Concert hall.
1/2/2008
MUSIC MANIFESTO OFF KEY FOR PARENTS OF SCOTTISH PRE-SCHOOLERS
Leading pre-school music and movement group, Jo Jingles has launched a call to action to get Scottish families with pre-school children singing in the home and for both parental and child participation in music groups to be seen as of equal importance to swimming classes and gym tot activities. This move is in direct response to groundbreaking research into the music and singing habits of 1000 UK families with pre-school age children, which shows that many are being bombarded with a cocktail of advertising jingles, TV theme tunes and pop music, whilst parents' knowledge of far more beneficial traditional nursery rhymes is declining to such an extent that there is a serious risk that this cultural heritage may die out completely.City of the Immortals At Swanson Gallery 19 Jan - 16 Feb 2008
Exhibition at The Swanson Gallery, Thurso From Sat 19 Jan to Sat 16 Feb 2008 M, T, W - 1 to 5.30pm Fr - 1 to 8pm Sat - 10am to 1pm Closed Thurs and Sun Admission Free City of the Immortals by Michelle Lord The City of the Immortals is based upon the Jorges Luis Borges short story 'The Immortal'. In a narrative series of photographic images, the fictional city Borges describes is reconstructed for the camera to represent an unbuilt, literary environment Presented by The Highland Council Swanson Gallery 01847 896357 Area Cultural Officer 01349 885114 (NB No Exhibition at St Fergus Gallery, Wick in January due to staff absence.26/1/2008
INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION STARS COME TO DUNDEE
PROJECTOR, the festival that celebrates the best in the animation world, is back at Dundee Contemporary Arts from 30 January - 2 February 2008. It will be launched on Saturday 26 January with a special screening of Anders Rønnow Klarlunds Strings.
23/1/2008
RSAMD Scottish Traditional Music Graded Exams - Spring 2008 Session
The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama's Scottish Traditional Music Graded Exams project was launched in the summer of 2007 when its website went live (http://gradedexams.rsamd.ac.uk) and its first session for fiddle and accordion took place on 22 October. Entries are now being taken for our next scheduled session for fiddle, accordion and harp from Tuesday 25 to Friday 28 March 2008.22/1/2008
Highland Support Group presents exhibition in Inverness Museum and Art Gallery
A support group that helps families affected by violence against women is displaying an exhibition in Inverness Museum and Art Gallery. The exhibition reflects their experiences of a visit to the Highland Folk Museum.19/1/2008
Nova Scotia/ Highlands of Scotland/Exchange Craft Residency
The Highland Council are seeking to appoint a craft maker to undertake a school residency in Nova Scotia. This residency is part of an exchange residency project between the two countries.Search Our Site
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