News Archive
23/1/2025
Showcase Scotland, the music industry event held as part of Celtic Connections in partnership with Innis & Gunn, is celebrating its 25th birthday with a five-day programme at this year's festival. The showcase introduces delegates from around the world to the Scottish music sector and encourages international cultural collaboration.
23/1/2025
Thurso Art Gallery (Swanson): Located within Thurso Library, this gallery hosts a year-round program of exhibitions featuring a diverse range of artwork from local artists. You can find drawing, painting, sculpture, crafts, photography, film, multimedia, and digital artwork.
17/1/2025
The Foreign Secretary and Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport have launched the UK Soft Power Council to drive UK growth and security. Foreign Secretary launches Soft Power Council to help boost UK economic growth and security by bringing together experts from across culture, sport, the creative industries and geopolitics.
17/1/2025
Hundreds of creative businesses and projects across the UK are to receive government funding to help them grow as part of a major boost to the economy - marking the first step of the Government's Sector Plan for the creative industries. Culture Secretary hosts major economic growth summit in Gateshead for creative industries and announces key priority areas.
14/1/2025
Survey launches to seek views of cultural sector. Dame Sue Bruce will chair the review of Creative Scotland, Culture Secretary Angus Robertson has announced.
2/1/2025
The original manuscript of a Gaelic love song written during the Battle of the Somme is to be housed at a new cultural centre. North Uist Historical Society will receive £165,000 of Scottish Government funding to convert Carinish Old School and showcase items from its collection, many of which are currently kept in storage.
25/12/2024
With Something Good, the arts and culture newsletter from The Conversation UK, we aim to cut through the noise and recommend the very best in new releases every fortnight. In 2024, we've been spoiled for choice when it comes to recommending fiction.
25/12/2024
The experience of a Christmas in many countries today owes a great deal to the modern era. The Christmas tree, Christmas cards and the image of Santa Claus as a portly bearded gentleman in a red suit with white trimming all date to the 1800s and 1900s.
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.